This is the latest model to grace my workbench (aka the dining room table).
Masterclass Models GC Lowmac
This is an etched nickel-silver kit which will build into one of several variants of this long-lived design. I've chosen to construct mine as one of the Great Central Railway wagons (mainly because I have some suitable transfers). The photo shows progress to date - I need to add brake levers, buffers and couplings before it can be painted. Then I need to think about adding a load of some description! This will then join my rake of pre-grouping stock.
I have also decided to enter the Golden Jubilee Layout Challenge, and have spent a bit of time working on the plans for my entry, although they are still far from complete. The basic idea is to model a small North Eastern Railway wayside station based on those in the Ryedale area of North Yorkshire, complete with a small goods yard. The layout will be set in the 1950's/60's (a few years before closure of most of these lines), for the simple reason that there is a far greater choice of locomotives and rolling stock than earlier periods. As the deadline is a little over 2 years away, I figured that the less I had to build, the more chance I had of completing the challenge!
Baseboards will be constructed from foamcore (a polystyrene/cardboard sheet material commonly using in graphic design) supported on Ikea 'Ivar' bookshelf components.
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Ikea 'Ivar' bookcase components (the ones I'm using aren't as tall as these!)
Progress has been limited so far to building a sample of baseboard (to see how robust it would be) and soldering-up a few lengths of straight track (using the recently introduced Versaline components). I'll try and post some progress updates here in due course.
Andy
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