Tangoman69

Neil,

your attention to detail on 37692 is very impressive 

I really like it!

Karl

I ordered a book called 
"How to deal with impatience"

And it STILL hasn't ‘effing arrived !!!!!

34 minutes ago, WrattingRoad said:

The only things I wished I done was use concrete sleepered track and have the sleepers spaced out. Two things that’ll be different on the next layout. 

Jack,

I know exactly what you mean, I have used concrete sleepers on my layout, but wish I hadn’t rushed and spaced the sleepers out, something I now regret. 

There’s always the next layout!

Karl

Great stuff Jack!

For me, you’ve captured the trackwork just right, both on the main line and in the yard.

Karl

On 11/09/2020 at 18:34, dasatcopthorne said:

Elbow Lane has a background at last.

 

 

Love the sign for household paper products.

Made me smile! 

 

54 minutes ago, petethemole said:

"Small boys eh? football in the park, jumpers for goalposts...."

Ooh sir, suits you sir

Really miss the fast show

Complete with socially distanced logs

Looking good Stephen

I was explaining to the Mrs when you die you could be reincarnated but must be a different creature. 

She said she'd like to come back as a cow.

I replied, "You obviously haven't been listening”

Mike,

loving the the videos on YouTube, they bring everything to life foe me.

Brilliant!

Regards,

Karl

Mick always has a friendly manner when you visit.

Can’t wait to visit after the lockdown as I need a few bits and pieces that he normally stocks

18 minutes ago, TEAMYAKIMA said:

After the Warley show last year and up until lockdown I was working on my layout 7 days a week, not always full days as I still work(ed) three six hour shifts at my employer, but in one day I remember I did work 15 hours on it without a break - starting at 05.30.

 

However, since being furloughed I have not worked on the layout for the last six weeks at all. 

 

Question : Why?

 

Answer : No exhibitions.

 

My layout is 26ft x 10ft and purely for exhibitions. After Warley I was busy making major upgrades to the layout ready for Aly Paly in mid-March, but it was cancelled. So, now no exhibitions equals no point in working on the layout. I actually like the pressure of an exhibition deadline. There is still stuff to do, but with my next exhibition invite being now in December I have stopped work on the layout.

 

I have been converting my shed into a railway museum / art gallery / shrine and creating SNAPFISH hardback books from my collection of photographs from 1984 - 2015 and that has meant scanning hundreds of 6x4 prints from my albums as I threw away the negatives years ago.

Have been working on these 'books' pretty much 8 hours a day for the last three weeks and at this rate I only need about another 12 months and I will be able to throw away all those old photo albums.

 

So zero modelling, but keeping very busy, but just on a different aspect of my 'hobby'.

I fully understand, what is people’s motivation?

My layout is just for me, i’m making it as I go along at my pace, dealing with what life throws at me.

I’ve had the deadlines of fixed Exhibition dates, and met them, but now happy doing what I do even though higgledibiggledy, my mojo and life set my pace.

It’s what suits each and everyone one of us

In the paint shop today we have a Hornby 153 which is planed to be ex-GWR special 153 305, an all over white livery. There is also a Lima ex-Northern Spirit class 156, this will end up in Northern Spot livery.

Keep safe

Karl

During the pandemic I’ve been busier than ever at work, even with my layout behind me in my office at home, there’s little motivation to go back in there after a 9-10 hour stint for work.

Last Thursday should have Tangowoman & I fly to Kefalonia for a weeks break, but alas, it wasn’t to be.

In my modelling I’ve now settled for the period of late 2019 as I can’t keep pace with livery changes.

I have 8 DMUs to get into the old Northern Rail blue & purple, or the new (but defunct) Northern spot livery. These include 2 each of Classes 150, 153, 156 & 158. 

I now have a desire to get these DMUs finished as my mojo is back and I’m enjoying my modelling more than ever.

Keep safe,

Karl

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