Sheepbloke's Room of Doom. The adventures of a sheep, the Works Forecat and George, the Mischievous Apprentice.

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Sheepbloke's Room of Doom. The adventures of a sheep, the Works Forecat and George, the Mischievous Apprentice.

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Evening all,

Very much a newbie to not only this forum but also the Eastern Region, specifically the world of East Anglian branchlines.

I am currently building a small Cameo layout in 4mm ( 00 gauge) based on a slightly unkempt bucolic backwater "somewhere in East Anglia".

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A scenic section of roughly 4ft by 16inches in old money depicts a simple goods yard which is at the end of a truncated branchline in the late 1950s to late 1960s, depending on the motive power.
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Everything is RTR suitably tweaked and weathered though most of the locos await the weathering table.
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I shall update on here with both layout progress and any individual items such as locos, rolling stock and buildings.

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Rob.
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The Sheep Chronicles: The final frontier. These are the adventures of Norman Lockhart. His continuing mission: to photograph strange old branch lines, to seek out new cafes and traditional British breakfasts, to boldly go where no man has gone before....
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A couple more views of what is very much a work in progress but I hope you get the gist of where I am going.

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Rob.
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Not sure if I'm senior enough to welcome you to the forums but welcome none the less.
You've certainly given us one of the more entertaining thread names.

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Morning Paul,

Thank you for the welcome. The thread title is taken from the nane given to the spare bedroom in which this ex-Great Eastern backwater is housed, along with a modelling desk and two other Cameoesque layouts.

Snug springs to mind.

To put things into some kind of context, here are a couple of views of the opposite wall.




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And an overall view of the work in progress........
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And a few more images of what will be typical motive power on typical workings.

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Welcome aboard, Sheepbloke.

Nice to see an eastern-flavoured one of your layouts taking shape. I look forward to seeing it develop.
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Evening Teakers and thank you.

To be honest, I'm not sure why I haven't done this sooner. The somewhat unkempt nature of some of the ex-Great Eastern branchlines in East Anglua are right up this particular sheep's street.

The diesel side of things was however, not anticipated. They are rather nice though.


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Morning all,

Here's an image or two of what will be the main office.
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This is a Hornby ready to plant resin building which has been repainted in places before being weathered.
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