It's been so long since my last post. All hope of entering, let alone winning, the Challenge 2010 competition has been lost! Still, I've managed to get back into modelling again now that family life has settled down a bit. By leaving my layout and tools neatly to the side of the dining room I've been able to do the odd hour or two most evenings recently.

I'm really pleased with the trackwork so far. Taking my time to get it neat and doing it properly, such as modify points with frog-switching. I even bought a Dremel clone to cut, grind and file rails!

All that's left is the odd looking long road at the back of the layout (this is to be my main hidden re-railing / fiddle-yard / DCC-programming track) and the two short roads into the shed but these will have to wait till I've built a pair of Scalescenes.com R002c Inspection Pits.