Happy 2018!! Wow. Can't believe its been 3 years since I posted anything on here. The project hasn't stopped - in fact if anything its got bigger (or at least the amount of stock to work on has!!) But a couple of house moves have happened in the meantime, which resulted in all of my models being put safely into storage for about a year and a half, whilst we sorted out temporary accommodation whilst building our new house. I still carried on buying the odd piece here and there (much to my other half's amazement and dismay) and soon filled what little space we had with more goodies - oops! Fast forward to now and things are slowly starting to get sorted. All my stock is now back at our new house and I'm incredibly lucky to have a purpose built modelling room/man cave so as to be able to indulge in some more modelling, restart some of the old projects and contemplate some new ones. Hopefully I'll make a better job of updating this site and show what I'm up to - for anybody out there that is interested. The plan is at some point to start building the layouts in the roof space as we have a huge area available - that however, is a little way off at the moment whilst we concentrate on the other house bits - oh yes and the small matter that we are getting married in April too!! Still theres plenty of stuff to be doing in the meantime.
I have another new interest/distraction too - still connected with railway modelling though you'll be glad to hear. A trip earlier this year was organised for me by my other half, to celebrate a certain milestone birthday! Can't believe I'm that old already - where did the time go? We spent it travelling around Germany on the many types of rail trips that could be had. Even managed to get a VIP trip around Miniatur Wunderland in Hamburg. What can I say - the German DB railway bug bit - and it bit hard. So for the last few months I have been attempting to collect/assemble a selection of German DBAG (modern day German stock) HO rolling stock with the view to building a sister layout to Cradley Bridge. The aptly named Kradlebrucke Hbf will have its own bespoke blog site and hopefully you'll be able to see that whilst a lot of the techniques will be the same - the models certainly are not. Just need to sell another kidney to fund some of the intended purchases as the German stuff isn't cheap and also seems to be quite difficult to get hold of. Have found a few useful suppliers though and part of the fun for me is in the hunt for that elusive bit of rolling stock that you just must have. So check out whats happening on https://kradlebruckemodelrailway.blogspot.com
So folks - its been a long time coming but hopefully now I can look forward to many hours tatting (sorry modelling) and be able to share whats going in Cradley Bridge/Kradlebrucke world and who knows, someone out there might find some of it interesting. Thats all for now folks.
I have another new interest/distraction too - still connected with railway modelling though you'll be glad to hear. A trip earlier this year was organised for me by my other half, to celebrate a certain milestone birthday! Can't believe I'm that old already - where did the time go? We spent it travelling around Germany on the many types of rail trips that could be had. Even managed to get a VIP trip around Miniatur Wunderland in Hamburg. What can I say - the German DB railway bug bit - and it bit hard. So for the last few months I have been attempting to collect/assemble a selection of German DBAG (modern day German stock) HO rolling stock with the view to building a sister layout to Cradley Bridge. The aptly named Kradlebrucke Hbf will have its own bespoke blog site and hopefully you'll be able to see that whilst a lot of the techniques will be the same - the models certainly are not. Just need to sell another kidney to fund some of the intended purchases as the German stuff isn't cheap and also seems to be quite difficult to get hold of. Have found a few useful suppliers though and part of the fun for me is in the hunt for that elusive bit of rolling stock that you just must have. So check out whats happening on https://kradlebruckemodelrailway.blogspot.com
So folks - its been a long time coming but hopefully now I can look forward to many hours tatting (sorry modelling) and be able to share whats going in Cradley Bridge/Kradlebrucke world and who knows, someone out there might find some of it interesting. Thats all for now folks.
