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Hello Ever since I posted in a past blog entry about a possible new gearbox I have been working on I have had quite a few people asking me about it as they are very interested which gave me the incentive to get it done. The idea I had was to get one together and take it to the St Albans show (which I really enjoyed btw) so people could see it finished. Unfortunately things didnt work out how I would have liked so I didnt get round to finishing it...UNTIL TODAY! OK, for those of you who dont know this is my first attempt at making a 'universal' gearbox that I could use on different engines, it came about as I was drawing up an engine for chassis for etching and I thought to myself "I could make this removeable and use it on other engines". It comprises of an etched frame, the new motor from the 2mmSA shop (3-257), and gears from my favorite gear supplier Mikroantriebe (https://www.shop.kkpmo.com/). Amazingly I have managed to get an impressive 128:1 ratio which would suit a shunting engine a treat! The drawing below shows the dimensions of the gearbox... It uses all plastic gears so it is a bit on the quiet side, and if put together well it runs very smoothly (and slowly!). The motor is double ended so there is also the possibility of fitting a flywheel if I wanted to(and if there is room!). Here are a couple of photos of my first attempt at building one... Of course there is a down side, because of the gears I used to get the ratio it unfortunately means the wheel axle can only be upto 1.5mm in diameter which therefore means I will have to use a solid wheel axle and insulate the wheels with a plastic bush but I feel thats a small price to pay for something like this. Its my first attempt so I would love to hear any thoughts or comments on this... Missy

As the railway line enters Diddington station, it passes behind a cluster of farm buildings. I put a photograph of the barns in my gallery a little while ago, and was asked if I had some more pictures. I took a few, and have added a few notes about the models themselves. The buidings are situated at the front of the layout to act as a view block, and to balance the river scene, with the boathouse at the other end. Here's an aerial view od the group: The buildings are made from card. The weatherboarded building was designed with a hole in the bottom. It was originally built for an earlier layout which folded in two by means of hinges fitted on blocks at the front and back of the layout. The back hinge was covered by part of the scenery, and the barn fitted over the front hinge when the layout was set up. The scene was built on its own base, a piece of MDF with a hole cut in it to fit over the hinge. In order that the hinge could not be seen through the arn windows, there is a full height false wall inside the building, about 1cm back from the windows. The design of the barns comes from a sketch by George Illife Strokes, of a group of buildings at Marlow. He made a model of the buildings himself, which appear in some of his photographs. The small cart shed at the right hand end is from a plan by John Ahern in "Miniature Landscape Construction" The large chimney stack was made round a sub frame of plastic card. Panels of exposed brickwork were added from scraps of Wills sheet, and the surrounding areas built up to the same level with pieces of plain plastic card. These areas were then coated with a mix of Artex and PVA white glue, diluted with water. This was applied with a brush, and when it was dry, lightly sanded to smooth it off. The plastic areas were painted with Humbrol acrylics, and the card and plaster parts painted with artists watercolours. The chimney pots were made from lengths of brass tube, with rims from copper wire. The pots were the coated with gesso and painted with Humbrol acrylics. The pantiles on the barns are from paper strips, A false roof is made from card, and this is marked with vertical lines at about 4mm intervals. Lengths of plastic rod are stuck to these lines. The tiles themselves are made from strips of paper, fixed in place with Bostick impact adhesive and pressed down round the lengths of plastic rod to represent the joints between the tiles. Once dry, the roof is painted with artists water colours. I ran out of patience when I got to the cart shed, and the roof on this buiding is made from Wills sheet, which lends extra rigidity to the structure, which has a frame of balsa wood, with weatherboarding from thin card.

A large box containing lots of goodies arrived courtesy of UPS this afternoon, amongst them the first of the resin SLA Leeds Pivotal Cars, a few pics Overall. delighted with this one, I'd say all the detail in the CAD has printed well, so it's fully detailed, the only visible stepping is on the roof, which is dead easy to smooth and sort out, I can honestly say that I think 'traditional' trams are going to 'print' really well in this method using the same orientation. I can honestly say that I think this is the best one yet, I can't believe that I struggled to cut hundreds of bits of evergreen strip up for not as good a result, chuffed! So think I'd better get the previous Hamiliton cars (like 399 at Crich) sorted out, it's pretty much set up in the part planning/part set off stage. EE pivotal soon as well. Pilcher test print ordered too. If anyone wants to have a look at quite a few of these at various stages from raw print to 99% finished model, 'Grime St' is at the Pennine MRC show this coming weekend (21/22 Jan) in Huddersfield, I will have the models and some CAD work with me if anyone is interested.

