Just Playing Trains

 I was thinking about the way forward quite a lot while I was unable to actually do very much. A trip to Rob the Tram’s house for a train day was very refreshing - actually playing trains on a series of Hornby ovals was lovely. Particularly liked the Dapol Pug and a tiny Peckett. So priorities ahead include finishing Coales Mill Yard in 2mm FS, this just needs doing, there's no real bottlenecks to getting the track and scenery down. Work is now progressing. With the printer expiring we've  decided not to replace it. I'll try and get by by ordering essential prints from mail order sites and hope that they are better quality than I could achieve at home. I can also buy brick papers AND some kits are now provided with the papers and all the bits, so I'm going to try one of those. I'm still pondering 009. I'm still hankering for space and a 7mm scale setup. As I said to Andy (friend) recently, a class 37 (66 for him) ticking over on the mantelpiece would be great… N...

 I'm still out of space as Operation Christmas has overtaken the kitchen table, so any modeling is being undertaken on my knee using the lid of one of many Really Useful Boxes (RUB) in which I store everything. These are pretty good at keeping things safe in the garage, which is where most of it lives. Anyway, work has commenced on a variation of the Scalescenes canal boxfile. I can't say much more than that because I'm still thinking very hard about how I'm going to use it. The same goes for the inter-building bridge which is glazed and mostly assembled. I'd pre-painted the side panels and the roof so it looks great now that its all together. I've also been building a pipe-bridge to hang below it. Construction is from plastic strip and tubes I've had laying about for decades. Mostly just needs painting now. The Stores have received a very nice 009 Glyn Valley brake from Nigel Brooks . This is another 3D-printed kit and I'm looking forward to painting it...