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All Through the City - Dr.Feelgood

Walking the Dog - Rufus Thomas

One Great Thing - Big Country

Fast Car - Tracy Chapman

I Know What I Like - Huey Lewis & The News

Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now -The Smiths

When I Write the Book - Nick Lowe

Philadelphia Freedom - Elton John

Not too much modelling activity of late, although further playing around with my modest airbrush kit had the effect of making me want to do more of it! Missed a nice secondhand Iwata outfit on EBay by about three seconds (t'other fella got a bargain I reckon!) but this moment of madness further enhanced the desire to spend money, however the element of common sense remaining meant having to settle for the rather more modest and comparatively cheap as chips "A186" compressor with air tank and two new airbrushes that seem to have sold in very large numbers. It should at least have a bit more "puff" than my tentative first buy; should be with me next week so we'll see how it goes... Will bung a few photosof my weathering attempts to date somewhere in the forum in the near future for comment and critique. Meanwhile, I'm on the first stage of some hilly bits of landscape on Tillingham, my Southern style 00 layout, and a combination of 10mm foam sheet and cardboard has created a small section up to it's raised townscape back half. I was going to just stuff bits of newspaper in to fill out under plaster bandage, but then thought I'd try making an undersurface with thin perforated aluminium sheet, held in place with 5 minute epoxy and see how that works out before tackling a larger area, hopefully without any blobs of the super-sticky stuff landing unnoticed on any adjacent track..... As they were jolly cheap, bought a pair of the little Hornby class 06 shunters as repaint and weathering projects - yes I know, you wouldn't have found many of those south of the Scottish border - but oh dear me, I now have ideas about a little factory/brewery/distillery layout on a spare 4x2 baseboard I've got - and I've barely got cracking on the infrastructure of the current project! I gather I am not alone in this kind of modelling folly..... PS new kit turned up this afternoon, three days ahead of schedule - will be eager to give it a proper go, but all seems to work

Summer of '69 - Bryan Adams

Lets Spend the Night Together - The Rolling Stones

For Ladies Only - Steppenwolf

One Great Thing - Big Country

I Walk the Line - Johnny Cash

Where Do We Go From Here? - Chicago

Just caught up with your thread, great stuff, both the layout and the way you've presented it here. Very inspirational

Now that was easy. Having figured out how running on my layout might actually work, I'd though for a while that an extra siding in the behind-the-scenic-bit fiddle yard might be good. Started 4 pm yesterday, pulled up the old siding (on the left), installed a Peco turnout recently purchased secondhand along with some other odd bits of track, and stuck the new shorter one - just long enough for a single coach autotrain (appropriate rolling stock yet to come) alongside my "Thumper" DMU, job done by 5.15, and glue left to dry. All works well. Using DeLuxe Materials Speedbond for track laying actually works pretty well, because a little bit of it goes a long way; it grips well, but if you need to tear it up again, using a steel ruler under the sleepers pops it off with a twitch of the wrist, you can re-use the track, and it does indeed dry speedily. The siding in the foreground of the pic will also be coming up. This will be my "goods yard/quarry" further down the line from Tillingham, changed to a cassette system for turning round and changing stock and locos. Trying to get a workable layout into 4 x 4 feet is proving not only possible, but fun too. MDF and some light aluminium angle should fit the bill, at about 21" for each cassette. No 30/40 wagon freights on my line; that you can't do!

The Size of a Cow - The Wonder Stuff

That bit of ,"trackbed" was close to the seaplane site, Phil, you're right, so could have been something to do with that. Would they perhaps has laid additional sleepers to make vehicle access across the track do you think? Interesting area altogether.

I saw another post, on YouTube, an American guy who built his own cheap booth, which he uses on top of the kitchen cooker, and has it hooked up to his own filter in place of the one in the cooker hood! Must have a very understanding Mrs..... His kitchen looked too tidy and clean to be for a single fella!