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I was not 100% happy with the Hall so I reworked the weathering making slightly cleaner, I also worked on the Collett goods, I added lamps, crew and screw coupling to both. The lamp on the Hall is for a stopping passenger train and the one on the Collett is for a ballast train. Sorry about the pathetic smoke

Just wondered Brian , How's it going.

Whoops:blush: about the backscene. great pictures Geoff

I must agree with you Jonte, I feel that a photographic backscene on a model railway is rather like Constable painting the Haywain and the putting in a photo for the sky, Although I have seen some dreadfully painted backscenes at exhibitions.

I must admit that Models of Heritage Railways normally do NOT float my boat, but I saw an O gauge one today which did. . Seabury Town which I have just seen at the Spalding show. Whilst the stock and the running were excellent, it was the working cameo's that caught one's eye. They are normally something which I find distracting in a layout but these seemed to fit in well with the Heritage scene. The Loading gauge being painted, the post being knocked in, the small signal gantry being dismantled and the photographer taking pictures and the Ogauge guild stand with a tiny working model railway about 4inches by 2inches.all fitted in well with the heritage scene. Whether it was these, the fact it was O gauge or there were no arrivals of modern stock , but it certainly worked for me

Good to see you back in the layout section Geoff. A nice shot.

Thank You "definite Maybe" and Kris wait till the castle arrives!

Thank You Ian: It's probably the lighting or my eyes I must look more closely when altering ths size and try and get rid of the yellowness in future pics.

A little time since I added one Modified Hall on the Exeter to Kingsbridge stopper

]Thanks Kris. I've been doing some weathering today aslightly grubby modified Hall that someone has half heartedly tried to clean and the suburbans, So we have the Hall working the Exeter to Kingsbridge stopper.

After commenting yesterday that I'd very little lately prompted me to to do the Barrow crossing signs I've been meaning to do for ages. The signs are by a firm called Pre-Cut miniature signs. In the background is a recently completed Replica "long" suburban brake. (it needs to be weathered)

Not done alot lately but thought I show an old pic or two. .

This just appears to be getting better and better.

I have to agree with everything that's been said. Certainly reminds me of my days catching trains in the East End.

Many thanks chaps. I feel slightly !!

Not put anything up for sometime as I've been struggling with a Ratio Engine shed. Being all "fingers and 'fumbs" I find kits, particularly building kits for some reason, a bit of a struggle; and as to painting that's even worse . It took me a fortnight before I was fairly happy with the painting, but I'm still not sure. It's like painting a picture "When do I stop?" Any way pix of said engine shed. As you can see I've left the doors off as I feel by the late50's/early60's they would have been removed but I have left the ends of the hinges. The coal stage which came of my previuos layout Abergower needs a bit of fettling.

Mogul 7332 takes the fish empties back to Kingsbridge.

After seeing 'Ben Alder's' fish train decided to take some snaps of my smaller effort a mixture of Parkside and Chivers kits.

Some how missed this one before. Great to see another WR layout on the forum. Will be interested in seeing this one develop.

I'm always vaguely amused when I see a thread which is about the correct shade of colour. Several things strike me; 1. Perception of colour is a uniquely personal thing. 2. The way colour was mixed and applied could vary. 3. We are often comparing with old colour photos where the different firms film stocks would give a different look even if taken at exactly the same time from the same place. 4. The amount of "intraffic-ness" will produce different shades 5. Colour is affect by scale: i.e. seeing a full size engine therefore looking at several square foot boiler is completely different to looking at a couple of square inches of a model By the way one way of getting that oily but cleaned sheen is to use (sparingly) Johnson,s Klear, almost dry brushed on.

Yes Steve I did. I'd struggled with the lack of storage space and at one time felt like ripping up the whole fiddleyard, but that would have meant losing the minimum radius of 3ft I wanted (for the look of the thing) expanding through a transion curve to about 8 or 9ft in the station. I had pondered long and hard and it was about 3 months ago I realised that putting in 2 3-way points from an early fiddleyard on the last layout would provide me with 3 extra storage yards of at least 3ft length, as it turned out 2 have a useable lenght of 37inches and 2 have a useable length of 41 inches. I must admit to a warm glow of self satisfaction, but like most people I would like the room that they have in the USofA and have something like 12 storage sidings. Still this is much better than the original.

I laid the new fiddle yard last week and wired it up and it actually worked. I'm always surprised when my wiring works!!

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Thanks for your very kind comments, Yet another impetus giver to finish the layout.

The main reason there have been very few posts on the thread is that my enthusiasm has stall through a poorly arranged fiddle yard due to wanting large transition curves and a minimum radius of 2ft 6inches into the mainline fiddle yard. However a bit of lateral thinking about the way I want to operate Wencombe led me to use the shortest rod in the fiddle yard as an entry in 4 dead end sidings thus giving me 3 extra storage roads on the main fiddle yard. See attached diagram (not scale) Hopefully this will give me the impetus to finish the layout. It also proves to me how important planning the fiddle yard is rather than doing it as an afterthought.