34091 Weymouth
Western Thunderer
Back in 2019 I was in my garage & found a piece of 9mm ply offcut. I thought that I am sure I could put a layout on it & so messed with some smp templates & conjured up this inglenook style shunting layout. The concept was to be a small mill complex based on Salts mill in Saltaire near Bradford.
It got shelved & forgotten about it & it's sat in the garage ever since. I dug it out & had another look at it to see if anything could be done with it. I had planned to do a new layout however money is tight & I've enough industrials to finish off or already built to make a layout with.
![20220906_215924.jpg 20220906_215924.jpg](https://www.westernthunder.co.uk/data/attachments/170/170022-4de848f3c98571343557f2cc2e39bb42.jpg)
![20220906_215935.jpg 20220906_215935.jpg](https://www.westernthunder.co.uk/data/attachments/170/170023-5aea5b5779524f9f7766099df6158ffb.jpg)
The layout now in my workshop In the house.
I'm going to totally change the concept to a small colliery based here in Yorkshire. I'm going to remove some track & relay it without the original cobbled area I made. I'm going to add a small extention on to the right so the wagons can go under some screens so it looks more realistic & better to operate. The canal is going to become a spoil heap & maybe a weighbridge. Basically I'm going to make it up as I go along.
I've been bashing an old airfix engine shed into a little industrial shed for the colliery.
![20220904_123017.jpg 20220904_123017.jpg](https://www.westernthunder.co.uk/data/attachments/170/170024-9751512aed3d5163455c6346f09a34db.jpg)
![20220904_162733.jpg 20220904_162733.jpg](https://www.westernthunder.co.uk/data/attachments/170/170025-9d74916ccdf50213a8cf915a7d727815.jpg)
![20220904_162724.jpg 20220904_162724.jpg](https://www.westernthunder.co.uk/data/attachments/170/170026-6b8817a47387b339926d7dbb2341ea1f.jpg)
This weekend I'm going to do a bit to get the last parts of trackwork done & wiring so it is completed in that respect. I think I've got enough timber to make the backscenes & then with a bit of luck it should start to come together & look a bit more like a scene out of the 70s.
Si
It got shelved & forgotten about it & it's sat in the garage ever since. I dug it out & had another look at it to see if anything could be done with it. I had planned to do a new layout however money is tight & I've enough industrials to finish off or already built to make a layout with.
![20220906_215924.jpg 20220906_215924.jpg](https://www.westernthunder.co.uk/data/attachments/170/170022-4de848f3c98571343557f2cc2e39bb42.jpg)
![20220906_215935.jpg 20220906_215935.jpg](https://www.westernthunder.co.uk/data/attachments/170/170023-5aea5b5779524f9f7766099df6158ffb.jpg)
The layout now in my workshop In the house.
I'm going to totally change the concept to a small colliery based here in Yorkshire. I'm going to remove some track & relay it without the original cobbled area I made. I'm going to add a small extention on to the right so the wagons can go under some screens so it looks more realistic & better to operate. The canal is going to become a spoil heap & maybe a weighbridge. Basically I'm going to make it up as I go along.
I've been bashing an old airfix engine shed into a little industrial shed for the colliery.
![20220904_123017.jpg 20220904_123017.jpg](https://www.westernthunder.co.uk/data/attachments/170/170024-9751512aed3d5163455c6346f09a34db.jpg)
![20220904_162733.jpg 20220904_162733.jpg](https://www.westernthunder.co.uk/data/attachments/170/170025-9d74916ccdf50213a8cf915a7d727815.jpg)
![20220904_162724.jpg 20220904_162724.jpg](https://www.westernthunder.co.uk/data/attachments/170/170026-6b8817a47387b339926d7dbb2341ea1f.jpg)
This weekend I'm going to do a bit to get the last parts of trackwork done & wiring so it is completed in that respect. I think I've got enough timber to make the backscenes & then with a bit of luck it should start to come together & look a bit more like a scene out of the 70s.
Si
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