Hello,

It's been a bit of an odd weekend - it was so hot yesterday that I hardly made any progress on the layout and I was struggling to get any enthusiasm for modelling . This morning I popped up to the Hartlepool exhibition and got a top-up of modelling enthusiasm (and some electrical bits and pieces for the layout), so this evening I cut and glued the thin timber trackbed down onto the ply baseboard surface.

It didn't go exactly to plan (I spotted a problem with the alignment of the cassettes which meant an alteration to the Templot plan), but it's now time for tracklaying! I'm waiting for a few bits from the 2mm Scale Association shop, but I can make a start on the first bits of plain track, and of course the cassettes still need building.

Away from the layout, the blue class 24 loco has been chipped, and the plans for the class 02 diesel shunter are coming on (thanks Missy ) - I hope to start milling a set of frames for this later in the week (when I've unearthed the Proxxon milling machine from it's slumbers). Then there's the pile of Stephen Harris wagon etches to build.....I can see myself being busy for the foreseeable future!

Andy