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Great pics but I’m absolutely baffled by the last one. Late April Fool?

Lovely video Neal. Nice to have some camera panning of the layout which looks fantastic. There is a noticeable difference in the volume and it sounds great. I do absolutely love a Manor 😀

Christ, how big will the box be?? 😱 Accurascale, if this is a hint of a new release then I think I’ll wait until next weekend before starting my new project. Literally about to start my own 108 tomorrow 😬

As a resident of said location I would be interested in following your thread if you have one?

To be honest the video doesn’t do justice to the sound. Even after a minute or so running I said to myself “that’s insane “. It really is something very special and leaps and bounds above the original factory set up from 15+ years ago. I need to turn the sound down though! I double headed it with an Accurascale 37 and it drowned the 37 out. On the basis of one running session I would highly recommend the tablet speaker. I will give an update after a few more sessions. Major grin factor.

20148 arrived home this morning and is seen ex works at Mallaig this afternoon.

I’m guessing the Octel workings were tripped from Llandudno Jc to Amlwch rather than being it’s own service? Industry at Mostyn or Deeside could be considered. I doubt airbus at Broughton has ever had anything delivered/shipped out by rail but if it did it would have been in vans.

My 20148 has had a little holiday in Leeds. Sounds much better for it. Really excited for her return and lots of running on Mallaig. I think Fort William are going to have a class 37 shortage for a few weeks. Thanks to Richard at Roads and Rails.

yes absolutely and it’s very clear but I really needed to tone mine down as it doesn’t look like that every day. Lovely photo, Morar?

My West Highland layout had one of those Hornby 25s (renumbered as 228) and a Lima class 20,

Gosh, 3 months since my last update! Not a great deal to report on layout progress but I did decide it was about time that the tide came in. I had always planned to use resin to make the sea but I was not confident that I could dam it properly and prevent it leaking out at the edge of the board so I thought I would trial the toilet paper method. I went about 5 layers thick with it and once I had worked and manipulated it I was fairly happy with it on a test piece so I went ahead with it on the layout. Again I was happy. Yesterday I bought some cheap acrylic paints I’m the local B&M and attempted to get a colour match comparing it with a photo of the exact same area. I was happy with all the change in shades achieved but the end result was way to tropical. So I have since painted over it with a base coat of a much paler blue. It was a fun experiment but hopefully the next version will be more realistic. The toilet paper glued and sculpted to shape. The first version And how it looks now after a base layer of sky blue. I need to get some green and grey involved but first I need to pay a visit to The Range I’m Bangor and get a tube of light blue as I’m now out.

Wonderful photos of the emerging preservation scene at Loughborough. I was a visitor at the time and as a young boy I thought it was amazing. I remember the double track with only one line in use before the second was taken up. I would have only been 5 or 6 at the time. Thank you for jogging those memories.

I always thought that the Millwall fans ventured onto the western in the hope of some nice comforting Duff haulage. 🤔 Mugs 🤣

Milwall fans? 🤣🤣 pussycats OUFC always 😀

@Melangoose our paths may well have crossed on those 80’s Oxford- Pads. Regular runs FCFW to Reading, couple of hours spotting then some Thumper thrash down to Basingstoke for a couple of hours and then back to Reading for another couple of hours. The best of days. Hood looks stunning in your pics. Very nice 👌