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!

Sunday 18 March 2012

Wires of many colours....

Well the wiring is almost finished with the completetion 3 of the 5 signals along with all the light feeds having been soldered up. I only have 10 solder joints to make. These include 8 for the two On-On-On switches and a pair for a flashing light which i cant wire up to a tag strip yet as i dont know where it goes! The wiring should be completed next month as i wont be getting the switches till trainwest. So in the meantime..

Im currently looking at station buildings. These will be on the bridge over th station. Thats about as much as i know so far as im not quite sure what building looks right there and even then no kit or even slightly kitbashed building may not look right so a period of research is called for.

Apart from that there isnt much else to report, the platform is more or less finished, just needs painting and then having a black wash applied to bring out the cracks. For what was my first scratchbuild im really quite pleased, it will look even better once finished!

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