Music mogul Pete Waterman is hoping to launch a new record this weekend, of the model railway variety.
He is attempting the Guinness World Record for the largest portable model railway, which will be on display at the NEC in Birmingham.
The 208ft x 14ft (63.4m x 4.3m) scale layout incorporates tracks built by Waterman and his Railnuts team over recent years
for display at Chester Cathedral.
The Coventry-born producer said: "As we’re putting it up we’re getting to grips with the enormous size of the task."
The layout will be displayed at Model World Live, a new exhibition combining model railways and scale modelling.
An additional 100ft (30.5m) of scenic track has been developed over the past six months especially for the exhibition.
Waterman's layout depicts the West Coast Main Line in detail between Rugby and Watford Junction, including scale models of three stations.
It also features a four-track main line and the option to pass trains at Milton Keynes Central.
The completed layout was assembled in 8ft (1.82m) sections at the NEC, with adjudicators scrutinising and measuring it from 16:00 BST on Thursday.
Speaking on Thursday, Waterman said: "Today we will be still painting and we’ve got some trees to put in, because we’ve just run out of time, but we will get there."
