Updates on this blog have been a little sparse this year - it has all been a little hectic! We are already one house move down this year and are just going through buying our forever home. Optimistically we will be in by Xmas, but this coupled with some hideous deadlines at work, has meant that there has been precious little modelling time available. Hopefully this will improve after November, but until then the best I can hope for is the odd evening of wagon building. However, it is not all doom and gloom on the modelling front. Focusing on wagon building has meant I have finally got some wagons finished off. The Slaters vanwide build is now complete!
My first Slaters wagon took about 4 years to build, the second one took a year and the vanwide took about 6 months! Now I have got then hang of building the Slaters kits, I am optimistic I can pick up the progress with building some wagons for the layout. I have just started building a Slaters conflat and I have picked up the Parkside SR brake Vvn that I started about 9 years ago (it is frightening how much time has passed!). I have plenty of kits currently in the pile and am looking to build 3 or 4 milk tankers and some parcels stock over the next year. In other modelling, the ballasting has been started on the layout, although unfortunately, this has stopped pat way through and the layout has been packed down. I just do not have enough time to spend on the layout at the moment and I am waiting until Christmas when I can get the layout set up to do some serious detailing. I have the backscenes all ready to fit, so I am just waiting for some time to finish ballasting, add in the backscenes and start the scenery in earnest.
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