Well, I've decided to start a new blog for my model railway interests. It won't be regularly updated and the content will be varied, ranging from occasional model building stuff to ideas and dreams for the future. Apart from this very sentence, it will avoid covering any issues in my life re unemployment trials and tribulations, writing and publishing etc. It will just be for model (and occasionally real) railway stuff.

To start with, I'm thinking at the moment of what I can do with a number of model railway items that I've collected over the years that haven't otherwise been used. They include buildings, details, cars, lineside items, etc. I will put together a list of them and then see what I can come up with.

In the meantime, I will need some simple but flexible track planning software to be able to visualize a layout with said items on it. I'll use Templot for the final track design work, but I want something quick and straightforward and preferably free, if possible with a basic 3D viewing capability. If anyone's got any recommendations for such software, please leave a comment to let me know about it.