This is before the rail sides are given a brush of rust.
The turnouts have all been masked and the contact areas given extra protection to ensure electrical conductivity once it is all wired.
All three boards have been treated to ensure continuity of colour.
The fiddle yard board has single sided copperclad paxolin glued and pinned to the sector plate. This gives simple alignment which will need some form of electrical continuity.
Three roads should be enough storage for a small layout- a piece of sponge has been glued to the end of the fiddle yard to hopefully avoid damage.
The stock is shown in the lower picture to ensure there is sufficient space for the envisaged train formations.
Some Tri-ang Hornby Hull and Barnsley van bodies were obtained as it was simple to add outside strapping with plastic strip.
Some Parkside Midland Railway 9ft wheelbase chassis kits provide the running gear with Gibson wheels.
Buffer beams aren't supplied in the kit but I had several in the bits box together with buffer heads.
Reasonable rendition of an IOW van.
Made from 2 x 1 softwood topped with 9mm ply from the wood merchants not a DIY shed. Pivoted with a coach blot and wing nut means that the sector plate can be secured fro transit. It also helped that the alignment dowels fit the two boards perfectly- unexpected bonus!
The signal box for Watershoot Bay is almost complete. The steps need attaching and the interior painted.
The kit is from LCut, their medium sized box. It bears a slight resemblance to the box at Ventnor!
I am still undecided on to whether I should fit a verandah by the access door and steps- ho hum!
The station building is a mixture of the PECO wooden kit and Wills station shelter.
Painted in Southern Railway chrome green and cream it is roughly the size I wanted to fit the available space and seems to provide a reasonable structure.
Once the signage is fitted together with a few appropriate posters/ boards it will be ready for placing.
I haven't had a Jinty since my Tri-ang one some sixty five years ago- this time the offering from Bachmann.
Needs some work on the pickups but otherwise a good rarely used example.
Couldn't resist a few images with 23attached to a few appropriate wagons.
Thanks to an eagle eyed pal I now have correctly spelled Station Names!
Not Sankey Scenics fault just me hitting the go button too quickly.
So, now the corrected signs have arrived work can progress on nameboards and lamposts.
