Northfield Harbor 
Caroline Cleaveley HO gauge 3.5mm scale
of the harbour wall. The rest of the harbour wall was built with Wills flint effect plastic sheet.
The sea was painted using various shades of blue, yellow and grey acrylics and water colours on foamboard with a couple of coats of PVA brushed over to finish. Northfield Harbor is set in the north east of the USA in New York State on the edge of Lake Erie, somewhere near Watertown, a real place. The period is the 1980’s.
The layout is just 56 inches long and includes an integrated fiddle yard which is partly hidden behind a low relief warehouse. The baseboard is only 8 inches wide, made of balsa offcuts sandwiched between two layers of cardboard packaging, it is light, fairly robust, and is in two pull apart sections for easy dismantling and transportation. Two narrow add on pieces sit at the front representing a sea wall and strip of water. This brings the total size to 56 inches by 11 inches.
Salts Seafoods is a low relief factory from Model Railway Scenery and sits on a scratch built loading platform. Ahab Marine is the free low relief warehouse from Scalescenes. Both are generic enough not to look out of place on an American scene. These industries are supplemented by an outdoor gear shop, which is another downloaded printable kit, this time from Clever Models.
The warehouse with its adjoining wall and bridge sits in front of the fiddle yard and fits into the baseboard surface by means of wooden pegs. Similarly, the factory fits down into the rear baseboard edge by means of a thin plywood tab and slot arrangement. This means that both buildings can be easily lifted off to protect them during storage or transportation.
The background wall and bridge helping to hide the fiddle yard are scratch built using card and Superquick building paper, as was most
