stuartp
Active Member
Hello, and thanks very much for letting me join up. Doubly so given that the first thing I saw on gaining entry to the members' section was the ghastly news you've all been dealing with for the last few days.
I wandered in here from following a link from Pennine MC's blog and eventually cottoned on to fact that it wasn't all WR 7mm stuff. I model southwest Scotland in 4mm, nominally around 1955-65 although there are one or two interlopers from other areas and eras. I'm happy to use RTR as a leg up (they can usually do Walchaerts valve gear more reliably than I can for a start) but I try to make it not look like everybody else's.
My current layout is Portwilliam, a pastiche of the Wigtownshire Railway / Whithorn branch in its final years, currently undergoing a rebuild and refurbishment. Future plans are a bit more main line in nature but it's taken me 30 years to not finish this so far so don't hold your breath !
Rush hour at Portwilliam. The buildings are finished at last but need bedding in, backscene will be the next job after that. Sorry about the Peco code 100 but it was all there was when I started, and although it will be replaced it's more important at the moment to keep the thing operable.
There is some GWR stuff knocking about...
... and even some blue from time to time. Be quick though, the notice posted on the outbuilding is headed "WITHDRAWAL OF PASSENGER TRAIN SERVICE"...
I'll start a layout thread later once I've settled in.
Thanks, Stuart.
I wandered in here from following a link from Pennine MC's blog and eventually cottoned on to fact that it wasn't all WR 7mm stuff. I model southwest Scotland in 4mm, nominally around 1955-65 although there are one or two interlopers from other areas and eras. I'm happy to use RTR as a leg up (they can usually do Walchaerts valve gear more reliably than I can for a start) but I try to make it not look like everybody else's.
My current layout is Portwilliam, a pastiche of the Wigtownshire Railway / Whithorn branch in its final years, currently undergoing a rebuild and refurbishment. Future plans are a bit more main line in nature but it's taken me 30 years to not finish this so far so don't hold your breath !
Rush hour at Portwilliam. The buildings are finished at last but need bedding in, backscene will be the next job after that. Sorry about the Peco code 100 but it was all there was when I started, and although it will be replaced it's more important at the moment to keep the thing operable.
There is some GWR stuff knocking about...
... and even some blue from time to time. Be quick though, the notice posted on the outbuilding is headed "WITHDRAWAL OF PASSENGER TRAIN SERVICE"...
I'll start a layout thread later once I've settled in.
Thanks, Stuart.
so feel free to join in.
