Not too much modelling activity of late, although further playing around with my modest airbrush kit had the effect of making me want to do more of it! Missed a nice secondhand Iwata outfit on EBay by about three seconds (t'other fella got a bargain I reckon!) but this moment of madness further enhanced the desire to spend money, however the element of common sense remaining meant having to settle for the rather more modest and comparatively cheap as chips "A186" compressor with air tank and two new airbrushes that seem to have sold in very large numbers. It should at least have a bit more "puff" than my tentative first buy; should be with me next week so we'll see how it goes... Will bung a few photosof my weathering attempts to date somewhere in the forum in the near future for comment and critique.
Meanwhile, I'm on the first stage of some hilly bits of landscape on Tillingham, my Southern style 00 layout, and a combination of 10mm foam sheet and cardboard has created a small section up to it's raised townscape back half. I was going to just stuff bits of newspaper in to fill out under plaster bandage, but then thought I'd try making an undersurface with thin perforated aluminium sheet, held in place with 5 minute epoxy and see how that works out before tackling a larger area, hopefully without any blobs of the super-sticky stuff landing unnoticed on any adjacent track.....
As they were jolly cheap, bought a pair of the little Hornby class 06 shunters as repaint and weathering projects - yes I know, you wouldn't have found many of those south of the Scottish border - but oh dear me, I now have ideas about a little factory/brewery/distillery layout on a spare 4x2 baseboard I've got - and I've barely got cracking on the infrastructure of the current project! I gather I am not alone in this kind of modelling folly.....

PS new kit turned up this afternoon, three days ahead of schedule - will be eager to give it a proper go, but all seems to work