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A few weeks ago the model railway club I belong to had it's open day, I had decided a while back that I wanted to build something and that it would be ready to take down if there was space and they wanted me to display it. The picture attached is what I ended up with, it's nothing much and despite wanting to start something in January I actually only really started two weeks before the show. To start with I was sure I wouldn't need 8 months to build something, so for a long while I put it off, then about 2 months before the show I started to work on a track plan, after a few attempts I came up with something I was (moderately) happy with and could afford to make. Not long after the track plan was done i painted the board I wanted to use, then I lost a chunk of time because I became so afraid that what I was going to make would be terrible and a disappointment to the club and the people attending the show. As it got to 2 weeks before the show, I decided that I had promised something and most definitely couldn't not show up, especially since my partner had finished her T gauge layout and was definitely going to attend. So I got together everything I thought I would need, remembering that this is literally the first layout build of any kind that I have ever done. So compared to my vision, the "cliff" doesn't come far enough over, but that's kind of OK, but i didn't get enough rocks to cover the front edge or between the tracks, apart from that, I was actually ok with how it looked scenically, the only problem i have is that the curves are to tight for the coaches i have and to be honest are a little too tight for James and on top of that the points furthest to the right have a really bad habit of derailing everything. Sorry for the ramble, hope you find it interesting/like what i built.