Thanks for that link - you have done my thinking for me....just have to fit it in to the pile of things screaming to be done....I'll be back.......
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Yet another stalled WIP - thoughts about lighting up Helmsdale shed. I'm not a fan of layout lighting as a rule, but it...
Another long unfinished job- the magazine sponsored LMS six wheel passenger brake van. I had hankered for one of these since Hornby Dublo days,...
Another essential scene setter - the gas tank for refilling the restaurant cars - next to nothing is recorded about these vehicles , which varied...
Couple of PW coaches here - the further one is a Silhouette cut model of a CR breakdown coach that was allocated to Helmsdale while the nearer is...
Couple of fallen graces here - two ex Pullmans on their last duties. A restaurant car that serviced passenger services till the end of steam. It...
Not a lot of photography of layout stuff this last year but much benchwork, of which more to follow, but a couple of shots to act as a...
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As a follow on from this, a few months later I remodelled the engine shed layout. It was originally reached from a point just after the platform...
A good bit of remodelling of trackwork was undertaken at Helmsdale last year as I had over the years acquired two brass built HR locos that had...
Another of my distractions recently... I got involved with Pop Up Designs and their designer who are doing a range of Scottish railway buildings,...
Quick look at one of the at long last finished Mk11 Small Bens - done to accurate outline this time instead of a T9 hash up. Actually, even more...
Hmm, getting on for two years since the last update....perhaps I should remedy that...
I succumbed to the Rapido pannier - sort of had to, what with two of them shedded here, so at long last there is an authentic GW pannier running -...
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One of the Dornoch panniers at the end of the day on shed at Helmsdale. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
A lot of loco fettling has been going on and my fleet of CR 4-4-0's have been having attention recently. These were widespread over the ScR in...
Further distractions earlier this year were provided by the cut price Heljan GW tanks, which have bee chewed about to give a take on a CR saddle...
Thanks, but I can only take limited credit for it all as only the water tank is mine. The rest is an embossed wallpaper type sheet I found on ebay...
And the last shed build now, actually technically a rebuild as I used the sides and vents although everything else was new - an improved Helmsdale...