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, 3 May 2010

The Light at the End of the Tunnel ( WR)

Again no updates for a while. This is mainly because I've been working hard on the layout.

Anyway its finally coming to completion (more or less and i know a layout is never finished). I've just put the sky on so its now looking the part. Just one more industrial unit to finish and the two lighting towers to fit then scenically the layout is finished.

Just the fiddle yard cassettes of which have done none along with the fiddle yard fascia.

Theres also the little matter of the wiring. I've decided to completely rewire the layout along with the panel. This will more than likely take a few weeks to complete as its more or less from scratch. Also I'm beginning to think that changing the point motors from Seeps to Pecos would be a good idea. Hopefully by selling the Seep motors i can reduce the cost of the Pecos.

Once this is all done then its shakedown testing to ensure that everything performs as it should do. This should then mean that it should be completed by the middle of Autumn.

Latest photos will come when i get a chance.
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