To Meander Along Or Rise To The Challenge?
The cottage has been at this stage for a while now. But in the last few days a chicken coup (Langley Models kit), alongside a greenhouse and shed (Petite Properties kits) have been added. A pig sty (Friend’s resin castings covered in wrinkly tin) that will sit at the bottom of the garden has been half built until I ran out of superglue and a water column kit (PLM Castaways) I had has had some fettling to see if it will be suitable for the layout.
This continued productivity of converting flat pack kits into built ones at last pleases me.
There is a reason behind this productivity and has been driven by an email received a couple of weeks back. Over a year ago, at Mickleover in January 2023, chatting to a fellow 7mm Narrow Gauge Association member who was looking for layouts for Burton, when asked, I’d tentatively suggested that June 2024 was a possibility with Neil Blair’s ‘Elsbridge’ pencilled in for 2023. Wi the all that then happened in 2023 and ‘Wheal Ponder’ not appearing at Mickleover this January, I’d not thought any more of it and had been meandering along in my own procrastinating way interspersed by bouts of progress on the layout. Then I received an email asking if I was confirming ‘Wheal Ponder’ for Burton in June this year. With the tone of the email suggesting that my attendance was expected.
Well… stick or twist was the choice. Do I decline and meander along, or do I accept the challenge and crack on with the layout? A quick straw poll of modelling mates suggested I should pull my finger out and rise to the challenge. A chat with my better half didn’t dismiss the idea and I remembered that this was supposed to be a quick project and not a lifetime’s work.
The challenge is on! So far, accepting the deadline challenge of Burton appears to be the right choice. Ask me again in another month and see whether I still think that way.
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