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Good luck Alex, can't wait to see this at SWAG.

Hi Mark, Sorry I missed this. Many thanks for your comments. At present I'm staying with friends in Alcombe, whilst waiting to complete on a house in Periton Road, the Porlock end. I've been to Taunton a few times and funnily enough, I'm originally from the other end of the line, Paddington, like the bear. I'm sure we'll bump into one another soon enough, it's a small world.

These last six months have been my longest holiday TBH. And although I'm loving my new rural surroundings and the long walks, a far cry from Beckton, East London. I simply can't wait to finally get into my new railway / studio room and get back to working on Bovey Quay. But who knows when that will happen? In the meantime, I'm looking forward to meeting many of you at my first SWAG in a couple of weeks.

Now that's what I'm talking about! Absolutely superb modelling.

Agree with all the comments here. Excellent work Graham.

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Agree, perfect and nicely weathered.

So I've finally managed replace the majority of lost images from Bovey Tor.

Finally managed to find and replace most of the missing images on here.

This resonates very much with me because this is exactly what I had planned for my last layout Bovey Tor. Which I sold when I decided to sell my house. Working from the back to the front, I never got round to creating the canal and all the surrounding trees and bushes at the front of the layout. I hoped to create a very similar scenario to yours. Where you had to look through the trees and across the canal in order to see the trains passing by. Which then gives the viewer a, 'now you see it, now you don't' view.

I'm with you on this one. When you have a good story to tell, I think it's good not to reveal the ending too early on. We are creating theatre after all.

This is definitely one of my favourite scenes so far.

Nice work Graham. Those last few brush stokes make all the difference. And really loving the hazy, smokey atmosphere. Job done!

Yep 3x is the most useful. After that the useful focus is very limited and is literally a pain in the neck. 😀

...Couldn't have been, as I wasn't even there. 😀

Quick update: Yesterday the 21st, four months since I sold up and moved out west. This has got to be my longest holiday, as I'm still living out of a suitcase. Hence, not able to do any painting or modelling all this time. All we can do is keep everything crossed that completion will happen soon enough.

I've been asked a couple of times how the bricks are made? 1. A mould is created out of styrene strips, using various widths of strip to create a 'channel' which will be the depth and height of the brick. 2. This channel is then filled with dental plaster and scraped off and allowed to dry. 3. Then the dry strip of plaster is removed from the mould. And chopped up with a sharp blade into brick lengths. All bricks are used including any broken ones. 4. Using PVA, the bricks are laid to match the required bond pattern. 5. The bricks are painted in various shades. I use oil but acrylic paints will work just as well. 6. A mixture made from fine tile grout and weathering powder is sprinkled in the gaps for mortar. Then water is misted over the wall.

These are extremely useful for detail work. You can swap out lenses for different magnification. The magnifiers fixed on a stand are good for stamp collecting and jewellery making, but I find these much more comfortable, like wearing glasses.

I moved up to 7mm for similar reasons Chris. I agree that there's no happy medium, but I'm loving the new scale as I want to be able to add more detail. BTW, I use one of those head magnifiers when adding small details and a very good LED desk lamp.

And that's Lake Superior right there.

I worked with many types / thicknesses of 'foam core' during my 40+ years working in an art studio. It's fine for mounting stuff on for presentations. We used tons of it for just that, but it was never very stable and prone to damage.

I had the same dilemma on Bovey Tor, with a tunnel mouth at the end of a canal. So I also experimented with mirrors and decided in the end to go with matt black everywhere. And for similar reasons. BTW, the stonework on the bridge is looking really good and very convincing.

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