First things first the Garage had been rechristened:
Secondly I took this picture last night on my phone to show someone at work... I'm rather pleased with it, shame its slightly blurred:
Oh and I've also done a spot more work on the layout, I have made some hedges from this:
Rubberised horse hair cut roughly into hedges shapes, sprayed with hairspray and dunked into a mix of two shades of green flock:
it looks the business and I'm more than happy with it
Well as the title says it has been a while since my last blog. I would like to say that I have done lots to the layout but alas I haven't.out
The layout has been set up in the garage along with my workbench, which has made my sisters all very happy, as I have moved all my modelling gear off the dining room table!
The biggest job that I was putting off for ages was to use hanging basket liner. This represents wild grass on the hillside on the approach to the station.
I started to tr
I thought rather than talking about the stock for the moment, I would instead talk a bit more about the layout itself.
As can been seen in my first blog I designed the trackplan on XtrkCAD, this went through several alterations including a complete redesign until what is seen today. Unfortunatly I didn't keep the other trackplans but I do remeber there was one based loosely on the Rev W. Awdry's Ffarquhar Mk II layout as I was intending to run my Thomas and Friends stock on it as well as my
Though not a picture a taken at the genesis of my layout which has the working title of Halstead Sidings, this picture has nothing to do with the actual building of my layout but is in fact one of the earliest pictures I have, as I didn't think about writing a blog Halstead Sidings had an unnamed predecessor which was a a fairly big double track loop which was roughly 8ft by 10ft, had a decent sized goods yard and a roundhouse loco shed. This was all on analougue using a Hornby HM2000 plus the
