St.Catherines Pier
Part of 'The Pier Line'
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The end of the line, named after my lovely wife, Cathy.
I'd been wanting to create a seaside pier of some sort in a
box for same time after someone who saw us at the Market Deeping
Exhibition suggested it back in the Spring of 2025. So this box
is really the reason for the entire set of The Pier Line.
To enable the tram line to pass onto the pier I realised that
the track needed to be higher in this box, and in turn, all the
other boxes. That made the set a little different to the others.
With track up higher, there was now room to cut the holes
through the boxes that usually simulate tunnel openings, instead
I used simple cut-outs,
After a lot of pondering as to how to make the pier I opted
for the stone pier design, a of a 'cob' (or is that cob out?!).
It's obviously a very short pier, but the box size rather
defines that. The pier has a small platform and a couple of
little shelters but little else. I added the steps down to small
landing platform to give it some purpose. The little trawler
adds to that reasoning.
This is a seaside town, At the top of the hill there is a
pub, amusement arcade, a gift shop and, obviously, a fish and
chip shop. These were all scratch built using, mostly, Metcalfe
builder card.
A steep road on the hill leads down to the sea front and a
small Co-Op shop - It's a Metcalfe Corner shop that I took a
knife to and cut it down the middle to fit!
Between the cliff side and beach is a small park with a
picnic table and a large granite standing stone (to you that's a
little stone from the front garden!). The beach, as wither
beaches in my boxes, is made from budgie cage sand. The sea is
created by the tried and tested toilet paper and PVA method.
Allowed to dry, painted and then many layers of yacht varnish.
Incidentally, the backscene is a photo of Dartmouth, Devon.
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