Map update

When I started this project at the end of last year, I really didn't realise how much time I would spend landscaping (painting textures, placing buildings, laying fences and so on). Placing the track (and even the signalling, tricky though that can be) really is the easy bit.

Having said that, I'm pretty happy with the way things are going so far - and certainly with the way the parts of the route I've spent significant time on have turned out. I hope the screenshots I've posted to date give a good flavour of it.

Here's a couple of maps to illustrate overall progress. The first one (from July this year) shows the area from Bishop Auckland, Spennymoor and Shildon (to the right of the map) up the Weardale line to Stanhope (to the left of the map). The area of green is the bit that's landscaped:



The second map (from mid-November) shows the status of the route at the moment:


In the second map the largely complete nature of the landscaping around the Spennymoor line can be clearly seen. Once that's complete, I'm likely to move down to the area around the Bishop Auckland-Shildon line (and by inference the West Auckland-Shildon branch) next.