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!

Saturday 6 February 2010

The next job (WR)

Well i partook in a trip to the show at Stafford today. Quite a good show in all quarters, the layouts have been better but they certainly werent poor. Some quite good bargains too, £7.50 for the Hornby Rudd and Clam wagons certainly was a good one. For me the only thing i got was some concrete paint for the concrete oddly enough. I also got another working shunt signal which i'm going to fit to the platform road signal. Well thats the plan anyway, trouble is i really dont know where to mount them, In the middle or at the top?

While at Stafford station itself i got plenty of good detailing shots, I could have got more but the light was going, and an two journey still needed to be done to get home.

I've also been through and sorted out my bits and pieces, I've been putting it into 99p for 10 store boxes. I didnt realise i had quite so much!!

Anyway its now time to relax after a day of rushing around. A big update will take place tomorrow as i've been making some notes as to what to do next, but i'll bore you with that tomorrow.
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