Hi Will - I think most of us have had a sabatical at some point or another!

Whitemarch must be finished, especially as you removed the comprimise point and have added so much wonderful detail - however I'd suggest perhaps either the Z or a new project might inject some enthusiasm for now? I know that's been the case for me for a whole different set of reasons.

Great to see a post from you again though!

Hi Will, as has already been said above... good to see you back; it sounds like you've had a busy few months! Along with Pete and James, I think it'd be good to see Whitemach finished (I also gave it my votes)... and a backscene would be a nice addition. Given the other musings, it's difficult to see which woudl rise above the rest, although they sound quite extensive (except Tanis that might give a nice scenic exercise and aviation departure).. or did you want to run trains .

Glad you back with us... and looking forward to future developments.

Jon... currently much farther North than he's happy to be.

(This editor has lost my post once and crashed Safari on the iPad a couple of times - hope it works...)

Thanks for the warm welcome back - it's really kind of you all! More ramble follows...

I agree that Whitemarsh has to be finished, I like it too much and have too much relevant stock to just let it fade away. I'm a bit worried about the amount of wood butchery required to make all the legs and frame and lighting rig etc. which would turn it into a proper exhibition layout, although I can see that would be useful effort for other projects too with a bit of care..

It's also fun to see that people like the idea of Tanis - it gives me so much pleasure every time I take the cover off that one - it's not very true to scale, or well researched, or anything like that but it's a nice little scene.

I think maybe the thing to do is to delay the decision a while longer and try and build one of the planes for Tanis, and some of the part-built stuff for Whitemarsh like the Ipswich shed and possibly a wind generator I think might work well there. That gives me some kitchen-table scale projects to fiddle with and one might spur me on more than the other. I can think about a plan for Tanis's extra bit at the same time.

The Hollentalbahn does call to me though - I have all the track I need for that, and most of the sundries. It'd be very nice to finally have somewhere to run my Z stock, which was the first train set I bought as an adult returning to the hobby ~8 years ago. Again, I'll try and work up a plan for that and post it here.

Thanks again!