Etched Pixels

had an entertaining weekend, including being on a 150 that overshot Garth station and had to reverse a bit, passing a 97/3, a pair of DRS 37s on the network rail train, and a bizarre FGW 2 car unit half 150 and half 153. Even saw a movement on the GCG line ! and all by accident

blargh, all I need to do is another spray of primer, yesterday it poured with rain, today its lovely and sunny but blowing too much to spray stuff in the back yard

thinks you know when you are hammered because doing the funky gibbon seems a good idea

windier than PM question time here today

was going to do some modelling but seems to have accidentally spent the day learning to play an Eluveitie song on the whistle 8)

is still working down the gloat box. Skytrex garratt now in black and running nicely. No idea what I am going to do with it,. Rule 1 current era railtour stock perhaps 8)

has the main parts of the second attempt at a C.80 coach assembled, all plasticard so far - now can I make the battery boxes that way

"The internet is very very good"

watches the rain, seems to be trying to make up for the driest April on record, the road outside is about an inch deep

is going slowly mad lining kettles

has the body of the GWR C.80 cut out and assembled.

1306 partly lined, think I'll skip trying to wrap lining around the cab corner and the very tender edge though

tender lining.. corners or straight bits first ?

has been reading about the history of S&D (The Stockton one) locomotives and found it very funny that they first painted numbers on the locos so the public could identify trains and drivers when reporting bad behaviour. Also that the main problems were drink, speeding and unauthorised passengers on locos - particularly girls!

is still working down the gloat box. Three coach roofs needing ventilators and detail bits next up, about my most hated job

is at work today. I don't see the point in using a day of holiday when the shops are shut and the tv is terrible

finishes assembling a bit of history - one Skytrex N gauge Beyer Garratt ready for the paintshop

watche the rain start. over the beach barbecues

is pondering folk songs for railways: The Old Maid In The Garratt perhaps 8)

Langley N2 assembled. How I love white metal kits where the inside of the body is fractionall smaller than the chassis

GNR day in the 'build all the old kits in the acquisitions box', today an N2 and a J52 mostly assembled, not that I actually have a chassis for either currently!

two more kits assembled from the pile of stuff acquired in collections of cheap bits, one stanier princess and one ex-GC J63.

is slowly working down the gloat pile, trouble is I now have things like LMS n/c brake 3rds and a flatiron but I don't think I;ve got room for another layout 8)

youtuber - the site for vegetable fanatics

curry lunch complete, back to building a 2mm scale 54' Bain