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The highs, high-rises, lows and low-reliefs of constructing a West Midlands set fictional AC electric layout in a shed.

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Coping with post-prandial lethargy.

Having consumed a wonderful takeaway Sunday roast - and pud - I really had to apply a virtual boot up the backside to crack on with some work in the shed prior to the weather going all mammaries up for the rest of the week.  Having run out of Dapol OHL masts with three more needed, stringing the knitting had to wait, so I turned my attention to platform work.  Since I moved it back to the old through road trackbed, there's been some uncomfortable gaps between the platform edge and the recessed a
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Project Rebuild continues...

With the weather in Fairbourne having been a bit blustery I've been concentrating on "indoor modelling", mainly involving T-Cut, renumbering, and adding DCC chips and chassis to locos.  I've also made a start, using my newly acquired ability to solder, on adding lights to an Oxford Mk3 rake, not recommended for the faint hearted, and non-masochists.  A couple of brief forays to the shed have allowed a bit more tweaking of the backscene, but substantive work has had to wait until this week and th
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Grabbing an opportunity

Short daylight hours and windy weather has kept me out of the shed more than I would have liked, but today I managed a decent spell in there and made some progress. On Wombourne, I've moved the public footpath behind the old goods yard which is now occupied by the Civil Engineers and a small lock up car repairer.  I've left some of the old ballast in place, and coated the rest of the area in crackle medium.  Although it looks pink here, it dries eventually to a cafe au lait colour, an
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Silence is golden.

It's been a while since I announced that after just a couple of days of operation, I had decided to rebuild the two stations.  Since then progress has been glacially slow, partly due to weather as I like to have the door open when flinging paint and glue around, and with it being autumn, it's been a tad windy, which would mean here in Fairbourne my door would probably be ripped off the hinges and be deposited in Barmouth across the river. However, I have managed to grab the odd hour or two
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The Sky is Falling In...a.k.a. never ask a Planner to Plan ahead.

If things have gone quiet on the Wednesford and Wombourne front since the video was uploaded, there is a reason. I'm rebuilding the station. Let me explain.  Having had a few running sessions, it became clear that despite my efforts to design in access for track cleaning, by mounting the scenery on removable boards, actually getting my banana fingers under the OHLE without demolishing the station in the process was going to be difficult.  The presence of the island platform severely re
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Wednesford TV need a new cameraman...

Had a bit of a running sesh today using 1986 stock. I had intended to film it but the idiot cameraman forgot to switch on the external mic to the main camera. Fortunately I had parked the phonecam in St Flo's churchyard but whilst it got the noise, it suffered some flaring and focus issues. However, it gives you a good impression of where things are at the moment.   I'll probably do some more detailed vids outlining the thought process and products I've used in the hope it might inspire o
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Figures, figures, figures...

It's been a while since I did an update, mainly because of a number of niggling changes I have had to make, mainly to make the fiddle yard Heljan 86 proof.  Having tested the old fiddle yard successfully in the summer with Heljan 86s which are by far and away the most temperamental locos in the fleet (although the Hornby Class 153 gives it a good run), and both propelling and pulling a range of stock, to total satisfaction, last week the little ****ers started throwing themselves off on curves,
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