Well I managed to spend a couple of hours on the layout today, and I am beginning to realise I still have an awful lot still to do

At time like this a modeller should be completing jobs on the layout rather that creating new ones (all the point motors in the goods yard are fried).

I set out today to complete the storage yard for the layout and I must admit its nearly complete, all I have to do it finish the branch line yard and the job is a "gud un" and I have the cut and damaged fingers to prove it. I quick test showed that in the smallest of the loops I should be able to fit a 35 wagon train.

Excuse the wonky lines, but it seems to work, all I have to do now it fix the track permanently and then sort the wiring for the inter board joints.

The next job I need to tackle was the canal, I have been meaning to add the water to this for weeks but never seem to get round to it. I decided that I was going to make the surface from clear pasti-card, so to work out the required shape I used that leading edge technology, a paper template.

Once I managed to get the template the correct shape a couple of minutes later I had the water surface cut, a test fit showed that I managed to get the correct shape, the problem was though that the surface was a little low, I needed more water! A few off cuts of card strip soon had the correct level, and a test fit of the water brought the canal boats up to the correct level.

All I need to do now is to work on the murky canal water, so I will build up this colour on the underside of the surface, once this is done, If I ever finish the Canal Boats I can glue these to the surface, and then use gloss varnish to add a rippled surface. Next time I think I may use real water it has to be easier, oh and I managed to destroy one of the street lamps

Well what about the new jobs I mentioned, well

Job number 1 sort out all the inter-board wiring connections,

Job number 2 figure out how I can split one loop in each direction so that I can use smaller trains (locals etc) I mean I cant just run long trains can I

Job number 3 re-fit point motors in the goods yard, the old one are fried/not reliable.

Job number 4 figure out what type of trains to fill the storage yard.

Job number 5 colour all the white edges near the canal

Job number 6 clean all the track, and wheels

I'm giving up now, listing jobs is not a great motivator, and I thought modelling was meant to be fun

Until the next time as ever happy modelling