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The baseboard structure is now mainly complete I took a few days off to concentrate on moving the White Sands Quay project forward.

I have had one of Nigel Lawton's Bachmann re-motoring kits for a long time now and one of my engines packed up recently so I set about my first bit of modelling for the first time in a few months.

Loxley Barton Falls will be at Brighton Model World Exhibition this year.

Magazine cover with Withywindle Mill as the main image.

My pizza layout, Withywindle Mill, has won the competition it was built for - the GDNGRS Pizza layout competition!

I was asked last year to exhibit Loxley Barton Falls at the 2007 Norbury & South London Transport Club's exhibition on the 10th and 11th November.

Amberley was great fun.

Loxley Barton Falls features in the modelling section of Narrow Gauge World edition 53 September /October 2007 - there is a big grin on my face right now.

Withywindle Mill is progressing though perhaps not quite as quick as I would like as the exhibition at Amberley is next month - 6 weeks away.

I am building a new layout and have decided to name it Withywindle Mill.

Recently I purchased an unusual HOe locomotive from Japan.

I spent the weekend up at the NEC with the GDNGRS exhibiting Richard Glovers Pagham Harbour.

Well yesterday was a very long day.

Well it's ExpoNG 2006 tomorrow which reminds me that this time last year I had taken some time off work and was busily finishing things off - a lot of things on the layout!

I had a great time at the show.

Loxley Barton is booked in for the Croydon Model Railway Society annual Exhibtion on the 7th and 8th of October - this weekend coming.

So there it is with the driver and curtain in the doorway you cannot see that the cab is completley full of motor!

I spent some time over the weekend getting my old SimAir compressor out of storage, been meaning to do this for quite a while, and rescuing my airbrushes from the loft.

Yesterday I completed the Meridian Models MM3 kit of a Ruston Hornsby 27-32.

Loxley Barton Falls had its first (and only so far) invite to attend another exhibition during ExpoNG2005 from Gerry Cork of Amberley Working Museum, to their Railway Gala weekend June 8th and 9th 2006.

Wuhooo!

Last night on the very quite train home (during England’s match) my train was passed by the Brighton Express.

Is someone stealing your content?

Dashes vs Underscores is an ongoing debate about whether it is better to use a dash, or hyphen, in file name or to use an underscore instead.

2 ton iron coal wagon kit by A Knights Work My Easter 2006 project was a 2 ton iron coal wagon kit by A Knights Work which I purchased a couple of months ago to test my soldering skills - or lack of them.

Just dug up an old 009 Society leaflet I picked up from Imrex 90 - 16 years ago!

The Greenwich and District Narrow Gauge Railway Society have a new website for the ExpoNG exhibition - www.expong.org.

I was given the Scaloox starter pack for Christmas and I decided to have a go at building the water tower and coaling stage which was a good simple project to test out this new building form.

This one really bugged me.

The 2006 January edition of the Railway Modeller has a two page spread of the ExpoNG including a very good picture of Loxley Barton Falls and a small mention in the text.

This year I have been eating a lot more Japanese food - mainly because I really like it but also because its good quality food.

Only 8 and a half hours before the public get to see Loxley Barton Falls.

I genuinely cannot believe this - I won!

I realised this morning that the Gallery images did not contain any of the final model as it went to ExpoNG 2005 yesterday.

Hunslet 2-6-2 Locomotive No. 07 is a Parkside Dundas kit built by me in the early 1990's.

Today I filled in the waterfall and stream.

This weekend I have finished painting the lock gates.

Southwold Sharpie Locomotive No. 6 is partially constructed with the chassis complete and most of the body work in place.

Locomotive number 04 is a GEM Baldwin kit on a Grafar chassis.

Roco diesel Classic Roco 060 diesel dark green with black roof.

Loxley Barton Falls is a 009 gauge railway layout built for the Cubic Challenge competition held at the 2005 ExpoNG Narrow Gauge Railway Exhibition in Swanley, Kent, UK on October 29th.

Baldwin Locomotive No. 03 Locomotive number 03 is a GEM Baldwin kit on a Grafar chassis.

In October 2004 I visited the EXPONG exhibition in Swanley held by the Greenwich and District Narrow Gauge Railway Society (GDNGRS).

Ffestiniog Prince.

Ffestiniog double Fairlie Not one to shirk a challenge I purchased this Langley kit of a Ffestiniog Double Fairlie.

I'm always thinking about accessibility when I'm building web sites - I know I don't get it completely right all the time!

I am drinking a cup of water from a bottle of sparkling mineral water from Wales.

Just about every album I purchase these days has a track with an extra bit of music tacked on the end, usually the last track with a massive silent gap in between.

I spotted a small piece on page three of our local free Paper, The Croydon Guardian - dated February 16 2005.

We went to see A Very Long Engagement at the cinema on Saturday night.