With regards to the lack of posts to my blog over this last year I stand guilty as charged. Sadly this has been mainly due to the fact I have not actually been doing much modelling. The dumb buffered wagons in my last post are still pritty much in the same state and other half finished projects still lie half finished.

Having moved house almost a year ago I found myself going through a period of settling in and preparing the foundations for modelling. Because this house move was planned to be our last the property needed to fullfill certain criteria with regards to having a place to model and play trains. I am now in the fortunate position of having a spare room, within the comfort of the home, that I can call my own. And over this last year my modelling time has been devoted to preparing the garage for use as a layout room and the summer house as a workshop. I'll post pictures of the garage at a later date but for now here is the workshop.

The workshop was originally a summer house with the added bonus of having it's own source of power. The previous owners used the space as a small gym .To make it more habitable during the winter months, and to help prevent my tools from rusting, I insulated the inside. Over this last week I have finally got the place in a position where it can be used.

The Pillar Drill on the right I have had for a number of years, due to the workshop being fairly small I'm thinking about changing this for a Mill/Drill, which should give me more options.

Scott