T minus about 3 weeks til I can afford track and start baseboard building!
In the meantime I've set about kitbashing the bulk carrier for my dock using a 1/130 oil tanker kit I stumbeld upon in Modelzone - saving myself about £70 from the cheapest N scale freighter kit I could find (made by Sylvan). The kit I got is made by "Eastern Express" and whilst it's nice and cheap, it is quite frankly the worst tooling I've ever seen. Almost every piece had misaligned halves (sometimes by up to 1mm), missing bits or corners lost in blobs of plastic! So as well as rebuilding the main deck to look like a bulk carrier not a tanker (complete with 1950s wooden hatch covers) I've had to fill loads of the gaping holes with plasticard...argh...
Anyhow here's my tanker in its current unpainted state:
And the part I'm particularly pleased with - the wooden hatch covers:
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