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The layout has now been dismantled in preparation for my friend’s (and shed owner) house move in March. A brand new shed is to be erected at the new house and the layout will be reinstalled in the new shed. Dismantling was undertaken with minimal damage to the “scenic” part of the layout. The new shed will allow us to iron out the bugs that were popping up with the original layout concept. Watch this space… Cheers Darius

Driver and YouTuber Steve Alvarez Brown painted a worrying picture of what could become the new normal in 2026. He tweeted: “The VISA Cash App RB overtakes the Mastercard Mobil 1 McLaren driven by Oscar Peroni Piastri. “Meanwhile it’s Max Heineken Verstappen taking the win at the Aramco-Coca Cola London Grand Prix, his 12th win of the season on street circuits. “Alex AWS Albon crashes at the Amazon Prime Parabolica in his Bet365 Casio-Powertrains Williams during the Louis Vuitton Italian GP. This triggers the Monster Energy red flag and the second Deliveroo safety car of the race.” If that happens I’ll have more free weekend time, having given up watching F1. Darius

The model box was wrapped in bubble wrap and snugly fitted into a stout cardboard outer box. Arrived safely with no damage apart from a dislodged funnel that was easily popped back into place. Cheers Darius

Just arrived from Kernow 😀 Cheers Darius

Thread started especially for MJI 😜 Opened the box to find this is a 4-GRI rather than a 4-COR. The heavy gauge brass coach bodies will need some “bashing” to get the correct bodyside profile. I plan to make new coach ends and possibly cabs from plasticard. I will replace the MTK bogies with spare Bachmann and Hornby bogies. All back in the box for now… Cheers Darius

Give me a chance. Despite what people might think, I do eat, sleep and occasionally work between building railway models. I also first have to build a couple of buildings for BRM. Cheers Darius PS - just ordered some etched Maunsell grab rails from Roxey Mouldings.

4-COR it will be - quite fancy this livery. Cheers Darius

Mirrors fabricated and attached 😀 Cheers Darius

I never noticed that before but, looking at the research pictures I have, there it is. Brass sheet and wire should do the job… Cheers Darius

Absolutely.

Finishing touches - jumpers, peops and chassis weathering. Cheers Darius

Any requests? Cheers Darius

Thanks, but alas I have quite the collection of my own… Cheers Darius

MTK Class 505 EMU. Cheers Darius

Decals applied - the cab front decals are home made. Still some more details to fit. Cheers Darius

Ware Wolf? Cheers Darius

DT glazing fitted. Interior next. Cheers Darius

YouTube videos of exhibitions are nice but I find the background noise of everyone conversing quite distracting. I don’t notice it attending exhibitions so I must be tuning it out. That’s not really possible with YouTube. Cheers Darius

Dale Carnegie you ain’t. Cheers Darius

Victoria this afternoon. The train forming the 14.16 Littlehampton service arrives 22 mins late. Departed at 14.36 and now terminating at West Worthing. Fortunately that’s my station. Cheers Darius

See, even you can summarise a long-winded paragraph into a single sentence. Cheers Darius

Or in other words: nobody knows anything. Cheers Darius

Puts them in the same cess pit as some Ministers and their donor friends… Cheers Darius

Primary painting of DT completed. Cheers Darius

Hinges and handles etc. fitted to the Driving Trailer coach and primer applied. Cheers Darius