Seeing double.

Well today the four N-drive chassis' arrived in the post, so I can finally put a decent chassis underneath the Earl and start to build Merddin Emrys (in 1962 condition).
The photos below are of two of the N-drive chassis under the earl. N drive chassis on their own and a photo of the parts I've collected to make Merddin.
Hopefully most of the work on these engines will be done tonight.

Don't worry, things are still happening.

Well, firstly I apologise for my absence on here. It's been a busy 2 months, with car failures, work, ACF courses and family stuff. TMR will appear at the F&WHRs event 'Great and Small' on September 6-8th at Dinas. More info will be shared closer to the time. The layout is coming along nicely. There is a new scenic 'cob' board that should be operational at G&S along with a new larger fiddle yard. More info will be posted on the layout and rolling stock that will be running soon. Meanwhile it's back to modelling!

Extensions

The weekend was spent with Marrin Neeves building two new baseboards. A Cob board was built to go between the Workshops and Porthmadog Board that is 6ft long.
The second board that was built was a fiddle yard. It is 50% longer than the previous so it could hold more than two full length trains.
There will also be enough space for a digital photo frame for photos of the layout being built etc.
Now some tracks and wiring need to go in.

More work on the panel.

More work is being done on the control panel. All of the switches and most of the LEDs in the mimic panel have been installed.
The switches have been colour coded similar to usual signalling practices.
Red 'levers' control the signals, black control points. Then the yellow ones control the insulating sections and the green switches control which controller will power a specific section.
Now i just need to wait for some LEDs to turn up in the post, throw in some wires and it will all be finished!