Rather than doing any productive work on Cheddar, now that the Templot drawings are pretty much finalised I feel that I should be cracking on with 'useful work' on the layout (namely drawing up the 4 main buildings). I now have good photos of the station and goods shed, along with their external dimensions (taken from an online plans website and backed up with a calculation from an aerial photo). Decent images of the signal box are also sorted, although scaling this is proving more difficult. I just cant find the focus to sit down and do the drawings.

Hopefully the train back to Bristol on Thursday will be quiet so that I can concentrate, at least this time I am travelling via Birmingham so a Voyager or Pendolino (and a smooth ride) rather than via Newport and getting a 175 that chucks you around all over the place making CAD work a pain in the backside!

Instead to keep things moving on I have been putting a lot more time into sourcing stock.

So far having purchased another airfix B Set, and the first donor for my twin railcar, with a Collett goods, pannier body, angled tank 45xx, straight tank 45xx kit, along with a siphon and a collett break all due for Scaleforum

The only thing now is working out what needs to be done to them, then getting everything up to scratch.

At the moment my plan is to keep this B set in 'standard' condition and just drop in some P4 wheels, then once the set that is currently being worked on is finished it will enter the works. I'm currently planning to get a set of Gibsons for the Bachmann 45xx so at least I can get something running.

Given something of a backlog has now built up, it means I am now at the point that I really need to stop looking at Ebay, so for now other than looking out for cheap railcars or k's B Sets. The intention is to get cracking on the improvements, I finally finish my placement in Hawker up in Broughton next week and return to Airbus proper back in Filton so at least I will be home with my tools etc.