Hi.

About more buildings.The last one of any note to be constructed was Danes Crossing Works at Saltaire. As mentioned in the Railway Modeller article of August 1976 the interior of the building was completed after the whole of Saltaire was remodelled. Are interiors of buildings worth doing? I suppose it's up to the builder. I had always wanted to have a go and was pleased I did.Little did I realise then that the works was to be the penultimate article about the Aire Valley. There were couple of other buildings in Saltaire I was pleased about. One was the Barclay's Bank frontage.As with most of the town it was a low relief model with lots of "gingerbread.". The other building was much more simple and in mini low relief. This was the Fire Station next to the bank. Sat behind the doors was the front of a Modelcraft card kit petrol tanker which gave the building depth. I think that just about covers the A.V.R. I dont suppose it seems much but without repeating chunks out of the various articles which I don't think is what "blogs" are about, It covers, albeit very briefly, my thinking of my ideal model railway. I started these blogs about the A.V.R. off the cuff and wondering if indeed I should. However If any one would like more information make it known in a comment.

If it's of interest there were three things which came along and made modelling life a lot easier. Plasticard. For me it was brilliant. Locos, rolling stock, buildings.you name it. I think you all know it.s not recommended you smoke while using MEK, ok you shouldn't smoke full stop.However I can remember George Slater at his demonstration stand at a Leeds exhibition smoking throughout the show. He was a chain smoker and the cigarette never left his mouth until he used the butt to light the next. I think he lived into his nineties. Then there was dry print. My early locos and stock were were all lettered by hand using a mapping pen. Very laborious indeed but of course there wasn.'t any suitable transfers for the AVR..Some early print sheets had Roman and Gill Sands on the same sheet just the right size for my models.They were available in black and white. This meant you could lay white letters down and with care you could lay the black down just covering one edge of the white and this gave you blocked letters. The final item was connected to lettering but I will have to leave that till next time.