Well I've always wanted to give this blogging thing a lash (after watching my mates girlfriend attempt one on minature ponys and greyhound racing) so I reakon I may as well do one on my main hobby: model railroading.
Now I think I must quickly point out I consider myself a pretty normal sort of chap because this hobby (as has been pointed out elsewhere) gets a bad rap from the great unwashed public. I'm in my late 20s and have a partner (female of course!) and an 8 month old daughter. In my late teens I did the usual young blokes thing - soup up cars, hoon around on dirtbikes, play video games, go out drinking, and chase after girls etc. Gee, I still do most of these things.
I guess I've always been interested in modelling. I got given a 1/72 scale Kitty Hawke aircraft for my 6th birthday and that was what started the modelling bug. A little while later I was given a trainset and 20 years later I'm still at it.
What I'd like to do here in this blog is to chronicle my two main railroading interests: British OO scale and NZ120 scales. I also have an interest in the Norfolk and Western railway in the states.
I have always been impressed by the quality of the layouts as seen in the likes of British Model Railway Journal and Hornby Magazine etc. I intend to build a small portable, high quality british layout which I would hopefully like to exhibit eventually. This layout will be about atmosphere and quality of scenery. The locos and rolling stock will be off the shelf items due to the high quality we now see from the likes of Hornby, Dapol, and Bachman.
On the other hand, NZ120 satisfies the scratch builder in me. I have an idea for an NZ120 layout I would eventually like to build, but for the time being I will just post up progress on my locos and rolling stock I am building (or intend to build).
I live a fairly busy life and have other interests aside from railways so I will post as time permits.
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