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 8 March 2010

The platform of Life (WR)

Well i know its been a few days since the last update, but in my absence work has been progressing well. Virtually all of the ballasting is now done. Its just a question of weathering it and adding some flock and foliage. The scenic break is now in and just needs a little filler. The signal is installed but not yet wired. I've finished the portacabins and have begun adding smaller details such as the fueling kit and the fuel unloading point, the depot office which is a Knightwing gatehouse kit has also been done and fitted. This has also all been weathered in.

Oh and the fencing on the scenic side has been done up to the shed area. I need to get the rest fitted once i know where the backscene is. I shall hopefully tomorrow begin cutting brick sheet for the retaining wall and the associated pathway, this way i can finish the fence.

I'm also going to start the platform using Peco sides with a plasticard top and frame. The backscene which is formed of industrial units will then sit on but it will be fenced off from the platform. What fencing this will be i don't know. Also i hope to get some more lowrelief warehousing units as i currently have more or less half of what i need to finish the job.

Apart from all that there isn't much else to report. I did publish some photos as can be seen in an earlier post which shows the work up until tonight. Its certainly coming on but the photos really don't do it justice.

Also lots of new items released in OO from Bachmann for scenic detailing. Items such as the station modernisation pack and depot maintence pack will be good. Also the brutes will definitley need to be added.
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