With the town plan finalised I can return to scenic work around the main station.  I also talk through my design for the Fire Station the next scratch build project.

It is time to start work on building the Fire Station.  I also complete some scenic work around the main station and have a first go at withering the fence which separates the railway from the terrace of houses.  I also provide a link to an unlisted video in which I demonstrate how I use Excel to make texture sheets for internal use.

In this the last video of the year I continue with the work of scratch building a fire station for the main town of Weathertop on the layout.  

After some 20 hours work I have completed the build of my 3 bay art deco Fire Station for the main town of Weathertop on my N gauge layout.  This video records the final stages of build  

The Fire Station gets a drill tower, and I show the steps to building that.  I also talk about the work I will be doing to the two terraces of houses new the main station.

In this video, following a request from a subscriber, I show the process of creating a single terrace from some Metcalf buildings, and fitting them with gutters and downpipes.  This is part 1, with the second part in a couple of weeks' time

For this the 50th edition I complete the work I started on fitting gutters and downpipes.  I also have included a retrospective of the building of the layout over the last 33 months.  Finally I seek help in how to fill a space near the station.




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In this video I reveal the outcome of my request for ideas for  building to fill a vacant space in front of the main station.  I also review and build a gasometer kit from N Scenic  and start work in building garden square complete with playground.  I get to try my had at painting figures in N gauge, and why not start with the smallest figures you can find -  children. 


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In this video I complete the work of building a garden square to go on the layout replete with a play park, benches and people. I also talk about my next scratch build, and the dapol Flying Scotsman arrives on the layout.

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After a lot of head scratching and brain work I finally settled on the design for my Art Deco Hotel for the layout.  I tell all in this the latest episode.  You also get to see two A3 locomotives in action, and the result of further scenic work around the station.
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In this the latest episode, I start to construct the art deco hotel, but run into a question of scale.  A brief encounter with my wife's sewing box gives me an idea, and I also sow some other small bits fo scenic work and kit construction.  There are also two A4s in the running session which includes track cam footage.
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In this update, after a break of four weeks, I have finalised the design of the Hotel and started work on ensuring the base is accurately cut.  Various bits of scenic work have taken place and there is a running session or two, including something a bit bigger than N scale.
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I can see them all, Terry.

The build of the Art Deco Hotel progresses with the exterior construction method finalised and the wall pieces cut.  I also talk about the Woodland Scenics Just Plug system that I am going to use to light the building and how that will help make the construction simpler.  I get five locomotives running at once in the running session, which took some controlling.  Finally I demonstrate making trees with sea foam to encourage others to use this fairly straightforward way of making realistic trees.[yt]Upxn2Id1AdA[/yt]

In this video I complete the work to build the memorial garden in which the War Memorial I scratch built last year can stand.  I was pleased with the effects I was able to get using rubberised horsehair for hedging.  Getting the right effect with the static grass proved trickier, until I remembered a low tech way of doing it.
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[user=711]col.stephens[/user] wrote:

I can't see any videos, just a lot of black rectangles.

Terry

[user=34]Ken[/user] wrote:

[user=711]col.stephens[/user] wrote:

I can't see any videos, just a lot of black rectangles.

Terry

Me too!

Ken.

Sorry about that Ken.  I'm not sure what to suggest.  I can see them all clearly. I've added just a link to this reply rather than using the facility to insert a video into to the post let's see if this works. 

I see them OK with no problems using Firefox as the browser.