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This blog started after I finally saw the light and stopped messing around in O gauge and got the nerve up to make a attempt to make a half decent micro layout in OO. It also coincided with my ordering a SECR lined livery D class from Rails of Sheffield.

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Edwin Beard Budding would be most pleased if he could sell me his invention.

Edwin Beard Budding was among other things, the inventor of the lawnmower. Oh and the adjustable spanner. However the first of those two would have been of greater use to me tonight as tonight the vast majority of the Woodland Scenics grass was scrapped of the board, creating a smaller than predicted mess. Most of it has been saved and will be reused.    I am not entirely sure how useful a lawnmower in such small a scale would be at removing said grass,  but it was something to think a

I ought to open a quarry.

Hello all,     Over the past few days ballasting has been done, to a passable finish. I'm using some type of Woodland Scenics grey fine stone ballast, which comes out a bit "shiny" so I need to hunt around in the garage for my airbrush and its new needle, and then track weathering will start taking place. I think this should look much better than the brush method of painting track as the sleepers wont rub against the paint which gives me at last annoying brass streaks on my rusty

How to protect your pet Wainwright D class from the sea.

Hello all,     I have in recent past been wondering how bad it was for the engines to be stood on these sometimes very inhospitable piers, which invariable at times had spray wafting over them. But that is not really the point of this post. The point is, what shall the passenger train terminating at West Drizzlington consist of?   Due to the confines of the layout its operating potential would be severely impaired if two Bachmann SE&CR birdcages coaches were used as

Back from the depths

Hello all,   Rotations around the sun were made. Lathes were bought. Watchmaker training was undergone. A new job was found. But all this has now put me in the position to come back to this blog, or at least the SE&CR.    Not long after the last entry in June 2021 I cancelled my order with Rails of Sheffield for a D class as I needed the money for other stuff, so the project stalled, and eventually all the engines were sold out. That was until Saturday morning when I open

Henceforth in Lined Green.

Hello all,   After nearly two years of messing about with coarse scale O gauge, I finally saw the light last night and ordered a SECR D class from Rails of Sheffield.   But of course, it needs a layout!     The layout is set in a big town along the SECR, or at least one large enough to warrant a D class. The town is situated near Toad Hall, so often gets some unusual motorcars arriving via LNWR motorcar carrying vans from Liverpool, with their contents destined

Mole began whitewashing his house...

...or something to that affect.   Hello all,     While I was not whitewashing anything recently, I have done a good but of track painting. Or I was until I ran out of brown paint, and as it’s Memorial Day today none was to be had. However the results so far are looking quite good, especially as this is only the second time I have ever painted track. Although I know now that it should really be done once the track is glued or pinned down permanently.    
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