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They all look wonderful, Chris - and that two plank open will look at home on any 1840s layout. Not to mention any contractors' railway for the next fifty years!

Good point... I think the bar has been set very high by these: https://www.shapeways.com/product/KVV2JMJ2Q/nem-oo-type-9-couplings-step-up-3-link-x10?optionId=63382630 But I cannot argue with the price of the Bachmanns... I will give them a go - thanks!

Many thanks sir. I’m not sure what ours get, other than more sometimes undo attention, but I try to stay out of politics whenever possible. Its an extremely volatile subject in my part of America, which is only barely out of the Deep South.

I'll dig out the darkest brown I've got then!

I really like the look of these baseboards. There's something very artistic about them. Mount them vertically in an art museum and people would pay to see them

That looks good. I like that you have fitted points to it. I've sometimes thought it would be fund to build a traverser that contained a shunting puzzle in itself, with no need to attach a layout to carry it out. Incidentally I use these 3M rubber feet to avoid baseboards sliding on the tabletop. They are so good I sometimes have trouble getting the baseboard free of the table. It has to be these heavy duty ones though, the smaller ones aren't much good.

Matt black/brown with a dab of shiny black in the centre to look like grease

I wish American politicians could do the same.

Glad I could help and thanks for the comments. I saw your earlier post Steve, I think you got your answer, it’s scalescenes clapboard glued onto mountboard, then I cut single strips to add the details and deepen the shadow underneath with humbrol smoke weathering powder. Thanks again.