End Game
Unfortunately, due to an increasingly poor exchange rate, my customer has had to pull the plug on this project. Bar a few odds and ends that need finishing off and checking, that's it for major construction. It is planned that the layout will be delivered some time early next year.
Disappointing though it is that it has had to come to a halt, my customer and I have a contingency plan, which would allow construction to resume at some point in the future, should situations change.
To the left of the Airfield, and to the right of the Country Station, the tracks leave the boards for further, as yet un-built sections. With the layout heading to Ireland, it would be rather difficult to continue the build without having access to the layout.
However, my cunning plan is to build a three inch piece of the next section for either end. The bench work, scenery and track will be finished to match the existing layout, with connections made for wiring between the pieces. I will retain these two small additions for the future. The small size of the pieces will take little storing. Should the project re-start in the months or years to come, I can simply extend these three inch sections into a full section, knowing that they will already match up with the existing.
Before I show any progress of that, I'll add some pictures of some of the built and refurbished accessories that were to go on the mine section, and which one day may still be included in the build.
The Mine shaft winding house; before and after refurbishing a second hand, already assembled kit.