After three weeks
of iterative improvement since the Missenden Weekend, I’ve more or less taken
this one-third of scale mock-up as far as I can go. This is the view over the railway and the Bristol Channel.
Looking across to Exmoor |
I’ve learned a lot
on this journey of discovery (that was the objective): the mock-up has been
through a dozen or so rounds of “improve-photograph-critique”. Working at such
a small scale, it’s been easy to make substantial structural changes along the
way in order to reach this stage. However, at this scale, it’s also very difficult
to make very accurate scenic elements: the castle and farm buildings are only a
few millimetres high. And it’s difficult to photograph. At the scale distance I
want the eventual layout to be viewed, this is as much of the layout as I can
get into the frame.
All of which
suggests the next model should be at full scale. Whether that’s another
mock-up or the final layout I don’t yet know.
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