NHY 581

There's a couple of nice images of Ewe therein. Many thanks, Rob

Sounds like the aftermath of a good Madras.

Morning Chris, Do you know, I'm actually enjoying the unclutterment. It is something which I accept hasn't always been succesfully managed but I feel more inclined to start on something walking into the room as it looks. I've still got jobs to do. Sheep Dip needs connecting up and there are a few more books to move in and bits and bobs to rehouse. But for now, I'm quite enjoying being able to plonk myself down with a cup of coffee and flick through MRJ or just look around. Sorting the Room of Doom is one of the best things I've done in relation to railway modelling. Rob

Morning Steves, Yes they are indeed the Rapido W&U tramway coaches and very lovely they are. Obviously out of period as passenger services ceased on the W&U in the late '20s ( 1928 off the top of my woolley head ). They are gorgeous little things and will, at some point have some attention paid to them. ( there is a reason for a delay which will be expanded upon in due course ) Sadly, Ewe is the wrong layout for them. It was, after all, always going to be goods only so a more passenger orientated layout would be needed. I've thought sboutca bit of remodelling of Ewe but I'm leaving well alone. The new layout which has always been seen as a tradtional passenger serving terminus could be adapted. I am thinking that the platform could follow the Kelvedon and Tollesbury with it's low platforms. ( 15 inches ?) This is of course where these coaches ended up and they'd look quite at home accompanied by an adapted 4whl brake and pulled by an Accurascale J67/8/9. But.........what do we then do with the GER J70 trainpacks which are rapidly ( no pun intended ) approaching release..? So is there a 'need' to think of a more passenger orientated W&U layout/ module ?.....is this what the breakfast tables are destined for...? Rob

It is fair, Michael. Price is something that does crop up in relation to Rapido products, but unfairly in my opinion. These delightful little chaps will retail ( full RRP ) at £139.95 DCC Ready or £249.95 DCC Sound. By comparison......Dapol's forthcoming Hawthorn Leslie is currently priced at full RRP as follows; DCC Ready £126.36 DCC Fitted £164.16 DCC Sound £266.36 Hornby's forthcoming Peckett W4s are only available DCC ready @ either £120.99 or £127.49 depending on which of the three versions you go for. You can add ( conservatively) £120.00 plus fitting to obtain a DCC Sound version. Agreed the DCC ready version is more expensive than the competition based on full RRP but arguably not overly so and the sound fitted model is bang on the money. These will sell very well and do well for Rapido. I'm sure there will be no need for Rapido to lower themselves to flogging models of the L&NER equivalent of Trigger's broom......... Rob

Jonners, Where on earth are you finding PECO Code 100 for £18 a length. That's outrageous ! RRP is £5.26. Next time jump on the bus and support your local model shop rather than wasting your money on line. I'll even get the kettle on. Rob

Wozzn't me, Guv ! Gor blimey strike a light, cross me 'art. I never dun nuffin. Honest Guv. It wuz 'em wot dun it.........bu I never seen nuffin.

You missed the early Southern A7 version as well, Steve.......And I am struggling over the E.K.R version............ Don't ask. Rob.

Spiffing.

Well, that has caused a major financial incident to be declared............

Morning Rob, I know what you mean but I also get a huge amount of inspiration from the interaction with the lovely group of people who visit this thread. Rob.

Morning all, Thank you. I've never had something like this for a hobby room and it's taken a long time to get to this point. Worth the wait ? Definitely. Still a bit to do though. I have quite a few bits and bobs to find homes for so there is still work to do but I'm obviously extremely happy with the results so far. But for now, I can't help but just pause to sit in there and look around. Rob.

And Sheep Dip's loftier perch. More still to do on this side but enough is enough for now. Top row will eventually have glass doors/ glass shelves. Rob.

View from The Desk of Doing......

Evening all, Well...............getting there. Ewe has a new perch.

Top stuff, Nick. Always a bit of a mile stone to get something running. Good to see. Rob

Morning Winners, Yes. Good point. Over the last few years now, I only buy magazines which have a feature within that I actually want. Normally these relate to members on here, my 'Mate's Trainsets'. The exception to this is MRJ for which I have all copies, something I set about completing when I retired. For years I religiously bought several magazines, month in, month out. I've cleared pretty much all of those now, literally hundreds of mags have been thrown out over the last couple of years. My MRJs are the single largest group by far and of all of them, they are the least 'negotiable'. I've also got a couple of years ( literally two 1980/81 ) of Model Trains. I keep these as a reminder of how as a teenager, I started to try a more prototypical approach to my modelling.........five or so years later, I bought my first copy of MRJ. Anyhow.............school run done, second coffee finished. Somebody collecting bed this morning, tip run to organise, garage to tidy and Room of Doom to progress............. Rob.

Morning all, The rebuild continues this morning. With some items back in situ, the retrieval process moves to the attic where I'm hoping to locate the rather large box of wagons and a few more locos............as well as the assorted books and the MRJ Collection. Once that's done, if space allows, I can move some more books up from the library in the living room.......... It's all go..... Rob.

Correct.

Holy accumulated crap !!!...............

Morning Paul, Yes. In theory two though it will be snug. I envisage Sheep Dip will be to the rear and the new layout will run right to left. They'll be at a height around that which they are normally exhibited at, maybe a bit higher. Another set of shelves will be behind where I took the photo from and that will have EWE on it. They will be lower. A larger Desk of Doing will be to the right, Winners, hanging from the shelves and will sit in front of the out of shot window. It will be cosy but believe it or not I actually have more free space and definately more storage space..........until the arrival of the 'stuff' that is....then we'll see about that ! Rob

Ahem... Micro layouts...

Bless ewe !!!!

Progress........... I thank ewe.