Things slowly grind on, I'm a thinking about getting a Tower Models B set...

My mind is going around in circles with the folowing...

Should I go for GWR livery and mix it in with the early BR?

I do like the GWR but its not going to fit...

I should really get Blood and Custard - I much prefer Bachmann's paler custard colour on their MK 1's rather than the Hornby as they used on the maunsells...

But BR Maroon is a much neater colour - did the B set ever appear in all over crimson?

That would be useful - but I do like the GWR livery and on it goes full circle...

And nowhere is the cash available to buy three sets..

If I go the GWR route then that would be good excuse for getting a GWR Prairie or Manor to pull them.

Meanwhile back on the farm a cheapo plastic shed that came from somewhere in the states has been painted to resemble a creosote finish to serve as the Coal Merchants office and in this instance, doubling up as the local filling station. (Wattoncombe is a very small village somewhere close to Dartmoor) -

Some enamel signs were designed in photoshop, printed on a laser printer and then stuck on to provide a garagy feel - the petrol pump comes from Corgi. The guy in overalls is a Preiser off duty US train engineer, who is currently selling coal in Devon whilst enjoying a cup of joe The Coal truck is a Vanguards 1:43rd (so they say!) NCB Morris Commercial, which will need to get a new livery - does anyone know how to remove the lettering from the sides of a diecast vehicle?...

Its all a work in progress, so it is suck it and see time, nothing is as yet written in stone. Which reminds me, to find out the prices of a cwt of different kinds of coal and coke in 1955, to chalk on a blackboard on the outside of the hut.

P.S.Why is it that primer always seems to feel tacky even weeks later?