I'm really not one for resolutions, there is a part of me that likes to be defiant once I've made them,
ten years since I joined RmWeb and started modelling again - with a Bachmann Class 25 .
It was all new again and half the fun was learning some of those advances since my last involvement with the hobby, since we moved and my layout was dismantled I've tried all sorts of different ideas and scales to try keep myself interested.
This year I've decided to start afresh with a new e
Well I've flipped between OO/N - N/OO - even forays into other scales & gauges - but its getting harder.
I'm naturally biased to the BRCW type 2 (class 26 & 27) and Dapol has done great things with its rendition,
I've had the old skool offerings from minitrix & lima in the respective scales and the newer 4mm Heljan, but I reckon the Dapol offering is possibly the best we've ever had, particularly regards the 27 cab front, the Lima & Heljan 4mm offerings are much more the
Yet another blast from the past:
I recently discovered I still had the retaining walls from the erstwhile Old Lane, which was a shunting layout which was just getting started when we were moving. It was based on a disused cutting are in Halifax on an ex LY/GNR bit of route which eventually led to the Queensbury triangle:
The layout is now landfill - but my retaining walls will now live on in my APA box layout, which may or not yet resemble the old lane cutting!
This believ
Though its hard to believe sometimes that I started the Deadwater layout in 2006/7 and thats now erm a long time ago:
http://www.rmweb.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10949
I recall converting various type 2 diesels to EM and being hopeful I may be able to get suitable stock to run a more accurate ( ie when the line actually WAS open) period - most of the suitable things of the time were the ex mainline split chassis models.
Its hard to believe there is now not only RTR ex LNER non-gangway
Started so many layouts that never got finished theres always the ones you wished had got finished.
This was a small test piece for handmade track - inspired by some of the smaller stations on the Spey valley railway which is now a cycle/walking route in much of its length.
The layout based in the APA box is also of GNSR outline, but in a more coastal location, and 'light railway' insired like St Combs. (see: http://www.flickr.com/photos/38727358@N04/, an interesting Flickr page)
Having struggled with the fiddliness of 2mm for a year or so with little progress to show, and more importantly vastly reduced inclination to continue I decided the time had come to revert to 4mm scale.
- despite having been in EM before, I was seeing lots of layouts on here and in the mags that were OO and didn't look any the worse for it, so decided to give that a go again.
- time & space lately is such that a compact, relaxing and easygoing set up is what is required.
- I was
