Anyone who has read any of my infrequent recent blogs or worse spoken to me, will know that nothing at all has happened on the modelling front for several months due the long over due and rather complicated decorating projects that have been going on. Unfortunately I have not completely finished as our house id a definite Forth Bridge sort of project but I am at the stage where I can take a well earned pause. While I was decorating the lounge the contents were decanted into the newly decorated study and as it is actually quite cosy in there very little has been put back as yet. The more devious of you (and owners of large layouts), will have already realised that the prospect of a large and near empty room was just too much....... The agreement was that it would be for one weekend only but it is actually still there as last weekend disappeared in a flurry of unexpected work disasters. At first I thought I would just put out the basics but soon got carried away.

As nothing at all has been run since the last outing to Telford O Gauge fourteen months ago now I was expecting some problems - and I got them! I am normally very careful about keeping everything together layout wise but some shifting about in the house and several sedimentary layers of junk made finding and getting to all the bits quite interesting although my biggest problem was finding all the stock which I had put away somewhere safe......... I was only able to fit four out of the six boards in the room in the end - I can get it all up when necessary at the back of the house but this makes me VERY unpopular!

Several sticky point motors later and  lighting that wouldn't I got down to some gentle shunting. It was then that the biggest problem arose when when pair of LED'S on the point control panel that didn't work escalated to non of them working. I have not as yet been brave enough to fix this.

Unfortunately several bits of detailing have fallen off over the years, some of which I have recued but some are gone forever and general air of tattiness seems to have developed. As there is no way I am risking the living room carpet in the presence of glue I shall have to tackle these bits later probably on a board by board basis. A few years ago I did get some figures ready painted when PLM were selling off some of their old displays but haven't done much with them so far. I therefore had a bit of fun deciding where they might best be used when I finally get motivated to get the glue out.