Rails to Black Rock

During the last week I have been in Wales which has provided opportunities to do further research for the model, it also gave me the chance to pop into the Corris Railway museum and view my old layout 'Dulas'. Its now fourteen years since it was donated to the railway but looks as fresh as the day we left it there. Society members have installed a shuttle system to allow the train I left with them to run back and forth. The loco with its scratch built chassis continues to run really well, albeit a lot faster than when we were exhibiting! Here my boys are looking at the Aberlleffenni section.

It's been a good chance to look at livery and details of carriages to be built this winter. The colouring of the 1930s rake seems to have improved, perhaps with revarnishing or the effects of coal firing, but the colours seem to be really close to those in the few colour photos I have seen of the colonel Stephens era. It shows the need for the lighting on the model to be tweaked as the the photos of my Welsh Pony give the impression I have painted it in a yellower shade of green than this. The colour swatches were made in day light and were if anything a slightly darker and bluer shade than this.