18B

A genuine first attempt at the hairspray rust technique. Didn’t turn out too badly?

A few pics of progress on the layout

Interested to see how this layout is coming along.

coming on well, looking forward to seeing more pics of it.

A great looking layout, any more pics please of recent progress?

With the move of TRACTION into BRM, the expansion of MLI - Plus to cover more general railway topics and the launch of Travellers Fare, would you say the BR D&E is adequately served now? MLI-Plus always looks fantastically well illustrated and a weighty publication, but is there that much to actually read in it? I need to download a TF issue to see what's in that, the contents of the first one certainly looked interesting enough. Just wondered what others thought about the current offerings?

What are people's feelings on how MLI is panning out?

A little bit more progress today.

Absolutely loving this build, and seeing it's progress.

The Lam and Flag, are Eddie and Richie in the there with the holiday money?

A few more WIP shots, some more work on the station building area completed.

I'm afraid not, there doesn’t seem to be the icon choice for me either…

- too late for this build but landscape from polystyrene topped with papier mache is light and durable (& messy! - though possibly no less messy than plaster) IIRC The landscape was done with paper dipped in plaster and topped with a layer of plaster of paris. - supermarket own brand cheapest hairspray over top of scatter material works. One to remember. - you could still use finer material ie fine sand or polyfilla to smooth out the road, pollyfilla sandpapered and painted a really pale grey makes a good road finish, just go over the top of what you have now? Might give it a go. thank you for the kind comments

Looking forward to seeing this layout progress.

Must have had this kestrel station building and ratio awning for over 20 years! Before finally building them together

Some work on the scrap yard area

Looks like the home fires are burning after a cool late summers day.

The 44 to chesterfield has arrived

That's the aim, would be nice to see it at a local show perhaps, it has a second loop at the back so two train can be put on it and swapped after a while

And here in lies the conundrum, I was sure that the Modern Railways issue carried the article of the 100mph section, but the April 1965 seems to have taken root....? ? ?

Lessons learned, The home made stone walls looked ok, but should have been much thinner The purchased stone walls look great and I should have used those, (but I didn't know about them when I first did my own walls) Plaster of paris is fine but gets heavy if too much is used, Not sure why the glue doesn't seem to take the scatter too well and requires another layer as patches show through, The home made ballast of road sweepings! could have done with a finer siv to have removed some of the larger lumps but overall looks ok IMHO, Even with the smallest possible circular "layout", it's surprising just how much its costs!

Below is the thread from 13 years ago! From way back when I started this “layout”, well it went into hibernation in 2010!!! And long story short, divorce, three children, a new wife, and two more children! And finally I’ve come back to the layout in 2023! see attached pics of progress.

Hi, I've seen conflicting articles in magazines stating either that it was June 194 or June 1965n that "the first length of high-speed line, a 17 miles (27 km) stretch between Peterborough and Grantham" was passed for 100mph, anyone happen to know which year it actually was please? TIA