British Valentine Mk1

Picked up an old Revell kit at a local Toy& Train fair recently, fun to build but the tracks were a bit fiddly. A simple green paint job with a bit of muddy weathering...

British bofors gun, being towed...

Another useful item from Oxford Diecast military 1/76 range, the british bofors gun - a little light weathering done on it. Here shown with the Airfix tractor....

British Road Transport - Tanker

A nice little road tanker from Oxford Military 1/76 diecast range, just given this one a bit of light weathering

German Panzer IIIs ...

General von Tiddenheim is out on another inspection, this time to see some Panzer IIIs which one of his panzer divisions have received ...

[ new items - 3 Panzer IIIs from Plastic Soldier Company]

Building a small railway station - WIP

One thing missing form my scenic railway items is a small station. I have enough OO/HO rolling stock for a small continental or british train.

I went to a model railway exhibition last weekend and got some cheap bits to make the station with,
- Ratio platform fencing
- Peco platform edging

- Hornby platform station building extension.

Pieces cut to size as needed and a trial layout done

Bases for the station made, on MDF base with cardboard riser - a thin piece of cardboard overlaps the railway line section base ...

 Platform edging stuck to section boards and thin card used to make a platform surface, on top of which will be stuck some Metcalfe paving sheet ...

 Need to pick up a few item:
- station building, if possible a french style one as well as a british one
- line side fencing
- a couple of signals
- some telegraph poles
A nice little shopping list for the next local Toy & Train fair.

Trenches completed...

All the trench sections and associated bits & bobs have been finished off....

The gun emplacement

 a trio of pill-boxes

 the long trench set, with some of my home-made barbed wire in front

building some trenches - still going ...

Two small end-pieces to be used with other sections for smaller setups...

 Used here with the finished basic build gun emplacement ...

 the long section gets a command bunker ...

waiting for Renedra sandbags to arrive and then once those are added will start adding filler etc...