Little Jeeem

Looks like you're off to a flying start! A very nice layout, with plenty of operational and scenic interest. That's a very informative and well constructed video too 👍

It's a shame one of them isn't The Other Line 😁

Good luck! Not that you really need it, as the awning seems to be coming along very nicely. Although if it's already fixed in place, painting maybe a bit of a challenge?

Speaking as someone who just plunges in with only a vague mental picture of what might go where, and who then often discovers that most of it won't, I should paint those very wise words in 12inch letters on my railway room wall. Am very much liking how this is coming along 👍

You've created a very realistic scene there 👍

Yes, my plans for what might go where keep changing too. Its a good job I didn't pursue a career in town planning 😁

My enthusiasm drifted off for a while, but is thankfully now returning, so I hope to show some progress before too long. When I do, it'll be of my attempts to model these terraced houses or at least, something that might vaguely resemble them.

Don't worry, it's not just you! Enthusiasm for my little layout, party inspired by yours, also vanished into thin air a while back. Thankfully though, it's been hovering around a bit recently, so I'm expecting it to land again quite soon. Looking forward to your updates on this great little layout in due course 👍

I notice that the top critical review on Amazon states "Not really suitable for wearers of 'Varifocal' or 'Bifocal' glasses. Things work a lot better if you wear 'standard' glasses" but doesn't say why that is. I'm in desperate need of something like this, and am also a varifocal wearer, so wonder if, when you receive them and have had a go, you could let me know how you find them? Many thanks.

A bit of fiddling around with the last remnants of the Superquick kit, some brick and tile papers have resulted in this low-relief building. Nets from some odd sort of cloth that my new laptop was wrapped in, curtains from Quality Street wrappers, poster from the Wordsworth website and gutters/drainpipes from cocktail sticks. Site on the layout yet to be decided.

Quite simply: Superb!

I'll at least TRY to make and stick to a plan for each area of my layout, and think things and processes through before starting, rather than my usual modus operandi of making it up as I go.

I realised that due to my change of plan, the wall below the station building had become rather tatty. So a replacement has been made and I took the opportunity to rebuild the doorway to the stairs. All now looks a little bit tidier. Now that the walls are complete, I'll turn my attention to the roadway and the low relief buildings which, in another change of plan, I think will now be mostly the backs of terraced houses rather than a high street shopping parade. Although of course, that could very well change 🙄

Turns out I'm not a very accomplished stairway constructor, my attempts involving cocktail sticks, staples and card resulted in something only very vaguely resembling a usable set of stairs which probably would have buckled under the first foot of a Smidgen resident. So with thanks to those who suggested it, I've gone down the dingy doorway to hidden steps route. Cobbled together from a few more bits from the Superquick station building kit. Evidence of the original gap in the top of the wall still to be disguised somehow, probably with some creeping weedlike thing. I do sometimes wish that whoever invented the high definition camera, hadn't 😐

That's very neat @Irish Padre . I am sort of half committed to a visible stairway, having already cut the access for it into the top of the wall by the station building. That's not undoable, but just to make things a little more challenging, before even testing my stairway construction skills, I've cut another access gap for a stairway further along the wall so as to break-up the vast expanse of brick and give access to the land down below, where I think the Smidgen MRC clubhouse might be.