Black is the new Black! (WR)

Well to update the ballasting has now been all but completed, the area round the hard standing has been more or less sorted, its still waiting to dry as its not exactly too warm down in the garage. Once this has been done i can begin to weather it in. I plan to use some tempera powder to weather the track, this does seem to work reasonably well as it seems to have the sporadic look about it, It is a little more temperamental than paint but it doesn't look too bad.

After all this it will be back upstairs to pair them up to begin the platform and back scene along with the scenic break. I'm hopefully going to begin the scenic break later on tonight cutting the wooden wall and top which will but up again the current back scene. Essentially because of the narrow width that there is I'm going to make it loo like a footpath as this is likely to look fairly plausible, anything else would just look like over kill!

Ive also finished the signalling, I've had to lower the phone boxes on both signals as it was realised they were both rather high, despite looking right it would be in fact impossible to reach. One of these signals has also been fitted with an eckon cast calling on head. It doesn't look that good but hopefully once its in it will look better and also given the cost its alot cheaper than getting a Roger Murray and alot easier than making one myself.

The station at the moment is more or less on stop. I'm planning to just use it without the extra scenic board initially as the layout will function without this, it was purely a scenic add on for shows and also by doing it this way i can spend extra time trying to sort something suitable.