Well, not quite actually! I finally got around to buying some actual people to populate the layout, as well as a beetle (car) to check sizes such as road widths. I've never gotten to this stage before! And with that I mean being somewhat realistic. My most scenic'd layout from my younger days featured one house and some road surface and very unrealistic grass. The whole lot was inside the reversing loop, with no way out! However that doesn't really matter when you're ten!

It wasn't until after I had bought the car that I realised a couple of fairly basic errors:

1. It's OO scale
   
2. It's got British plates
   
3. The steering wheel is on the wrong side
   

Oops! Never mind, an Austriaphile on holiday is my excuse...

So this is the current status, I can't fit in the whole layout as the room isn't big enough:

And the corner that's missing, with printer (Mount Laserjet):

And just for completeness the far corner which is a bit vague in the first shot:

The heights you see are approximately right I'm constructing supports for the ramps at the moment. Tomorrow I'll be fixing the lower end at the station exit, after I've trimmed off some excess wood, and continuing on building the supports...

In my original plan, the top station was going to be much higher, but as you can see in the pictures above, the top station (light grey), is now only at about 6cm above the lower level so now the track snaking up is going to be physically much closer to the upper station so some trickery is going to required I feel!

In this picture you can see the two places where the tracks are closest together, marked by a spray can and a paint sampler pot, my intention is to have the lower front track in a tunnel at this point and have an avalanche gallery of some form in the outward bulge, how does that sound?

The aim is to have trains running round the whole loop by the end of July, should be do-able no?