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!

Wednesday 23 June 2010

Miles o Wire (WR)

Well i'm currently doing the panel. I have 292 solder connections to make. So far i've done 48 so i'm 1/6 of the way through. Hopefully another few weeks and it should be all up and running.

There has been a change of era too. Given one of the club layouts i'm involved with has been backdated i decided perhaps it was time to backdate this. So its now a mid 80s layout. Not a mega change but it does mean a little stock changing has had to go on. Also means the cleaning siding will see more DMUs than planned. Also means there is more stock work to do. Oh well we still have 6 months to do it all in.
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Saturday 5 June 2010

Surfs Up (WR)

Well backboards are now painted and refitted. I need to add a brace at one end as for some reason it seems to have warped slightly. I suspect an issue of using MDF. Anyway the front of the panel is also now fitted and all of the switches are also now in.
There was a minor panic when i realised one of the 25 way tag strips had been wired in a completely unfathomable way so that will need to be replaced (sadly i have already soldered some wires to it, never mind). Anyway I'm just about to begin to note up what goes to what on the board tag strips, then it is a question of endless hand burning while i try and fit alot of wires into the panel. Oh what fun....
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