I expect you're probably already heartily sick of reading posts about how **** a year it's been - but don't click away, because this is not one of them!
One of the few Christmas traditions that isn't being altered this year is that I like to take a look back at all that we've achieved in the last 12 months on our respective workbenches.
I always find I'm surprised by how much we've got done and the things I'd forgotten about.
January
At the start of the year I was working on the latest WHR Pullman observation carriage Gwyrfai which I was scratch building mostly from styrene except for the curved front and roof which were to be bent from brass.
Himself was having an adventure in 3mm standard gauge building a very complex chassis for a GWR 2-8-0 tank for the Engineering Consultant.
February
A few weeks later and the body was at an advanced stage with a very crisply cast boiler and that classic huge bunker at the back.
The idea was that once we were happy with the shape I could apply a thin plastic skin and beading to make it match the styrene body sides.
March
We'd been closely following progress on the rebuild of 130 at Dinas, and as reports were published on the web Himself would add more bits to our Backwoods kit build which had been started the year before.
In this picture of the boiler bands have just been fitted.
This was the point in the year when we entered the first lockdown, and Himself starting looking around for other projects to keep him busy and hit on the idea of doing something with an ancient white metal England engine body and a knackered Ibertren chassis from the bits boxes.
In the next post I'll show you what he ended up doing with it....
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