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, 7 February 2010

A spring Clean (WR)

Well one thing i've done today is to have a complete tidy up. I've sorted through all my stuff and put the vast majoirty of it in the £1 for 10 plastic trays. I really didnt realise i had so much stuff. I already have the kit for the lighting along with spare bulbs, I have enough will sheets of various different sorts to clad the entire house and in terms of switches, i have enough to control the national grid! Anyway its all been sorted so its easily accessible for future use.

I've now painted the hardstanding with the phoenix concrete grey. It doesnt look too bad, I just need to touch it up and hopefully it should be ok. Then its touching in the rails and the inspection pits before the inevitable weathering. I can also ballast right up to the hardstanding now i know where it is. Then some more weathering.

I have had a problem with a point motor being tight. It seems the hole is slightly narrow and its catching at one end of its travel. Before it was ballasted it was possible to sort it out but its going to be alot more difficult now so suggestions on a postcard please.

I'm also going to try and add the calling on head to the the platform signal. I'm still not sure where it should go or even if the platform starter should be a two or three aspect. Three aspect is slightly better but its more likely its a two aspect.

I'm not sure its all working correctly but once some more of the scenic work has been done i should be able to sort it all out.
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