4mm Llanfair
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LarryG
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Another bit done hiding the road as it hits the backscene. Planting a tree of sloping ground was a challenge so I did it last night and propped it up with a pair of track cutters while a blob of PVA impregnated with static grass dried. This morning, some dead grass was added under the tree...
LarryG
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Thanks Gismo. You know the area well with living there. The Dee Valley looks to me very similar to some areas on the Shropshire borders down the valley to Welshpool.
LarryG
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A photo merely taken to see how the 4mm vac'd grass looks. Every day, I take photos of new 'work' and then go though photo albums to see how things really looked and how the model might be improved. This platform end shot tells me the accumilation of muck at places like this is missing...
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It would be a very fastidious Stationmaster who had that bit of land regularly cut.
Would some low shrubbery be a good way of filling the area whilst keeping it tidy.
That area is a prime candidate for rhododendron - fills it up; low maintenance.
John Isherwood.
LarryG
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Rhododendron's....or at least some pretty flowers.... 
One of the small trees was sacrificed by cutting it into slices to form the base of the flowers. So far they look like bushes...
The bushes were sprayed with glue and some red flower beds were removed from their backing sheet and crumpled between finger & thumb so the flowers settled on the adhesive. It's a work in progress, as I'm busy doing other things today...
One of the small trees was sacrificed by cutting it into slices to form the base of the flowers. So far they look like bushes...
The bushes were sprayed with glue and some red flower beds were removed from their backing sheet and crumpled between finger & thumb so the flowers settled on the adhesive. It's a work in progress, as I'm busy doing other things today...
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Rhododendron's....or at least some pretty flowers....
One of the small trees was sacrificed by cutting it into slices to form the base of the flowers. So far they look like bushes...
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The bushes were sprayed with glue and some red flower beds were removed from their backing sheet and crumpled between finger & thumb so the flowers settled on the adhesive. It's a work in progress, as I'm busy doing other things today...
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You created my vision!
As it stands, it represents that fleeting period when the bush starts to drop its flower petals!
Absolutely spot-on.
John Isherwood.
LarryG
Western Thunderer
After the last train of the day departed, Reverend Griffiths went for a late evening stroll around the station with his trusty German Leica. He had walked across the fields and clambered over the stone wall to reach this spot...
The railwaymen were his flock and he knew they would be enjoying a gill or even a pint. All was quiet...
He took this shot and then stood for a moment wondering how the station got by without lamps and platform seats...
Then he looked in admiration at the church and considered his good fortune in securing this post. In an hours time, the sun would have dipped and he would back back home listening to music on the North Home Service...
The railwaymen were his flock and he knew they would be enjoying a gill or even a pint. All was quiet...
He took this shot and then stood for a moment wondering how the station got by without lamps and platform seats...
Then he looked in admiration at the church and considered his good fortune in securing this post. In an hours time, the sun would have dipped and he would back back home listening to music on the North Home Service...
Geoff
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Geoff.
LarryG
Western Thunderer
No, I'd put a Bulleid Pacific up there on a plinth 'cos he once lived in nearby Llanfyllin on which Llanfair was originally based. Then should a train overshoot the buffers, there would be nothing to lose.
