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Interesting that you say that. Around here it is relatively quiet, no queues for M&S or Sainsbury's and the garden centre was virtually empty on our flying visit to get some dog food. The door marshal at M&S said it was much quieter than last time. Stay safe all.

I guess it is very reassuring to know that "Postage will be by Hermes Tracked delivery at no extra cost to the buyer." I would have thought he could have got another few hundred quid for the postage

Thats looking good @TechnicArrow . I agree with @Karl about higher than wide look. What is the backscene you used on Arrow Paints? Looking forward to seeing more.

Well that was rather painless, went shopping to Sainsbury's and M&S no queues and everything we wanted other than the key item M&S apple turnovers which had all gone . We had to settle for Sainsbury's ones........

That is as I believe they say in the SW a proper job. Makes our leaf storage rather puny.

After a "successful" round one of leaf day yesterday I am informed round two starts today..... Apparently we need lots more leaf mulch as I am reliably informed it will be beneficial for the next growing season. Where it comes to gardens I am absolutely useless and just do what I am told.

Nothing to extreme then Dave Chris

Machine gun posts this time, or is that a bit OTT.

Hi @Happy Hippo does the BRMC have a website anymore ? Regards Chris

I was looking around about a club and that's very handy thanks. Will investigate in more detail. Last time I was a member of a model railway club was in early 1980's in London.

I thought it was just me lol

@Karl another lovely group of shots

Not that far from Oswestry HH

Thanks @Ohmisterporter , I'm steadily building up a list of threads to follow. Some remarkable modelling goes on here. Chris

I did like the bit when they said they would send out the best ones first.......

£55 for an Airfix Bungalow seem rather optimistic to say the least. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/TRAINS-BUNGALOW-HO-OO-GAUGE-SCALE-MODEL-KIT-MADE-BY-AIRFIX/192372520394?hash=item2cca4bb5ca:g:RHMAAOSwu4BV3mZ3

Nothing boring there Karl. Keep up the good work and let us see the next box layout as it develops. Chris

Just returned from Costco at Chester and M&S at Cheshire Oaks. Seemed to have a full selection of products and not that busy. Maybe many folk are still using last lockdowns stock pile.

Hi Karl They look great, I'll do some shots of what I am working on when I get a chance. I know exactly what you mean about photography. With a model railway the close in shot works so well. Regards Chris

Hi Karl You have really captured the feel of a dockside layout it looks great and I love the photos. You have given me the inspiration to start work on restoring a dockside layout I acquired a little while ago. Chris

Really enjoying this thread Pete. Thanks for the inspiration. Chris

Hi to everyone, I've been lurking in the background for a while and finally decided to get a bit more involved. I started my model railway journey in London where I lived for the first 22 years and built a little 009 layout that I had fun with whilst having a Saturday job at Beatties in Holborn from 1968 until the early 1970's. Girls, college and cars intervened (not necessarily in that order all the time). In the 1990's I built a layout for the kids and then nothing until the past couple of years. Looking around for a project I bought a secondhand 9ft x 2ft dock layout from eBay which had been originally built to a lovely standard many years ago. It now needs rather a lot of restoration and I have just started the initial task of stripping back the electrics as no control panel or wiring diagram existed and I would like to operate it on DCC. Enjoying the challenges so far and learning a great deal from this forum, been absolutely blown away by the quality of the modelling I've seen. Thanks for reading if you have got this far and and I look forward to catching up with you in the future. Cheers Chris