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I like the J94 industrial bash - that looks grand

Looking good!

It's got that C.S. atmosphere coming along really well already Great scratchbuilding!

Jon, it's looking great, especially the roof at each end. Puts me in mind of Pugsley (Martin)'s Heljan version back on RMweb3. You are right about the TDM cables, have you considered replacing them with something with a touch more finesse, to go with your excellent weathering job?

Impressive stuff Martin, and great to see more progress on this! Miniature engineering!

I've missed a fair amount I suspect, what chip and speaker are you using? I've got an amazingly deep and bass-y speaker for my G scale Faur diesel, it's a Visaton Frs7, although I suspect a little big for the 37. I hope that one day I can witness this beast in action to see how she sounds!

Jon it is good to read another bumper update, it sounds as if you're busy indeed, and with these bogies, my word, superb, but insane, you really do have patience of a saint and the eyesight of an eagle! Incredible work. I find it terribly inspiring, but no matter how hard I try I always end up with more of an artistic rather than mm perfect rendition in my modelling keep it up, and we'll continue to read with pleasure...

Thanks chaps and thanks Jon!

For those that can't wait for me to post another update, tonight I've conquered the valve gear...

Musing over: Valve gear...

Mark good to hear from you - I'd spotted you over on NGRM too... Yes working in such different scales and interest areas might seem strange to some, but to me it's incredibly refreshing.

Thanks Pete - yes I've found myself a little distant from the mainstream core of Railway Modelling in the UK, and hence distant from the forum. It's lovely to hear from old faces when I do post stuff over here though...

Wait until you see the mammoth blog post I've got planned to document the build of the Faur Lxd2 in G-scale!

That's looking superb!

I don't think the huts look odd, once they're painted, weathered and planted they'll look grand I expect. Mark's stock does look great, those repaints are very well executed!

Jon that bogie looks incredible - fantastic attention to detail (again). It's good to have a mix of hard and quick projects on the go - something I always try and stick too... as usual a good and enjoyable blog

Have you tried i-materialise? Over on NGRM forum they've been used by a few people recently with quite excellent results.

It's looking superb Pete, really coming together, and that last shot shows an awful lot of promise. I'm struggling to process that this is 2mm!

Very nice Rich A little bit of running in and I'm sure it'll run a lot smoother - it all looks grand so far

Tom I've not visited the blog for a while, this is getting really really impressive. I think many would be fooled into thinking this was EM or P4, and the finish and coloring look very well observed. Great modelling.

Insane! That is truly remarkable and you must be bonkers to try doing this in 2mm but the results are incredible. Top marks too for getting a blog sorted, if you add the 'followers' gadget to the right hand column we can subscribe to keep up to date

Rich, absolutely stunning scratch building, I love this Swedish project. I keep my eye on your blog at least once a month for developments, and although sporadic in nature the quality never fails to impress!

Thanks guys They are excellent value kits - but you do have to put in a lot of scratchbuilding effort to achieve these finishes - but to me that was part of the appeal for these pair

Well done for meeting a deadline Jon, and it looks very much a presentable whole. I'm impressed! No greenery in sight!

In the smaller scale I always found it hard to balance diarama size layouts with practical storage, this seems to be a reasonable size, with a variety of photo opportunities, I think you've made the best of the space available. Great results with the ballast and powders too!

Jon - thank you for the comment, it's nice to hear from the old regulars on something other than a 4mm post in my blog! Yes, I've found life beyond RTR bashing in 00, fidelity and fiddliness in P4, in a subject I don't know a lot about and in a grand scale that is both expensive and space hungry! The research in old (and new) books on the subject, both in English and German, the hours scouring eBay for bargains, the dreaming up custom liveries and models, it seems to have everything I need at the moment (even got a kit coming from Germany soon - so that will satisfy the kit building aspect).

But I guess it was the right thing at the right time. I enjoy the many varied aspects, but I most enjoy working on rolling stock. Therefore, working in the garden, I found the layout kind of takes care of itself, scenery requires a bit of thought and maintenance but it's all really quick, big and chunky, you can get your hands around it... yes I suppose it's gardening. In the smaller scales I never did finish a layout, ever since I was at Primary School... but I do vividly remember the towns, quarries, army bases (etc) that I made in the dirt with my friends for our MicroMachines and Matchbox cars, and then later building railways in the garden with a friends LGB trainset. They were real models in our heads, hours to construct (rather than months and years)... this is I guess the grown up version.

Yes Martin - http://paxton-road.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/un-glamorous-end.html

But don't be sorry, I wasn't distracted from the OO, it was like my Dad passing away jolted my whole hobby - he had been such a part of it, and the garden railway was our last hurrah. I've no idea why I ended up interested in Austrian and Eastern European narrow gauge though! However, that I have, and it's truly refreshing to be researching new topics, models, history and feeling like I'm blazing my own trail, at least to some extent, in the UK.

Yes Pete - it was your projects that made me keep the pair of Lack shelves when I re-did the study to become a nursery!

Marc - I have an Ikea LACK shelf that I'm contemplating using for a layout, and some track as well, but no definite plan for a layout.

Yes - my modern image OO stuff has been left in the cupboard for over 12 months and I skipped Paxton Road earlier this year... a rather un-glamourous end but it sustained some irrepairable damage and I had lost the enthusiasm to finish it.

The LGB garden railway is where my true passion lies these days, but the 009 is a welcome fiddly distraction and something to keep my etched brass kit construction skills up

Cracking progress Jon - and a bumper update well worth reading

Will, awesome, great to see more of Whitemarsh. I'd seen a photo earlier in the week on Garden Railway Club, of all places. John (screen name JRinTawa) was one of the judges I think, he's got a lovely atmospheric garden line! Anyhow, awesome palette of colours and subtle weathering and feathering toning the colours together.