Rails to Black Rock

It's a very long time since I scribed a wall, but rather like riding a bike once you've done it, it soon comes back to you! So after a good few hours I have scribed about half the row of houses. Using photographs I have matched the most significant stoned and hopefully captured the individual nature of the walls. 

Here you can see the blanked of fire places which suggest the row was built in a way that suggests they expected to extend it further. The ship building industry took off in Borth y gest at the time this row was built and photos show that the level ground to the right of these houses became an area used as wood yard where timbers for ships were prepared. They obviously realised that the level ground was more important for industry rather than housing.

The left hand end of the row has distinctly different different stonework using much more mortar than stone. This photo shows the transition from one texture to the other. The windows have all been filed back to shape but still need sills to be fitted and blended in.

One of the most satisfying things about scribing your own stonework is that it allows corner stones to be modelled really convincingly.

The base board is now in the garage until the weather turns too cold. This allows an operators eye view of the layout for the first time.