Over the last few weeks I have been been building yet more kits. I have got a bit stuck with the SR brake van and my enthusiasm for dabbling in 0 gauge ebbed a little. Instead I cracked on with more 00 gauge wagon kits. However, the part finished Parkside 13t sand wagon got finished one evening this week. This project just needed a dedicated few hours to see it through, and only having the odd hour here or there I did not want to spoil it by rushing. Last weekend saw a dedicated evening of modelling and building this model is now finished and gets added to a growing number of projects awaiting the paint shop.
With this wagon finished it has certainly rekindled by enthusiasm for building some more 0 gauge kits. The Dapol class 08 is on order and I am very tempted to put an advance order in for a Heljan 0 gauge class 25 - but I need to check first whether it comes with a factory fitted DCC socket - the previous releases have not and this has stopped me parting with hard earned dosh. The idea of having to hard wire lights and decoder into an expensive 0 gauge locomotive I find a little daunting.
Anyhow coupled up with the grampus wagon I am starting to wonder about building two layouts consecutively in the future. A small 0 gauge shunting plank and actually getting around too finishing the larger 00 gauge Pottington Quay. All layout building/wagon painting is on hold until we move into our new place, which has been put back again from this summer. However, when we do move I am definitely keen to build a little 0 gauge plank layout and run some of these wagons - a small engineering siding me thinks. Until then, I guess I will keep building away and dreaming of future layouts.
