PROGRESS PICKING UP ON THE DIORAMA IN SHOW ROOM

I am busy trying to populate the layout and get street furniture in and recycling as much as I can from my old model railway. I've ordered up brass to make tram and trolley overhead standards as the lamps I was thinking of using are far too low. The trees have been discarded other than space fillers, typical Chinese rubbish, ditto the old gas lamps, not one being used from two packets vastly over size might for O gauge layout though.

On the layout the actual vehicles to be sited are not in place I just used anything II had to hand to test for size. I'm working my way along the scenes next I'll start with the bus garage end. Roughly it starts in the 40/50s on the left side then through 1960's to 70's as you go right. I'll have London transport on the older bit, Midland operators in the middle which gives a chance to show off the new Rapidos. The right side with the postal sorting office and fire station needs a decision on what to include.

One of my aims is to make sure the majority of the layout population are shown with some sort of context. Being the baby boom era I had already made a lots of mums with prams which are now being utilised. The stand letters on the Chinese dice are in place on the shelters in the bus station, I do want to add some boards which had destinations at the end of the platforms as shown in one of the Wrexham shots I've used as inspiration, a look at such a picture should give a good idea how far I've gone even to show the cobbles showing through the broken tarmac or concrete at the edges.

Frustrating the further restrictions which have come in, thankfully I did some South East shots before the latest extreme tier 4 rules came in to play. Stay safe and I'll get cracking with more archives, the next Bus Spot Ultra will be Accrington.