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, 28 February 2010

A wide view (WR)

Well i needed to get the layout set up, sadly the weather was against me today so its now up in spare room. When one board is up in the garage it seems quite small, stick the pair up though or try and move one they suddenly seem so much bigger than they used to be.

Anyway i can now work out some of the back scene and other details need to go. As the track is not quite parallel to the rear it does mean I'm going to have to do some cutting and shutting so that i can get something that fits. I'm also going to put the main station building on the layout board rather than the extension as i really think it just doesn't look right with it missing while its at home. I'm also debating whether to use the hornby platform straights or use some peco edging sections i have for the platform and cobbling together a new roof. I currenty have both so its an easier decision to make.

I've also wired the shed. I just need a plug and some grain of wheat bulbs as it was decided that the LEDs wouldn't work. All i need to do is to install them. I also need another peco shed side vent as one of mine has fallen out and i don't have spares, still will have to do my best.
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