Having struggled with the fiddliness of 2mm for a year or so with little progress to show, and more importantly vastly reduced inclination to continue I decided the time had come to revert to 4mm scale.

- despite having been in EM before, I was seeing lots of layouts on here and in the mags that were OO and didn't look any the worse for it, so decided to give that a go again.

- time & space lately is such that a compact, relaxing and easygoing set up is what is required.

- I was extremely interested in the small boxfile/ APA box style of models which seem to offer a confined and compact ready base in which to build in - the self contained 'in' is very much an attractive feature. Even when you accept you may need an exterior fiddle space.

One thing that certainly hasnt changed is my ability to get waylayed and distracted by lots of different prototypes!

I'd promised myself not to upload any more wanderings to my blog until there was actually some 'concrete layout' going on!!

the link below shows how I am getting on:

http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/65770-meanders-ramblings-from-inside-an-ikea-apa-box/page-2