Even though I haven't posted in a while, work on the layout has continued. For one thing, it's almost completely illuminated by now, except for a few spots at the main logging camp. Come nighttime, when I turn out the basement lights, the effect is magical. Now I only need to figure a way of gently illuminating my DCC throttles.
One of my latest builds is Bar Mills Models' REA Depot at Cranberry in O scale. But since I model a fictitious logging line on the northeast coast of Canada's Vancouver Island, and REA doesn't operate in Canada, I made a few minor signage changes. Instead, it's now a Royal Mail Canada depot circa 1949, complete with the old Red Ensign flying from a flagpole.
This model had a few tricky moments, in particular the complex roof. Each of the four doors has a working Woodland Scenics LED light above it, as you can see above the freight door.
Another nice little scene I completed was Helwig's Grinding Service. The shacks in the image aren't new builds but rather old ones that got a new lease on life and a scenicked setting. Also from Bar Mills Models, the Shack Pack comes with three little structures. One of them found a home beside the Robson Landing water tower. The other two, along with an HO scale shed I up-scaled to O (the one on the right), became Helwig's. The rusty water tank is from Walthers' HO tank assortment pack, the light on the pole is scratchbuilt and works, you can even see a bird at its top; the fencing is from Woodland Scenics as are the figures. The cardboard cutout backdrop building has migrated through several HO layouts over the past quarter century before finding what I hope is its forever home here.
I'm currently finishing a 'critter' involving a Bachmann On30 Davenport. When I'm satisfied that it's photo-ready, I'll post it.
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