Fence!
Angela, this looks fantastic, a true British winter layout, thank you for doing it, we have a severe lack of snowy layouts in the UK on the DLS, how did you guess that this is what we would like.......
I just wanted to ask you what these chaps are sitting on, it isn't the barbed wire fence is it ??? They'll rip their trousers.....:hehe:
Cheerz. ex-railwayman. :wave:
Hello Ex,
Ha ha, no, they are not sitting on the fence, if they were it might be more than their trousers they would lose! I didn't notice it when I hit the button, but it's just the angle of shot, they are sitting on the ground.
Why an English winter route - you asked me for one, and as you are my favourite ex-railwayman, I did it.
The reason there are so few winter routes is because of the lack of English winter assets. It's a bit of a nightmare trying to find enough on the DS and a certain party has kindly made me some to order to fill the gaps. They will be on the DS eventually.... the last one, a large shed to replace the Scheune (shed) that I used a lot is about to be sent up. The creator has done remarkable well producing content as I went along and all of it will be downloadable
A 'for instance' are the hedge splines, only about 4 or 5 of those so they tend to appear rather a lot all over the place. No English winter tree splines I could use as a backdrop either. Some of the houses/cottages have been wintered but many have not and there are only a few pubs that can be used too. Mind you, one can assume that without insulated lofts the snow would melt off pretty quickly once fires had been lit, but that might not apply so much to shops, and there are none of these at all that I could find to replace the ones used.
And no buffers with snow on either.... and a desperate lack of good snow track as well, I had to use Swiss I think.
So come on, there is a great big niche out there (and in here!) that needs filling. I am not sure how much work is involved in updating an existing asset, but I should think not as much as making one from scratch, it is only the upper surfaces that need a texture change.
Still, all that notwithstanding, I did produce a route. It has not been sent up yet, as I said I am awaiting the last shed to be sent up and the other assets to be cleared from the Waiting Area, bare hop poles is one. So maybe in a week or two....
Bless you ex,
Angela