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!

Friday, 5 February 2010

The Colour of Concrete! (WR)

Well there isnt really that much to report. Except that the sanding has been done. Question is what colour is concrete? Hopefully some suitible paints will be purloined this weekend at the Stafford show. Also i'm going to get another calling on head. I have a fake one for the entry signal but not for the platform starter. This should be a working model. I've also redrilled the mount holes for one of the ground signals after i got one rather out of shape. Just fill it back in and bobs your aunties live in lover.

Also rather annoyingly one point doesnt seem to want to play ball. Or rather the motor doesnt want to play ball. Some suitible adjustment will become neccessery.

Also i must say it was rather pleasant this afternoon watching the trains at Temple Meads. Was almost spring like. It was a bit different this time last year when the ground was covered with snow and i had a trip home to Yate on a Voyager!
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