By the trickery of technology (the firbug addon to Firefox) I have mastered the art of entering a 2010 blog post !!!

Whilst not being able to post work has continued at the Orange growers... I was short of some rolling stock, so two OO coaches were stripped for their chassis and a boxcar and flat car built.

The boxcar was built as a plastic shell, covered with Balsa wood strips....

Then painted

Identified and weathered

The flat car was easier, same chassis type with a plasticard top covered in balsa strips

Then stained

Of course once you spend an evening building two items of stock you really need to spend a second evening giving them a good testing ?!?!?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnaN2xtTdEs

and there we have it, blog back up to date. I just have to decide if i can make it to the bottom of the garden tonight in through about 12" of snow and blizzard conditions ?

John (cold in Oldham)