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, 7 November 2014

Tope is more than a colour part 2

Ive been going through this week and sorting out my fleet of ballast and spoil wagons. This has included weathering them with both the powders and washes available from Humbrol. They work fairly well but they dont tend to leave a crusting that you get from others so i might try some of the mig weathering powders to see what they are like.

The other thing that ive been looking at is renumbering them so that they are all different. Ive created a template that i can print out and fit in the numbering i need. This means i have more than just the same consecutively numbered wagons which you tend to see.

Ive also been using the wagon loads from wagon essentials which i purchase from model railways direct as they are pretty realistic and for spoil wagons you can add the odd little bit of weathering so it looks even more realistic.

I just need more seacows!!!!
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