Martin Shaw
Western Thunderer
Hi Folks, hope your all coping with the situation.
Those of you who peruse my threads will be aware that at the turn of the year I was struggling with the D15, with some interesting diversion but little overall progress. I became more and more disillusioned by the whole thing that by the end of January railway modelling had sunk to a low nadir. I went to the SECC at the end of Feb having firmly decided to pack it all in and do something with 4mm RTR. As it was nothing was done and the revealing emergency meant that wholescale change wasn't going to happen either.
Yesterday I was forced into the workshop for the first time in two months to do a domestic repair to a freezer drawer. This done, I surveyed things with a renewed interest, put a few bits away in boxes and sat down with paper and pen to make a list. One of my failings is an initial surge of enthusiasm followed by boredom, for example fitting door handles to carriages, the first one is interesting the rest is boring repetition, I rather too readily give up.
I have decided that the D15 can for the time being be packed away and ignored, I cannot find enough interest to further it. I made a list of partly done projects which goes,
Finish LNER N15
Finish SR Van B
Finish LMS BG
Finish LNER Twin Bolster
Finish upgrading LNER A5
Finish SR 5 plank open
Finish SR pillbox brake van
Sort out LNER J36 & C15 running
Sort out SR C class drive train
Sort out wagon rewheeling.
You'll notice that "Finish" and "Sort out " appear quite a lot, and when I say with something of a shamed face that the SR wagons are ABS kits from easily 30 years ago and the N15 hasn't been touched in 16 years, the scale of the issue is obvious. Now just at the moment lack of time is not an excuse and the list is not necessarily the order they will be done but I am determined that this must be tackled. I don't feel they warrant individual threads so by and large various updates will appear here from time to time.
Regards
Martin
Those of you who peruse my threads will be aware that at the turn of the year I was struggling with the D15, with some interesting diversion but little overall progress. I became more and more disillusioned by the whole thing that by the end of January railway modelling had sunk to a low nadir. I went to the SECC at the end of Feb having firmly decided to pack it all in and do something with 4mm RTR. As it was nothing was done and the revealing emergency meant that wholescale change wasn't going to happen either.
Yesterday I was forced into the workshop for the first time in two months to do a domestic repair to a freezer drawer. This done, I surveyed things with a renewed interest, put a few bits away in boxes and sat down with paper and pen to make a list. One of my failings is an initial surge of enthusiasm followed by boredom, for example fitting door handles to carriages, the first one is interesting the rest is boring repetition, I rather too readily give up.
I have decided that the D15 can for the time being be packed away and ignored, I cannot find enough interest to further it. I made a list of partly done projects which goes,
Finish LNER N15
Finish SR Van B
Finish LMS BG
Finish LNER Twin Bolster
Finish upgrading LNER A5
Finish SR 5 plank open
Finish SR pillbox brake van
Sort out LNER J36 & C15 running
Sort out SR C class drive train
Sort out wagon rewheeling.
You'll notice that "Finish" and "Sort out " appear quite a lot, and when I say with something of a shamed face that the SR wagons are ABS kits from easily 30 years ago and the N15 hasn't been touched in 16 years, the scale of the issue is obvious. Now just at the moment lack of time is not an excuse and the list is not necessarily the order they will be done but I am determined that this must be tackled. I don't feel they warrant individual threads so by and large various updates will appear here from time to time.
Regards
Martin