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  1. Turin 60
    Evening all, thought I'd have a go at one of these blog thingies, how difficult can it be?
     
    Please don't expect frequent entrys from me, the modellings slow enough without blogs, groups, forums and so on!
     
    I,m trying to finish a conversion of the old Hornby 06 to EM gauge (hence my recent request re top rear lamp iron, thanks to those that helped). Body as above, chassie by Branchlines, gear box by High Level and wheels by Markits/Romford. Very pleased with it's running, a little bodywork still to go. The thought occurs though that for the cost and effort involved I probably could have bought and built the excellent kit by Judith Edge(?). Doh!
     
    John Bruce.
  2. Turin 60
    It's been a while but I,ve not been completely idle, the 06 is slowly being weathered but that's one of those jobs I have to be in the mood for otherwise I make a right hash of it!
    By way of diversion I've been building an etched brass kit for a Glyn Valley Tramway tar tank wagon, doing quite well but there are as far as I know there are no extant photographs of the beasties. So some educated guesswork is needed to complete the brake gear, more on this in due course.
     
    To go with the 06 I've been completing an old 3H LNER van kit, not quite as intended as I've fitted it with a steel underframe and modified the strapping, brake gear & vent arragement. Lengthened the roof a little as well, I now need to sand this down a little then it's into the paintshop for a coat of unfitted BR grey and grot!
  3. Turin 60
    This evening I can report that after a small tweak of the "Hoffman" pattern point motor (made by "Conrad") the electrical side of matters is now complete. Indeed this momentous occasion was further enlivened by the running of the first locomotive over the track work. Now to the buildings and scenic side of matters.
     
    John.
  4. Turin 60
    Well folks, I've been pottering around on the new and very small 009 layout this weekend and can report that some progress has been made, it has to be as the layout will be at the 13th members day organised by the Wiltshire Group of the 009 Society this August.
     
    Progress has been made on the buildings front, well certainly on their positions on the layout. I wanted a chapel on this layout after the two I had on Lower Peak Wharf only this one's going to be derelict and about to fall down, to this end an old Osset Mouldings cast plaster engine shed went under the razor saw this afternoon. Very messy! At least I wont have to scribe the cracks into/onto the building as they are already there!
     
    There is going to be a shop tucked into the corner at the start of the hill up to and past two old lime kilns. For this the razor saw got a taste of a 1960's Triang Model Land hardware shop (did I hear a Model Land collector fall off a chair somewhere?), don't worry it was in really poor nick-how else do you think I could afford it!
    The shop (probably a grocers) will only be fairly low relief tucked in between two houses and the aforementiond derelict chapel, so the back part can become the back of a house that will have a garage or workshop beside it adjacent to the top of the two old lime kilns. Space for a bit of garage type junk and clutter and because of the buildings position I won't have to put a front on it as it can't be seen from the front of the layout.
     
    A lot of words but no pictures! So true. I will try and take a couple of photographs tomorrow evening and scan in my latest sketch plan of the layout which hopefully will make some sense of this verbage!
     
    John.
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