Richard H
Western Thunderer
Hello! - this is to introduce myself. I have entered the Cameo Competition, and a friend suggested ‘Western Thunder’ as a friendly forum in which I might record my plans, efforts and (hopefully) progress. I am not a member of any other model railway forum or local model railway club.
I’ve been pretending to be a railway modeller since the 1970s but I’ve produced little public evidence to support that claim, although in that time I have made models in N, HO, EM, P4, 7mm F/S and S7. None of my various attempts at layouts were completed, for the usual sorts of reasons – over-ambitious plans, other commitments and conflicting interests, changing circumstances, new enthusiasms, life in general, etc.
Despite dalliances with railways in other parts of Britain and Europe, my core interest lies in the history of the railways in the old (pre-1974) county of Northumberland, and particularly the railways in the south-east of that county. I should love to be able to describe myself as, “an amateur historian specialising in the industrial archaeology of local railway transport who chooses to present his findings in 3-dimensional form” … but I suspect that at some deep level I really just want to play trains.
In practice, my current plans for playing trains centre round actually “finishing” a not-too-ambitious cameo layout in 00 gauge that will reflect aspects of my core interest (but will undoubtedly also require the suspension of disbelief). I think I am likely to gain more from the forum than I can offer to it, and I hope that the forum will tolerate that imbalance,
Richard H
I’ve been pretending to be a railway modeller since the 1970s but I’ve produced little public evidence to support that claim, although in that time I have made models in N, HO, EM, P4, 7mm F/S and S7. None of my various attempts at layouts were completed, for the usual sorts of reasons – over-ambitious plans, other commitments and conflicting interests, changing circumstances, new enthusiasms, life in general, etc.
Despite dalliances with railways in other parts of Britain and Europe, my core interest lies in the history of the railways in the old (pre-1974) county of Northumberland, and particularly the railways in the south-east of that county. I should love to be able to describe myself as, “an amateur historian specialising in the industrial archaeology of local railway transport who chooses to present his findings in 3-dimensional form” … but I suspect that at some deep level I really just want to play trains.
In practice, my current plans for playing trains centre round actually “finishing” a not-too-ambitious cameo layout in 00 gauge that will reflect aspects of my core interest (but will undoubtedly also require the suspension of disbelief). I think I am likely to gain more from the forum than I can offer to it, and I hope that the forum will tolerate that imbalance,
Richard H
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