QuoteTried my first Kestrel kits

I always thought these where a bit under-scale tbh. Build a few in my time, but when I was much younger and much worse at that sort of thing!

Simplifying the junction at Salisbury South, moving it closer to the station and creating more space between the main Exeter line and Salisbury City branch. I will then move the diesel depot into that space.

This will avoid the need for WR diesels to shunt across the SR third rail tracks to reach their trains which I always felt was just plain wrong.

Enjoying my first trouble free running session since the layout was re-assembled.

Just solved a bit of a dead spot under the fly-over with a cotton bud, meths and a bit of elbow - grease. Add to this running my cleaning train (see Filton TMD thread) round and round a few times, serving the dual purpose of cleaning and properly running in my class 73, and its been a good night.

Skyline2uk

1. adding yard lights then platform lights.  yard lights are old stlyle midland lamps for sidings (p&d marsh, non working) and a tpm tower from cr signals for the depot area (working), plus a few 'street lights' (4d models, non working) and a double yard light from cr signals (working). platform lights will probably be street lights (non working).

2. pasting on the backscene. this is a cloudy sky backscene... need to paste it on without creases and bubbles...


tim

Sliding sleepers under the rail joints of my newly laid track.

Working on the scenic section at the rear of my layout.
Built up the hillside at the weekend.
Having waited for it to dry, I have just painted it varying shades of green/brown/greay.
Just taking a break before spreading various colours of fine scatter material (mainly 3 shades of green with some dry earth)  over the stil wet paint.
Tomorrow I will spread slightly diluted PVA over the scatter material to fix those bits which didn't stick to the paint.
At the weekend should be able to add bushes etc and will finally complete with Cornish hedging and trees.

Just got the outer loop complete and bus wired up!  Need to clean the track and sort out one or two fouling places where my 3MT intermittently derails.

I finally got some time this afternoon to work on my layout. I stuck a piece of spare Atlas code 55 track on the underside to use as a DCC bus and then soldered the droppers on one half of my first board of my layout to it. I can now play test the track on one half of this first board. Need more Atlas track to do the track bus on the other half of the board and the accessory bus on both halves as well. Tested it with four different locos and got the outcome I expected - they all ran okay! 

The 47 is still going round and round delivering the empties...

Finally made time to run in my BachFar 5MT, nice little runner and real slow under DCC, now need to fit it with some sound 

Currently attempting to get my desk full of half built projects under control.

Building the Scalescenes Medium Station - love these kits!

Contemplating when i will find the time to start my scalescenes multi-story carpark, might sneak it into work tomorrow night

Starting on the signalling - bought the kits from CR signals, designed the control electronics and written the firmware, now about to build the signals and control board.

Mopping up the blood after the knife slipped whilst cutting polystyrene foam for the landscape around Bampton village, luckily it didn't drip onto the nice new buildings for the village I've been building for the past week, no more modelling today.