Contrary to the previous pics 'Grime Street' wasn't the only layout at the Festival of..., Paul kindly sent over a few pics of some of the other layouts

Sealane Sunderland trams in 7mm

Sealane Sunderland 48

Greg Marsden's superb Stockport 20, 3/4" scale

Stocport Water Car by Greg Marsden again.

Pete Whiteley's illuminated Blackpool Western Train

illuminated Hovertram

Foxwood Park by Gordon Bulmer as in RM recently.

Video showing quite a few in action

So, what else has been happening ?

As mentioned in the previous entry, I've finally got an ABS Leeds works car 6 kit, this being the ex Hull car that led a bit of a charmed life and ended up preserved in Heaton Park, Manchester.

I've always found the ABS kits to be really well cast and very easy to build, this is what you get in the box

Short while later, we have this

First coat of primer, I've not attached the platforms yet as I'll paint them first and it also makes glazing the front windows easier.

Work has also started on 601, This is the Tramalan kit and is a fair old weight of white metal!

I'd also started on Leeds Tower Car 2, also known as 'double cab'

I'd got on with it to a reasonable stage, but needed some more info so had a field trip to Crich to get some more info and discovered that the drawing that I was working from was wrong, ho hum, start again. The chassis for this one is another Halling unit, it's quite unusual in it's design having an upright motor (with a balance weight) gear drive to both axles, ideal for this one, wheelbase is 21.7 mm with 10mm wheels on 1.5mm axles

Other than that I've been looking through the Modelmaster and Fox ranges for appropriate side adverts, Hopefully there may be some Leeds specific ones (Melbourne Ales, Mathers, Tetley's, Hammonds etc) in the near future, managed to find one or two, always nice to add a bit of idividuality to your fleet!

Horsfield/Pearl

Piv/Vernons

Convert/CWS