News from the Wheeler Model Railway
The Main Station Forecourt had been a problem ever since the narrow gauge track was laid in front of it. This is how it originally looked:
Unfortunately, the curves on this track proved to be too tight, so it had to be relaid, which then disrupted the paving…
Finally, I’ve reworked this area, and am reasonably pleased with the results:
The goods yard has always been in a rather ‘half-finished’ state whilst I decided how to finish the surface. The walls between it and the main track were also only ‘temporary’:
I was recently given some long offcuts of 2mm MDF, and glued two strips together to make the basis of a long, curvable wall:
Having sorted the walls out, I decided to use some of the left over track ballast for the goods yard surface. This was then sprayed to tone the colour down.
With a bit of greenery, it now looks a lot better than before:
