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Hope you don't mind me commenting but following on from what I've been saying, think of what the scenery would be like before the railway came along. I would suggest the road to the left is omitted and if the houses remain then turned around so you can model the back gardens which has the effect of pushing the level crossing even further from the point and off board so can be implied. The nearest house I would make the largest as it would act as excellent view blocker.

Been looking after my 2 year grandaughter today and this is how I now feel!!!!!!

Forgive me for being a bit dim but I have just realised that you can click on each picture and enlarge them to give full width. So I've answered my own question then by trial and error........!!!!

Well this is going to be a bit of an experiment to see what I can place picturewise. Using my Panasonic TZ-100 I have just taken some distant shots and cropped them to form a hybrid panaromic view. So apologies if this goes wrong so here they are taken from diferent distances and heights. The first thing I notice in preview post I can only get half a page width for each picture is there anyway you can do to get a full page width for each picture?

A few pictures of the goods shed which is loosely based on the one built at Shipton-on-Stour. The main difference is that I moved the entrance porch otherwise the building would have become to wide for its location in my yard. One of my favourite websites that gets used for information and photographs is http://www.warwickshirerailways.com/index.htm so here is the link for those of you unaware of the site.

Thanks but I wouldn't say to me it's complete as only today have I been working on signal control wire posts and pulleys - not the wires though as even I bulked at that. I have a major alteration planned for the field behind Little Muddle station where I want to bring the town around the station so it makes it feel part of the town but that's for another day, still working on the design. One reason I think I've managed to capture the effect of the countryside is that I designed it first and then metaphorically drove the railway through it rather than the other way round.

That was my aim to make the scene feel, as you put it, 'right' and as real as I could make it. Nothing was to look clean, everything is to look used and in some cases washed out and semi-derelict. I can't list the buildings I have made, scrapped, or repainted, or re-weathered - if it didn't look right to me it wasn't going on the layout which partly explains why I have been working it since 2009. Some of the early trees got scrapped (and I am talking dozens here....), remade then once I got into the prime trees saga even a selection of those where replaced at the front of the layout. Even the basic scenery has had makeovers and tweaks as I've had better ideas or techniques. Anyway thanks for the comments and I will keep adding more pictures from my stock or take even more now I've got this continuous lighting system to use. That's been an amazing acquisition something I would recommend to all of you as the more defused light you can through on the scene the better quality picture you can take.

That reminds me I must fix that leaking gutter!!! Funny how the camera makes the roof look bent, I can assure it's not that bent.....

A handful of pictures of the creamery that is run by Encombe Dairies. This building is to no particular design and as I replied to an earlier question it is purely from the old brainbox...... This is a scratch built building mainly from card with brick papers, Wills corrugated sheeting and slate tiles. Main windows are brass, doors and smaller windows are from LCut. Rest of the building is just what I had lying around, boiler flue is a protective brush cover, tank is a pipe from my son's loft when we removed a redundant water tanks, twigs from the garden for logs, etc.etc. The drive is actually an excellent product from the Treemendous - Earth Powder with grey/brown washes over to give the effect seen. The third picture was my I-phone on selfie mode so I could get behind the building and still see what I was taking hence the grainy effect, which I think was caused by striplights in the lighting pelmet overpowering the sensor.

It's scratch built based on the shed at Shipton-on-Stour. Basically the roof is thin card, 3 layers if I recall, built over a former and when the layers are glued together they form a rigid shell. I laid and glued over the top in one formed length the plastic pre-formed corrugated sheeting cut into scale widths. A fiddle but worth the effort as it ended up quite a striking model, the walls are of the same card construction and the brick plinth is brick paper on card. The windows are from LCut Creative (a useful range of windows, doors, etc that I would recommend a look at) and the reason one is to a different design is that I ran out and used whatever I had kicking around - the excuse is that a replacement window was fitted on site and they also used what they had!?!. That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it.......

