Hitting the shops (if you still have one) sometime this week will be the latest RM. A joint cover between Callum's Terrier and self's Ventnor West in TT:120 and the first installment of my build of this. Hand on heart this wasn't the most funest project that I've ever done; an exceptionally tight brief with the baseboard shape and size pre-determined, and what was in my opinion, playing against the flow somewhat. The primary commercial point was to push the Peco Ventnor laser-cut building kits, which are actually top notch; the signal box in particular, is delightful.
All this added to working in an unfamiliar scale with new untried track system meant that there were more than a few screaming moments where I felt like I was working against logic. All that said, it pretty much turned out OK. Would I touch TT:120 again? Given the amount of other things in the queue it's unlikely, though in my head there is a project or two that I would build, which do, as it were, go with what I consider to be the flow of travel with this still very undeveloped scale. There is a whole other discussion here which borders on the scale political, and I'll leave that until later, but safe to say that I think it has legs, just not the ones I built here.
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