An exciting looking pair of parcels arrived this morning, just after I got home from town rather chuffed to find my article in Model Rail (see my other blog)...

A long thin tube and a big jiffy bag nicely labelled up from Exactoscale! My P4 track components (and gauges) plus some OO stuff to compare as well!

Then I had to go out so I spent the whole day itching to read my article and put together a few trial sections of P4 track.

I finally managed it about 6pm this evening and after a quick check of the Pacer's back to back I connected up my controller for an inaugral run... and success! The Pacer moved from one end of the 0.5m section to the other!! Excellent.

The Pacer and progress on Rose Hill to date - slow but steady. This end on shot will be possible on the finished layout thanks to the plan to be able to view on 3 sides, including the bufferstops.

The track goes together very easily. I opted to try steel rail this time, which seems ok so far, and a lovely realistic colour to it! The Exactoscale components are well packaged and nicely moulded and a 0.5m section like this goes together in about 5 minutes. I could build all the track I need for Rose Hill in under an hour!

Here are couple of other shots just to show how excited I am - and impressed with the increased fidelity for virtually no increase in pain. Mind you this layout doesn't need any points - so that's a bridge left to cross before I throw myself completely to the finescale wind!

Hopefully over Christmas I'll put together some base boards to allow progress to start on scenery. Before then I should really work out how much I'm compressing the plan by! Oh well. Mustn't be distracted by the myriad of other projects on my workbench!