TangmereTornado

That's the big thing that bothers me about live-steam 00 gauge models at the moment - the steam, to my mind, just looks too whispy and smokey, rather than being quite thick. Still looks good, I like the light reflecting through the clouds of smoke, nicely atmospheric.

Olddudders, I saw that website before, when I was researching a possible future project for my preservation era layout - a Clan class loco renamed to Hengist, in honour of the group who are building that loco from scratch for real, for some reason it didn't cross my mind to go back there to look for 50 nameplates - I guess I assumed they were just steam when I looked first time around. Thanks for the heads up on that.

Peter, thanks for that, I'll look those two companies up, and I'll make a note to browse your NSE thread for research purposes - I have a feeling it will come in handy, although my father, being a big fan of the 50s himself, is certainly not lacking in books on the loco

I'm in a very similar situation to yourself - i.e. in that massed ideas struggling to get them all down stage. I'm gonna keep an eye on your updates here, I await updates And plus...you can't go wrong with Thomas the Tank Engine to get you into it...worked for me when I was five years old

I noticed the name of the layout and thought "hang on, hasn't that been in a Railway Modeller recently...?" Then saw the corrosponding blog post a little while ago, haha!

I like your layout and the way it mixes modern mainline rolling stock with the preservation scene - it's something that happens more regularly nowadays but you don't often see it modelled. Really nice job. I like the look of the new extension building too - how does that fit in with the trackplan? If you've already covered it in another post and I've yet to read it, my apologies in advance.