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Just to show that something has been happening since summertime, here's a few pictures of what's happening now.
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I had to vacate the spare bedroom for some time since my mother came to stay and it was either her or the layout :-). The layout was stored in the garage for the period and was taken out again about two weeks ago and the main throat board was set up to start work on point operating mechanisms and wiring. |
| Lurking on the siding to the rear is the other work I've been doing while the layout has been temporarily mothballed |
These are a group of Slaters wagon kits which I started building. For Scale7, I wanted some form of compensation or springing so they have all been modified to take the Exactoscale sprung axleguards. The conversions have been very successful and didn't take too long to accomplish. The wagons are still in an unfinished state under the solebars until I have added weight to ballast them properly. For a Midland era layout, the yellow "Barrow Barnsley" wagon is a bit of an anachronism since this type of wagon didn't appear until 1923 - after the Midland had been swallowed up into the LMS. But it's my grandson's favourite and I'll put up with others' criticisms :-) |
And work has started on a locomotive!!It will be a Midland 0-6-0T of the "1121" class. I was fortunate in getting a set of Gibson lost wax cast drivers from Peter Turville of the Scale7 Group who had got a set some time ago for a project which didn't come about. So I was glad to purchase them from him. The wheels are to Gauge 0 Fine Scale standards on 32mm gauge axles, so they will have to be turned down to Scale7 standards and have new split axles fitted. And the frames have been cut out and are perched on the axles to allow a bit of pipe dreaming of the day that the loco will be finished and working :-). Most work will now be concentrated on the loco chassis so that I will at last have something to test out the trackwork properly. |
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