34091 Weymouth
Western Thunderer
Recently my eldest daughter who's 7 has started to show an interest in my model railways. Its actually funny because when she was younger she had a keen interest but as she's got older she's got a lot more girly & wasn't too keen on my trains anymore.
I don't know how long it will last but whilst she's keen I am not going to stop her from joining in on our wonderful hobby & maybe learning a thing or three along the way.
I would say my little girl is very artistic & so she's keen to do some of the scenic aspects of modelling although I've included her in everything so far.
This project is one of those to use up some bits I've collected & turnouts from a few projects that never got far enough to be laid.
I also happened to find an offcut of ply in the garage that was 5ft long by about 18inch wide. This was laid onto a piece of backing paper in the living room so we could play about with the points & see if we could come up with something.
After a bit of fiddling with came up with a basic terminus station that was inspired from a very old peco trackplan book for the late 50s.
The passing loop will fit my rake of 4 small gwr coaches or a b set in comfortably. I've a load of gwr bits including a lovely model of Aldstrop station & a pretty house both made from card.
I'm going add a small goods shed, crane & cattle dock plus a signal box or ground frame & maybe a pagoda too. Whilst the layout is compact & will be generic at best I do hope it's an enjoyable project for my daughter more than anything.
This afternoon we both went to the local timber merchant & built the frames under the baseboard top & got it ready for tomorrow. We are going to lay some cork in the morning & hopefully get all the track laid by the evening & glued down.
I must admit I do love this train of Buffalo & rake of early gwr coaches. It's a very edwardian looking train. I can see the B set being a little used train in favour of this sort of thing.
Not sure on a name for the layout at present, I was thinking of Lower Slaughter. One of the original ideas I had was to model the lovely water mill at Lower Slaughter in Gloucestershire but so far I've not worked out where it would fit on the layout. The name is certainly a work in progress so we shall see.
That's all for now, hope you like it.
Si & Arya.
Music from the workshop is this little number, absolute belter.
I don't know how long it will last but whilst she's keen I am not going to stop her from joining in on our wonderful hobby & maybe learning a thing or three along the way.
I would say my little girl is very artistic & so she's keen to do some of the scenic aspects of modelling although I've included her in everything so far.
This project is one of those to use up some bits I've collected & turnouts from a few projects that never got far enough to be laid.
I also happened to find an offcut of ply in the garage that was 5ft long by about 18inch wide. This was laid onto a piece of backing paper in the living room so we could play about with the points & see if we could come up with something.
After a bit of fiddling with came up with a basic terminus station that was inspired from a very old peco trackplan book for the late 50s.
The passing loop will fit my rake of 4 small gwr coaches or a b set in comfortably. I've a load of gwr bits including a lovely model of Aldstrop station & a pretty house both made from card.
I'm going add a small goods shed, crane & cattle dock plus a signal box or ground frame & maybe a pagoda too. Whilst the layout is compact & will be generic at best I do hope it's an enjoyable project for my daughter more than anything.
This afternoon we both went to the local timber merchant & built the frames under the baseboard top & got it ready for tomorrow. We are going to lay some cork in the morning & hopefully get all the track laid by the evening & glued down.
I must admit I do love this train of Buffalo & rake of early gwr coaches. It's a very edwardian looking train. I can see the B set being a little used train in favour of this sort of thing.
Not sure on a name for the layout at present, I was thinking of Lower Slaughter. One of the original ideas I had was to model the lovely water mill at Lower Slaughter in Gloucestershire but so far I've not worked out where it would fit on the layout. The name is certainly a work in progress so we shall see.
That's all for now, hope you like it.
Si & Arya.
Music from the workshop is this little number, absolute belter.
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