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!

Wednesday, 19 November 2014

Tramage

Ive now got another two trams to play with. They are made by a firm called AHM (which i think is made by mehano). I have resprayed two of them into orange and white, one is showing a reversed livery. The other is just a plain green and white livery which is as produced but with yellow front ends.
Theyve cost around £30 each but they arent that well built as most of the bogies were detached in every one ive bought but the pins just push back in so its not a difficult job to do but they arent super smooth but having fitted dcc chips to them it does help.
I can only really fit one or possibly two at anyone time so i might remove the motor from the worst one and just run the other two with that one.

Now all ive got to do is to fine some lima mk3s for my other project. More about tomorrow.


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