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The building of my first portable N-gauge layout.

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Foster Street - Time to Splash as bit of paint about - 3

Apparently something is going on later this month, apparently is something big, I got a clue to this when I came home from work in the week, and the Domestic Overlord had left some tinsel on the sofa.   Now possessing detection skills that would make Sherlock Holmes to shame, my little grey cells kicked into action. Tinsel, shiny, and red, elementary my dear chap, it was the DO's subtle hint that I should spend some time on my current project of producing some Crimson tanks for the fleet, see

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FOSTER STREET - Last Exhibition Appearance of 2016

Well as I sit back enjoying a nice cuppa, I just thought I would review the activity of the weekend.   Foster Street is now safely back in the spare room, after getting home from its last exhibition of 2017, which was held by the Pendle Forrest Club.   I have to say the chaps at the Pendle Forrest club made us feel very welcome, and we had a great time operating the layout and talking to the visitors at the exhibition, we even had a few guest operators today, that certainly showed us how the

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Foster Street - Time to Splash a bit of paint around 2

Well I have managed to do two things since my last update, one has been even more successful that I imagined.   First to the SUCESS. I have managed to avoid any form of emulsion paint application around the house, the Domestic Overlord has not even mention my lack of decorating activity. Either the DO must be preoccupied with other things or its a trap................   Anyway the other thing I have been less successful with Is the repainting/painting of my Johnson 1P and a couple of Fowler

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Foster Street - Time to Splash a bit of paint around.

Is it just me or am I the only one who seems to just take on another project on a seemingly endless list, rather than finishing some of the on going ones.   Today I actually got the seal of approval from the Domestic Overlord to do this project, as I must have been looking underemployed, so I was actually told to take the paint from the kitchen and use it for what it was bought for. (which is strange as normally I'm told to keep away from painting, as I can walk past B&Q and get covered

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Time for a replacement for Foster Street?

Well another post in a short space of time, I will have to be careful in case it becomes a habit? Don't worry it wont, but this entry will be more of a list of questions.   I have been thinking for a few weeks of starting a new layout, Foster Street still has a few exhibition commitments and will not be scrapped, but as the number of outstanding jobs on it decreases I need something new to keep me out of trouble.   So the next layout will be designed to be taken to exhibitions, that is of co

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Foster Street - Time for another update.

Well its been a while since I last posted an entry on here, some might say its not been long enough . The reason for this is not because the Domestic Overlord has been scheduling my every waking moment.   The real reason is that in part I have lost my modelling mojo, and because I have been bogged down with some of the boring time consuming jobs that have been backing up, like wheel cleaning etc.   Anyway thanks to Phil of this parish the fiddle yard on Foster Street is finally having the po

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FOSTER STREET - WIGAN EXHIBITION EVE - PANIC

Well, I don't know how but we managed to get an Invite to the WIGAN show, with Foster Street, and that's the problem, WE ARE AT THE WIGAN EXHIBITION   If anybody is planning to attend the show, and happen to find themselves in front of the layout, try not to laugh too hard and PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE remember do not feed the operating team

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Foster Street - A Time to PANIC, PANIC PANIC!

Well it seems like ages since I have posted an entry on this site, AND NO its not because the DOMESTIC OERLORD has banned me, or anything like that, honest   I have just been really, really busy and it gets worst, Foster Street is out at its first exhibition of 2016, at Fleetwood next weekend, and then its due at WIGAN, and I have loads to do.........and no time.   I'm not in a state of panic yet, but I'm getting there....OH MY GOD WHAY HAVE I DONE......

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Foster Street - A Spot of Bad Weather Hits

Well I don't know how its happened but I have managed to find a little time to actually do some modelling, and as a bonus the Domestics Overlord, very kindly allowed me a little time out from my manacles .   Just in case the Domestic Overlord reads this, I'm sorry, I'm portraying the DO in a bad light, of course I was not released from my manacles................   Anyway before anyone notices I'm taking a break from "black leading the stove" I better let you know what I have been up to. Fo

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Foster Street - Sllllloooooooowwwwwwww progress

Well despite the company I work for considering it acceptable for me to work nearly 24hours a day, 7 days a week, and then the demands of domestic life taking up what time I have left, I have still managed to find a little. and I mean little time for playing with my trains.   With exhibitions looming for Foster Street, I should be looking at finishing off a few jobs on the layout, and giving the scenery a little refresh, I decided to spend time working on less vital projects.   I have alway

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Foster Street - I've nearly finished some projects - well nearly

Well I must have been a very good boy lately as the Domestic Overlord allowed me to play with my trains, so I took advantage of the situation and did a little work on some of the on-going projects cluttering up to workbench.   Its been a mad few weeks, and modelling time has been in very short supply, so I decided to knuckle down and get some serious modelling done, and play of course play trains too, I mean the Domestic Overlord told me to play with my trains and as I'm such a good boy I did.

