Zunnan

The apparent ducket and corridor door two windows down the coach side makes it either a P3 D.2123 BTK or Porthole D.2161 BTK, the round toilet window makes it the latter with little doubt and the deeper bodyside than end just comfirms it.

It more than passes muster, you're far far beyond that! You've thoroughly absorbed how someone whom I consider to be one of the best bridge scratch builders around (Dave) works and the processes he uses, but rather than a scaled down imitation of Daves work you've made it your own to suit the smaller scale and in the process have produced something that everyone can aspire to. The first thing he mentioned at the club tonight was this latest update, its not often he compliments bridge builds and that was just the beginning! The layout as a whole has just the right mix of neglected old grot, looked after old grot and new build, and there is still so much to be done. I said it before, I think it'll be a sad day for us observers when this layout is finished and the updates end! The quality of the work and of the updates themselves is truly inspirational.

I'm pinching the angle cutter idea, Mark You've succeeded in making me want to rebuild my own bridges while I still can, but then I was kind of expecting something extra special after noticing a snippet 'elsewhere'.

I'm so glad I didn't fall to desp....temptation...and settle for the warmed over Horfix 4F. This ones more welcome than the 3F announcement for me, and a Midland machine too; it just gets better!

You've said before that you've taken inspiration from the modelling of others in the past, but I really think that the shoe is on the other foot with this one. Not only are you continually improving your own standards of modelling, I think you are constantly raising the benchmark of what is and should be achieved not only in N Gauge, but in the larger scales as well. Its not often that you get to see a layout with such a unique identity while still very much a work in progress and I have to say, I actually never want to see this layout completed! Such is the quality of work I would much rather see a perpetual stream of updates as it progresses!