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Maybe they're just very kind close-ups (that's a thing, right?!) but those look really very very good indeed. Roping exemplary once again, too. Now, how's about a nice little layout to run them on...?! :)

I misread that and for a moment thought you meant: Nick.

Thanks, Chris. I find these kinds of project very satisfying - finding an everyday detail from over 100 years ago and translating it into model form. Nick.

Thanks, Louis - hopefully the positive effect is not just down to the photography! Well, quite.... There is the possibility of something in the current attic room (aka box room, junk store, room of doom...). Planning permission will be required, as well as considerable preliminary works to prepare the space. Other domestic projects will need to be completed first, to raise sufficient 'capital' - watch this space, but don't hold your breath. Nick.

I was thinking more like the Wurzels...

Once again, superb observation and execution....!

That's a good find, it looks neatly built. I just use a block in such situations, but my trains aren't that long so maybe I'll be unpleasantly surprised when I start running longer trains.

Nick, up to your usual high very standards.

Albury awaits with appreciation abounding.

Exquisite modelling. Duncan

They are excellent. Well worth the patient waiting. And two christmases embodied in a model, a nice thought. It's a good example of how "zooming in" can create results that are just as satisfying and impressive as "big-picture" modelling. BTW there's a Beatles theme in the blog posts this weekend - the Strawberry line and Norwegian wood 🙂

Wonderful. Nice to see trains on the layout, they blend in well. I do like the roads. A vehicle would suit them, perhaps belonging to the local company W.C. Fields? 🙂

Love the twin rail car!

Nice job. The kit betrays its age, and the roof has a nasty contour. Btw, the E116 had fishbelly bogies. (The K's kit, as supplied, does contain them.)

Nice that my freelance No.5 sparked off some inspiration for your own interesting Broad Gauge freelance 4-2-4T engines Isambird. I originally assembled it from a collection of parts that weren't really meant to fit together to create a track testing locomotive for the Trainz simulator, but as it happen it turned out to be a reasonably useful engine to have on the roster.

If I was the vicar, I would want the door on the opposite side from the church to give at least some separation between work and home. It would discourage some "popping over to see the vicar" by troublesome parishioners, too. Graham (a Methodist so no axe to grind)

Now I just need to fill and touch in the join…