"Somewhere in England" N Scale World War 2 Railroad

[armyairforce]

The water tower and signal box were next to be fitted.

[armyairforce]

The platform edges were masked off and the edging stones painted. Once dry, the whole platform was given a speckle with the airbrush on low pressure, to break up the even finish of the grey. They were then glued in place and weighted down to set overnight.



February 16th 2012

The clay works had some people added around the building and some home guard troops are in in training around the pill box.

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Slightly further up the hill from the pillbox, a platoon of troops are on the march. I thinned the bases of the figures down as much as possible, but still wanted to leave a reasonable gluing area, knowing the whole layout had to be shipped to another country and carried up to an attic. I didn't want details falling off.



Even further up the hill, there was a small convoy of vehicles; possibly recently offloaded at the quayside. All these vehicles were white metal and had a bit of weight to them. They had a small copper wire pin epoxied into the chassis and a hole drilled in the road to help keep them in place.

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Up at the station, an old coal wagon was added as a coal bunker and a few people added, working around the bunker and water tower.



Over at the platforms, the station scene was coming to life with the station masters house in the foreground, platform canopies added and a scattering of people.

[armyairforce]

Here's a couple of general views of the station with a few coaches at the platform. The two canopies and foot bridge can be seen from this angle.



At this point, there were still a few gaps under the edge of the platforms. I'd left the ground cover away from where the platforms were to be glued down, so they had a completely flat surface to bond to. These gaps would be filled and painted at a later date.

A small cattle pen was added to the loading platform with some sheep in and a horse and cart added close by. Three artillary pieces are on the end of the goods platform. I don't know if they've just been delivered, or are waiting to be shipped out by train.

[armyairforce]

More troops are training around the upper pillbox which guards the approach road to the station.



Here's a close up of the goods platform. There's also a dividing fence between the passenger platform and the other side of the good platform. The close up also shows the gaps under the platforms that need further ground works to complete the platform installation.

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Here's a couple more general views of the station before the ground works were finished.

[Fushigi Ojisan]

Semi-related, would those be Home Guard forces? Just started watching "Dad's Army" and your layout reminds me of it.

Bit of a shame this could not be added for metahumor

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jones%2 ... %27s_Army)

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[armyairforce]

I'm sure that in 1943, there would be both Home Guard and regular forces training throughout the countryside. We originally had the steam roller scene from the Dad's Army film planned for part of the layout, but when the project was cut short, that section wasn't built.

[armyairforce]

March 9th 2012

With the station complete, the project went on hold until the Pound/Euro exchange rate improved. The three sections were screwed down to the floor of my trailer and transported to my dad's garage, making way for my GPW rebuild.

[armyairforce]

Here's the three sections unloaded at my dad's house. It was quite nice to see them all together as there wasn't room to get it all together in my workshop and to work around them. I'd only been able to fit two sections together at any one time.

[armyairforce]

I particularly liked the view down the main line.

[Lee Bishop]

That's so impressive, thanks for posting all this, I love your work!

[armyairforce]

Thanks. It was the kind of layout I always wanted to do for myself, but never had the space or money.

While the layout went into storage in March, I'd made a start on my GPW rebuild in late January 2012, just small bits to start with. Once the layout was out of the way, it was full steam ahead.

I went from this in January 2012......


to this, mid May 2012.....


to this, late April 2013.....


to complete in January 2014.


With the GPW done and the Euro exchange rate improved, the work on the layout began again in March 2014. The next section was the airfield, located to the left of the country station.

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On to the airfield - March 2014

The crash landed Lancaster was left awaiting its canopy when the layout went into hibernation. This was fitted soon after unboxing everything.



Another feature on the airfield would be a PBY5 Catalina search and rescue anphibian. This would be parked in the T2 hangar, with an animation mechanism to allow it to be towed out of the hangar by a Jeep. The small windows in the fuselage sides have been fitted, along with some 2mm styrene blocks in the bottom of the hull. These provide a hard point for the drive wire that will push the Catalina in and out of the hangar.