Well and truly plastered.....

Life has been getting in the way of my modelling for the past few weeks, home improvements, outings, and the task of converting my vast selection of slides into digital form taking up most of my spare time.  But despite those distractions, I have managed to snatch the odd moment here, and there to make a little more progress on the layout.  A trip to the doctors for a routine checkup, resulted in me leaving with some plaster bandages, odd roll ends which were going to be thrown away.  I had asked if I might have a supply, and was told to help myself, and that is how the health service funded part of the scenery for Llangunllo.


Its a long time since I've used plaster bandage to model my terrain, and three hours later it looked like Llangunllo had suffered from a fall of snow.  So this is how the layout looks now, the eagle eyed will have spotted the goods shed taking shape, more of which another time.  Yes, its rather close to the trap point, but then again so was the one at Hemyock along with its cattle dock.  I can, if I wish move the shed further away from the trap, but its fine where it is for now.


I did consider building a smaller cattle dock, and positioning it next to the goods shed in true Llansilin Road fashion, but in the end I decided to leave things as they are.


If you look through the bridge arch you will be able to see an embankment beyond it.  Its only mocked up for now, the idea being to make the cassette deck partly scenic, and I think I've solved the problem of how the actual cassettes can be made to blend into the said embankment.  Of course it will mean modelling, and ballasting the track on the outer ends of each cassette to match that on the rest of the layout.  But I think it will be worth it, as not only will it make the layout look longer, but it should open up some interesting photographic opportunities.