O scale 2 rail exhibition layout

[danielb]

Progress!!

Baseboards are done, so I've been working on the track plan and getting the roadbed prepared, and about eleventy-billion wooden ties cut from coffee stirrers.

Photos of the layout mocked up so far:






TIES! TIES EVERYWHERE!



I've also been into the local model car shop and picked up some era suitable vehicles - these three should be more than enough for the whole layout.





Finally, here's a work in progress Kitwood Hill 'trackside shack' kit that I've started, mainly so I don't go insane from cutting all those ties.

It's done mostly with pan pastels, with the only paint used being oil paint as a base for the rust on the corrugated metal sheeting, and watercolour black used as a basecoat for the tarpaper roof.