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Thank you Zathros.

A very good principle. Paper has been "cornered" and much dismissed.

I enjoy painting these small humourist figures. This is of a very angry grown up "baby" (?!) still wearing a baby grow

I'm looking at the tramway shelter and the Edwardian public toilet as "candidates" for a mini-layout in O16.5/On30 set in the Southern British coast. I have some kits (that I never finish the building....) and would like to have them on something small to keep home, but portable to take out to...

Thank you Rhaven Blaack.

I'm quite tempted to give a try to paper models in railway layouts.

Now I have to turn my attention to the box enclosing the layout and providing the lighting. I made it too light, the weight of the two circular fluorescent lamps has warped in a very nasty way the top. I'm hoping that a wood beam attached form above might force it to get straight again. This is...

Eager to feel life in the layout, I added in this stage some tiny people.

I still have some areas of the mountain to cover with foliage, the black paint under is visible in some areas.

Then I had to tackle with the "holes in the water. I must have pulled to strong when cleaning foliage that was falling over the river that I removed pebbles incrusted in the acrylic varnish. Started by painting with a close match colour and than add small portions of "water". Luckily I prepared...

Went on with the bridges area of the layout. they are central in the stage setting. The layout is so tiny (1.04m, some 3' 2") I had to explore scenery breakdown with different levels and the rock outcrop that partially hides the track.

Restored some broken parts I added previously to the thatched roof of the house and started to prepare a more believable setting for the farm house courtyard. Paid attention to the bridges and river. After several attempts I'm still not convinced with the painting of the stone work. It is so dull!

Then turned to the small halt. The tiny building is a laser cut cardboard kit.

Slowly I found my rhythm and things started to happen in a matter of weeks. The rice paddies are made with a product from Tomytec. It is quite weird and hardly believable, but sure easies the way. Had to cover the gaps in the corners of the rocks and apply foliage. The rice paddies wer palced...

I restarted by laying the "water". I used an acrylic product from Faller. Add some drops of Vallejo transparent emerald colour. Don't know why, but in most photos of rivers in Japan the water has this emerald colour, not the brownish we're used to see in Europe and States. It cures in 24 or 48...

This project lost momentum. Well I lost for some obscure reason interest in finishing it.... I grabbed it last November and it is practically finished. After dirtying the tracks with glue when applying foliage, I'll have to remove the catenary poles and give a good polish in order to "resume...

thank you Cylongirl.

Thank you guys!

The foliage is a home concoction of dried oreganos, lichens, several types of commercial foliage and tiny broken branches

To make things more surreal, I built a tiled pavement.