Clan Mcadder

Thanks for that James , Sounds perfect , I've been adding craftsmann conversion kits to lima locos etc and wanted them to have full detail work at both ends .

lovely class 47s , they have become a favourite of mine these past few years , sorry if this is a daft question James , but how do you attach the wire hoops you make ? many thanks James

and the other end , plus my bargain proto sw9 from eBay for the pricey sum of 24.99 !

HI Guys sorry for the delay , ive changed the layout ever so slightly getting rid of the coal trestle and replacing it with a larger siding . the plan is pretty simple really its 10ft x 7 something ish . please excuse the awful pictures , and the very rough wip backscene , but they should give an idea of the track plan ,

excellent looking layout , really inspiring .

Hi Guys well it's been a few months and we'll to be honest the bug has well and truly got me , now at over 60 plus freight cars and half a dozen locos I don't think I will be turning back .. Here are some pictures of my layout I started on Monday, obviously still alot todo , including finish the backscene and paint all the plaster etc .

Hi Guys , well all i can say is yes its very addictive . I am beyond impressed with the quality and performance of the models that its very much a decision of me that I now feel like selling up my OO stock and concentrating on the HO. my simple couple of cars has already increased and an atlas rs11 in BN is heading my way . here was my last adventure with some US n scale .

Yes I found that out when I brought it , although that has now made me want to model the entire class ..

That's absolutely perfect for what I've got and had in mind . Now thanks for all the great help so far and yes even just running a few cars around with the sw9 it's much better , oh dear this is a slippery slope , I must admit I am actually thinking now about converting my existing layout as i think I could easily get away with changing a few things as currently I've 2 houses under construction on it and that's it for buildings..

Well here i am again a new start in something else , although this is a first for me . a quick back ground note , ive dabbled in lots over the past few years and as my sight gets worse i am becoming increasing frustrated with stock etc , ive always had a fancy in north american railroads .I did build a couple of layouts in N but now that's a closed route . so i thought id give HO a try thus begins my adventure . so i am armed with a couple of proto 2000 locos , a Canadian pacific gp30 and a Burlington northern sw9 (though this is going to become a private switcher) 2 walthers 59ft grain cars and 3 atlas covered hoppers in Canadian pacific and national respectably. so my idea is a small ish grain/ industrial branch somewhere in Canada towards the us border 1980 onwards , I've roughly a u-shaped baseboard about 10 x 7,6" , and well i think i need all the help i can get. i will try to upload some track plan scribbles tonight , but thanks for reading .

I had seen that these are now in stock at a few places , they brought them in through the backdoor , now we can see why ....

Hi Guys , a quick update as ive done a little bit to the layout , ive decided to only have the one shed on as it was looking a little clogged , but ive also added a bridge to try and break the scenes up a little to try and give a feeling of length . all still a work in progress and well we may have changed era and location...

Hello all , thought id share a quick image or two of my new TMD layout that i am building using odds and ends that i have . its code 100 and DC. its the standard 8x2 but will have a 2/3 foot removable fiddle yard added at the sheds to enable my fleet of units etc to run . mid to late 90s upto 2015 so 20 years of scope , set somewhere in Scotland. all a mix of lima , limby or Bachmann . obviously its all a work in progress at the moment and still some things too add. any thoughts or ideas welcomed .

In the 1980s when first introduced by Dapol these had an rrp of £19.99 inflation does happen. And whilst I am too definitely of the party of less detailed and cheaper models aka I am very very fond of detailed lima etc , I do wish people would take into account of the value of money sometimes..

Glad its going to good use then haha , i thought it was possibly you when i sold it to you .

Will be looking at this over the weekend , it looks like an excellent layout .

looking great Jack , ballasting always makes an improvement and leads the way for more of the fun stuff .

OK so its been a while , I've returned to a favourite of mine and seeing as how i have the space to run semi scale length trains it was rude not too . the layout has changed somewhat for reasons , basically it didn't operate as i wanted it to with the Lner stock , this needs a large mainline layout not a smaller rural line . so we have reverted back to more present times namely 1985-2005 so a nice window to use as much stock as possible , not all at once but able to run on the same scene with out looking strange , so the setting is now somewhere near the Scottish highlands but its a fictional diversion line so many larger trains will fly through . the track plan has changed and i will draw up a new one to show the differences but for now here is a few quick pictures from the work in progress . I've just started to paint the backscene but aside from running out of greens its basic form is there , in front where the large plain section of board is will be a large rock work embankment and a ruin on top using a tt scale kit to try and add some forced perspective .

Hi Tony , Even better , I find that for obvious reasons they are the harder images to track down of post war stock . most exhilarating . Kind regards James

Oh that's Excellent Tony ,thank you for letting me know. especially the war time images , a purchase is definitely happening . Many thanks James

I would be very intrigued in the celebration of the A4s , especially if its got some Lner era images inside .

lovely too see the north wales RR rake ,

A nearly finished b3 rounds the bend into the shed , having just been released from a stopping service from the GC , however the line is now closed for engineering works , I think some catenary is going up ? Or down …..

yes as i was typing that out it hit me that it was nearly a decade ago .

ah excellent , i used to have the small German layout that did the show at Crewe in 2012 i think ?