Also cool thing: I picked up these magnetic delayed uncoupling couplers from the show at Alexandra Palace the other week. When the engine and coach stop over the magnet (hidden on the track way off the scenery!), it opens up the jaws and the stock can get pushed back loosely and then pulled away from. #ModelRailway
Snipped my model off its base ready for painting. The detail is insane for something so tiny. #ModelRailway
The real full size of this particular engine lives at a railway someone I know is connected with. And originally, it was built for and worked at the Marston brewery in Burton-upon-Trent. Not Suffolk but in my version, it moved to my private line 
#ModelRailway
So my little layout has a new engine. It’s a Hawthorn Leslie, I’d been looking at getting one since they came out last year and several people said they ran great, and better than the Peckett I had intended to run primarily. Can confirm they’re wonderful little models. #ModelRailway
COTS chassis on the left, magnetic couplings, 3D printed newspaper van on the right. Got the coupling height right. I bought some 3D printed coupling sockets from a good supplier, but they were just as fragile, so I redesigned mine to the same style and worked out what size works reliably with the magnetic coupling without breaking. Honest, GUV, I think I'm ready to print a rake of newspaper vans! #ModelRailway
A GWR Collett Goods leaves the small industrial siding.
Doing a bit of experimenting with my box file layout. It seems that engines run better on it in analogue as opposed to DCC. I guess there’s a bit more resilience the old fashioned way. Might pull decoders out of the engines I want to use on it and just do it the old fashioned route. #ModelRailway
Didn't post this shot last night but the scaling looks about right next to a loco! I'm slightly tall at the moment as I'm raised off the base but it looks good! #ModelRailway
The big thing I've realised from this whole process of being modelled is that wearing a set of overalls makes me look tubbier and rounder than I am #ModelRailway
Got my Class 08 pulling a P-Way train (the yellow coach is a track cleaner!) #ModelRailway
You can actually rearrange the lamps to change the headcode on these and part of me would love to but I’ve heard nightmare stories of it not being very easy. In fact, Hornby’s own documentation even says it needs some “advanced modelling skills” #ModelRailway
It’s kinda not the same now, just having a piece of track on my desk without scenery. #ModelRailway
Not actually done this properly in a bit, run a train! #ModelRailway
In a series I like to call “that engine is way too big” #ModelRailway
Now I need to improve my masking technique 
to @snaptophobic levels of awesome.
Huh.
It _is_ a decent match to (someone else's idea of) Rail Blue after all. And the Rail Grey is a good match too, which I thought was way too yellow, like the grey in the Jaffa Cake livery.
For the benefit of anyone still not using a colour-calibrated display, the coach in the middle is COTS and the other two are Jon-painted with acrylics from Railmatch.
And 
the nearest coach is in shadow. The price of camera-phone close-ups.
Looking at this photo again this morning, I'm now thinking “oh yeah, Code 100 rails *are* way too tall and unrealistic!”
I never thought I'd be that person but it seems that I am. I think it's just that they are more noticeable when you've got correctly scaled scenery around it. #ModelRailway
It is a little bit emotional seeing the thing I pictured in my head many months ago suddenly a very much real thing. #ModelRailway
My much missed collie, Jess, is stood waiting for me to arrive. #ModelRailway
