Following on my spring cleaning and some ballast issues, I decided to fix those as well as finishing up on ballasting around the double-slip switch D2. As of now, all painted tracks have been ballasted!
Ok, I still need to finishing the center of the double slip ....
Now that the outline of the various buildings are drew on the platform, it gives me an idea about how much I have for the other side.
A while back, I purchased a set of houses from Regions & Companies:
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| Alignement de 5 Maisons du Nord - réf QNO001-F |
I started building this kit. For now, I found a certain lack of instructions. I think it will be fine from afar, but maybe not up close.
I'm almost done with ballasting the area in the back, so I need to think about where I'd need to put the scenery divider. To do that, I need to know how things are positioned on the front part.
First, I cleaned up the layout, then I placed the map where it should fit:
I'm quite happy with the outcome because I can fit the all area without squeezing anything; except the fret hall and the road crossing on each end - which I knew.
Next step is to work on the scenery divider!
Slow progress, but progress ...
I've done the below in small sections over several days ...
I went back the next day and everything dried up nicely. Once weathered and ballasted, it'll be hardly visible.
I'm continuing my journey on adding missing sleepers. Here's the previous post with more explanations. And here's what I've done today on the layout:
