Sunday 19 November 2023
Getting ready for Warley and that...
Wednesday 1 November 2023
Possibly the final plan B
Saturday 28 October 2023
Onwards and ever so slightly upwards
Life keeps on getting in the way of the growth of Port Lucy but tonight I took a big step forward; and a couple backwards.
As I mentioned before the base board I had built was too big and so I needed to chop nine inches off the rear, ideally some more would have gone but if I cut anymore off Port Lucy would be even smaller than it now will be.
I took the plunge and partly un assembled the pre existing structure, no mean feat in the confined space and with all the boxes of crap stored underneath. Anyway to be brief I managed to cut it down and fit it back in by using my super powers of contortionism. I previously had no idea these existed and now my back hurts quite a bit: If I ever build another layout it will be much smaller or I will have won the lottery and will get someone else to do all the tedious bits like woodwork, track laying and electrics.
Sunday 15 October 2023
Port Lucy wasn’t built in a day
Monday 28 August 2023
That was quick
Saturday 26 August 2023
A slight diversion - not just any diversion
I’m very good at not doing what I should be doing and doing something else. Even when it’s just a hobby. So rather than getting on with Port Lucy, more on this later, I decided to make a little diorama that I’ve had in mind for a while.
Some good friends visited a month or so ago and by way of thanks they sent us some wine from M&S; it was very nice and came in a lovely wooden box. I immediately thought that it was too good for kindling and I’ve been toying with the idea of a model of the legendary but never built Portmerion branch of the Festiniog. I don’t have room or the inclination to build a whole layout so this box is ideal.
Thursday 17 August 2023
Progress and a possible problem
I've done a bit more woodwork and it has left me scratching my head somewhat. The area of the new bit is pretty big; obviously I knew that when I 'designed' it but it's all very well scribbling in a note book but when the full size of the thing emerges it is quite another.
Thursday 10 August 2023
The boy is back
It’s been ages since I’ve done any modelling but today I have made a leap forward. I tidied the workshop.
This meant that I had room to start on the woodwork which will form the basis of Port Lucy the terminus of the Underhill branch and the Isle of Stoner Railway mainline.
Thursday 30 March 2023
Some nice pictures of Stoner
I haven't been doing much modelling recently as it has been too cold to go into the garage and Bont is virtually finished. I've also lost my modelling mojo a bit too although I can feel the urge the urge to get going again bubbling up. Port Lucy needs building to give the IoSR another end and I've got stacks of kits to build too.
In the meantime I thought it would be nice to publish some of the excellent pictures of the layout that Chris Nevard took last year. They were published in Model Rail magazine which was very flattering.
In no particular order here are some. Theses are he posh edited ones.