So this is where it ended, and this where it started. After just putting my soldering iron down to open the door to get my nice new shiny (but not very good) guitar I never went back into that side of the loft, except to round up all the 30 odd wagons (O gauge) I'd built, brass and plastic, to sell on eBay to buy a moderately seriously expensive (but gorgeous) new guitar. Not a yard of track had been laid. All that was left was a set of home made points (the Great Plan required about twenty sets - plus slips!); some track; my faithful desk-tidy tippler; an unfinished Warship kit; an unfinished 08 brass kit (I screwed up quartering the wheels) and two Peco buffer kits. Six years later... I installed a studio in the loft, in the railway side, using some of the baseboards as a bench to plug in assorted magical recordery electrical computery stuff that occasionally produces what I laughingly refer to as 'music'. This necessitated actually tidying up, and dismantling my work bench with it's nice paint pot racks and stuff. When done, I hadn't used all the 'bench' on one side, and the Warship sat there looking mournfully at me from the nice, clean, and above all empty end of the bench.

While recording Facebook suddenly stated sending me lots of posts from the most amazing modeler Chris Nevard, the little grey cells formed a sub-committee and began pondering. While seeking musical inspiration I watched a YouTube video of a model railway exhibition that featured an abundance O gauge micro layouts, including a couple of Chris's (not O gauge), and began planning - though this time I was going to be considerably less ambitious - just one engine and a few goods wagons. And those two Peco buffer stops.

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