Garden Railway Saturday; A 32mm Scale Photoplank

So what do you do when you're building garden railway trains. but don't have a garden railway on which to photograph them?  You build a photoplank.

I've been doing this for years, for projects (model railway and art/sculpture) in various scales for about 20 years.

At the Llangollen show, we bought a full circle of Mamod track to use as a test circuit, and there were some scrappy bits of broken rails in there too, so thought they'd do for a photoplank.

Initially, I thought about something reasonably large...

...but switched to a plank, which would allow it to be kept and carried in a smaller, more transportable box.

Hanging basket liner on the edges, sand for the ballast.

And in its transport box, with a Binnie skip for size.

And showing its use, out on location near Tanygrisau.

And in print :)