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Otto the big engine.

17th August 2018 / / 0 Comments

LGB 0-4-0 Otto

So curiosity got the better of me and I just had to get it out and have a play! That’s what we all do isn’t it? Well I do!

The purpose was to work out if it still worked after years maybe even decades languishing in its box and whether it would either be something to liquidate quickly or to cogitate on not really knowing what the outcome would look like as I have no space to home such large objects. It withstood the test of time and looked, well brand new, untouched in fact. Rather too quickly I was enamoured with its presence and heft. Yes I have seen G scale before but only paid attention because of the Swiss RhB stuff but never really thought much about owning the ‘premier garden rail scale’ far from it as I always thought only lottery winners had the where with all to build in this scale. A quick look at the LGB site advises that the Allegra set I have in N scale is a mere £2500 in G and that’s just one unit. Imagine a modest layout probably costing upwards of 20k But that’s all hypothetical, as purely on its physical size it would need a rather large land grab to have anything half way decent. This was my initial thought unboxing the train-set, but thoughts started to circulate and surmising what a minimum space micro layout might look like, even a very simple inglenook would take up six to eight feet. Then there’s the matter of switches, buy or build?

This is when I started having a reality check and realised that the current line of thought was foolish and decided to relieve myself of the temptation for yet another scale and distraction from the the current project however ever compelling. So time to put it back in its box and get it ready for a new owner, someone who will hopefully get more use out of it than I did.

Now back to normal service and getting on with some modelling. I have a couple of mini projects lined up more of which later.

Until next time..

Reading Room 04

3rd August 2018 / / 0 Comments

It’s been a while since my last update nothing worse than a blog that’s not updated so in order to halt the rot here is a post! Life often gets in the way of serious things like modelling which is the case for me over the last month not to mention the unbearably hot weather that seemed to go on forever and didn’t put one in a good frame of mind to sit at the work table and sweat over a hot soldering iron but now we seem to have some more seasonally temperate weather progress can be made. What motivated the mojo return? Well a bunch of envelopes landed on the doormat over the last week also going into my local newsagent and seeing the latest MRJ reminded my that I really need to pull out my finger and get back to building stuff for myself and others. For the moment I have been reading through the latest progress of both model and real railways that I follow and there are some events that sprang to mind that I would like to attend this year. Firstly there’s the 2FS AGM in October which is not that far from me and it would be good to meet up with some friends from 2mil land and then there’s the golden jubilee 2010 layout challenge! Hmmm. I really don’t need to create more distractions for myself and I am assisting a friend by building some track for there challenge, but it is tempting.

Then there’s the steam gala at the Welshpool & Llanfair Light Railway at the beginning of September. This is a bit more of a trip and definitely more logistical challenging. I have long been thinking about trying to do some volunteering for them since my first visit in 2014 but always thought I was too far away to be able to offer much only to then find out from an excellent blog that they have help coming in from Australia! Well that’s some commute and I’m guessing they don’t just pop down to polish the brass of a weekend. So it lead me to think that even though I’m around 170 miles away it’s just a stones throw compared with from the other side of the world. I’m going to look into if I can be of use to them, maybe not for the gala but certainly next year.

Keeping momentum going on a blog is the most important thing in order make the effort of doing it worthwhile and to show to myself that I can make progress if I just stick at it fifteen minutes at a time so expect some more bodging post in the not too distant future.

Until next time..

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