Leaderboard

Well, I'm still feeling motivated but am starting to come down off that initial high of seeing the layout standing again, whatever I am doing just seems to take so much longer than it did when I was planning it through in my head! Plus having moved recently I'm frustratingly still spending a lot of time hunting through cardboard boxes for elusive but absolutely critical odds n' ends that without which work comes to a grinding halt, e.g scalpel blades. (I have a hospital-sized box of the dratted things - but WHERE?!) Anyway, a bit of infrastructure work has been done in spite of all that. Hopefully the backscenes are the last carpentry that I'll have to do for a while. The background stone walls are made from strips of MDF and sections of cardboard with Noch 1:100 scale contoured brickpaper stuck to them. Capping stones are also from the Noch 1:100 range cut with a hacksaw to various widths. A few blobs of Blutack hold everything temporarily in place so I can get an idea of how it hangs together. The overbridge girder looks a bit high to me, I'll probably try setting it down about 2 courses deeper into the stonework. In the meantime the class 40 has also had her first trip to the paintshop. I had been planning to use the upcoming long weekend to get stuck in to track laying, but having had a look under the boards I think I need to concentrate on sorting out my "temporary" wiring bodges as a first priority. What a mess!

Today the cabs have been given roof lines and window trims The center power section has some added work too

1st of April - an auspicious date for getting my layout construction underway again. :-) It's been a month since my housemove so the first challenge is to find all the layout components; they were all stacked together in the spare bedroom when the movers turned up, but are now all strewn across the garge, conservatory and who knows where else. Having eventually found the ziplock bag with the wing nuts, bolts and washers, Jubilee Point is soon standing again: Trackwork is 12mm gauge Tillig "Modellgleis" from Germany, the class 40 Whistler is my current construction project, an etched brass and whitemetal kit produced by the 3mm Society, and the signalbox is scratchbuilt from plasticard sheet and based on the BR London Midland Region type 15 design. I didn't get much further than the basic baseboard construction in my last house, two boards of 50cm x 50" on a lightweight support structure designed to be modular and portable. With one thing and another the events of "real life" have been a distraction in the past 3 months resulting in little or no progress, hopefully a blog will keep me motivated....