cromptonnut

Not something you see every day.

Being a trainspotter is fun.. gronks, cromptons and spoons won me

Using a Black & Decker power drill... with a 0.5mm drill bit in it. How, you may ask... carefully, very carefully indeed.

Thanks UKMail for delivering my parcel to the right numbered house, just in the wrong street... well done also for missing the pond (of the wrong garden) by 6 inches when you lobbed it over the fence.

is finding the Busch Feldbahn stuff strangely alluring (and wallet emptying).

is finding the Busch Feldbahn stuff strangely alluring (and wallet emptying).

So I 'accidently' bought a Busch Feldbahn start set... so that's HO-f (Z scale track), N, OO-9, OO and O I model in...

It appears that I can post status messages again \o/

Tonight's kebab was a bad move. 45 minutes after and I've already had to open the windows. P#arp.

Handle gives out on saucepan, potatoes and boiling water all over the floor, great. Guess that's dinner knackered...

Rest in peace Reg Quantrill

Never worrying about bad tracklaying again: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6Us6WB1vnY

painting the Throne Room for Jubilee weekend. Pity I couldn't persuade SWMBO to do it in chocolate and cream...

If anyone is interested in engineering trains or minor derailments apparently you can see both in the same place causing a bit of chaos at East Croydon this morning. My boss said it was a 'rail grinder' but I don't have confirmation of that.

has managed to fix a regularly crashing computer by taking the lid off - it was not Windows playing up but an overheating problem under load triggering a system restart to protect the CPU. Saved £400 ...

Oh no, another cheesy and entirely inappropriate Peco commemorative wagon http://www.kernowmodelrailcentre.com/product/37935/RW3_Peco_Diamond_Jubilee_Commemorative_CDA_Clay_Hopper_Wagon

A flash of inspiration... design the baseboards to suit the track plan - not mess with the track plan to suit the baseboards. Genius... although seemingly known by most of RMWeb... why didn't I pick it up before?

Apa box goes back in cupboard, can't do what I wanted in the space, so it's now a 4ft x 21" board with two 3ft x 1ft fiddle yards that will go on each end in due course. Just need to dig some space out now to put the board up on its trestles.

Enjoying reading the Dapol 2012 catalogue, I can see it's going to be an expensive year. I'd never have thought there would be so many new things coming out at once!

Awoken from my work slumbers by top and tail DRS 37's on a yellow test train going past the office window leaving London Bridge. Dreadful!

Hmmm do I build a layout in one APA box, two APA boxes, or just revert to standard baseboards? At the moment the storage yards are both longer than the scenic section!

Oh dilemma... Is "O gauge 08 shunting plank" the new GWR BLT? Will exhibitions be full of them in a year's time meaning I'm better off concentrating on the N gauge project first...?

Irritated by haulage enthusiasts.

Is it just me or is there something strange about this new colourscheme? My profile dropdown I can only change status, everything else has disappeared.

is about to start an inventory of his N gague stock, having unearthed the box from under a pile of stuff yesterday, in anticipation of the APA Box Project. Once I've catalogued it I can then look at what I can shift to fund what I need.