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, 22 March 2012

Ballasted

This week i have been mostly ballasting. Apologies to a fast show sketch there but it really is like that. After finishing the track painting and putting a new hardstanding in along with the shed foundations i could put off the dreaded job no longer!
The ballast is woodland scenics grey blend which i think gives a good colour especially when weathered down. So far i have done most of the straight sections of track leaving just the points to do which i will need to do very carefully to avoid problems from before!

As i mentioned above i have relaid the hardstanding at the shed end. It just looked odd and as id glued bits to it i reasoned just take it out and start again and cut it out complete of an A2 sheet of card which i did. I used the old as a template for part of it with the new section added on. This now means there is road access up past the shed which looks far more realistic. It just needs spraying with my grey primer mix and then sticking down, another job then completed!

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