Bryn

Thanks Nick, if you have any stories or photos from this era I would always be interested.

Impressive work as usual, I'm always inspired by your weathering! I might have to treat myself to a 40 now.

Great work as usual!

Jonas, thank you for the kind words.I had a feeling people would have forgotten about the project after such a long break.

Great work, subtle and effective weathering as usual.

Very inspiring work! Thanks for sharing.

Nice to see you back in action mate.

Looking good Pete, really great to see this back on the scene again!

Looks good to me, keep up the good work Graham.

Thanks for all the kind words, it was a great show and the layout performed surprisingly well.

Fantastic stuff Pete, really nice to see the new and improved Kyle.

Great work Pete, looking forward to seeing this progress.

You have a great eye for colours and texture, great work Pete.

Nice to see you back in action, cracking weathering as per usual

That saddle tank is fantastic, what is the prototype? I shall we watching your entry into 3D CAD with interest

Looks good to me Pete, a well timed post as I've got some in filled track to crack on with shortly. Thanks for the detailed report and I hope the locos are ok.

Looking good Rich. Looking forward to seeing the AJ couplings in action, any chance of a a blog posting on how you approach these?

Thank you for the replies guys.

Nick - It is still running, until I gum it all up with ballast!

David - The etched fence is by BLMA, I imported some last year from America http://www.blmamodel....htm&itemid=710

Jon,

There is no need to pre soak the area with Kleer, just add a few drops near the side of the ballasted area and it soaks through. It behaves like very thin super glue, if that makes any sense.

I've got some miniature tubes to try, designed for under cupboard kitchen lighting. I'll hopefully have some shots of them shortly.

Must be the new stuff David, I've even used the older stuff on piles of coal about an inch high and it sets solid all the way to the core.

There are plenty of people who will make a lot of noise about the need to build strictly to 2mm - but I tend to find that noise is about all they do make - the numerous 'I'm planning to.........', who we have all met at shows.Jerry

Never has a truer statement been made. If I had a penny for every foot long piece of pure scale track and test wagon chassis I've seen... Sadly it is the assumption that active 2FS modellers are the ones kicking up the fuss about "1:152 only" modelling, the reality couldn't be further from the truth. Pure 1:152 is the goal, but normally only achieved by the dedicated few.

Every modeller is part artist and part engineer, sometimes the balance has to tip back and forwards to find a happy medium for a finished project. There is no point being micron perfect if it still looks like a bag of ****.

2FS - Modelling by any means necessary

Looking good Pete, it reminds me of Mark's winter scenes on Whitney. Keep up the momentum, it's almost there.

I've still got a bottle of Kleer somewhere, so I think I'll stay with your tried and tested method. What's it like around point mechanisms?

Great work Tom. I've been reading back through your blog for inspiration, I've just ordered some of that Treemedus earth and I've dug out my powders ready. Thinks for the tip off, it really does look great.