Season Of Scenery 2026 (2)!

I’ve now finished the second batch of items I wanted to get done during the Season of Scenery community painting challenge and this time it’s all railway-themed stuff. I did show a couple of scratchbuilt items that I’d started in the last post and some of you guessed they were a level crossing and a bridge, so the fact that there’s a railway theme to this post shouldn’t come as a surprise! I realised I needed some railway-themed scenery back in 1996 when I started working on my Boxer Rebellion armies. The Allied forces operating in China in 1900 made use of the railway in a failed bid to reach the Peking Legations, so having some railway track, a steam locomotive and some rolling stock would mean I could create a few scenarios for that conflict. I struggled to get what I needed and in the end I converted a Thomas The Tank Engine toy locomotive, scratchbuilt some wagons and glued some 00 gauge track to lengths of card (as shown in the picture above). Not true to scale but they look the…