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!

Thursday 8 September 2011

End is in Sight

Today i finished the last major jobs that need to be completed on Westleigh. I have now fitted the end plates and the cover for the single board that is left. The layout is now more or less complete. My next and final job will be to attach the scenic break top. Once this is done then its only really final detailing to complete such as buffer stop lights, lighting towers, that sort of thing really.

I'm also already working on my next layout. This is much small so it can go in the back of a small car and doesnt take too much space when set up. It will probably be no more than 6ft x1.5ft and basically will be a single platform with a few sidings. It will be more of a testbed, diaroma and layout built into one.

Anyway a night off i think tonight as ive been very busy with it all the last few weeks.

I shall upload some photos to my flickr account tomorrow to show the works.
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