Well a quick update, I recently went to the Model Railway show in Manchester with a small shopping list for Ingleside (don't we all when we go to a show?). So having purchased some cork for a track bed, kadee magnets for uncoupling and some buffer stops I thought I was sorted and then as ever I started looking at the rest of the trade stands.

I saw some decent mouldings for industrial buildings on the Ten Commandments stand, now this is relevant to Carter's Dock one of the two layouts I am upgrading. I had been planning on using Skytrex north light factory units to cover the flat back scene but when Skytrex hit trouble early last month it seemed I was after an alternative, hence the interest in the Ten Commandments buildings.

So I set to investigating the usefulness of the Ten Commandments mouldings on Carter's Dock, to be honest they were next to useless being to deep. So I began to mentally shelve the rebuild of Carter's Dock until another option presented itself, and tonight unpacked Tontine Street to see if the Ten Commandments buildings would be of use here instead. Due to the wider space available and lack of a back scene they look like they will be successful.

Having unpacked Tontine Street, I did some repairs and removed the rest of the cardboard buildings, then standing back realised that the track plan is a glorified Inglenook............ To add confusion to the quandary I see in tonight's email that Skytrex have restructured and are selling there wares again, so Carter's Dock and Tontine Street both seem to have a scenic building solution and I appear to already have an Inglenook layout. It must be the solder fumes or the impending fate of those red panda kits!

So where is this blog now going? I think it is going to get a bit wider and start covering the fun and games with Carter's Dock, Tontine Street and yes Ingleside. I have decided Ingleside is to continue on as my test bed for building a layout from the ground up as the other two projects are only scenic jobs. And what does the lady have to say about all this, well she is currently in Cuba (of all places) on holiday, but did make it clear a few weeks ago that although she had purchased me a baseboard last year I was not going to get planning permission for any further baseboards in the near future ;-)

So I better provide some pics of Tontine Street and Carter's Dock, Tontine Street is the one in the pics with the Ten Commandments plaster buildings on it. If you either built, owned or operated Tontine Street / Carter's Dock in the past you may wish to look away now, as they are now missing there original buildings.......