Sunday 15th January 2012. Had to force my self out of my pit at 05:00 on a freezing cold Sunday morning to get myself, son in law and layout to Weston super mare, get set up and running before the show opened to the public at 10:00. Being early on a Sunday morning the M5 was very quiet and the trip from my home in Stourbridge took just over and hour and a half. No need for the sat-nav either as the venue was only half a mile from the motorway. Working between us the layout was up and running by 08:15 so thoughts turned to "nosebag" and a bacon butty was on the cards. However we were soon to be dissapointed as none of the cookers were working in the kitchen! Loads of bacon in trays and nothing to cook it on! The problem was soon resolved when the council engineer was called out to fix the problem, thank goodness for that otherwise it meant a trip to a McDonalds for one of those "Carpet Burgers" . I'm certain they have a bloke in the back somewhere cutting out circles of carpet underlay with a pastry cutter and popping them in a deep fat fryer! That's what they taste like to me anyway! Bacon baps with brown sauce went down a treat and we were then satisfied and ready to run. Anyway I digress. Pen Y Bont performed well all day without any problems, I wish I could I could say the same about the operators! I don't know what it is but when there is no one watching I can couple and decouple 3 link couplings without much trouble, but, no sooner you get an audience then every thing goes belly up! Some thing to do with Murphy's law I believe, but I never found out who Murphy was! Regular readers of this piffle blog may have read some time ago that my Collett mogul has "had it" After a successful win on Ebay I ended up with a complete loco, From this I swapped the chassis into my original loco. I'm pleased to say that the transplant was successful and the engine ran as sweet as a nut all day. Comments and remarks made by several punters looking on seemed quite favourable and I have a couple of provisional enquiries to attend exhibitions in 2013. Most viewers seemed to comment on the burnt out brake van that forms a static cameo on the layout, I think more pictures were taken of this than anything else. I shall be posting some pictures of some of the other stuff that took my eye later. The exhibition was very well attended and for a one day event was excellent with 26 layouts and 14 traders, more than some of the well known 2 day shows. Attendance was up on last year with over 1000 tickets issued by lunchtime, I'm not sure what the final figure was but i think I heard someone say 1500. All monies raised going to a good cause. Finally I couldn't resist a picture of my own layout before the show closed so here it is... We had got everything packed up and were on the way home by 16:50 or thereabouts. Not a bad time to dismantle, pack, load and go considering we still had stock on the layout at closing time 16:30. So there you have it, another plaque now adorns the front of Pen Y Bont. Back to work on the new layout now this one is over, no more shows now until September. Another load of waffle from me soon! Cheers! Frank .

Chaldron wagon couplings usually consisted of a forked ended bar fitted with a pin and a chain. The chain was often permamently attached to one end of a wagon only to keep all of the wagons the same way round, so the brakes were always on the same side. There were, of course, exceptions, some were fitted with a crude hook. This of course makes life difficult if you use 3 links and still want an authentic looking useable coupling. The kit comes with cast scale size bars, which gave me an idea... My solution is to make my own bars from .040" x .010" brass strip, folded back on itself and with a pin made from .45mm wire. The pin is left overlength and bent slightly back; This one is the prototype and still needs cleaning up. I need to get some round link chain, I intend using 2 round links finished with a normal oval link. On the wagon; (One link in place to show how it will be fitted.) I now need to make some more to properly test the idea. Comments welcome!

After much thought and 'Outlay' and a happy accident a proposal for a 'Layout' appeared... Not being versed in the black arts of Templot and its kin, this is a rough sketch. The happy accident referred to above, occurred when the mails managed to mangle a left hand point being sent over from Kernow. Believing Kernow had no more in stock, I ordered two more from Hatton’s, and informed Kernow about the tragedy. Now before you could say 'refund' Kernow had mailed out a replacement - fantastic service from these guys! Now there are three LH points to play with as part of the layout. Some current big questions are... "Will the proposed layout work?" "What signals and where should they be placed?" "What to call it?" - for the moment it is "Teignmoor".. ".....?" - the unknown question that is bound to crop up sooner rather than later... Ready made track and points are being utilised as a part of the ongoing experience gathering process. But what has become clear in playing around with bits of track to establish what would be a workable layout, is that having excellent track and points will enrichen the overall experience of modelling in this scale, which means that DIY track will eventually become the only viable way forwards...