Thanks Pendon was my aim so pleased that people are referring to my layout reminding them of it. I have written an article on my tree making for another website in their 'how to' section so I will dig it out and see if it can be added. It was written as a Word document so I'm not sure, yet, how to add it to this website. I'll work in it. Basically I have two types, the background ones which are enhanced Seamoss and then my prime trees for the foreground made from sagebrush armatures (actual plant from the States) and Seamoss sprigs - got the idea from the excellent Country Gate layout I saw once at an exhibition.

Thanks and here is a picture that will hopefully convince you it's a model.............????? Again another one of those shots I took for modelling purposes to see if it looked like what I wanted it to look like.

Glad you like my effort and thanks for the comments. Pendon obviously provided the nucleus for what I was aiming for and I am very pleased with what I have ended up with. Quite often you have a vision in your minds eye of what you hope it will look like and this can, and is, difficult to actually achieve. My motto - Model what you see not what you think you should see! The dairy is completely freelance and came from my furtive imagine using ideas gleaned from the web (actual and modelled) as a starting point. I'll post some more pictures of the dairy later showing different views or might even take some new ones now I'm the proud owner of a continuous lighting system for photos.

Thanks for the comments and offer of pictures. I believe the steam drifter you are referring to is the Lydia Eva and if so then I have used many of the photos found on line as a basis for this model. Just the running rigging to go and then detailing the deck and she will be finished. This one of those models that I work on, get fed up, put to one side for a while then the inspiration starts again and we are off. Regarding the track plan, I still can't find where I put it so I think I might carry out a land survey and re-draw it again for inclusion here

The last one for this evening probably my favourite picture to date that captures exactly the tranquil scene I was aiming for.

Thanks. Well I will just sit here and ponder on that one!!!!

Thanks for all the comments so here's few more teasers. I'm even in the processes of finishing my drifter...one day?!?

Only three buildings are readymade, Skaledale ones, which my son and daughter brought me for a birthday a few years ago so I had to put on the layout....didn't I otherwise there would have been trouble at mill (or farm)

I do have a couple of plans of the layout but can I find them, no, I must have put them in such a safe place!!! One day I will find them or I might even redraw them for reference. At the moment I don't have any overall photos as that wasn't the aim of the pictures as I mentioned the main aim was to take them and see if the layout was achieving what I had in my minds eye. The room is about 3m square.

Well after much nudging and prodding I have decided to add Little Muddle to this forum. The layout was started as a permanent one in our forth bedroom back in Jan 2009 as an 'L' shaped layout around two walls and then in July 2013 the next section was added to give a 'U' shape. How do I know the dates well I sensibly wrote the starting dates on the framework as I knew I would never remember them in the future. The layout in based somewhere around the Bristol area and was to depict a railway running through a prototypical English countryside with trees and fields aplenty. Most of the current pictures where taken on either on Air Pad 2 or an I-phone 5s as I was using them as a modelling aid. I find a picture highlights problems or issues far better than the naked eye can as the camera narrow downs the viewpoint. Though I have posted over 70 pictures on the modelling galleries some will be used again here but I propose to take even more new pictures in the future which I will post here. The main aim of this layout was to model the countryside with a railway passing through it and not the otherway round. To support this I have modelled over 320 trees to date, with more planned, of which only one of them is ready-made I have over 1200 pictures so I won't be short of a few in the short term and some might be of interest anyway showing the timeline of this layout. There have been many changes and tweaks to this layout over the years as I have better ideas, new techniques and pure changes of mind........do we ever finish our layouts? Here are the first batch of pictures of Little Muddle

I'll see what I can do.......!!!! once I've worked out how to!!!!

Thanks I have been asked before if I have one and I don't so I might have to think about it. I do have a lot of pictures on the galleries section under Little Muddle if you are interested? Kevin

Last picture I promise of the 48xx with autocoach in tow. Now all finished and in full service.

Not at first but after running for a few mins at mid speed on a test circle it began to run smoothly. In total I ran it for 30mins at mid speed in each direction plus I oiled, where recommended, both at start and then end of the session. I have just come down from the railway room (after doing some more weathering on it and the autocoach) and its been going sweetly backwards and forwards on the branch line so I think that a good running for this particular loco has worked very well.

4825 looking a bit travel weary, a few bits still to finish but looking and running superbly. Now to finish the autocoach......