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You're gonna have to paint some clothes on them if you'll be using them as passengers in your coaches. . . .

A garret is the top of a building aka an attic. I guess the herbs stored (maybe grown) there would have been medicinal ones (such as opioids) used in the operations rather like an apothecary.

As well as Southwark cathedral I also have this N/2mm model on my layout. It's formally St Thomas's church, but now houses the oldest operation theatre in the UK, as a museum, along with a herb garret which are both open to the public. It was constructed by the Guy’s hospital governors in 1703 to a design by Thomas Cartwright, a 17th century English architect, and replaced the original one built in 1212. It ceased to be a church in 1899 when the parish was merged with St Saviours which later became part of the Southwark cathedral diocese.

The Lady Chapel of Southwark cathedral is only feet from the main railway line. In fact the lines had to bend around it to avoid the cathedral when they were extended from London Bridge terminus. And yep, my layout has a representation of the cathedral (a progressively compressed low relief one) on it. But no plans for weddings and funerals. Most likely to be tourists gawping at it.

Great news, well, for some perhaps, is that I'm closing in on completing issue #4. Just a couple of articles to finish off and they're well underway. With luck I should be able to get it to the printers by the end of October and have it available some time in November (assuming nothing goes horribly wrong). G.

Very cute.

You should be able to accomplish reducing the depth with a pencil, rule, and modelling knife to cut a chunk off a low relief building. No need for editing the graphics on a computer.

Or any bits that break or fall off get to stay with the model.

A lovely cat.

Stunning modelling.

After a weekend working on the next issue of my 'British N Gauge Railway Modelling' magazine and yesterday on some garden maintenance, I've returned to the layout shed today. Time had been spent jiggling around things like the bridge to ensure the location for the best fit. I also added a sliver to the platform track bed section to widen the platforms although a little more needs to be cut and added. I'm also going to need to make some alternations to the bridge:

I managed to get a number of issue #3 sold at TINGS thanks to Howard who hosted it on his 'N Gauge Now' stand. Consequently I've made some good progress on issue #4 and spent most of the weekend working on it (to the detriment of doing anything on my layout). I'll get back to the layout now and look to finish off the mag (issue #4) later, but I'm now more confident of getting it finished, printed and out before the end of the year (should anyone be interested).

Fantastic modelling, super composition and great photography. Just a shame it's all that sleepy G*R stuff. 😁 Perhaps a bit of more up-to-date stock would liven it and the inhabitants up a bit. 😉

Surely Llahdos is what most overweight Americans are?

I've noticed there's always a bit left. I think it's the bile gland.

It's a permanent home (shed) based layout. I was finding the lugging around of exhibition layouts too much, although I am involved in (slowly) building an exhibition layout also based on a real location. But that is (currently) exceptionally light weight and there is a group of us.

A few details added to Montague Chambers - the ridge tiles are on, the balcony fence made and fitted and an aircon unit added, plus a feeble attempt at sign writing, luckily with a pencil. I'll try and over-trace neater with a pen and then rub off the pencil. There is still the vent pipe to bend up and add but I think I'll leave off the gutters and downpipes - the building is hidden away as can be seen in the pic below.

A little bit of fine tuning of the ply track bed with some trimming and roughly marking up the platform locations this afternoon. The positions are not finalised as I'll start by laying the track at the back, then the platform edges and work my way to the front to ensure everything is workable with sufficient room. The through platforms will be just over 40" long which should accommodate an eight car Mk1 EMU - but there is a little wriggle room if necessary although compression is required. With only two through island platform (instead of three) there is sufficient room for the lower level terminus and the train shed.

A bit of wood mangling and hacking early this morning before the sun and temperature get too high - it's forecast for 27C here and that's too hot and sweaty for me to be out and working. However, some of the high level viaduct track bed is now cut but it needs filing to remove and smooth the wiggly edges. Here it is just resting (not fixed in any way) on some wobbly supports:

I've made a start on mapping out the next section - the high level through station and the west end station throat. In order to cut the plywood viaduct decking to size I need to drawn up the track plan full size checking platforms, etc., and make a template. Paper has been laid on the baseboard to draw it up. Below shows the small progress to date. The bridge is roughly in place (although it needs to be further to the right) in the pic below to ensure platforms are positioned correctly and to ascertain the viaduct track bed width. The strips of balsa don't represent the platforms but lift the track bed level to the amount over the lower level terminus platforms level to check the footbridge slope (if you get my drift). The viaduct track bed level is where the grey stops on the SER 'flat iron' building. It's all starting to get rather fiddly and critical, and consequently slow going.

Nicely observed, competent modelling. A pleasure to see and follow this thread.

Ooops, noticed I'd missed a bit off, which I've now corrected. But there's still other details to do. And it won't be done tomorrow as I'm off to TINGS.

Managed to do a bit of cutting and painting in front of the Italy Namibia game. In this heat everything dries so quickly. Also matt varnished, windows fitted and Redutex tiles added. Still need to make and add some basic details like the ridge tile strips and the balcony fence.

There's still plenty to do such as the balcony fence, painting, adding down pipes, an AC unit, pipes, installing the windows, tiling the roof with Redutex and so on. However I'm not planning on a super detailed model - it's near the back of the layout and not prominent, plus the surrounding structures aren't finely detailed. The aim is to fill a gap with something fairly generic and impressionistic. But now the rest of the day features live world cup rugby and international football. I'll make a pot of tea and settle down.

This morning I've started to detail the two front facing wall panels. Here they are currently just resting in place - they won't be glued until completed. The windows for the top floor can also be seen ready for installation after painting: