The layouts I'm involved with:
Treneglos - BR(S) late 50s - early 60s North Cornwall Railway (4mm / OO)
Diesels in the Duchy - BR late 80s depot based on St Blazey (4mm / EM)
Once Upon a Time in the West - America, ATSF New Mexico, around 1920 (3.5mm / HO)
My info threads:
North Cornwall Railway - Random details
Other interesting threads:
Torrington
What was the NCR really like?
Motive power on the NCR
Alterations to a Hornby T9
St Merryn Book
Staffordshire Finescale Group's Exhibition Diary
About Us
Staffordshire Finescale Group isn't and model railway club. It doesn't have a clubroom. It exists purely as a group of friends, located across the East and West Midlands, who encourage each other to improve both the quality and quantity of their railway modelling output. Most of us model in 4mm scale, predominantly in EM gauge, although the group is not intended to be scale or gauge specific. As a group our main focus is on modelling
Updates are added to the foot of this blog - current update is July 2011. (Note also discussion in the comments section)
September2009 :
Forgot to report (or did I?) that my EM gauge trial is one step closure. Saturday saw the purchase of a Bachmann Pannier 4666 at Loughborough show. Wheels on order with Ultrascale - so conversion work should be starting at Christmas!
My plans for the 5' trial layout are here: My link
Thanks to the guys in this thread for info on a foreign class:
Last week we had the proofs through from Mike Wild at Hornby Mag for the Treneglos article that will be appearing in their 2nd Year Book. He's done a nice job and found a few new photo angles on the old girl. Just had to submit some captions and a few minor corrections. Now all that's left is waiting for publication!
October update:
I've just spotted the first adverts for the 2nd Hornby Yearbookand it looks like Treneglos will be in pride of place on the cover. The blurb on the Ian Allan we
The power of RMweb - albeit the previous version to be exact....
I asked this question yesterday.... Old site link and by this evening i have a whole series of photos and dimensions without having to waste a whole 500miles worth of fuel. Many thanks to Penlan for the assistance.
Goes to show what this web thingy can achieve!
A few of Penlan's photos:
My sketches:
Update 12/11/09
Building starts....
Building model buildings.... the hardest part has to be finding the windows for them. Once you start to look you realise there is no such thing as a standard style or even standard sizes. A friend from Stafford club once gave me some sound advice... don't start building a building until you have the windows.
Foolishly i put my hand up to help a fellow modeller create some buildings for his St Blazey layout. I also said that I'd size all the windows from the photos he'd taken and either find
Starting to really like the new forum, especially now I'm remembering where i left stuff!
Anyway, i've taken full advantage of the new gallery feature and have added some photos back from 2003 when we built the first 4 boards of Treneglos in a year. Some good photos of the boards as they arrived from Damian. Some more of the initial rough scenery in glorious technicolour match pots! A few of the cutting extension and the making of the rock face. I know i have more so I'll keep adding them as
