Well another weekend, and another chance to do a little more work on Foster Street, so being the seasoned experience modeller that I am, I reviewed my list of outstanding/incomplete work, and decided to do something completely different

I am supposed to be working on the storage yard and the correcting some of the alignment issues and to be fair I have done a little work on this, and I even managed to solder (or should that be more like weld) 10 tracks across one of the baseboard joints. I must admit it was a lot easier than I thought, and I didn't even set my hand on fire once.

Anyway while I was sitting there gloating at my achievement I happened to look along the layout at the some of the stock I just have not got around to removing, and I happened to spot the siding containing what to mind my at least could become the Titfield Thunderbolt.

Now is it just me, or when you set out intentionally to do something on your layout, no matter how much prep you do there is always something that gets in the way of progress? But when you, start something off the cuff it turns out to be quite productive. Well I think I have had one of those sessions today, either that or I have found a way to stretch time, so that it passes very, very slowly, a bit like when the Domestic Overlord makes me go to "Ikea" then time positively stops

A little work with my mini drill and my favourite superglue and I managed to slice two coach bodies together and cobble them on to a donor chassis and the Titfield passengers at last had a means on transport. So it was on to applying a little paint to the stock, easy I thought, but the previous owners had it appeared has applied a terrible blue paint with a trowel. To make matters worst they had decided to glue the models solid so I could not take the apart to paint them, without doing some serious damage.

The initial coat of a very light blue/grey was applied to the brake, and cattle vans and the coach and to my eyes at least its beginning to look the part.

So there you have it, I have managed to increase the number of outstanding jobs for myself, I still have to fit the balconies, then another coat of paint on the coach, then paint the iron work on the wagons black, then get around to weathering the 14XX, but I may swap this for one livered "GWR" from my stock (you can just see glimpses of this livery in the film).

The big question is, why on earth have I got GWR stock, did I but it in a moment of weakness, or is it there so that I can look at it occasionally to remind myself of how great the LMS was in comparison, only kidding don't send out a hit squad. As ever until the next time Happy Modelling