Rails to Black Rock

A re profiled overlay of plywood has been added to the facia correct some of the original miscalculations. The seabed was sloping away from the beach a little too steeply so it has been raised by 15mm at the pier end. The pier / harbour wall is one of the only changes to the landscape other than the trackbed and a little licence has been used to suggest the depth of water would be enough for schooner to tie up to. Borth y gest was in fact a place where many ships were built for the carriage of slate. The re vamped maritime museum in Porthmadog is excellent and well worth a look. Its amazing how the elegant ships were built on the foreshore using rudimentary equipment. Even more fascinating is the amount of ships wrecked on the coast of Wales. I am going to suggest that a small amount of slate might have been loaded there once the ship building had ceased.

The facia has been rolled with grey undercoat ready for a final satin black finish. The back scene has bubbled unfortunately. I have heard of other people having similar problems and thought I had avoided it by using spray mount. It will do for the time being but will need to be replaced before the model is exhibited. I will apply the next one using wall paper paste and allow the paper to stretch...