It's been a while since I posted anything on my 2mm blog, over a year in fact.

Progress stalled due to the fiddle yard board warping and requiring a rebuild. I was also struggling to get the loco build operational.

The project still exists and I've no doubt it will be resurrected when enthusiasm bites again.

In the time since my last 2mm post I've been focusing on my 7mm layout, spurred on my 8 year old's "when am I going to get to play with this......" comment (more importantly when is daddy going to get to play with this! ).

The layout could exist in several areas of the forum, Pre-grouping, 7mm, layouts, kit & scratch building, even boxfile, micro layouts and dioramas (at a push) but I have chosen to stay with the blog format as I can include whatever takes my fancy without worrying unduly about relevance.

The scenic part of the layout is 4' 8" by 21" and represents a small yard at the end of a branch from Ladmanlow yard near Buxton off the Cromford and High Peak Line. The timeframe is 1890-1900. There is a small interchange yard with a quarry line generating crushed stone, dressed stone and slaked lime, in exchange for coal, coke and gunpowder. The LNWR operates a couple of sidings alongside.

I have developed a full mythical history which I may bore you with in the future. I currently have several wagon builds on going and a couple of locos which will also appear in posts alongside the development of the layout.

Thus far the layout has been under construction for around 4 years, the 4' 8" length (plus 26" fiddle yard) was based on what was available in the back room of a cottage we lived in three years ago. The layout now resides in the garage of our new house and was extended to take advantage of the increased space available. That was before I discovered the leaking roof, which was located over the extension . This resulted in the extension being chopped out and scrapped and the layout was reincarnated in its original form. Needless to say the leak is now fixed.

Given the timescales to get to this point please don't expect rapid progress, but I hope the discipline of blogging a couple of times a month will help with progress.

Anyway enough words, attached are a couple of photos which I hope give a flavour of what I am try to achieve and what has been done to date.

All comment, words of encouragement and criticism welcome, although I reserve the right to ignore the latter!