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Yes, wonderful scenes. The "sleepy" view with the track coming out of the goods shed is my favourite. The undulating (not ululating, that would be odd) setts are very nicely captured, hadn't noticed that before. How were the setts made Al - I can't recall if you've explained that?

Hi Mikkel - thanks for the kind words. The setts are just the Wills ones. I cut off the edges (I think they're meant to be drainage channels or something) and butt them together as well as I can. then I go over the joins with filler and re-scribe where necessary. To get undulations, I bend the sheets gently with finger pressure. The original Will sheets (I don't know if this applied to the setts, but certainly the bricks and others) were made of a more brittle plastic that was hard to cut and didn't take kindly to being bent! But they must have gone over to a softer plastic as I've found that the later packs are easily cut and bent with no danger of shattering or snapping. In fact I use nothing more sophisticated than a pair of kitchen scissors to do the main cuts! Where there are more obvious lines between the setts, in the pics above, are where sections are meant to lift out to enable the scenes to be swapped around. I just have to live with those.

Lovely stuff!

Thanks Al, that's good news if Wills have gone over to a more "workable" plastic. I wonder if that applies to the whole range, must try it out next time I'm putting in an order.

It's all looking very convincing Al As Mikkel points out those sets look very effective, as does the gently curving track in the goods shed siding. I'm also rather taken by the lever frame that appears in the bottom left corner of one of the pictures, is that the MSE one? BW Dave

Yes, to my eyes the B4 boiler with its monstrous dome casing well back does even less for these engines than it does for the Dean Goods.

Excellent video, set up like a railcam location. Great stuff! Best Scott.