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!

Monday 12 January 2015

Bringing a layout back from the dead

Well recently as you may know ive become layout manager for a club layout. Ive been working on the platform and canopy as it was sadly past it. The whole platform is being replaced with a new one as it had just too many imperfections. The trouble is the more i look at it the more im not happy with. The road bridge tops are quite poor. The foliaging of the rear wall isnt that good. One bridge doesnt even fit. This is all in addition to all the extra work i need to do to it just to get it to look ok! Its just when you think it will be a quick project it seems to get longer and longer! We will see what happens once the platforms gone in and then appraise what other destruction needs to take place before reconstruction occurs.

Also 150128 has arrived. Im very pleased with it and it runs really nicely. I was convinced the front ploughs were right but they do stick out slightly on the real one and with the supplied buckeye rather than tension lock it does look a lot better. Now all i need is the Realtrack 143 and Hornby 153 to complete the collection!

Richard
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