Pilot cottages Borth y Gest

 With all but two of the cellar windows completed, I have started to work out the levels of the road and front walls. The cut outs are for the wooden strengthening blocks which are part of the baseboard. Several of the houses have iron railings, I've been looking to see if any of the Scale Link range could be used.

The end cottages were given two different 1930s style doors. The diamond window design seems to really work with the windows. I suspect this is the kind of detail that someone will one day put me right on; if so I can always change it. On my previous model of the Corris I was fortunate to meet lots of people who had recollections of the railway and were often able to fill in the gaps where no photos were available. The rear of Abberllefeni station building was always the most contentious; was its stone or wood panelled? Of course being a 'might have been' scenario I'm probably being a bit precious, after all there was no railway there in real life was there....

Have you ever had that panic half way through a model that you got the scale wrong? After a bit of hunting around I found my box of rather sad unpainted figures. Mrs Roberts confirms that all is well, although leaving the house a lone, with such a large suitcase will get the neighbours talking...

Having only made 4mm scale buildings before, this row of cottages feels really substantial and rather dwarfs the rollings stock; but then again that's what it's like in real life..

The first layer of the roof over the bay windows has been added today along with the upstairs windows. The bottom edge of the whole row of houses has been trimmed to take into account the slight gradient of the track bed. The line is already climbing as it passes the houses so that it can cling to the rocky promontory on its way to Black Rock Sands.

The line will run on a ledge cut into the rocks above the boats as I have imagined it, hence the need to gain height rapidly. The boats are at the very edge of the current baseboard