03-14-2011, 05:29 PM
Hi All
Please may I introduce myself?
Not only am I newbie to this forum but also to Model Railroading in general, my interest being sparked around Christmas time when quite by accident , I discovered Mr. Keith Jordan's inspirational website : 'The Patch' <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.bobsgardenpath.com/ATSF_ThePatch.html">http://www.bobsgardenpath.com/ATSF_ThePatch.html</a><!-- m -->, with which many of you on this side of the Pond will no doubt be familiar.
As a resident of the United Kingdom, I have been fascinated - in the main by British Railways (steam of course
) - by model railways since childhood, although my interest to date was merely as an armchair modeller, never actually having the confidence to have a go, apart from pottering that is (and the less said about that the better!). In a nutshell: I've never built a model railway :oops:
Anyway, I joined a national forum last year and was inspired to 'have a go' and to cut a long story short, I decided on a steam era layout set on the south coast of England in the late 1950s early 1960s. However, due to the distractions of life, interest wained and things gradually drew to a halt until I discovered Keith's site that is
So that was it: hooked and reinvigorated, I dusted off the cobwebs from my earlier humble offering and sat pondering where to start.
Consequently, today, I have at long last taken the plunge and started that long overdue blog <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php/blog/765-jontes-blog/">http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index. ... ntes-blog/</a><!-- m --> which will, hopefully, catalogue the handfisted attempts of a would-be modeller with skills that don't match his enthusiasm to turn an embrionic 4mm scale 'OO' gauge British based 'steam' layout into a 3.5mm scale 'HO' gauge American 'diesel' railroad that might just be considered worthy(?) of a quick 'once over' from you many gifted souls on the other side of the Atlantic - and elsewhere, Kurt
- who so regularly contribute, in my opinion, wonderful works of art to this absolutely brilliant forum.
Please be gentle with me and forgive any anachronisms or other 'wild assumptions' on my part that might cause offence.
Best wishes to you All and thanks for the great ideas and inspiration.
Jonte
Please may I introduce myself?
Not only am I newbie to this forum but also to Model Railroading in general, my interest being sparked around Christmas time when quite by accident , I discovered Mr. Keith Jordan's inspirational website : 'The Patch' <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.bobsgardenpath.com/ATSF_ThePatch.html">http://www.bobsgardenpath.com/ATSF_ThePatch.html</a><!-- m -->, with which many of you on this side of the Pond will no doubt be familiar.
As a resident of the United Kingdom, I have been fascinated - in the main by British Railways (steam of course
) - by model railways since childhood, although my interest to date was merely as an armchair modeller, never actually having the confidence to have a go, apart from pottering that is (and the less said about that the better!). In a nutshell: I've never built a model railway :oops: Anyway, I joined a national forum last year and was inspired to 'have a go' and to cut a long story short, I decided on a steam era layout set on the south coast of England in the late 1950s early 1960s. However, due to the distractions of life, interest wained and things gradually drew to a halt until I discovered Keith's site that is
So that was it: hooked and reinvigorated, I dusted off the cobwebs from my earlier humble offering and sat pondering where to start.
Consequently, today, I have at long last taken the plunge and started that long overdue blog <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php/blog/765-jontes-blog/">http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index. ... ntes-blog/</a><!-- m --> which will, hopefully, catalogue the handfisted attempts of a would-be modeller with skills that don't match his enthusiasm to turn an embrionic 4mm scale 'OO' gauge British based 'steam' layout into a 3.5mm scale 'HO' gauge American 'diesel' railroad that might just be considered worthy(?) of a quick 'once over' from you many gifted souls on the other side of the Atlantic - and elsewhere, Kurt
- who so regularly contribute, in my opinion, wonderful works of art to this absolutely brilliant forum.Please be gentle with me and forgive any anachronisms or other 'wild assumptions' on my part that might cause offence.
Best wishes to you All and thanks for the great ideas and inspiration.
Jonte