Spending and Creating
Recently I've been busy, having got the wiring for my layout lighting done as well as quite a lot of ballasting and also creating some model buildings.
I've been ballasting the conventional way with small fine black cinders, letting it set then covering this ballast with dark grey grout whilst dry and in powder form then spraying with water, lots and lots of water.
On the wiring front I'm ashamed to say that under my base board is a web of wires, which is fine as in my head it all makes sense, should some other poor soul ever need to do some rewiring then I'm sure it would be the equivalent of a punishment from the pits of hell. Most of my yard lights are from RMLectronics and I was mightily impressed as no other ready to plant lights even compare, unfortunately the main man has gone in to retirement so i decided not to permanently fix them to the board as I may want to use them on another layout in the future ( I have to many new layout plans running round my head ), so with this in mind I fixed pieces of plasticard to the layout with a 6mm hole in it and cut to the size of the lamps base, the lights slot nicely on to these and are removable once the wires are disconnected from the choggy blocks. Not realizing that I'd killed two birds with one stone as removable lights make track cleaning far easier.
Oh almost forgot I finished the sand house and have also finished my scratch built crew mess. Further more I repainted the Bachmann Diesel refueling point.
On top of this I made an impulse locomotive purchase, as I haven't bought a loco in a very long time.
The yard office is a Townstreet structure as is the Sand house, in fact when I started I had a Townstreet engine shed and coal hole but a Godzilla sized cat made short work of these!!!
With all my new lights, oh and water cranes which I also have got done I thought I'd attempt some atmospheric photo's (I hear its all the craze) using nothing more than my Samsung mobile device, although I don't really have the eye for photography, that's more my brothers domain with his big flash camera's.
Finally my impulse buy. I had saved a few pennies and was happily trotting on down to my local model shop with the full intention of buying an Webb coal tank, I haven't bought a new locomotive in some time and was hoping to impress Mike the store owner with a decent sized purchase, instead of the usual balsa, plastistruct and slaters sheets.
My excited beady little eyes spotted the little Tank Locomotive on the shelf in the display cabinet, I was just about to shout for assistance but my eye wandered to the top shelf...
and there sat a huge Tender Locomotive further more it had sound (Ooooooh), it was the Railroad Crosti 9F, now I can almost hear the "Doh's" but for a railroad model it is pretty darn good, yes there is a lot of tweaking to be done, the front steps as an example but over all on inspection it impressed me enough to buy it. As it was set a bargain price as well, I bought it and I'm not ashamed to say spent the next few hours at home playing with it and letting the sound decoder make the noises for once instead of me!
Its not the only impulse buy I've made so here is a picture of the beast with my other random purchase I made a few years ago.
Both a tad out of place in such a small depot, but hey ho.. I see, I like, I buy.
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