Been busy for a while, and only just had oportunity to update the blog! So things are moving on fast, baseboards have progressed to the point where the land is built up to take the houses, and the road is laid, on one baseboard. The levels are built up using polystyrene, then plaster, later they will recieve plasticard edging to complete, then onto detailing.
I have also been busy on the detailing of buildings. First the Aquarium/ shops, these have been completely painted and shutters have
Over the past few months I have been building various kits and some scratch built buildings at a rate of roughly one every 4 days, i like to have a new project each week and due to my shifts im able to work on them several hours a day.
Heres completed builds so far.
The Boat House
Royal Bath Hotel
Market Hall
Cinema
Pub
Bank
Joe
80002 was still in service early 1967 so decided to purchase Bachmann's one and weather it, think it looks right
Coaching stock will be a fair mish mash and so bought these from ebay, they are un marked so im unsure of the manufacturer but were cheap enough to attempt first weathering, decided to play with the roofs the one with the silver coming through is an effect i'd seen on one of bachmanns DMU's I liked it so attempted to re-create, Unfortunately i wasnt' even a twinkle in my pare
Hello everyone,
I havent posted on here before so this is all a bit new to me so excuse me if not all objects appear in the right places! last year I decided to design and construct a model railway and have always been attracted to the idea of running steam with BR blue stock, this limited me to a very tight time period of 1967-68. As a result I have put allot of research into the locos still exisiting in this period. My location is a small seaside town that is now suffering from a loss in buis
