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!

Saturday, 22 June 2013

Its been a while!

I suddenly thought a few minutes ago i havent updated this in a while. It turns out its nearly a year. Well so whats happened in that time . In some respects not very much accept ive built another layout. However it will look very similar to original Westleigh, why is that? Well about 6 weeks before its first show i noticed a slight hump on a board joint and it was of course, warped! So what did i do, well i rebuilt it in 6 weeks flat, three new scenic boards from scratch. Amazingly i did it with nearly 10 days to spare. Ive also changed the home board so its covered so you cant see any of the tight curves that were present on the old version. Apart from that not much else has changed really, the only other new development concerning the layout has been the control system has been upgraded to a lenz set 100 with two handsets so i now have two cabs which makes operating it alot easier. In other news my scheme to build Westbury in N is progressing well. Ive nearly got the plan sorted so i can start building the structures on the layout. Its a very long term project but its something i can do work on it when i want to so i dont get bored with modelling. I shall upload some photos to accompany this blog post tomorrow. Richard
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