Skinnylinny

$!*&! Messed up applying LSWR lettering from the HMRS pressfix sheet... and there's only one set of each size of lettering per sheet... Another £7.50 to get another sheet of mostly Southern lettering I won't use!

5 x Hachette Mk1 SKs... Check. One bottle of T-Cut... Check. Dremel? Where's the Dremel?

Agreed to try to repair an old Hornby tender-drive A4... finally got the thing running, set it to run in on the rolling road, then smoke and sparks from inside the motor! Any suggestions?

Amazing what a lick of paint'll do, isn't it Gromit?

Anyone else remember those GEM working ground signals? Trying to get hold of a few. They're rare enough to make me wonder if I just imagined their existence!

Apparently has a Peckett waiting under the tree...

appears to have successfully constructed a PWM controller (or at least the circuitry) for under a tenner.

Been commissioned to paint a lovely 5" gauge NER E class 0-6-0T. Now if only I could work out what colours to paint it!

Building a Revell BR02 kit with my flatmate. Neither of us had realised that it included inside cylinders, complete with cranked axle!

Building my second kit from Petite Properties, and delighted so far!

Built a kit, no trouble at all, now sitting swearing at handrail knobs. How do people manage?

Considering putting two years of uni studying Electronics to the test and building a PWM controller...

Dead chuffed with that - picked up a new Hornby A3 for

Delighted by the discovery that students get a free 3-year AutoCAD license!

Does anyone else find painting the chevrons on distant signals really hard work?

Drawing a track plan for Knapford Junction...

Fiddling around with a Hornby Pug, a Dapol Pug kit and trying to make a vaguely industrial-looking shunter...

Finally getting around to joining my local MRC!

finds it frustrating returning from university to hear "Oh, your mum knocked *list of scenery items* off the layout while you were away..."

First attempts at lining transfers... Other than getting orange instead of red (whoops!) not going badly at all!

First point laid and working with Mercontrol. That was surprisingly easy!

Got an interview in the morning that will determine whether or not I get to do a PhD in Railway Safety Systems - looking into fitting steam locos with ERTMS!

Got my first ever kit-built chassis up and running. It's cogging a bit but otherwise smooth, just need a replacement bolt to hold the dummy bogie on (oops!)

Got some lovely Gibson trailing wheels on a 2mm axle for my D1, but the bushings in the chassis kit (already fitted) are for 1/8" axles, and nobody else seems to do 18mm non-driving wheels.

Had the email that my Hornby H class is in the post. Excitement!