Armchair modelling – for those of us with no time or space!

Well this is me kicking off my blog. Never done one before so bear with me.

I’m sure there are thousands of us – armchair modellers – who pore over the various track plans, railway mags and have a growing collection of rolling stock with nowhere to run!

So this blog is for us. Those with no time and certainly no space. Lets see where it goes. You never know, I may just start actually making a railway layout *shock*!

So what’s currently on my virtual workbench? Well my current line of thinking is the idea of a coffee table layout. I have a collection of old Hornby stuff from my childhood – but with no space, I started collecting N Gauge about 8 years ago and now have quite a collection of Farish, Dapol and Peco stock. I even built a baseboard – it was 4’*3′ – but it was very badly made and there was never any time to actually do anything with it! Back then I had no kids, but with 2 small boys now there’s even less time!

My eldest son loves cars, trains and anything that goes and he has been given lots of Brio / ELC stuff – I made him some tables to put it on (with help from my father in law) and he loves just making layouts. So – back to that coffee table. So the theory goes, I could build a new table for him – I’m thinking about the 4’*2.5′ sort of size – but, like a coffee table, with a shelf underneath for an N Gauge layout. It could even be like a box on legs – with his table top being the lid for my layout underneath.