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Foster Street - Simple Locomotive improvements (part 7)

Well I cant believe this particular string is up to part 7 (started in January) and there is still a lot of work to do, the problem is modelling time with all the other manic commitments outside of work is in very short supply.   So you would think that due to this, a sensible chap would knuckle down and use whatever time came along wisely to move on-going projects onto completion. Well I don't think I could ever be considered sensible, so in my usual numpty way I plodded on.   Originally I

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Foster Street - Simple Locomotive improvements (part 6)

Well this is part 6 of this little saga, where I am attempting to make some simple improvements to the Locomotive fleet to add a little variety, of at least hopefully improve them a little.   The problem I have (some people say I have many problems the cheek of it) is that lately with the demands of work and domestic bliss, I have had very little modelling time to spend on my various on-going projects. So I made a determined effort to find some modelling time and get to grips with getting som

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Foster Street - Simple Locomotive Improvements (part 5)

Well despite the constant demands of the real world, I have managed to get a little time to spend on the more important things in life MY TRAINS (of course if the Domestic Overlord is reading this, I meant my trains are the second most important thing in my life ) Anyway a while back, I managed to get a Duchess locomotive at a bargain price from evil bay, which was in a terrible BR Green livery. Even though Foster Street is a secondary line, I thought I could find some justification in running

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Foster Street - Simple Locomotive Improvements (part 4)

Well lately modelling time has been in very very short supply, and then when I get the chance to spend a little time to do some modelling I cant be bothered   I don't know about you but apparently when I am in these moods, I can be a real pain, personally I cant believe this as I'm positively wonderful all the time, but when the Domestic Overlord actually demands I do some modelling perhaps the is some justification.   Anyway being a good boy, and always doing what I am told I went to the s

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Foster Street - More Deadline's, A Possible Replacement, and Loss of MOJO

Well, its been a while since my last update, and have I got anything to report, have a made major progress with any of my on-going projects? - ERR NO, I think I have lost my modelling mojo   Even though I have had a bit of time available to spend on my modelling, and I have had active encouragement from the Domestic Overlord, I have not really done much modelling. Maybe its a psychological thing with me, maybe if I'm actually allowed to do something I rebel against it and don't do it   Any

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Foster Street - Simple Locomotive Improvements - (part 3)

Well if this series of updates on my attempt to improve some of my motive power has not bored you to tears yet, I'm pretty confident that this entry might just tip you over the edge.   With all the usual demands on the very precious resource of modelling time, I have not had a lot of time to spend on the various projects I'm in the middle of in the vain hope that I may actually complete one. In the traditions of all modellers everywhere instead of finishing projects, I even managed to start ne

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Foster Street - Simple Locomotive Improvements (part 2)

Well in my last post, I started to detail some of the improvements I need to make to a few of the locomotives in my fleet. I'm still working through this process, well I would be if... a) I had more time and B) I spent the time I have working on this projects instead of starting new ones.   So guess what I did, yes your right I started some new ones, but only because I needed something to do while I waited for paint and glue to dry. So really I'm just being efficient, well that's my story a

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Foster Street - Simple Locomotive Improvements

Well as the little cherubs at work very kindly allowed me nearly two hours of uninterrupted sleep this evening before calling me to kindly illustrate another example of their mind blowing ineptitude.   So as I wait to see if the "intellectual giants" have the ability to remain conscious and follow the simplest of commands, I thought I would let you know about the progress of my latest project, that is if anyone is interested :if)   As you know I model the years prior to the dark day the rail

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Foster Street - Time for a Jubilee (or Five)

Well its been a while since I have posted anything on here, mostly because like most people the festive season has not allowed much time for modelling, but also because I lost my "Mojo".   So I had to look for inspiration, it was during this search that I discovered Amazon, and there supply of Railway books, so three astute purchases at a gran total of 58p, plus postage (I'm not tight, just prudent, despite what other people claim )provided a little inspiration and my "Mojo" started to return.

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Foster Street - Is it time for a replacement?

Well its nearly a new year, and that means I can start even more projects, that will get in the way of actually finishing some of the ones currently in progress. I must admit some of my projects need to be stopped, in fact they should not have been started in the first place.   Because I have been very good lately, the Domestic Overlord granted me permission to play trains so I retired with a glass of the hard stuff to the spare room and fired up the old transformers.   Sometimes its just go

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Foster Street - Two crimson ladies join the fleet.

Well apparently something called Christmas is approaching, which I think is just an excuse from the Domestic Overlord to stop me modelling, or at least playing with my trains. Yes you read that correctly, I meant it I PLAY WITH TRAINS and if anyone has a problem with that TOUGH   Anyway the last couple of days have been quite fruitful for my trains set, I have given up referring to it as my layout, the so called "normal" people keep calling it my train set so I have given up.... This week ha

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Foster Street - Time to Play

Well as Christmas day is rapidly approaching, the usual colds and sniffles have hit the Price mansions and the Domestic Overlord has been hit with the dreaded lurgy   Every cloud has a silver lining though, and it has meant that I can play with my trains, so today I have managed to spend a hour our so just running trains around Foster Street.   While I was doing this I a couple of thoughts hit me, one of which was a little concerning, do I have too much stock? The question raised itself fro

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Foster Street - Is this Finally the END?

Well its finally the weekend, and after the usual highly stressful week at work, I was looking forward to a couple of hours this morning playing with my trains (sorry of course I meant testing ).   So the plan was to get up long before the Domestic Overlord, and get a few hours operating the layout in before the one "whose wishes are my commands" woke, with an inevitable list of lovely "fun" activities we can do in the run up to Christmas .   Anyway I sneaked off to the spare room, fired up

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Foster Street - Dirty Weather Hits.

Well this morning as I awoke in Price Towers, an almost once in a lifetime thing happened, the weather reports on the TV were actually correct, it was freezing cold.   Still like I told the Domestic Overlord as they lay there apparently shivering, the heating does not go on until we see Penguins marching up and down the streets (and I don't mean Nun's )   Anyway as the Domestic Overlord was apparently suffering from "hyperthermia" I took advantage of the peace and quiet, well once I had clos

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