Throwback Thursday - Starting Scenery in Middletown

I'm not even going to talk about how long it's been since I've done some "proper" progress posts, opting instead for "Wordless Wednesdays" (and I even miss those from time to time) and recurring seasonal posts . . . Unfortunately, apologies for not posting regularly tend to fall flat after having to make them a few too many times. But if you're reading this, I'm just glad you're willing to hang in there with me - and I'll do my best to post more regularly. I promise - to try :^) - if for no other reason than that I've needed to go back to old posts to remind myself how I did something - and if I don't post, there are no reference posts to reference!

So, by way of starting to catch us up a bit - and riffing off of the hint I included in a recent Wordless Wednesday - I've pivoted from operations related work (see "Ops Paperwork - Car Routing" - making waybill sorters and bill boxes) and plunged into the deep end of scenery at Middletown. I actually started way back in January, which makes this perfect for a "Throwback Thursday."

Here's what the area looked like in January:

This is how Middletown looked forEVer . . .

And this is how things look as of today. . .

The most noticeable difference is that the southbound lanes of Route 9 have been added between the Valley Main and the river (in the aisle). Terraforming and ground goop are done, but there's a lot of scenic-ing that has to be done.  Also, note that I've also started to mockup the backdrop pics.

Washington Street, looking west.

Airline bridge approach to the swing bridge over the Connecticut River (the impressive swing bridge itself, unfortunately, isn't modeled since it'd be in the aisle)

View southwest - not the mismatched concrete wing walls and stone abutment and pier.

I'll go into detail re materials & techniques in future posts - I have lots of fodder so hopefully there'll be more content here for you to enjoy (and for me to be able to look back to for future reference!).

So stay tuned!