Just time to duck out of a busy schedule of pre Christmas DIY, wrapping and stuffing mixing to wish all at RMWeb a merry christmas and a happy new year of modelling and vaguely related banter

Remember my post in the summer about those 16mm scale battery locos,well, Santa and Rudolph have put one of them to use around the base of our tree at home... pardon the slightly indistinct 'phone pictures! The 'tramway' is two routed circles cut into a baseboard under the tree, approximately O gauge...

Santa is using a wagon from my 'Mamod' steam train, and as a tiny steam engine running on military grade hexamine cooking cubes scooting around the trunk might be a fire risk, Rudolph has arranged a small battery locomotive that cost the princely sum of £7.50!