The progress on Pottington Quay has been pretty slow in the last few weeks. As ever work has been busy and this has meant that time for modelling has been limited. However, this weekend the baseboards saw a bit of plaster bandage laid down and the station platform was started. I quickly realised I do not have enough SR cast concrete legs to finish the platform extension, so I am going to have to order some this week. The platform is a tight squeeze with the car park behind it. So tomorrow evening is going to be spent getting the position of this right.
Right now the biggest delay to progress on the layout, other than time, is a lack of buildings to place on the layout, in order to ballast around these. There is a slight feeling of a lot of bare baseboard at the moment. However, the goods shed is just about finished and a small section of redundant platform has also been built for this. The quay wall section is almost complete now as well. So later this week when everything has dried, been painted and glued in position I will show the progress of the layout so far.
Until then, my sound fitted class 45 is shown hauling the parcels service into the station area. The bright blue CCT is the new bachmann model and clearly stands out - this needs toning down but has had a clean and now is in the paintshop. I have another two CCTs, one BY van and two more 12t parcels van already built and waiting for painting. Scaling up the size of the trains relative to the layout I have no idea how these parcels wagons are going to fit onto the layout! The other video is a class 47 bringing in a shot engineers train. At the front is Cambrian salmon wagon I built years ago, and I am going to experiment on this with some mig weathering powders, as the finish leaves a lot to be desired.
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