December, 2008

Ah yes, the membership

06 December, 2008

Some years ago i was a member of the 7mm Narrow Gauge Association here in England. While I don't do 7mm, On30 is included as part of the deal - so I realized today I needed to rejoin.

Some things have gotten better here and others have declined. The main ones being, there are more American style narrow gaugers than before (thanks to the rise of 0N30), through mainly Bachmann products (which I personally don't like). The down side is the lack of easily available stuff for North American narrow gauge, especially detail parts and basswood. The 7mm NGA used to have some of these items - which was a help.

On the construction side of things, I've got the base benchwork together and an now seeing just what I can do with it. Having a flat space ready to go helps in planning. I can visualize things better. Basically just a pine frame with ply and a kind of Homesote insulation board (I think it's called Celotex here in England).