With less than a week to go until the layout's appearance at the Wealden Railway Group Exhibition at Steyning, I've been working on a few more details.
One detail was affecting operation so had to go; the bollard that was acting as an uncoupling magnet marker between the two yard sidings fouled footboards etc. on several items of rolling stock and locos. It's now replaced by an etched brass manhole cover. I also finally got round to placing the post I painted a couple of years ago as a marker for the magnet on the platform road.
I spent a few short sessions today adding paint to several of the figures. Photos once they're completed, meanwhile the small post box on a wooden pole is now finished and in place next to the drystone wall on the right hand side of the layout. This is a Langley casting, like the 7mm scale one on South Bierley Sewage Works...my version of a bus on a bridge, I suppose.
I've also added some weed growth to the bottom of the wall and to the blank bit of ply in front of the nearest cottage to the basin.
Most of this should be visible in the photo above.
