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, 19 January 2015

Its Showtime

Well again too long has gone by since my last post. This is mainly due to it being the start of the show season and also the comedown after christmas.

In the time since the last post the actual level of modelling has been 0. This is mainly due to work and also having so much to do i cant decide what to get first! Even weekends are a struggle. Over the next three months its nearly a show a weekend. This weekend was Calne, next weekend its Eastleigh, then Stafford than im exhibiting at a show in Bornemouth. This ultimately comes to and end with the Bristol show in may.

I did get a chance to give some thing a run out on Sommerford over the weekend including my FGW 150 and a newly purchased Bachmann 166. I thought the 166 looked quite good on Sommerford so its been placed in the early 90s highbridge fleet as a unit under test (they were first delivered in 1992 so around 12 months overlap between them and LHCS). ive also started an HAA MGR rake along with a load more PGA wagons for respray to ARC colours.

Thats its for now but i will try and do a more comprehensive round up towards the end of the week.
Posted by at

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)