Hi all and welcome to my new blog.
This blogging lark is new to me so bear with until I get the hang of it.
So what’s it all about you ask? All things model railway I suppose, to give you some back round like most modellers I got a Hornby train set for Christmas one year and as they say I was hooked. I can remember the excitement of putting the oval track together, plugging in the power and getting the shinny new class 25 to move. That progressed to a bit of shunting, a small building and then the real kicker, I nailed (yes nailed!) it to my bedroom floor and made a papier mache tunnel for it to run through and would watch it go round and round disappearing and then re appearing from the darkness. Oh the hours of fun I had but all joking apart that’s what got me hooked. Fast forward School years, 12 years in the RAF and a child and here we are.
I’ll be honest it’s more about the design and building of the layout than the trains themselves, yes I know the difference between the Flying Scotsman and a class 08 and I love all trains, visit preserved lines and do the whole railway thing but its the layout itself that really gets my juices flowing.
Tacking a piece of MDF and turning it into a working model is what its about for me and hopefully I can at the very least inspire others to get involved in the wonderful world of model railways.
At this point I think its right I declare that I do have a small homegrown business producing model railway building, lineside dioramas and recently this has grown into full grown production of working micro layouts that hopefully can act as a kick start for you to either re kindle a child hood dream or just get involved. (more on this in later blogs).
Hopefully this will be a regular blog, if I can find the time between building railways and my other passion Lincoln City FC! For now I leave you with a picture of a Metcalfe double engine card kit that I have enhanced and weathered ready to go on my “Shirebrook Yard” micro layout.
In the next blog I’ll talk about “Horby Junction” which is my permanent OO gauge layout, and start to look at the latest project “Shirebrook Yard” engine shed micro layout.
Cheers Alan.
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