I am really enjoying this series and your channel in general. This channel really needs to have more subscribers. We need to keep liking the videos so that more people get to know about this channel.

Bit of terraforming with brekky! Cracking :)

Did see Corrish at Statfold on Sunday but didn't knew that it started like this and was very interesting how the layout was build using the insulation foam, going to carry on binge watching the rest, great video and nice to see the layout on display

I can already visualize it..great stuiff....

Somethin' I do when doing elevated terrain features is to think of how the layers of the processes the made the hill what it is now. Usually I ask myself "is this formation carved by hydraulic forces, deposited by glaciation, formed by volcanic's, or a period of mountain building", then I think of how the wind & rain have affected the feature. Then I compare to real world features. My go-to features are Heart Mountain in Wyoming, the Black Hills of South Dakota, and Wyoming, the tear-drop like hills of northern Ohio, the Rocky Mountains, Yellowstone Caldera, the Appalachians, and the Cascades. While my hills might not be for a train to run around (usually they're to be natural elevated features to display my trucks, and excavator models next to), these help me from getting the "plopped down per the markings" feeling 99.9% of model railroads, and other displays have. Usually this is how I do my occasional track-plans too. I identify the railroad I want to model, identify the terrain, then mark out the hills, and rivers as they were there first. Also identifying the formation type gives me a color pallet. Volcanic deposits depending on eruption style are grays, blacks, and whites, mountain building processes are grays, tans, blacks, browns,whites, and some reds, while glacially deposited hills are usually grays, whites, and browns. Not only that, but it also helps place the rivers and streams, and with that, also helps tell the story of the river, maybe by having an old river channel up in the hill partially exposed. Sounds super nerdy and all, but aint that why we model the things we do?

Cheers George! 👍👍

Really enjoying these videos and this style of presentation. I really love the music as well! it really adds to the chilled out vibe

Looks like fun. That lovely pencil track plan is now buried under the foam though LOL

Brilliant buddy! Look forward to seeing the progress! Makes me think I should really kick on with my little layout! Cheers

nice video, never really watched anything like this before. subbed.

Love your choice of music on your films…what are they?

Watching you cut towards your hand makes me nervous… speaking as one who has had stitches after doing just that. I’m binging the series thus far in the hope of getting the necessary boot to get on with my own layout. I got a full sheet of the thick insulation when my local builder’s merchant had a clear out of old stock.

My least favourite part of building any layout but it has to be done 🥳👍

Is the foam 100mm or 150mm thickness, and what is the size of the baseboard ?

Do you use just PVA glue to hold down the foam board to the wood base?

For my own in progress layout, it’s roughly the same size as yours, could I just use a thicker plywood base like you have? Instead of framing underneath?