Mike

Having got to grips and built the lighting pelmet ready for the Cradley show on the 8th I've gone down with the lurgy and have had to cancel. Very disappointed. Excuse the mess but I didn't want any fresh paint to drip on the layout.

Having got to grips and built the lighting pelmet ready for the Cradley show on the 8th I've gone down with the lurgy and have had to cancel. Very disappointed. Excuse the mess but I didn't want any fresh paint to drip on the layout.

No print problems with my copy although maybe I'm biased as my layout Hookton was featured.

Will be there with Hookton & the Lipp Vale

Every picture tells a story

Every picture tells a story

Slapping paint about and starting ballasting.

Started putting on some basic colours other than undercoat on the Goods Shed and built the ticket office which although its not visible in the photo has a fully detailed interior.

Somewhat grubby under construction goods shed with only enough recycled corrugated Plasticard to do just one side of the roof. Still loads to do as well as giving it a really good clean. Drilling all those holes for Peco track pins reduced in length to represent the panel fixings is certainly not a labour of love but it is keeping me off the streets. The second structure for Parkbourne St Giles, next up wil;l be the ticket office.

Feeling well chuffed as my article Hookton and the Lipp vale has appeared in the June addition of the 7mm Narrow Gauge Associations magazine "Narrow Lines".😊.

Hi Kevin, the figures are from. S&D And are white metal castings. In most cases they need heads and arms fitted but they are quite nice castings which require very little cleaning.

Having a few health issues I have finally ventured out into Granddads Shed (where things are made and mended eventually). I have modified the Peco points to improve the electrical reliability and live frog polarity switching. Have started building the platform, waiting room/shelter and almost completed a bogie brake van, not exactly breakneck speeding. Oh and fitted the uncoupling magnets and assembled and primed a few white metal figures.

Just to show it's not all smoke and mirrors a happy snap of the now complete, wired and working trackwork. I have still to shorten the point motor operating rods.

It doesn't matter how simple or complex the wiring under the baseboard is, it's rather satisfying when you have soldered the last wire in place, switched on and everything works just as it was designed to do.. Loco run and points switched, soon be time for a celebratory Gin and easy on the tonic. (:

The time has come the Walrus said to talk of many things, Panniers, Prairies, Castles and Kings. What absolute nonsense, I have actually started building the extension to Hookton which will in fact be a stand alone of Parkbourne Saint Giles that fictional terminus of the line. The baseboards are built although in a rush of blood to the head I cut the hole to the fiddle yard in the wrong end, now filled and the exit hole cut in the right end. The track plan for anyone who can remember is the same as my Lenches Bridge Layout ( Now known as Bankfield Road.) The double slip has been created by using two wye points toe to toe, well it is narrow gauge. As soon as my camera has been repaired or replaced I will upload some photos and no I haven't shelved the Central Shires Cheese Company, just taken my foot off the gas. 🙂

The time has come the Walrus said to talk of many things, Panniers, Prairies, Castles and Kings. What absolute nonsense, I have actually started building the extension to Hookton which will in fact be a stand alone of Parkbourne Saint Giles that fictional terminus of the line. The baseboards are built although in a rush of blood to the head I cut the hole to the fiddle yard in the wrong end, now filled and the exit hole cut in the right end. The track plan for anyone who can remember is the same as my Lenches Bridge Layout ( Now known as Bankfield Road.) The double slip has been created by using two wye points toe to toe, well it is narrow gauge. As soon as my camera has been repaired or replaced I will upload some photos and no I haven't shelved the Central Shire Cheese Company, just taken my foot off the gas. 🙂

Have mad a start to repost missing images but for reasons unknown several have changed the way they are orientated so I might just give it a miss and carry on from here.

It’s good to be back. Hookton is getting a new additional baseboard to replace the fiddle yard. Well, basically it’s just another inglenook with scenery including the almost a river Lipp. The baseboard has been built and once the underside has been painted I’ll start laying track. I have decided to use Peco 0.16.5 track and 2 wye points and wait for it point motors. People will think Ive gone mad and they’re probably right. When I have something to show I’ll stick up some photos. At some point in the future the layout will be featured in Model Rail with Chris Nevard photos well chuffed pun intended.

Too true and don't think you will not be named in the saga.

OK, this a first for me a complete change from 7mm standard and narrow gauge and into the realms of G scale. So far I have created the raison d'etre, started the baseboards and have a loco albeit unfinished. The trackwork Peco is on the way and should arrive this afternoon so more anon. The location is Braggs Lane and farm in Solihull Warwickshire hence the Title Central Shire.. Photos of the unfinished Lister with Peter or PC to his friends in charge.

Now that's proper modelling in G scale it really looks the part, .

Having almost finished Hookton my 7mm narrow gauge layout, I too have started to dabble with GN15. I'll start a thread once I have something to show.

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Tay arf bostin ower Jack

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