It's looking real good.

Wow in some spots i can just imagine a loco and some cars 8-) I bet you got an itch to run the layout now dont you???????

That is looking great! I love your scenery work/ideas so far

Thankyou all, your comments are most appreciated.

Yeah, I am really eager to run the layout, but I need some track. I've found a place to get it from at a reasonable price, but I'm waiting for them to respond to my e-mail.

As for the scenery, well, the river bed is now complete and looking excellent (If i do say so myself), and the powerstation and substation kits have been combined/kitbashed together (will be my summer kitbash challenge entry, got a few pics of construction). I have also been smashing up sandstone to make scatters which i will use to cover the vertical faces of the cliffs - There are several shades, so there will be rock strata present. The shades also match the front facia. so everything will nicely fit together.

I have pics, and will post them when i getr a chance.

Coming along nicely.....
I like your idea of using expandable foam for scenery....Did you shape it some as it was setting..? Will it take a coat of plaster..?
Keep those pics coming....

For the foam, I mostly left it to expand as it wandted, and then carved it back. In some areas (mainly tunnel areas), I had to use shiney plastic to act as formers after the surface layer had dryed (It dries in stages - firstly it creates a surface film after 1/2 an hour - can shape it with formers at this point. After that the centre begins to expand and harden.).

It takes plaster very nicely aswell, which is excellent.

Thanks....I'll have to give it a try...!!

I got my parcel last weekend, and over this week there has been quite a bit of scenic work.
There are 83 pictures in my railway gallery for this month, all of which have descriptions of what i have done. I'm not going to link them all to here as it would take a long time. Here are some summary shots though. (For the rest, visit my railway gallery page here):

Looks nice!

Nice progress there.

And is that just a random cd there on that one picture or another layout?

Thanks for your comments.

Oh right, no thats just a random DVD that my sister left out as usuall. It's a wonder they still work.

Really amazing work! There's so many points of interest on such a small area - really neat design! Thanks for posting the pic's!

Very very nice TC buuuutttttt i could not help but note the 44 tonner is she built by bachmann????? if so has she seen any rail action? if so could i get some feed back from you on her preformance as i have a rail way that had 5 of them.

yup, a Bachmann GE44T. It hasn't done much running, but I did test it out on a small track, and it performs amazingly. It also looks great too. They have excelled themselves on it.

(P.s. sorry for the late reply, I have been in Wales for the last fortnight.)

Hi folks.

I keep forgetting to update this thread. I have been working on the layout, and got quite a bit done. All the photos of the progress can be found in my model railway gallery here: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.railways-in-miniature.co.uk/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=56">http://www.railways-in-miniature.co.uk/ ... p?album=56</a><!-- m -->