Well, I??™m about to take-off down to the beach for a week, a sort of pre-leave leave. Or as my wife puts it, time for us to spend time alone prior to our new arrival in the new year. Anyway, I thought I??™d better update on the little progress made on Sturminster in the past month. Time has had to be juggled between work, fire brigade training (yet another bad fire season is expected down under), anti-natal classes and keeping my 35 week pregnant wife happy (any tips most welcome).
I got
Progress on Stur has been a little slow of late. Last few weeks prior to going to the BRMA convention were spent preparing wagons for the modelling competition. I was quite happy with my 3 horseboxes. Whilst Brisvegas I did some consulting with our head musketeer, and owner of the 10 track traverser. Also managed to find an article about a OO layout based on Sturminster Newton, which was in the July 1987 edition of Practical Railway Modelling. Some interesting hints and tips there that may
Have been tidying up over the past few weeks, its amazing the amount stuff you find when you clean-up!
Other work has included:
trying my hand at fence building,
refining my static grass technique and
trying to finish my entries into modeling comp for the BRMA convention this up coming weekend (3 NGS Mk1 horseboxes).
On a good news front, my 7F has hit the rails. Its one of the old GEM S+D 7F 2-8-0 kits running on a Farish 8F chassis. I contacted GEM last month to check on progress of
To try and get some authenticity, I found a model-maker who is making their way through my list of building that was require. Opening the order was the station building with station masters office and booking office. I??�m quite happy with them.
This photo shows the expanse of space and several times now I??�ve been quoted as saying I have too much space, what modeller ever say??�s that?
As the year has rolled on, work progressed gradually, most of it just tidying up. Ever so slowly I moved on towards the development of the station, yards and surrounds. At the same time research has continue, the biggest gain being some aerial photos taken by the RAF in 1947. These have both helped and hinder the building progress, ma
Forgive my multiple posts, but I can't get the advanced uploader to work, so its 1 photo per entry
15 months after construction start and where am I up too. By the end of November 2008 we had the all the track laid and all the electrics in place and working. This quick deadline was in place due my impending marriage and a work relate move of 1600km. Believe it or not, on the nite of my wedding we even stole some time to go to the shed and run some trains, with the consent of the newly na
Well, this the 1st entry on the forum about my N gauge layout. I'll get around to transferring from the old site, once its up and running again.
I started this project officially, back in August 2008, well that??�s when we started making the baseboards. Some would argue that the idea was first hatched back in 2000 when I first saw the track diagram for Stur. Over the preceding year I did some researching and lots of reading. Having to spend some of my valuable time flying round the san