Good morning, Many thanks all for your interest and enthusiasm for this new project. Whilst it was originally timetabled for May 2014, Chris, the BHMRC exhibition manager read my proposal, liked it and floated the question whether it could even be ready for May 2013... Let's just say (I know you might be dropping into this Chris) that it could be a distinct possibility...as I have been working on Kyle again and prepping CJM for its next phase... This week, in between trying to award Practical Completion (something the Client, Contractor and Architect all have different ideas of) I have been sketching to try and develop the project and start to think in more detail in terms of operations and logistics. The sketches below, which I hope you find of interest, track my thinking process and ask questions about the design and its suitability, with a focus on trying to improve on previous work be it success or failure. The first one shows something of the original idea to try and make a boxfile layout with through running as opposed to small termini. I was quite keen on the 1/2 station idea and was trying to find suitable prototypes for a while, but I eventually went off this idea as I was worried that operation would be a little dull...both for punter and exhibitor! Sketch 1: It was during this phase that Chris (EastwestDivide) suggested Paddock Wood...hence the drift to listing rolling stock ideas... The second one looks at two options for Paddock Wood. The first being the redevelopment of the bay idea but to include the through running line. The second option forgets the through line but instead squeezes in another siding at the front. Sketch 2: The second option was dropped as I felt the through running would add an extra twist to the layout... The third sketch looks at the through line in more detail and how the line of the hinge could correlate with the 'hidden face' of the platform. At present I am unsure how I will support it and maintain alignment perfectly. Sketch 3: This is illustrates that the 'highest' element on here will be the platform canopy so if I need to increase the depth of the boards I can perhaps make the canopy removable... The fourth sketch looks at logistics of operation. What is clear is that 'through trains' will run from left to right and so would be best arranged as a series of block trains on cassettes that can then be lifted back again once a sequence has completed. The freight sidings need to allow for a 'run-a-round' (g..g..g..g..g..g...go..!) facility to enable wagons to be arranged, removed etc. A list of potential block trains is starting to emerge, with thanks to Chris (EWD) for sending a collection of fotos from that period... The final sketch is looking at the logistics of exhibiting. One big thing that I felt about Kyle was that it was too low and 2mmFS looks better (IMHO) with rail height at about 1200mm from FFL. So rather than sit it on a table, I was considering the layout sits on a simple plank (that I make in the UK in my father's garage) and perhaps that can sit on some of those DIY adjustable leg supports...the name escapes me as you can't find that in Spanish DIY shops. A black cloth of course will cover the front below the layout...and provide the necessary screening to the exhibitors carrott cake and kit kat stashes... I think I will make a small 1:10 model of this as previously for CJM to help visualise this better... I hope you find this of interest. Please note that no alcohol (only espressos) was consumed during the time these sketches were done. I wouldn't want people to get the wrong impression of me...

