The Welcome Mat

Welcome to this Blog. Hopefully you may find it of use (i doubt it but it doesnt stop me hoping does it?). All my skills are normally self taught, and at the moment i'm a lone ranger when it comes to my layout with the occasional help from friends (normally it involves alot heckling).

I've never yet got a layout really past the electrics stage. I normally lose interest which is why i've decided to become involved in lots of things so i can vary my time between different things. All the work you see on Westleigh is my own work and all the photos you see on my fotopic sites are again my own work. I'm amazed i havent started to play with it, perhaps leaving the vast majoirty of the wiring to the end helps.

My main interest in railways is principally the early 90s. Even though i only just got into double figures in terms of age just as privitisation came in, i find it a very interesting period. My earliest memories were at Salisbury, Oxford and Bristol. So to counteract this aswell i tend to model the northwest scene during 1990 to 1994. However i also do the Wessex area during the same period and the scottish lowlands during 1988-1990.

I do have a little interest in the 1996-1998 privitisation period. I'm more aware of this period than the sectorisation period and again i wouldnt mind if it turned into this era.

I also am working on a project of Devizes station in 1963/64 just before alot of the line was rationalised and eventually closed. This however is a very very long term project and probably wont get anyway for many many years yet.

I do spend alot of time in the summer out an about doing photography particularly of civil jet aircraft. I'm certainly no David Bailey but i'm reasonably proud of most of the photos taken.

Anyway i suppose i really should get off the computer and get on with some modelling work, except work has a tendancy to get in the way!

Sunday 21 February 2010

Building Blocks (WR)

Well i didn't manage to get the layout set up in the end however the station building has come on a pace. I was originally going to get another peco office kit however after some thought it became possible to put a fake rear wall in so as to save on the bits required. It's a combination of brick sheet and plasticard but this shouldn't matter in theory as it will never be seen as it points to the rear. Its currently had the internal walls fitted with the next job to give it a coat of paint on the outside (Light or Dark brick, its all the same to me). Then i have the roof it fit which will be entirely scratch built using wills section and plasticard. At the moment it looks quite reasonable but hopefully once its been painted it will look much better.

That's more or less it to report for this weekend as the only other thing which happened was some mud was painted on one of the boards but I've now run out of paint so a trip to the toyshop is necessary to get some more. I'll wait until the shed is looking vaguely presentable first before i post any photos of it, it doesn't look that good yet as any construction site does until its finished.

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