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I have received the tee shirt that I will wear during the exhibition.

You are right for the figure standing on the hut. It a german figures from preiser (lufwaffe personel) and I remove the head to replace it by the head of British Camel Corps to have a colonial look !

I finish the layout the 11 th of November in memory of those who fight an died for us and our liberty. I add the brushes, trees and people. Sorry there is no foreign legion but french army.

Thank you for the second link that I just discover. A fantastic link After a sand storm the layout with the sand. I need to add brush and tree

Hi Simon, This bridge is no prototypical one so I could not answer

After painting more than 60 figurines I done the tracks work and I glue the backdrops. I have to finish the backdrop in the tunnel I have to finish the backdrop in the tunnel

I have done a long pause because I'm doing in parallel an us ho layout. I work hard to finish 135 trees for the oasis. I bought cheap tree from ebay china and I modified the truck and the palm. Then I paint with humbrol enamel and I use weathering powder.

Thank for the book. I do little progress on the luggage car

I have finish to paint and weather the buildings.

I do some progress on my layout. I finish the building with the first coat of primer. The building will look like the building of the backdrops with trace of soil. I paint the soil before adding the sand, the grass, cactus and palm tree of course... I cast and paint the stones. I am happy with the result wich look like what I have in my mind. I have now to

the wagon can be bought on-line at http://www.sculpteo.com/fr/print/fourgon-decauville-maroc-hoe/KEYSfuJy?basket=1&noclickredirect=1&uuid=3d3JEUGQHBtMpTBiNr0Lke

My friend Jean-Pierre prints the rolling stock as a test. Here the result

Today I start to buid the pechot's trucks from meridian model kit.

Hi, For the mallet, which will be the loco for the chassis ? If found an us loco from Bachmann with a radius of 43 cm.

Hi, I will use on my layout only decauville steam loco 040, 060, draisine, petrol loco schneider and perhaps a baldwin also if Bachmann edits it. I have a sharp curve of a radius of 23 cm so a mallet loco is unbelievable with a radius of 40 cm . The trunks are in plastic. To recreate it, I put dot of PVA glue on the trunk and I put sparkles of dry basil but you can use any aromatic herbs than you can find in shop according the color, the shape and the scale you want. After I have to paint in the right color. "At one point there was 1700km of 60cm gauge in Morocco. Would love to see a good book on the subject." To my knowledge, there is no book on this subject.

I'm doing more than 120 palm trees

I have done some progress with figures, trees (more than 140) and buildings. My friend Jean-Pierre draw a rolling specificly for this layout. We hanve now to prind it. We are going to print it one at Sculptéo, one at shapeaway in translucid ultra frost detail and one at immaterialize in order to compare the various quality of suppliers

I also use a modified wagon from swiftsixten to load a broken locomotive

I add two locos to my layout for the railexpo exhibitionin Paris

Please find the video of the layout during the last exhibition at Sedan. Thank you to rail tv and Claude Doussot. https://youtu.be/YJKV_6aYdX0 <iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/YJKV_6aYdX0"frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

I just come from the exhibition in Sedan. It was my first exhibition with these layout and with 3 new locos. I just forget to do video. I will do that on the next exhibition and I will post it. The layout proves that it was reliable. I have just a little gap to improve between the layout and the transfer table. For the locos, the beginnings was not top because of the running-in period but after it was ok. I have just to repair one because I have a swing with the wheel. For ny next exhibtion in Paris, I will run my lister and an hudson. I have update also my list of exhibition for 2015 2016 and 2017. So I will be pleased to see you at it. 27-29 novembre 2015 Rail Expo (Paris) Nederlandse Modelspoordagen (Netherlands) 9/10 January 2016 MONTELIRAIL 2016 15/ 16 octobre 2016 25/26 November 2017 Warley MRC (Birmingham)

I have started to shape the foam.

I'm building the layout

I will exhibit the layout in France for the year 2015 : 10 and 11 October 2015 at Sedan and for the 27-29 November at 2015 Rail Expo near Paris. For the year 2016, I will exhibit in UK

The snow was made with bicarbonate of sodium mix with water and pva. For theshape it's a good product, Then in order to obtain a powder snow, I cover it with snow from Citadel product