The cost of modelling and rising overheads!!

Yo Ho Ho,,, it's a festive play on words!!!

and before we start don't worry about the lack of verticality or right angularness of the perpendiculars,, then just relax as they are NOT properly mounted yet,, [ho ho as if anybody would bother to offer any constructive comment,,,, when all they are doing is sitting waiting for me to install a big thumbs up button!!!]

Went with "westerner" to the Peterboro show yesterday,,,,mmm,,, not so much a model railway exhibition as a model railway trade fair with a few guesting working layout,,,, but the good news was I managed to get most of the bits for installing the overhead system for the tram.

So dear followers the end of the Solar Powered tram system draws ever closer,,, mind you if this overhead game turns out to be as fiddly as it looks we may yet revert to the solar system,,,, just don't tell the purists.

Talking of purists we have been heartily entertained by all the froth,, shock, anger and awe related to the forthcoming generic short wheelbase coaches,,,, what is the problem??? back in the days of yore everybody and his brother was cutting up Triang clerestories to make all manner of generic nightmares,,, and just to prove the point take a look at this little gem!!!

Here is something else I really should get round to finishing,,, but will I  ?? because very soon I can go and splash just 40 or 50 squidly's on something just about as accurate,, albeit with a roof,,,, but dear followers  the reality is a very definitely YES,,, it will be finished. [eventually]   

I cannot measure the monetary value of all the fun and damage I can have by dervishly wielding my Exacto brain surgeons saw for a couple of hours,, it  far outweighs the £50 I could be giving to some organisation who don't care if it is accurate or not as they just want to swell the corporate coffers.

I can save myself some hard pensioned dosh and have all the fun of achieving a similar result,,, it's a no brainer really,, mind you I might change my mind when they eventually appear and turn out to be a comprehensive range of veritable little crackers!!

I tossed my horsehair shirt into the bin around the same time I decided buying a couple of cwt's of Viagra would,,for me,, be a complete waste of time and effort,,,, 

I do this modelling lark to enjoy myself,, even have fun,, not keep the rivet counters fully energised,,, and if people enjoy desecrating old Triang banana-esque carriages then good on em,,,, and if collecting slightly suspect coaching stock releases their endomorphins then long may they continue to enjoy themselves.

By the way,, I counted all my rivets the other day and I still have 17,,, and they are still hiding in the same tin they were in the last time I counted them,, which must have been in the last millenium!!!  Oh Happy Days!!!