I see that it's getting on for a year since the last update. I could offer feeble excuses but I suspect that the real cause is that from time to time my interest wanders and I find other projects more enticing. However a bit of rearranging in my playroom/workshop and renewed enthusiasm have seen me blow off the cobwebs and get the tools out. The task this last week was to make a start on laying the track and you will have seen from the photo that I've started with the point. Well actually I started with marking out as accurately as possible where the track was to go as it's a tight squeeze for the trains under the bridge at the left hand edge of the scene. I pinned the point in place then cut the pin heads off so I could remove the point but replace it accurately once I'd painted the track bed black. I applied pva glue before locating the point back on the pins then covered everything with a thick layer of ballast and weighted the point down until set. The ballast I used was building sand (from a bag left over from diy) tinted dry with black powder paint.when dry I tipped of the residue and this is what it now looks like.
