Modelling is slowing down ready for the Christmas break as the spare room gets taken up by sleeping family members.
Plus I'm in the vain hope that if I don't crack on with my Bachy/Hornby 24/1 model Hornby will announce it on Monday.
The 40s are tucked up and waiting for their Bachmann Chassis, or selling on eBay if the new Bachmann retool really is the holy grail.
So for "FWL" three class 47s appeared. These girls are from 3 different ilk, and really transcend my active modelling ye
Today I taught a friend how to weather, although I've barely done any steam locos! So it was the blind leading the blind really.
He wanted something dirty, but clean, and this is the result,
Let me know what you think, I'm happy with the results. Still a little to do.
Oly
After an accidental time wasting visit to Staples I discovered them flogging off desks for £27, a small nook in the spare room means I'm off the precious dining room table and into my own space!
Its a tad cramped. Here we see 'Build your own GTi', I had an old Heljan 33 chassis knocking about from an ancient project gone pete tong. I found a perfect Pre TOPs BFYE GTi on Ebay and some spares from Howes, saw me bag a 27 for around £27. AWESOME.
Here she is going together.
What els
I probably should of started this sooner, I'll give a round up of what i've been doing over the past week or so and then continue to update as work is completed (hopefully)
As Stoating Bank's exhibition invites have dried up its given me time to concentrate on some other diversions, namely my clubs new layout and my new layout. Working on a layout for me involves ChrisM planning it on templot and me getting the T&RS ready (nothing like skipping forward!)
The clubs new layout, has a W
