>>8571636Okay, so I went AWOL for a while, but I have some updates.
I am planning to make a small linear model train layout still, but the project has been pushed forwards. Why has it been pushed forwards? Because I've just been put on 3 months of paid leave from work, due to COVID. So I'm thinking of starting a small linear layout, featuring a shunting yard as the main focal point.
The idea is the track to the left heads to a coal mine, and the track is awful, which means a 2 truck Heisler locomotive in British Rail or Nation Coal Board black will serve the line because they're too lazy to fix the track. (Not outside the realms of possibillity, bar American engine on UK rails - and even that's if we ignore the S160 and S100 the Americans gave us during the war) and the East is where the usual British stock comes in to take the coal trucks away.
The suggestion of a village served by the yard will be there too, for a little added interest and operational fun and shunting.
The technical elements will involve 2 or 3 free standing boards, 2 straight and maybe 1 L section, depending on my progress and how lazy I'm feeling. The focus will be one modelling, rather than it being a train set. So I'll use as much finescale stuff as I possibly can.
I'm also hoping to stream the progress too. I'm not going to shill myself here, but I suspect there could potentially be another lockdown in February and I wanna do something nice for the other comfy autists out there.
tl;dr - I'm making an autism magnet.
>>8572258I remember that bellend too. Well I recently got an old Rivarossi Heilser and I want to do something neat with it. So I'll be buying another body shell for it and modifying it with British hardware, like Buffers, vacuum breaks, numbering, and lamp irons.