Chaldrons (or Chauldron if you prefer) were a very basic and ancient design of wooden coal waggon predominantly used in the North East. They feature bottom doors to be used over coal drops or staithes. The particular style of chaldron that the RT Models kit is based on is of the type used at Londonderry Colliery and at Seaham Harbour. These 4 ton capacity waggons were built in the 1860's and some lasted in use into the 1970's, famously used with Seaham's Lewin and Head Wrightson locos for picking up spilled coal from below the staithes. A number are preserved at Beamish. Chilton Iron Works once produced kits for four different chaldron waggons. An unbuilt example came up on ebay last year and sold for over sixteen pounds! References; Seaham waggons; IRS archive: http://www.irsociety...gons_seaham.htm Industrial Railways Of Seaham by Adrain Booth published by the Industrial Railway Society Industrial Wagons, An Introduction by David Monk Steel again published by the IRS Industrial Railways in Colour - The North East by Paul Anderson (good colour photo), Irwell Press Industrial Steam published by Ian Allen (another usefull colour photo) British Railway Goods Wagons in Colour by Robert Hendry, Midland Publishing Limited (a colour study in weathering) Plenty of images of preserved wagons can be found on the 'net, such as these: http://www.flickr.co...N08/2340031789/http://www.flickr.co...57612092918905/ DVD - Industrial Railways in Britain County Durham (good colour footage of Chaldrons being shunted, and some close up shots) Chaldrons in general Private Owner Wagons of the North East volume one The Chaldrons by John A Elliot published by Chilton Iron Works (the definative history of the type with many drawings) Backworth An Illustrated History of the Mines and Railways by John Elliot and Derek Charlton again published by Chilton Iron Works The Private Railways of County Durham by Colin Mountford, IRS The Industrial Railways & Locomotives Of County Durham part 2 by Colin Mountford and Dave Holroyde, IRS Modelling Aspects of the Coal Industry by Rob Johnson, Book Law Publications Modelling Articles Model Railway Journal 149 - Chaldron Wagons for Garrigill by Bob Hetherington - building the Chilton Iron Works kits. Modelling I've bought a rake of RT Models Chaldron wagons. These are whitemetal kits and can be bought either with wheels (Gibson, which I use) or without, which means that you're not going to be stuck with someone elses choice of wheelset if you want to use something different. Wheels are split (open) spoke. The kit contains 19 castings (chassis, body sides and ends, bearings, batter plates and scale couplings) and a nickel silver etch, for the brakes and small details. The castings are nice and clean with only minimal flash and the etching contains axle washers and horse hooks. Instructions cover four sides of A4 and include diagrams. The chassis is a solid casting. The instructions ask you to drill holes for the brakes and couplings first, I didn't for reasons that I'll come to later. Wheels run in whitemetal bearing blocks, my first job was to clean these up and glue them in place (5 minute epoxy, used throughout the build). The axles are a slightly sloppy fit in the bearings. A pic; I'm using the axles to make sure everything lines up nicely. I haven't worried about getting the bearings level at this stage, once the wheels are fitted they can be checked on a level surface (a mirror in this case) and any wobble can be cured by taking a small amount out of the top of one of the bearing blocks with a 2mm ream. The main body, which I have to say is rather a complex shape, is made up of four castings. I glued one side and end together whilst blu-tacked to the cutting mat; Glueing the assemblies together; And body resting on chassis, next to a Standard Unit Of Measure; The bodies won't be attached to the chassis' until I sort out couplings. Paul.

Having been presented with a day off work due to the celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday and being rather fired up over my APA box layout concept. I devoted my day off to some serious construction work. Principally the structures. The first one to be worked on was the small low relief at left rear. It was already well on the way to being finished and some plastruct stone cladding, a Pikesfuff door and a scratchbuilt fire escape (which might just get re-made) coupled with some kind of a/c unit on the roof courtesy of Walthers modular bits and pieces and it's ready for a visit to the paint shop Hopefully to end up looking something like this: Next up is the building front left. This is the one that I plan to cut away and have an interior for people to view. I already have in my possession a Pikestuff kit that I had made rather unremarkably so I dismantled it and re-assembled it around a .5mm styrene shell. A loading door was also cut into the shell and the Pikestuff wall sections were fitted around it. The interior to this point has a loading dock and flight of steps in place. Roof beams and some sort of supporting steelwork is also likely as well as a rollled up door. Perhaps a truck pulled up to the loading dock as well. I don't know just yet. This view of the outside shows the patchwork of previously painted, primed and unpainted sections that have been used to make up the shell. I doubt that much detail will go on this wall as no-one will be able to see it. I'm thinking there's a good six hours work invested in these structures today and while glues have been setting on these projects I've also been messing around with the major low relief structure rear right. But that's a story for another posting.

Coincidentally, a pal has given me a couple of 20's to turn into a v4 sound-fitted top & tail pair (to go with his RHTT set). Work is still in progress but they sound good whistling round together, with the horns etc only coming from the front loco and reversing when you change direction. This wonderous sight might make its way onto You Tube when I've finished tweaking the 20 sound and he's finished his RHTT. Saturday saw a sojourn down to St Albans for the show followed by a bit of MML photography near Harpenden on the way back. Two hours in the freezing cold in a muddy field were richly rewarded by some great snaps and the sight of an NR 73 going full chat on diesel power! I picked up a chip at the show to go into the newly milled 20 and this was fitted on Sunday morning. The improvement gain from having the speaker in the underframe was worthwhile, but only just. There is clearly more bass there but not a huge amount more. Up to now the 20 sound project has been workshopped in my 26 which has the Alan Butcher 28x40 speaker in, so coming back down to earth with a 23mm round (the only thing that would fit into the 20) was somewhat deflating. I also picked up another BDA at St Albans making the rake up to 6 so far. The first one to be upgraded is just about finished, I'll post a photo next time if I remember. How long do you think before I gash my hand on the rigid brass stanchions? I feel a Railfreight Metals 37 coming on... Bif

