A bit more of Lantern Yard, done while the Milliput on the Vincent crankcase was cooking in the oven. Light's not up to the camera's requirements, so a bit fuzzy. Some brickwork added and base painted with Testor's red, until I found some old Revell brick colour enamels. Also added some grass with gauche painted medical lint. I can't get no sense out of static and I'm not hugely impressed with it in all situations AND the fibres cost too much. My dear bride has agreed to hand dying the rest of my lint. Should be enough for the remainder of this set-piece and the grassy bits of Riverside, my projected standard gauge set-piece (Wisbech and Upwell based). Steps made in Foamex and the corner guard made of K&S Metal Centre aluminium sheet, folded into an angle and filed to show where the decades of ropes have worn slots in it.
The "water" painted, only to convince myself that I'm getting somewhere and because there's a limit to how long I can have dirty plywood in my peripheral vision!
Just in view on the right is a recent decision in the form of foundations cut for a typical canal lengthman's hut. These tend to contain stuff for general maintenance of canal, locks , etc, and, of course for those inclement days , a nice pot belly or iron cased stove on which a kettle would perforce sing constantly. My experience of proper boatmen always starts with, "Y'ave a brew?" "Yes, please", I always said, but imagining that grubby old spoon standing up in the stewed concoction, but how can you refuse such a well intended offer?
Note also the raised bricks providing grip for opening and closing the gates.