Since starting this thread my OO ambitions have taken a different tack, partly because after ten or more years away from my home town of York I'm beginning to appreciate it from a tourists point of view rather than seeing it as a dull but pretty town plagued by tourists and partly because I've been seduced by Hornby's K1 and Q6. So what was going to be another London will end up as another York. If you only know the railway bits of York chances are that you won't recognise what I will be doing but if you know some of the odd corners away from the tracks, particularly if you have memories from fifty years ago then some of what I'm doing may make sense.
I wasn't going to mention the project here (Thunder) as it doesn't fit with any of the original aims of the site, Western, finescale or large scale; however we seem to be a bit of a broader church so I'll give a quick photo summary here.
The space I have to play with.
![yk 002.jpg yk 002.jpg](https://www.westernthunder.co.uk/data/attachments/91/91065-bf76227ee0c08779d2eb072b077504b8.jpg)
Roughing out my initial ideas.
With lining paper underneath so I can create templates.
Setting out roads too.
![yk 014.jpg yk 014.jpg](https://www.westernthunder.co.uk/data/attachments/91/91073-72546ae81b808c8684334448349a3e02.jpg)
Temporary wiring allows playing/testing to take place.
![yk 016.jpg yk 016.jpg](https://www.westernthunder.co.uk/data/attachments/91/91075-761ed38c895c40c923f58d597ec0c425.jpg)
Some areas are still to take shape.
![yk 017.jpg yk 017.jpg](https://www.westernthunder.co.uk/data/attachments/91/91076-87a4b224726522c2d3857e08310d5dbe.jpg)
Simple card structures to help with judging scale and proportion.
![yk 019.jpg yk 019.jpg](https://www.westernthunder.co.uk/data/attachments/91/91078-3a42168b72b6a01957ce349b580773dc.jpg)
My apologies for the clipped nature of the captions.
I've gone into more detail over at 'the other place' where it seems a better fit with the nature of that particular forum. I'll attempt to keep updates going here and I'll attempt to give them some Thunderish relevance if possible.