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…
With the track down, wired and tested; time for a little painting. In days of yore I would do this with a brush and it took an age. Now I wait for a reasonable day, take things outside and use the Nevard-lifted method of two or three colours of Halford…
The weekend saw a push to get a rake of vac-braked 16 tonners painted up. These representing what must have been the last use of these on scrap traffic. With four left to do it was a case of looking at Paul Bartlett’s excellent wagon photo site an…
