Industry Lane

Thank you Ian and thank you Ian !!

Jack is much better today. The new antibiotics have been working better than the last lot. He still has another prescription of antibiotics to go through and has to use his ventolin puffer 3 times a day. Tomorrow will be his first day back at school after having last week and the last 3 days off.

Cheers, Gary.

 

SMR CHRIS wrote:

That is exactly what I was hoping for.

It is good that Jack is well enough to be going back to school, although when I had Monday & Tuesday off, it afforded me some modelling time whilst looking after him !

Cheers, Gary.

 

In just under 4 weeks Industry Lane will have its first outing at the Epping Model Railway Exhibition at the Brick Pit Stadium, Thornleigh : http://www.eppingmodelrailway.org.au/exhibition.html

With the date looming faster than ever, I have been busy knocking up a stand, finishing the fiddle yard walls/screen, some more horticulture (grass/weeds/trees) and a few other little detail items.



The light weight timber frame. Release the aluminium straps and the legs fold up along the main rail support.



Close up of the fiddle yard with the appropriate signage.



Industry Lane will be promoting Platform 1 MRC. Iknow it isn't the correct font, but beggars can't be choosers...!



Some longer grass along the embankment and a few trees at the bridge end. Some touching up needs to take place along the front valance.



Close up of my Buddleias, commonly known as butterfly bush.



A view over the fence towards the factories.

Cheers, Gary.

 

Thanks for the comments, always appreciated.

Mick (60019 Bittern) had asked whether I was to do something with that rather blue end of the layout beyond the bridge. Just to remind you, it is quite bare...



After trawling the web for hours looking for the right photograph of an industrial skyline that would match the layout, I finally found an image that would work. I copied/pasted/enlarge/printed the image before trimming it down to size and gluing it to the stark background.

The industrial backscene image.



My next quest was to marry it to the existing backscene on the back wall of the layout. Having two completely different sized backscenes does provide a challenge. Spending more hours looking for different images from terrace houses in perspective to a row of trees, I finally found an image that I could work with.

Since I have two poplar trees on the front of the layout, I found an image of poplars with an almost vanishing focal point. Again I copied/pasted/enlarged/cut/trim and then fixed them to the backscene.



To blend both scenes together as to not have such a square corner where the two images meet, some Woodland Scenics foliage was glued to the corner. Luckily for me, I had the right colour foliage in my box !



Some more foliage will be added once this is dry as I want to give it a much more 3D effect.

From straight on, the new backscene works well, especially with the branch line joining the main line.



More to come...

Cheers, Gary.