May
Himself began a new project this month.
For a long time I'd been intending to replace our models of the original FR bogie carriages 15 and 16 which I scratch built in styrene over 20 years ago and which were finished in late 1980's liveries and so really not suitable for running on Bron Hebog.
If these lovely Worsley Works etches had been available back in the 1990's then there is no way I would ever have attempted to scratch build such an intricate, panelled carriage myself!
This is number 16 which will be finished in the 1920's Colonel Stephens green livery.
Himself was also working on redesigning the fiddle yards on the layout with overlapping upper and lower yards to allow us to run full-length WHR trains.
June
I'd been working away on that row of houses for a few months and at last we had a row of three almost ready for painting.
I find I can get a little bored when working on one project solidly like this, so I decided to put the house building on hold once the 3rd one was complete and resumed work on the Garraway Set which had been on ice since the start of the year.
11 was assembled and a roof fitted before I began work on the interior.
July
It's becoming a familiar theme, but once again I gave myself a kick up the backside and resolved that the time had come to begin building a model that I'd been planning in my head for ages.
And so in the space of a few weeks I produced this model of the WHR water tank wagon which was built up on a DZ wagon chassis.
The tank, if you were wondering, was made with a length of 22mm plastic plumbing pipe.
The Artistic Director had one of his periodic bursts of activity and produced a mock-up of the Cwm Cloch farm house before finalising the design for me to build.
Here it is placed on the layout to check for fit and scaling.
August
Redesigning the fiddle yards was turning into quite a marathon project.
Himself spent making weeks wiring up these control panels at either end.
At the other end of the country I started work on building the farm house with the intention that even if it would not be finished we would at least have something presentable to place in the space for the big event of the year which was coming in September - taking both layouts to show at the WHR Great and Small event at Dinas.
And that's where we'll pick up for the final instalment of our review of the year.
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