Leaderboard

Thank you all for your comments of encouragement!! The original layout was designed to run around 2 or 3 sides of a largish bedroom in an L or U shaped configuration, unfortunately it's home in my loft now can only be a straight in and out affair, so I will have to re-design the boards outside the station precincts to accomodate the change of plan. Luckily, all of the existing constructed point and trackwork was (and is) confined to the existing two 4'0" boards that the station itself is on. Obviously, there is an extremely long way to go but I am lucky that I have an awful lot of kits and parts that were purchased for the layout in the late 1990's - all being well I won't need to spend ridiculous amounts of hard-earned in the near future The loco's bought for the layout were all white metal kits, so will probably look quite dated if compared to the latest Mitchell and Finney locos available now, especially since a couple of them were built for a '00' gauge layout so will ultimately need new chassis to be converted to P4, however I do have all of the wheels I need for the conversions. The first loco is quite near completion, being an old Models & Leisure 517 tank (these days Alan Gibson markets this engine with many of the original white metal parts replaced by etched parts), but I am really happy with the work I have done to the M&L kit, and really just needs painting. I will try to keep this blog updated to show progress over the next few months. Ian