Morfa is the latest incarnation of my lifelong interest in trains. It's based on the real life location of Morfa Mawddach, but includes numerous deviations that I thought would be an improvement on real life. Hopefully the character and atmosphere remain. These days I'm less interested in reading accounts of how individuals build their models than I am about why they do. Though I'm always up for pertinent questions, I'd like to step away from the norm and concentrate on the reasons behind the choices and the motivation to model. I'll try my hardest to avoid sounding like a pretentious twerp but there's a risk I may not succeed.

Monday, 2 May 2011

Scattergun

Morfa will be a long time coming; when one man tries to fill a big space with hand built models it's inevitable. Reading the railway press it would seem that most layouts are tackled in layers, beginning with the baseboards, working one's way through track, wiring, landscape, coming to a conclusion with with buildings and details. I've an idea that when looked at by the time and motion men this would probably be judged  the most efficient/fastest method. Morfa could daunt if tackled this way, and many of the creative choices stifled at an unnecessarily early stage. I've deliberately gone scattergun, bringing to completion many of the small component parts that will go to make up the whole without much care about their chronological necessity. I therefore find myself with half finished 'proper' track, jury rigged wiring, baseboards lacking the front profile sections, yet some completed structures and road vehicles. By breaking the workload down into manageable chunks measurable progress can be greater than the glacial pace of the whole .....

Transit van (detailed and repainted Trackside) and garage (converted Airfix kit)

MGB (repainted and detailed Cararama) and lock up shop (scratchbuilt in plasticard).

.... but I mainly do this because it pleases me.

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