Hello, Some small jobs have been completed over the last week or so, first to be completed was the remaining ballasting outside the Mail terminal and also a small section behind the fuelling point. Fencing has been added to the retaining walls, fuelling point and also the mail depot, various painting and weathering done. Built a Hurst PCV thats been sitting on the bench for far to long, just needs to be painted now. Whilst doing this i also shortened the gap between my mail vans, simple little task of removing the coupling, loose the spring and glue the rapido straight to the bogie but only one end of the vehicle, that way when there coupled together theres still a spring on one side for a bit of play. Couple of new additions to the layout, 2 Dapol 86's, and very nice there are to. Cheers Graham.

Hey Graham, I'm really impressed! The layout's crammed with variety, yet so well composed. This gives me a lot more confidence on my future plans for a busy layout - coming from a newly qualified 'Less is More' follower. I imagine an hour watching the trains go by here can certaily be action-packed! Very much like indeed! Regards Lee

That is very, very good. Pendon comes to mind - or a victory on Tourmalet :-)

Source: The M-K & Eastern RR Harbour branch

In an attempt to tidy the appearance a bit I added a fascia, colored grey of course. The picture also shows that I added a control panel. The controller is a Digitrax Zephyr unit. I added a switch panel to control the turnouts, even though they are under DCC control. The switch panel is an aluminium panel with a paper trackplan on it, all covered by that material known to people my age as "sticky back plastic". The switches are momentary SPDT minature toggles. The exception is the DPDT switch on the top left of the panel, which lets me use that siding for operations or as a DCC programming track. The switches are connected to the NCE "Switch-It" units I use for control of the Tortoise motors. The "Switch-Its" allow control either from the panel switches or the Digitrax controller. I know this is overkill, but hey, it's my train set!

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, I built a Wills N7 kit. The chassis was built using the etches for the kit, now sold by South East Finecast. The original chassis had the 'posh' hornblocks from Gibson (I think) which were the lost wax casting with a tiny springs pushing down on the bearing with a bolt through the top of the hornblock to locate the spring and set the ride height. All of this worked fine until you took into account the sheer weight of the white metal body. The body casting ment that the bearings were always running on the ends of the bolts and frankly the springs would do nothing except perhaps help a wheel drop down into a dip in the track. The net result was a very 'hard' riding loco which tended to clack a bit, most probably because when I had jigged the chassis up with the coupling rods for a start the bearings would have been set in the middle of their travel and now they were right at the top of the travel. All it takes is for one horn guide to not be exactly verticle and you get a tight spot. The result was a chassis that ran perfectly until you put the body on. So eventually something had to be done and, with progress on the other locos finished and the work on the layout not being exactly transportable to a Friday evening meeting, out came the N7 for another look. Clearly I needed a way to get more springing and to actually carry the loco's weight on the springs rather than as 'unsprung' weight. The thinking on springing seems to have moved in favour of 'continuous springy beams' CSB (the details are so involved that the CLAG website and Scalefour Society forum have pages and threads which can cure any level of insomlia). The simple theory seems to be to use handrail knobs to provide pivots for a continuous wire along each side of the chassis. Then use some mechanism to spring the moving bearing vertically from this wire, for example an etch from the back of the bearing or even another handrail knob drilled into the top of the bearing. The idea is that you can then thread a wire through the whole lot and it springs. The clever bit is calculating were the pivots need to go and for this purpose there is a fiendish spreadsheet on the CLAG website. The idea is you put in the wheel centres of the axles and then adjust the pivot points relative to these axles until the spreadsheet calculates the weight on each axle to the the same. Obviously the spreadsheet produces a figure accurate to more divisions of millimetres than I can drill, but it gives you a good idea where to aim for! Retrofitting onto the N7 was a bit difficult as I didn't want to have to take the wheels of the axles and requarter them etc. This meant that I really didn't want to have to either thread anything around the axle or apply heat the bearings which would probably make the wheels melt! In the end I decided to solder a long hand rail knob to a little 3mm square of brass and then thread the knob through the hole in the hornguide previously used by the height setting bolt. This arrangement is then threaded onto the CSB. Amazingly the result works and the loco is now much smoother as it moves along the track with all the weight of the white metal body 'sprung'. You can tell this is the case as there is still about 1mm deflection if you press down on the chimney where previously it was 'solid'. All this was made much easier as the chassis still had my original builders marks where I had marked up each bearing with the corresponding horn block. This meant that I knew I could get the bearing and wheels back in the same way around as they came out. Hopefully the pictures will show you what I've been talking about. I've got a bit to do into terms of getting the loco finished still, it needs the brakes back on, a cab floor and backhead and some weathering as a way of hiding the somewhat iffy lining... And no this isn't going to the the N7 that lasted as station pilot at Liverpool St fully lined out with an immaculate paint finish. David

