2mm Distillery: Dail-uaine
Quite a while back, before I took on Bill Blackburn's Long Melford layout, I was working on a small shunting plank based on Snape goods station in Suffolk. That layout got abandoned, mainly because I'd made too many compromises with the track, which was mainly built using the original non-pegged Easitrack, and it just didn't run well - my attempts to adjust the pointwork just ended up compounding the errors. I stripped off the track work ages ago, but kept the board. Recently I got it back out,
I am still making progress on this little layout. But work on the final turnout has been very slow. Even with the jig, using the etched chair plates is very tedious work, and I've been tending to just do one row of etch worth at a time, then turning to some other more fun job - which for me is almost always wagons!
I'm trying to speed things up a bit by using my hybrid format with Easitrack non pegged chairs and sleepers in the central section of the turnout. The vee is also recycled
