Well...it seems not very much. The fine weather and the Olympics kind of distracted me.

Plus hearing the news that I "shall soon have the oppurtunity to be working somewhere else" (another way of saying you are being made redundant) has rather surprisingly improved my health! My work colleagues and i have been given some training on job hunting and dealing with the closure of the site. One of the charts showed the various stages of depression that you go through. You know denial, rebellion all the way to acceptance. But for some reason all I can think about is how great it is that I won't have to do this job for much longer.

And as I said my health has improved considerably. I always thought that i was allergic to work! So I have been out enjoying the Surrey and Berkshire countryside on my bike. (see "any road cyclist on here" thread in wheeltappers).

However I guess that I really should seek a new income soon. Otherwise how am I going to afford next stuff from Hornby and Dapol.

However enough of the real world and back to warm and comforting alternate reality that we place ourselves in.

Progress on the signals has been intermittant. But we do have a possible show early next year and so a determined effort will be made over winter to get the disc signals planted and working. The survey of the Swaynton baseboards has of course revealed that we want to place signals and operating mechanisums only in places where there are baseboard joints. Note to all...really really try to plan for everything on your next layout.

I have now painted the demonstrator signal in grey as it should be.

The six signals for Swaynton have been painted in a darker grey with a black base. Photos of the prototype show the grey paint to have been 'rudely' applied, so I roughly mased the lamp and post assemblies to allow overspray.

Here is a picture of current progress.

The signal on the far left is the demonstrator.

The next signal shows the disc in place, without the lenses and the brass weight below it.

I have also been trawling through various forums, following the trail left by Waterloo, when he was asking if anyone sold these. There are a few nice photos of these under construction on the Scalefour society forum. I have heard tales that someone has even manage to get one illuminated!

Anyway I now hold the stock of these so if want one or more PM me.

OH well thats another evening not modelling. I am on the EMGS stand at the REC show at Woking this weekend (Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning). Come and say hello if you are there.

I will bring along the demonstrator signal if you want to see it in the flesh.

I guess that I had better think about what I will be doing on the stand.

Perhaps I should shout out something like a barrow boy....hmmm,

"C'mon, you know you want it wider!"

I'll get me coat then.

Andy