The Q

Norfolk county council have a good selection of maps on line it's a pity other councils don't do the same. www.historic-maps.norfolk.gov.uk/ The Q

When I met My wife railways were on the back burner for the time and my main interest was sailing (dinghys and small keelboats), so having thrown her in the water many times. She now hates sailing unless in a motorboat. When I restarted model railways they were accepted,especially as she gets one end of the railway shed ( admittedly with the tracks looping round her) she paints in 2d, I paint in 3d! and animate it as well!! The Q

The EM guage society do a proper apron with front pocket(And EM Logo) which I think was 12 pounds when I bought it. Or you could just get a carpenters apron as we had to wear at school for woodwork and metal work they cost 4.95 at http://www.tooled-up.com/MicroCategory.asp?CID=20&SCID=498&MCID=3906 The Q, but in those days it was shillings

Internet dropouts (I've just had a couple) when I'm trying to read this threa

I found a sparrow hawk in the green house unfortunately it hadn't bothered to open the door first so it was a bit stunned, it recovered and flew off later. In the garden We get deer (several varieties) who eat the plants and juniper trees and ignore the weeds. squirels who keep eating all the hazel nuts before they are ready for me to pick. rabbits, pheasants, partridges. stoats, owls and woodpeckers as you can guess I live in the middle of nowhere. hence the animals but also no broadband so sorry no pics. I find the deer most worrying as a pass them once or twice a week on my motorcycle I definately don't want to meet one at speed.... The Q

I'll be ordering one shortly. I'd be in Line for an S160 Too If that came out. Though that will not come out Till just after I've started scratch building one! Just like the family coal wagon.. The Q

When someone who has seen your work asks you to build something for them AND offer a good commission price? The Q (hasn't happened to me!)

I have a Tornado ADV corrected and shown with the foxhunter radar (Guess what I worked on) A green Goddess awaiting correction and then a repaint (me again) I need to Scratch build Radars type 84, 88/89 and SSR750 (me again) I need to build A TSR2, Canberra, and Shackleton (Dad), I have an ever increasing pile of kits of tanks 1919-1953 (Granddad) The railway layout GWR EX MSWJR (other granddad and an uncle, great uncle, great grand father and great great grandfather). you could say I like making things with a family connection! The Q

At the company I work at, at tea break and lunch, you can look at (offically) anything that is politically correct, ie no porn, racist sites/ jokes etc. but it isn't actually blocked in anyway.. The Q

And lo I mentioned to Swmbo that She would be able to store her art & craft equipment under the built railway, and suddenly the new railway shed became top of the list!!! The Q

I spent some considerable time researching a family owned coal wagon, getting the photo from HMRS getting theright kit, building it... Then Wessex wagons brought out that exact model, annoying but I bought several to send to relatives round the world.. The Q

There an awful lot of us modellers here so your very much on your way!!! welcome to the county with the least crime in England.. The Q

I'll Just say having had vast amounts of grief when younger if I have a child it will have a simple normal name. Queren Mcallister, Stewart

Having waded through this thread all I can say is there is just about an example for everything, going through what I have seen posted as cliches. The station / village I am modelling (in 1940), However when the station was upgraded around 1904 it had a population of 542. It had , a single road engine shed, with water tower A Single road goods shed A weighbridge (with office), A turntable. Two signal boxes, Another water tower A covered lattice footbridge (al La Ratio), Two road bridges crossing the railway, neatly handy for scenic breaks, A branch line heading off through a cutting, for a couple of miles to it's terminus, An overlarge Hotel next to the station, which never really made a profit. A field next to the track on which the fair arrived every autumn ( I attended in the sixties) Across that field is a 13th century flint church next to the small school, not far from the war memorial, A tin tabernacle (actually a double unit which I attended), Alongside the station was a coal yard (owned by my family) nearby there were two more. It was GWR after 1923, though in itself a though line, not a branch until Beeching. Pactically though the only thing not a cliche, is that I am not compressing the layout, I'm just going to model all 16 acres showing the huge platforms in all their windswept glory.

Are you going to weld the tracks at the bridge, so the bridge won't open, thereby Ilegally blocking the river borne right to navigation, as network rail like to do? Seriously a good project I wish I could justify some thing like it on my future layout.. The Q