Sorry, but more pictures of windows this week! The upstairs windows for the red cottage were discarded and started again as I had used thin card rather than paper to make the glazing bars and this made them look too chunky from an oblique view. The replacement windows are much better. I have also finished the green cottage. Just the cellar windows to make and then I can move on to the more interesting rendered end of the building.

Hopefully I will be onto the roofs in another couple of weeks!!

 Not a brilliant picture but you can see what needs adding next in the photo below. The front gardens and steps are quite complicated with lots of different levels to work out 

A quick shot of the seaward side showing the completed bay window. The colouring against the new sky looks good.

The replacement back scene has been fitted today. This is a vinyl version so shouldn't in theory be effected by damp, which is necessary now the model is in the garage. I have fitted it with spray mount so in theory it can be repositioned.... 

The notice board is from Dulas; it was the only part of that layout I kept when it went to the Corris Railway museum. The dates on the various exhibition badges are reminder of how long it is since I exhibited!

Just a reminder that I haven't forgotten rolling stock! I have sent the second part of an article on the construction of Welsh Pony to the 5.5mm society editor. Hopefully he will find room in the next issue?  I am aware that there is no detailed background information about the layout on this blog so I will be writing an article to explain the overall vision and thought process behind the model for a future 5.5mm society article.

The upper sash windows are now fitted. Making these in two colours is really fiddly. The net curtains are made from tissue paper and look really convincing with the buff coloured curtains. Once again the methods are taken straight out the Pendon book of cottage modelling. The doors and bay window have been weathered but there is a lot more tweaking before its completely right.

The second bay window has retained the more modern style. The next job is to add the pebble dash render using pepper.

I notice that a picture of my Welsh Pony loco has made it on to the Narrow Planet website. We are really lucky to have organisations like this which will support rarer scales like 5.5mm.

Having gone back to look at the Francis Frith photo from the 1930's I spotted that the windows were not as I had made them... So the first window was scrapped! The roof needs tiling and there are lots of other details such as door knobs and guttering yet to be added, but I'm quite pleased with the look. To visit the Francis Frith site and see the source material I am using click here.