Hello Dolly!

Narrow gauge projects are still taking a back seat this week, so Himself has been working on another epic brass signal construction for the new club layout, Kirkconnel.

There's been a lot of puzzling around the 'dollies' on this skyscraper, and how many there were - and when - with much pouring over photographs. 

Connecting this up, and making them all work, is going to be a challenge in itself, but I wonder whether the biggest issue is going to be ensuring that they stay vertical.

This comes from a notoriously clumsy individual who's been known to accidently catch a signal or two when moving, cleaning , or generally being anywhere close to a layout.....

Lovely Lattice

Yet more infrequent blogging - apologies.

I'm still hard at work casting wagon kits every day while Himself has been completing more fiendishly tricky brass signals for the Greenock club's new Kirkconnel layout.

He's making sure he's putting in his best work on these because the task is being shared with the chairman and I've got a feeling the competition is spurring them both on.

There'll be more news soon, I hope on Welsh Pony and 130.

Upper Quadrant

I'm not sure I've ever gone so long without posting in more than 10 years of blogging.

The gap has been due to a perfect storm of events - an hiatus in progress updates on prototype locomotives we're part-way through building, still waiting on the delivery of etched brass kits which were ordered in the middle of the year, and Himself spending a week volunteering with the repainting of Tan y Bwlch footbridge.

At my end of the operation I've spend the last week or so resin casting to meet orders for wagon kits or carriage interiors.

Himself has now sent me an image of the one project he has been working on - making up a Model Signal Engineering kit for an LMS upper quadrant signal for the Greenock club's new layout, Kirkconnel.

He reports that it was rather fiddly.

Given some of his previous work posted on this blog you may wish to read that as an example of classic British understatement and draw your own conclusions....