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Nive work Mr CK! "Gotten", I 'm trying to imagine what you look like all country and western, yee harrr!

I'm sure that's not the first time he's used the word - either he's reverting to German or it'll be 'train station' next.

Class Jon - lovely piece of work.

Nice start Tim, I'll give you authorship rights to the main blog so you can put further progress there if you like.

Brilliant John (so alright, mine wasn't the last update before Scaleforum!).

WoW - makes my hand cut plasticard effort of moorswater look like tosh!

Not at all Pete - even though Moorswater is smaller in scale and scope it's still a cracking model. In fact doing it in 2mm makes it more impressive.

Very commendable Tim - the original one is bound to turn up now when the wormhole next passes this galactic quadrant.

Nick, basically joining the dots between two holes drilled with a Forstner bit. Sounds simple in principle but it has involved some 'challenges'!

A handy repercussion of deciding the bolts were to be a permanent rather than temporary feature!

nice, Does it go deeper as well?

Or by that did you mean taller? Oh yes, see http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/blog/275/entry-6402-first-public-appearance-at-taunton/

Very nice neat work Tim

I like that, Ian - seems safer than trimming the strip on the 'master', even if there will be 8 of them to do.

You're right Jon, there are no ridges on the original - I thought the model ridges were preferable to an uneven join.

TBH I hadn't thought about trimming the microstrip flush (or flusher anyway). I'll give it some thought and see if I can pluck up courage to go at them!

By chance I think from memory it is just about a mile, yes Chris.

Yes, thanks for the suggestion Tim! B)

I will in due course Trevor, but he has a 'collection' which may not all be his own. One of them I recognised as a Lens of Sutton photo.

That's certainly coming along nicely Pete - as you say, very interesting coaches. Have you got any closeups of the door handrails - did you use a Bill Bedford jig for them?

There will be copyright issues on some if not all of them. I'll put some of my own up sometime of the current scene to give an idea.

Er, no Nick, we're not!

It's an interesting modelling quandary though, just how much variation do you introduce in the model. We were discussing this in the car on the way up, concluding that if you did it to the same detail as the real thing it would look a mess. Something to do with not being able to take the whole thing in at once at full scale - certainly not from a distance where you could see that detail - whereas a 20ft long model you could.

We will just have to experiment to see what looks right.

Very nice of you to say so Mark - after our visit to the viaduct on Friday the roof will have to be redone though

Thanks Rich - we will in due course have all three 5BEL units I'm sure, but don't let that stop you getting one!

Thanks Ian - always good to have an objective external view on what we've done . Sometimes we're so close to it all we see are the faults and imperfections!

Very nice Robin - mixed media in model construction is a lot of fun!

1) Watch this space

2) Yes, but 'we' (i.e. Eridge) already has a C from the Wills kit - doesn't mean we can't use one of Bachmann's offerings though!

I love that second picture - this is where we have to remember things like leaving space through the piers to feed the dropper wires from the track.

The 'production run' of etches for the pier aperture and arch curved brickwork is now ordered and should be with us soon .

Once I've got some particularly stressful work out of the way I'll be able to get back into things myself - all those bits of 2mm MDF to laminate together and pavilions to build!

The Smith's etched frame looks nice Tim - didn't know they did such a thing, rather more refined than the Wills' version in their box interior.

how about making one then getting somew one like unit models to cast lots in resin

Resin casting is one of the options we're thinking of Brian