Welcome to my blog.

Hopefully by the time I'm finished there will be something to show for my efforts. Due to work and being a carer for an ill relation, my time is often short and for a long time, nothing I have started has been finished. I've had several loco's for some years (a pannier, 08 and now an 03), and a baseboard 6 feet x 18 inches. I've wandered around York show for many years seeing some great work and felt I couldn't match the work shown there. Several false starts have been made, and this might be another, but hey ho! Does it matter? This year I bought a NCE powercab at the show with the intent of making a start and decided to go for card modelling. It means I can build wherever I'm required to be without bothering about paint on the lounge carpet!

Last week I converted a wooden tray to a modelling board that can be carried around the house and located all the tools I've been collecting that may be useful.

For good or bad, I began with a a Metcalfe warehouse, and was pleasantly surprised. There are some obvious issues, but work began and progress has continued this week.

Job 1: The print gets progressively out of line compared to the cuts across the parts.

Made a small jig and remade the sills.

All sills were completed, windows next.