To Boldly G-oo
For the last thirty years I have been happily modelling in 7mm scale. However, recently I’ve succumbed to making a couple of purchases in oo scale…. Don’t worry, there will not be a whole sale shift back to the smaller scale. These are for a project that is happening with my Father to give him somewhere to run some trains now they’ve moved to a bungalow. At the moment, I’m building some baseboards for the project, which will be a North Eastern region branch line terminus. Whilst mostly set in his preferred 1950s / 1960s period, thanks to some of the more recent rtr developments, we should be able to backdate the layout on occasions to pre-grouping. The layout is to feature a contractor’s railway for a dam building project in the upper valley and it is for this part of the layout that I have succumbed to purchasing two rtr locos. The second arrived yesterday is the exquisite Rapido L class Manning Wardle. Seen here having a test run on Wheal Ponder. The livery is exquisite, as is t...
