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I am building a shelf layout in my workroom as a test bench for my locos, storage for them and to play trains. My main interests in the hoby is building whitemetal loco kits and building turnouts. The space I had available was 5' 3" long by 12" at one end and 18" at the other. Locos would enter the layout from the right from a fiddle yard (which would be hidden from view by a coaling plant) under a road bridge on one of 3 tracks. On the left hans side will be a 6 road engine shed and a head shunt for the coaling stage. I built the board and played around with various track plans, once set on a plan I built a mockup of the shed in card based on the Wills 2 road kit Once settled on the plan I started to build the walls Monday morning my local shop had some cork sheet in so I layed this last night and as I had built a second wall on Monday I could put the shed in place and double check the track plan The track plan need slight adjustment and I need to buy another shed kit to build the next bay.

Latest loco on my workbench is a Keyser LNER J72 Now in the garage after having a coat of apple green for each of the past 3 days. As per my entry on the last web I need to adjust the chassis as one of the spacers is stoping the motor sitting flat enough. So out with the slitting disc and reduce the size of it. The chassis is one I got off Ebay, I have had to swap motors and change a Comet gear box for a simple motor mount, so that the cab can be kept relatively clear of motors.

I have had some time to do some modelling today, I finished off an EM faceing crossover and gave a K's J72 a final coat of LNER green then picked up the Wills 2 road enging shed I started building last week. This is where I finished last week with the 1st wall propped up against the mockup. Tonight I managed to build the second wall I have taken out the first two bays of the mockup just to see how the progress todate fits in with the temporary track plan. The plan is still OK but the point work will need adjusting as I have built the 1st shed wall 1 window bay extra. I need another shed kit to finish off the walls and several roof packs. I went into the loft and found some Wills packs. Wall sections with windows, plain bond brickwork and tiles, great I thought I can get on with the build without waiting for the extra kit to arrive. Wrong as the wall sections I have with windows are English bond not plain bond. Still it will give me time to add extra details and work on keeping the roof in the air where the interior of the shed will be open without walls.