New server, so time for a new #introduction
I'm a middle-aged partner, mum and software developer who's lived in England, Scotland and Wales, and formed a bit of an attachment to all three. I'm queer, kinky and poly.
I work as a consultant, so have to be a bit vague about what I'm working on right now and for who exactly.
Hobbies include: #crossstitch, #crochet, #Lego, #history, #archaeology, blogging, and anything to do with #trains (especially British signalling and a few particular special-interest railways).
Current profile pic is a draft of a sketch I did of me and @RoseyPosey@lgbtqia.space - you can just about spot her in it!
Current header pic is the Deviation section of the Ffestiniog Railway / Rheilffordd Ffestiniog, roughly between Archer's Dam and the site of Llyn Ystradau station.
My last Fedi profile came with "a partial no-selfie guarantee". Any selfies posted here will be followers-only, and I affirm the right of everyone to not like looking at or posting pics of themselves. That was me for many years, before I grew to love my body. Your own views about yourself are always valid.
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The ticket hall, Cardiff Central train station
#cymru #Cardiff #trains #TrainTravel
Have finally finished going through all my follows on the old account, and following people on this account! So now I can properly consider retiring the old one after preserving important things I will want to preserve
My favourite carb is onara
I think I'm now about 70% of the way through migrating across my follows from my other ("old") Fedi account to this one.
So if you've recently been added: Hi! Yes, it's me!
I mean, I say ideas 3-5 are unrealistic.
Something like Morlais Jn - the spot where the Brecon & Merthyr Railway met the LNWR for their joint line into Merthyr - could be done fairly easily as a "shelf" semi-working diorama, which could then be used as a 2mmFS testbed
And once I have an 009 layout working, I could experiment with building 009 track from 2mmFS components...
Or am I getting ideas... above my station?
The obvious combination of easy and experimentation is the 009 idea. But the German N gauge has a lot of "fun train set" style attraction.
Ideas 3 to 5 are probably waaaaay beyond my current skill level, if I'm being realistic, but would be nice for One Day projects
I mean, I say ideas 3-5 are unrealistic.
Something like Morlais Jn - the spot where the Brecon & Merthyr Railway met the LNWR for their joint line into Merthyr - could be done fairly easily as a "shelf" semi-working diorama, which could then be used as a 2mmFS testbed
The obvious combination of easy and experimentation is the 009 idea. But the German N gauge has a lot of "fun train set" style attraction.
Ideas 3 to 5 are probably waaaaay beyond my current skill level, if I'm being realistic, but would be nice for One Day projects
Also, the 009 and the garden line would be the same fictional railway, an ore mining line in the Rhinogydd running to a harbour roughly where real-world Harlech is
Cait's Possible Model Train Plans: a thread
(5/6)
Something in the garden in 16mm scale/32mm gauge.
Pros:
It's FUN!
I already have a couple of kits, and some bits I printed out
Cons:
It's EXPENSIVE
I'm planning to move house, so I don't have anywhere outside to put it
The obvious combination of easy and experimentation is the 009 idea. But the German N gauge has a lot of "fun train set" style attraction.
Ideas 3 to 5 are probably waaaaay beyond my current skill level, if I'm being realistic, but would be nice for One Day projects
Cait's Possible Model Train Plans: a thread
(5/6)
Something in the garden in 16mm scale/32mm gauge.
Pros:
It's FUN!
I already have a couple of kits, and some bits I printed out
Cons:
It's EXPENSIVE
I'm planning to move house, so I don't have anywhere outside to put it
Cait's Possible Model Train Plans: a thread
(4/6)
Somewhere in Lincolnshire, either in N or 2mm. Possible locations: Louth, somewhere in Grimsby, Woodhall Junction,
Pros:
I know all the area really well
Plenty of RTR stuff available in N nowadays
Cons:
Don't have much of it already
Potentially space needed
Cait's Possible Model Train Plans: a thread
(5/6)
Moorswater in Cornwall, in 4mm (EM or P4), circa 1900, with fictional passenger services added in the Caradon direction
Pros:
Pretty, interesting, unusual
Well-documented
Cons:
Entirely scratchbuilding, probably beyond my skill level atm
Space needed
Coding Cait