"Finer" Z Gauge: Höllentalbahn - German Secondary Line with hand built track

I've posted one a few things in the handbuilt track forum about my experiments with "finer" Z gauge, and I'm pretty happy with the trackwork, so I'm moving on with the layout plan I have in mind for this. Z Gauge has caught my interest for quite some time, but I began to develop a more serious plan after a holiday hiking in the Black Forest in 2016. The combination of dramatic scenery and railways around the seemed quite hard to beat! Picture - my own copyright The line that had rea

Just to show there has been a little bit of progress ... I've been getting together more of the scenic parts to help plan out the final track plan and layout. I finished the first of the MBZ laser cut card kits - the linesman's cottage. The detail is absolutely exquisite! I was planning to use a Kibri plastic kit for the station building, but I don't think it will stand up against the MBZ buildings. Might need to extend my credit card limit to order one of his stations ... One plast