Thicket Trial Run

Using a paper template, I jig-sawed a plywood base for the thicket. The plywood is 6mm thick, and so, I cut the cork away to bring the new landform closer in height to the edge of the pasture. With a little luck, I won’t have to fill the gap between the two sections as it […]

Thicket Shapes Begin

Very few model railway activities lend themselves to sunny days on the deck. I reckon tree-making might, and so, I’ve started laying out the shapes of the first row of trees in the thicket. I started tracing the trees in InkScape, but that turned out to be very slow. So I switched to an iPad […]

A Perfect Saturday Morning

Somewhere, there are some coal cars waiting for loads. If I look for jobs around the house, I won’t have to look far. If I look for something to do in the garden, it will surely grab me by the ankle. But today it is raining, and my darling wife took me to the Loutet […]

Coal Cars and Unintentional Braking

The coal cars, as displayed at the Railway Modellers’ Meet, were curiously difficult to get onto the rails. Well, there was no time to fuss, and so, into the box they went for inspection by the 100 or so modellers who came up to SFU. Once home, and after some final details had been applied, […]