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 19 February 2010

Bodysnatching and Skippage and some englightenment (WR)+other

Well some time was spent today doing some bashing around Bristol. True its mainly scratch mileage kind of stuff but enjoyable all the same. Both the 57s and the 67s were done. Also saw the red shed which is entirely boring, in fact its exceptionally boring ;)

Anyway moving on to the layout, I've managed to get hold of some clear LEDs so i can fit lights to my shed. However as I'm wiring them in series I'm not sure if i need to put a resistor for each LED or if i can put just one in the circuit before it splits up. its not a major problem if its the former but obviously the latter would be easier. A small plug will connect this through the board hidden in the unseen corner of the shed.

I've also found out what colour Brown, Mud is which is Humbrol 29 which is classed as Matt Earth. it looks to be the best out of all the shades tried (around 10 in all) so i shall be getting on adding some mud in certain areas before i begin to add some ballast, flock and other assorted scrub/wasteland kind of stuff.

Also i shall hopefully get the layout set up in one piece this weekend so i shall try and get some photos for a more complete overview.
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