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Construction details so far.
Basics
Baseboard is 15mm mdf, sealed and painted with Homebase Weathercote, dark grey as used on the excellent 'Forester's Dream' track. LINK

The chequered skirting is actually large (5ft x 3ft) flags and not continuous material. Forget who I bought them from but there are loads on eBay. LINK

Tape used was Venture 6.35mm wide by 1mm thick LINK which has been perfect ever since with not a single breakage or any lifting off the track. Zero connectivity problems in many years of use.

The back-scene is 'long village' by Art Printers LINK. Available at most railway modeller's shops. I used the deluxe version which is a bit dearer but printed on polypropylene which is waterproof and scratch and tear resistant. It is meant for OO gauge railways but it's just a matter of perspective and fits in quite well.

I made the barriers from 3mm Correx sheet LINK which is the stuff estate agents use for their sale boards. It cuts to size easily with a craft knife and has a honeycomb structure, with a tough outer layer so can take a whack from slot cars without disintegrating as foamboard does. Painting took a fair while though, roughed it up with sandpaper, primer, two coats of emulsion and matt varnish on top. The barriers have good scratch resistance but you can scrape the paint off if you try hard enough so, in places where it might take a real beating, I resorted to the Blue Peter option, clear sticky back plastic on top! The colour is near perfect Donington Blue courtesy of the nice man at B&Q. I liberated a genuine paint sample from the circuit some time ago and he scanned it into his clever mixing machine which produced a very close match. They are held in place with pop rivets which are slotted into 3mm diameter holes.

White lines done by hand with 3mm car pinstriping tape, cheap as chips on ebay LINK. Not a perfect job by any means but about as good as I am ever likely to achieve.

Lap timing is by simple light-bridge with photosensors in the track, connected to an ancient laptop running Race Coordinator software.

Craner curves area
Grass is a Noch Static Grass Flowered Mat #N00270. This is an upmarket mat with static grass fibres already applied so no messing about with an expensive applicator. Much better appearance than cheapo mats and doesn't shed bits everywhere. Available from most rail modeller shops.
 
Figures are Micro Icons Bikers which are out of production. They pop up occasionally on ebay but mostly at very silly prices. A bit on the small side (about 5ft 2" scale) but I wouldn't pick a fight with them. They have the advantage of no unsightly bases attached to their legs and have a tiny magnet in their feet so I put a metallic sheet under the grass and they stay put without any glue. I wish other figures on the market would follow suit.
 
Bikes are Jesse James West Coast Choppers by Muscle Machines, again out of production but often appear on ebay at reasonable prices.
 
Burger van is scratchbuilt but not by me! It was made by Tel Martin (Savage GT) for his Hunter Valley track LINK. Instructions for making one can be found HERE. When Tel dismantled his track he kindly gave it to me plus several other bits and pieces from the layout. It was a bit the worse for wear with the signage faded so I replaced that and added the aluminium diamond plate to spruce it up. The serving staff are some of the slightly less weird homies.
 
Litter bin is scratchbuilt (if you can call it that) by me. LINK
 
Chairs came out of the box of 'bits which might come in handy one day.' No idea where I got them.
 
Safety fencing is Slot Track Scenics stuff. As supplied the mesh is a peculiar green colour so I sprayed it with Plasticote aluminium enamel. I originally tried to make the top wires from real aluminium wire but that was a disaster. I eventually used silver sewing thread which works a lot better.
 
The tyre barriers are by Racing Line and very good they are too. You can find them in the Traders section of the forum.LINK

Melbourne Loop
Gravel trap is standard model railway sheet.

Tyre barrier and cover is STS repainted.

Superchips advertising thing is sort of scratchbuilt, I used the cardboard tube that the grass mat came in and a piece of 9mm wooden dowel. The advertising itself was photoshopped from the original and printed on sticky back plastic. I am not that great at manipulating stuff in Photoshop and it took umpty attempts and a lot of swearing to get it to the right size.
 
The kerbing perplexed me for a while. Painting it on was out of the question so I eventually went for the rail modellers' lunatic solution of individual overlapping tiles cut from card. How they do hundreds of them on an 00 scale house roof is beyond me, It took three days to do about 50 of the things!
 
Marshals are from Slot Track Scenics. Photographer and fire extingushers are obsolete Tarn Foundry items. Needless to say that painting them was beyond my talents so I called on the services of the lady of the house who is into dolls house stuff and really good at painting miniature things. Mind you, there was a price to be paid for her help as she insisted that we really needed a rabbit family to complete the scene! I trust they will have the sense to go down their burrow when racing is taking place. For anybody in dire need of some rabbits for their track they can be bought from HLT Miniatures LINK. This is primarily a supplier of model farm items but they have a lot of useful 1/32 scale stuff in amongst the tractors and hay balers. Excellent service too.

Starkey's Straight
Loudspeakers from STS.
 
Grandstand is the old Airfix/MRRC kit which I bought long ago. Silly money these days though, perhaps I should have put it on eBay instead!
 
The figures are from various sources, Scalextric, MRRC, Revell, Carrera, Dylcom models, STS, cheapo Chinese and a few of the less weird homies. Painting courtesy of my good lady. The Stig originally lived on a novelty key ring.

Quad bike is a readily available New Ray item.
 
JCB is a Britains Farm item.
 
Marshals' broom, shovel and bucket by S&D Models. LINK
The blue box for their equipment is a repainted Scalextric one from the old pit stops.
This is the real life one:

 
Ice cream van is from Wilkos - £4 if they still have them or you can pay four times as much from a well known ebay seller. Yes, it does play a tune and light up!
 
Spark plug was carved by Gordon Steadman and I added the glazing and commentator (chopped the legs off a Scalextric one from the old TV tower).
The Conington Park signage was modified from my original photos by Leo (Scuderia Turini) and printed on the ubiquitous sticky back plastic. Many thanks to both of them for their invaluable help.

Flyover area
Safety fencing, litter bins, extinguishers, loud speakers, signage and tyre barriers as previously.
 
Portaloo is a cheap resin copy of a Verlinden model. Bought it on eBay a long time ago. Yes it is detailed inside and occupied but we don't want to go there do we?
 
Portacabin and marshal's post were scratchbuilt from balsa and card by my good friend Fluff.
 
Dunlop bridge is a repainted Scalextric item.
 
Ambulance is an underscale (1/35) Corgi one - so long as the tiny wheels stay hidden behind the fence then it doesn't look too bad. BRSCC logos on it are printed off from a photo of the real thing.