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 18 April 2010

Just Another Brick in the Wall (WR)

Well today I've managed to fit the ground signals. I've also sprayed up the industrial unit a nice shade of rail grey and also sprayed the brick wall. I've also mortared it and I've now begun the very boring task of picking the bricks out. So far I'm around a quarter of the way through and I'm already fairly bored, but in little bouts its not too bad.

The next job will be to fit the rear wall, along with cutting the three larger units down even more as otherwise they are too close to the wall. The one i'm working on at the moment still needs a roof and some more of the peco train shed side wall ventilators. It seems that no one has any spare and peco wont provide any either. Still I'm sure I'll find something.

Also my fotopic sites are being given a through overhaul. I'm updating the images with better ones and also uploading many that have never been seen before of previous layouts and rolling stock. I may even upload photos of layouts I've taken at shows. The modelling site looks a little spartan at the mo but hopefully the first will be up tomorrow with the rest following during the week. The transport site will follow after than as its a much bigger job.

Anyway still more bricks to paint....

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