No I haven't worked out a way of wiring up my new house to DCC but have made significant moves in the DCC direction. I am going to talk about DCC partly because there has only been a little bit of progress with the house which is largely due to being sent a very good link (thank you Emma!), with loads of WW1 pics which evaporated a couple of hours. Anyway, six brand new Cobalt DCC point motors arrived this morning to go with the Gaugemaster Prodigy Advance I picked up second hand earlier in the week. I have decided to control the points from the handset and do away with a conventional control panel (although I do still want an LED route plan). The DCC ready motors seemed far more cost effective and convenient than retro fitting the existing ones so I will soon have six hardly used Cobalts available if anyone is interested!

On the building front I have decided to keep the bricks as have worked very well and have been playing with various washes with some success although it is far from finished. One big limitation I have found with the acrylics though is that they just don't seem very good for dry brushing - perhaps it is because they are so fast drying. So back to enamels or even oil colours for this bit.

Have also done a little bit of plastering and wall papering on the end wall - what do you think?