Leaderboard

On Monday this week with the help of my friend Chris - builder of baseboards and designer of electrics - the lift out section Board 19 was fitted to complete the full circuit of the layout and some test trains were run to prove the electrics. On tuesday the local Scalefour Society area group had their monthly meeting and the layout was subjected to an evening of, in the main, successful running a variety of locos and rolling stock. Due to the numbers attending it was not possible to take any suitable videos so today I took the attached video of a passenger train - Bachmann 3F 43762 with four Mk1s and a 8F 48305 on a freight passing the shed. The Bachmann 3F is modified with a set of drop in Ultrascale wheels and has no compensation. The 8F is based on an upgraded Comet chassis and Hornby body - please correct me if I'm wrong Morgan. 43762 and 48305 passing Bristol Barrow Road Shed

Finally managed yo do something I have been meaning to for ages. I have noticed that the black weed control material that I use as a curtain at shows doesn't quite reach the floor leaving a rather stark bit of red leg showing. No one has ever mentioned it but I have noticed! One can of black spray paint from pound land which coat - you guessed it, a day when it was possible to venture outside without Arctic clothing and another thing knocked off the to do list! Have also been spending quite some time making some new 'whole wagon' loads rather than the composite ones I started with. I did this so that they could be used in the well wagons also but seem to use mostly the D's now. By packing everything into one load I think they look far more realistic and busy. Used the same method as previously for making the duck boards out of balsa strips and it is as mind numbingly boring as before! I really need to make a few more but not sure I will manage before next exhibition which is Stevenage next weekend.