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, 29 March 2012

The next step

Well the ballasting is more or less complete with just small touching up to do. The platform is now stuck down and ready to go.

One big change is by the exsisting scenic break, the more and i looked at it the more i thought it didnt look right. So i took it all up along with shortening one track and extending the other. This means i can put the shed further back and means adding the plasticard shed base will be easier.

Ive still not decided on a station building but dapols CO14 looks to be a good bet especially if two were merged and bashed together. I just need to get two kits and try. The other thing i need is the steps from building to platform. These are likely to be scratchbuillt from either a dapol or wills footbridge kit bashed so its just the steps dualed up.

The dynamis has also gone off for repair with the estimate being 4 weeks. Oh well plenty to do in the mean time like build a fiddle yard!

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