I've purchased an OO bus - simpy because it's one of the local busses that goes through my village; Byfleet, and as an early birthday present to myself (which is tomorrow). There's certainly some very nice model busses in OO scale.
Yesterday I scratchbuilt the angle truncated chimneys that go on the rear engine bustle under the upperdeck
overhang of the DMS bus to convert it to a 1980s B20 variant with white upper deck window frames. Now that
the TPM etches have arrived - very neat and fine they are too - I can get on and start to fnish some of them
off.
Progress on this has been slow but I've had a stab at ballasting the Easitrack. It still needs finishing off, especially at the shoulders but I really need to establish the embankments first, and painting to weather it down a bit. However, I'm pleased how it's already starting to look. It should prove a suitable scenic background for photographing stock on.
I’m conscious that I’ve not updated my blog for some time now. I have been undertaking a number of modelling projects but they’re not particularly appropriate to write up here.
One bit of news is that the second issue of my magazine - N’spirations - is currently at the printers and hopefully will be available shortly. I’ll post up news as soon as I receive them back with details of how to obtain a copy.
I’m also hoping to be at the 2mm SA anniversary expo in Oxford (first weekend in July) probably helping out on the DEmU stand. Drop by and say hello.