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, 21 August 2014

Motoring Maintenece

No not of the 12 inches to the foot kind. Im talking more of the 4mm kind. The last few weeks ive been servicing up some old lima mechs. They really are incredibly simple to work on and very easy to get running to a smooth if not quiet standard. I find with most of the mechs i need to check all of the gear trains for damage or moulding flash. I then run the motor with a small amount of toothpaste in the gear train. Toothpaste has a slight abrasive quality which cleans the gears up a treat, but make sure you clean all of the toothpaste out once youve finished. The other thing i find people dont do is to lubricate the motor bearings. Only the tinyest ammount is needed but it will make heaps of difference! Im currently going through a doing a fleet of older Lima locos possible for Llwydd but maybe a 1990s club layout but i have to say that it makes a nice change working on something so simple and quite rewarding when at the end you get a mech that keeps up with most of the newest models on the market. Over the next few weeks i will document the introduction of some of these locos that i plan to do.
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