Just about done here. Took a fair bit longer than I’d hoped. I should know this by now; signal boxes are time thieves. Despite going down the budget/minimalist approach to the interior, this and the painting sucked up a lot of bandwidth. Pretty m…
I thought that I’d better take a look at the instructions.And it was at this point that I did. Possibly slightly arrogant, but the though of constructing this…. and then painting it seemed; well, making life hard for myself. So a day later I ha…
A long, long time ago in the year 2018 BT, a magazine editor warned me off using the Wills signal box kit. ‘Tricky’. So I went down the Dapol route. Now is my chance to find out. TBH the first impressions are good and it looks to be typical Wills…
After having to sign in via half a dozen devices, I am waiting for the point where I can’t get into here at all. If I disappear, that’s probably the issue.Most of the way through the second signal box in as many weeks. This the West Highland item…
The box just about done. This has been a bit of a battle in more ways than one, but I have roughly what I was after. To recap: The top half is a Ratio GWR M&H style small box, picked up part built for a fiver, The lower section is Wills sheet and a…
No section of the above is either finished or fixed, but at that point where you need to get it perched together so get an idea of how it will look. Having a kit without the setting part of a lower section to work to is not a good starting point,…
Working on multiple fronts at the moment. The above is the signal box for Drovers Brook and is the obvious M&H Ratio kit. This was picked up for a fiver off a club stand and came with the bottom half missing, but the important top half unstar…