A lot of modellers like to produce a nice little project over the winter. This Christmas, I've seen beautifully detailed N gauge loco sheds, nostalgic Triang period-pieces, intricately detailed miniature engineering builds...
... I decided to see what I could do with the Wolf Express set. Well I wasn't about to sell or give it away, I'd found myself really taken with it. That said, I wasn't keen to spend a lot of money on this build.
Bargain Corner at a certain Swedish Furniture Emporia supplied a suitable, cheap baseboard.
Some scrap wood from the pile a bit more material for it, a top layer to sit on some plywood risers.
The track was hot glued down.
Landform from foam packing material.
Then uggins of papier mache, and some sawdust to fill the gaps under the track.
More sawdust to provide a bit of texture (and speed up the drying time).
Trees were picked up this year, and last, from the local garden centre in their post-Christmas sales.
Several of these, purchased for a couple of quid apiece, bulked out the middle of the board after cutting down with a set of wire trimmers.
And here's the completed little project. A bit scrappy in places, admittedly, but it was fit in around other work so was done in a bit of a hurry.
Against a plain backdrop.
A suitably more festive backdrop!
Like I said, not the most serious of projects. I'll probably upcycle the bits and pieces of it (keeping the wolves of course, they're awesome) but it was nice to do a bit of a build over the winter. Maybe next year, I'll do something a touch more serious.
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