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DRS, it's not a backscene it's a bit of photoshoppery. The camera's sitting on the track with the actual backscene behind it, pointing out at the room so rather than post a pic of my house I put some hills in. I think the Welshness comes from the distant hills making it look like the station's on a ...

I've glanced at this thread but not read it in detail before, but today that station really caught my eye. It's a wonderful building, completely different to the type of Victorian-built station you normally see on layouts and is reminiscent of stations in 1930s suburbs. You're very lucky to have had...

Thank you to everyone for the comments while the layout's been being built.

This isn't a proper update, just a new photo showing the back of the station:



Wonky chimneys have become something of a signature of my buildings!

It's now a year since the first buildings started being constructed ahead of the layout itself stated, and the layout's very nearly finished with just a few bits of detailing left. The signals are up and the last bit of bare board has been vegetated. This is the tunnel mouth, which had been the last...

sanctuary wrote:Excellent modelling and a great well dressed picture that shows your layout at it's best, hope you don't mind if I use it in the next Virtual Exhibition.

No need to ask, it would be an honour.

One more pic:



The locos moved back into their shed this morning, having spent the last few weeks hidden away from all the glue and scatter. Here's 5555 against its new backdrop.

Quite a big photo update, as I've been working on scenery and didn't want to post any shots of it unfinished! First, this is the tunnel at the right-hand end of the layout: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3211/2968900419_7c4aed8f52_o.jpg The tunnel mouth is Skaledale re-painted so it's the same colou...

It's not too bad; after its last incident I re-railed it and ran it for five laps forwards and five backwards without a problem, so it's not unusable. I just have to live with it playing up every now and then. I've found a site on the history of the Airfix range; the loco was first released in this ...

I added my opinion of the 14xx to the review thread: http://www.newrailwaymodellers.co.uk/Forums/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=14881 It is stopping a bit; I think it's something to do with the wheels seizing up on curves. When it happens the rear driving wheels look like they've moved to the side, so I t...

A quick introduction to the layout's newest and oldest loco, an Airfix 48xx/14xx, which was rescued from a scrapyard by a friendly signa... um, bought from a model shop by an impulsive modeller: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3292/2871428025_11c1b3e032_o.jpg http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3134/28714...

I've just purchased the old Airfix model of 1466, mint (even with handrails and vacuum pipes intact), boxed and recently serviced for £30. It's a puzzle as to why someone would care so well for something for so long then sell it to a dealer, but it has another good home now. 1466 was the first loco...

very nice layout, got any new locos planned?? The current fleet is a Castle, a prairie and a pannier. The Castle tends to be used to run round the loop with some coaches while I'm shunting in the yard with the prairie, while the pannier comes and goes with the autocoach. I think I do need one more ...

sishades wrote:That tile in the last picture looks like a weird square UFO about to invade the planet.!

It's an accurately modelled square cloud or "rectonimbulus".

A photo update, as I've been busy adding some details and it was a sunny morning which is always good for close-up photos. A waiting passenger, some crates and a sack on a trolley, all by Preiser. The figure is of an ex-German chancellor, but it's a great figure and I'm sure no-one will ever notice:...

I've made a start on a small empty area near the turntable, across the track from the coaling stage. I knew this would have a utility building of some kind, but was conscious both of obscuring the structures behind it and of making the layout too busy so I chose a grounded coach body as it's fairly ...