Hi everyone.. yes, the tablecloth is a little intense. I'm writing on a laptop, which is sat on top of it now, and I am finding it hard to focus on the screen, such is the mesmeric pattern around its edges. Before anyone supposes that it is our normal table decor... Mrs. J (Katie) provided it for my sporadic bouts of kitchen table modelling, to avoid my scratching the delicate veneer of the table proper beneath! It does get put away if we are in polite company........ I will try my best to keep the background 'vague' as it seems to work well in the context. I was reading with interest Pete's recent layout planning thread, with thoughts about viewing angles, perspective and the like. It becomes a minefield of conflicting approaches when the scene is much taller than it is deep (depth, in terms of horizontal width... I'm confusing myself now!) and the whole thing is a compromise to suit as many different viewpoints as possible. The tricky thing is I am used to viewing the bridge from a number of different angles... a) From a train (the one angle where the bridge is more or less invisible) b)From a low flying aircraft (the bridge sits 'on' a rich, dark background of trees and water) c)On a bicycle, from immediately by the abutment (the view of the bridge is framed by sky) This deserves a blog post of its own, when I have fathomed out my theory in my own mind* *Which could take some time However it is explained, I will keep the backdrop 'vague' as it needs to not overpower the model, and a vague background is more easily 'blended' with the three dimensional scenic elements.

The latest incarnation of Hornby's Caley coaches suffer from the drawbacks of their origins; namely a representation of the two preserved coaches attached to their now dated Mk 1 chassis, still with no interior and those brass nuts holding the whole thing together. In the past I have attempted to blend the sides with a more appropriate vehicle, with none too much success, so when the Caley 123 train pack appeared I gave it little attention. It is the same old tooling, and although the engine now has a better motor, it has also acquired traction tyres, which is not a move forwards. However, the decoration is first class, and I got a set with the intention of doing an upgrade to the engine, but came to the conclusion that it was beyond practicallity- not for the first time BTW. The announcement of City of Truro finished any further ideas of modifying 123, but I was pleased with the coaches finish, and decided to do something with them. What follows now is not for the purists- but it gives me an acceptable coach for a minimum of that most precious ingredient- modelling time- and once again involved my stockpile of old Airfix LMS bodies and chassis. Rather than adjust the length of the body and damage the finish, I decided to leave the body as it was. The first line was to join two Airfix underframes to the correct length, but it proved easier to keep the Hornby chassis and fit Airfix ends and roof, to hopefully give a more pre-grouping feel to the whole thing. The coach was dissassembled and all underframe detail removed, and the new ends fitted. Trying out the new profile roof. A comparative shot of the two diffferent end profiles- I think it does make the character change. An interior was also added, but I forgot to photograph this before I stuck the roof on, so here is one of a old Mainline coach that is also being titivated- the old Peco kits being used. To be honest, its hardly seen, but I know its there. Two shots of the interiors as seen from outside- it is better than seeing straight through originally. Some shots of the finished coaches in service, and showing a before and after comparison as well. As I said, a very crude approach to coachbuilding, but it does make the most of the best bit of the original, the finish. I have been pottering about with some other coaches as well, and these will be here soon. Richard

I have completed some of the buildings, and wanted to see what it would like with them in place. The first image is of the XtrKcad file layout. Excuse the backscene....it's a work in progress! Where the images are of the warehouses these wil infact be replaced with the Scaelscenes large warehouse.