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!

Friday 20 December 2013

Its back....

Well the blog is back. Whats happened in the mean time, well lots and lots. When i wrote the last blog post Westleigh was still two months away from its first show which was not overley successful. It all stemmed by the fact that the fiddle yard was 2cm was too long which meant the layout wasnt sitting correctly and the joints were out of sync. What else has been going on since this show? Well ive be dablling in N gauge but im not quite sure what to do at the moment but i have plenty of ideas written down so whatever i do choose i have a basis to be begin from. Recently due to the entimely demise of Jo Thompson i had a chance re-encounter with a layout i built many years ago. This was called Studley Road and was a layout i sold to Jo years ago but its been donated back to me and im now planning to get it back onto the exhibition circuit in a few months but it does need some work. The board and the trackwork are fine but the scenic section needs some work and there is a need to do some basic re-wiring. When i know of a possible show appearance i will update this blog. Until the next time which hopefully will now be every few days.