Workshop Update

Workshop update.....

Inside of the workshop is sheeted out.  I have mixed PVA with white paint to coat the walls and the ceiling, this should seal the walls before i paper them.

 I built my workbench along the back wall, its 2 feet deep (600mm) and just under 10 feet long (3000mm).  I plan to use this to build the layouts i want to take to shows. I have started to build two storage shelves above.  Below the workbench i will be building more storage space, but i have my new bathroom suite in storage there until i can get it installed in a few weeks.



I am searching the internet just now for ideas on a workstation for me, how to lay it out, and what height to put it at.  First i need to get rid of the bathroom stuff. than i can complete the storage and work space

FINALLY.. I have a Workshop

FINALLY.......

   I moved into my house about 9 years ago, the back garden sloped from the back door all the way up to the back fence maybe a 3 meter rise.  about 3 years ago i started to re-level and change the garden into a more useable space.

Finally this weekend all the hard work is over, The garden is all level, paved, artificial grass down, and most importantly for me, the workshop is finished.

  After taking all the trees down out the back and the old shed i managed to build myself a 4 meter by 3 meter workshop.  I had my back door, kitchen window and a miss measured bathroom window to use.

 The main construction in 4x2 timber for the floor with 18mm waterproof Chipboard floor. Walls are 3x2 CLS covered with 16mm weatherboard.  The roof is 18mm chipboard with 3 layer torch on felt, there is also about a ton on silicone......

On the inside i have sheeted it out with 12mm chipboard, walls and ceiling, there is full rockwool insulation in the roof and walls.  The power has been ran straight from the Main fusebox in the house, to a fuse box in the shed.  There are 4 double sockets with 2no. USB ports incorporated into each.  2 along the back wall where my work station will be, 1no. under the window at the front and one under the fusebox.  There are two 600mm x 600mm LED lighting panels on this inside.


So this is it my new workshop/summer house.  I now need to design the workstation at the back, i am not sure how i will set the units and worktops of, i will maybe do a little research on the web on the best way to have it.

My plan is to build small layouts that can be taken to local shows, I have a few ideas on what i want to built, but i need to sort my work benches out first.

I am very pleased to be sitting where i am just now

So why Lewis Lake and where it is

So why Lewis Lake is easy to answer, My Son is called Lewis, and i wanted the layout to be close to water, so after a bit of googling i found Lewis Lake in Wyoming, which fitted the bill perfectly, So here's a bit about the place.

Lewis Lake is located in the U. S. state of Wyoming in the southern part of Yellowstone National Park, about 4 miles (6.4 km) southeast of Shoshone Lake, and approximately 10 miles (16 km) southwest of Yellowstone Lake. Lewis Lake and Shoshone Lake are both located a few miles northeast of the Pitchstone Plateau.

The Lewis River is the lake's primary inflow, draining south from Shoshone Lake. The primary outflow of Lewis Lake is also the Lewis River, continuing south to join the Snake River near the southern boundary of Yellowstone National Park. A few small creeks also feed Lewis Lake. There are several hot springs emptying into the lake on its northwestern shore and two more hot springs at the lake's southern end where it empties into the Lewis River. A campground is located on the lake's southeast shore. Yellowstone National Park's South Entrance Road (which is also numbered as U.S. Route 287, U.S. Route 89, and U.S. Route 191), run along the east side of Lewis Lake.

Like the river, Lewis Lake is named for Meriweather Lewis, commander of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.

You have to begin somewhere

So a Blog eh, about my model rail layouts and experiences, i find the first post the hardest to write.  So i will say abit about me and what has brought me to write this.

I have been into trains and railways for as long as I can remember.

My dad was a soldier in the Army, The Royal Scots,  when I was only a few days old, and he was on the train coming down from Inverness to Edinburgh to see me in Hospital, he won some money playing cards, So in he walked with a Hornby train set and the first talking action man.  The loop of track was put on a board, and a paper mache hill was made.

When I was 10 my grandad bought me the Mallard Hornby steam train from Harburn hobbies in Edinburgh.  I also had just enough birthday money to buy the Green Knight from Bachmann, and started to put a track plan down in my mum and dads garage, my first layout, but due to moving it never got past the very basic loop.

It was a long time before i started to model again, i joined a local model club and built layouts with them.  The club looked more into the continental railroads, American, German, Japanese and everything else you can imagine. So i saw alot more that was on offer.

Right now i have collected a small amount of HO stock, Soo Line, UP and CN most are chipped and were used on club layouts.  I also have a large stock on Japanese N Gauge Loco's, Units, Buildings and Scenery.

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So to this project,  

The above photo shows my garden just now, the shed is 10 foot by 10 foot, this will be removed and the area concrete.

Over the summer i plan to build a workshop in the back garden, it should be in the region of 16 foot by about 12 foot.  I had plans to build a static HO American layout, but i have scrapped that and decided to use it as a workshop to build smaller exhibition layouts, which i can take to shows around the UK and into Europe.

The first layout i am going to be building will be a small On30 4 foot by 4 foot, Called Lewis Lakes Railroad, but i will move onto that.