A Quiet Morning at Yaldbury & Celt-Iberian Epics!

The crossover between the two hobbies becomes very apparent when you get to building up the terrain and starting to add detail.  Yalding and Wateringbury in Kent were two places I spent a lot of time as a child and was where my Grandmother and family would go 'Hopping' or Hop Picking in the 1950's. Special train services called 'Hopping Specials' were put on from London Bridge to take families down to the Kentish hop fields for two week working holidays in the countryside, so 'Yaldbury' seemed a perfect name for this fictitious rural branch line terminus layout. I'm still working on this Summer project adding fine detail and can tell you that threading fine fishing line into 30 tiny wooden MDF upright posts with laser cut holes took a LOT of patience but proved very rewarding and had to be done to prevent the sheep getting onto the rails! The three trees are by Woodland Scenics and supplied as 3 cast metal armatures and a bag of foliage which needs to be fixed and glued on. They would make realistic Wargaming trees but are a expensive at £10.00 for three. 

'Yaldbury' - N Gauge branch line 'micro' layout, just 72cm long x 22cm wide (plus an 'offstage' fiddle stick of 20cm behind the tunnel). Points are Peco Electrofrog  medium radius controlled by underboard 'wire in tube' switching method, simple electrical wiring of just two feeds which connect to a Gaugemaster combo hand held controller. 

   

I'm still enjoying painting the figures though, just finishing off the 72 strips of Epic Ancients for Leo in the U.S. below are some of the Celt Iberian bases underway, pre final checks and highlights and varnishing/basing. July will be mostly dedicated to Napoleonics for Mark.