I was thinking exactly the same Kev. We may have to have a meeting every night for a week to catch up and have people bring their kits in by surname in alphabetical order!
Anyway, when I took Prints out for his walk on the golf course last night, I found a nice piece of wood lying about doing nowt so I brought it back so I could try and replicate the effect as it was exactly the finish I was after. I made my posts a touch darker than the real wood for the purpose of "scale colour" and I'm stuck in this dilemma now of whether they are now too dark. I thought they were too light before so I'm just going to draw a line under it and be sensible. It's nature after all and wood is all kinds of different shades! The posts are now finished and glued in place at just over 1" distance (6 foot) which at first, even though it would be correct in real life, I thought looked too close on the diorama but when the aircraft is in place, looks "good enough". Rails tonight and a whole weekend ahead to work on them and the figures.