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!

Monday 1 February 2010

The curse of David Bayley (WR)

As its rather to cold to be working in the garage i thought i'd just nip out and get some of the much promised photos. I've uploaded these straight to my fotopic site and these can be found here.

First up is the hardstanding which is not completely finished in those shots. It needs to be sanded down again and some little bits clean off and then painted. Until this it does look quite rough and ready.

The next shots are of the much quizzed ground signals. I didnt know the difference between one yellow and two whites and one red and two whites. I eventually chose the latter but i may have needed the former. They dont look too bad but the still need painting and wiring in. I'm also not sure they are technically correct being one either side but given they have arrows i hope it will suffice.

Theres also a photo of the three low relief warehouses i got from Nigel Crow of MISM., these need to be cut down and have some airvents and a new coat of paint. Although the platform road is straight it isnt parallel with the backscene, whoops!

There is also a shot or two of the panel. This is because i'm actually reasonably proud of it. I dont mind wiring and although i'm not expert it works reasonably well. This is also a reason why there is a photo of the board wiring. Again i'm reasonably happy with the result and it all works. Just!!

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