Valley Axe Man

10/10 John That's mums plan so hopefully sometime over winter there be a few more pics to post up of work in progress

Yep your instincts were spot on with that one Tris

I passed your comments on to my mum Sean , I remember that yep, it was at Toytrac but it must be a good few years ago now, Time seems to fly by, it doesn't seem that long since mum started on this............. Although i'll stick to my 1/16th........... this 1/87th stuff way too small for me to do owt with :laugh:

I'm not much of a photographer Tris, but trying and appologies for the odd blurry pic..... The Matador is Damians magic handiwork again Mum was well impressed when he delivered it to her. It was it's first outing in May, though it is a big clue, as to what might be lurking "down in the woods!"

And here a pic of what could be a clue to what the next part of the layout could be......

Here's an overall pic of the layout together, taken the last time it was out at the end of May......

Mum says thanks for your comments John , maybe soon she'll make a start on the next instalment........... Although when down in the Valley "if in doubt, give it a clout!!" :laugh:

Not everything goes acording to plan!! ( "I TOLD HIM TO GREASE THOSE UNIVERSAL JOINTS!!!") :laugh:

A couple more pics of the Maize getting under way

Mum says thanks Mandy, the local railway shop used to have a few Dapol kits but there was never a great choice and never anything that mum though would fit in with her layout, but that said it would be almost 2 years now since there was any work done...... maybe it time mum took another look and see whats available

Mum says Thanks for your comments Tris, although she does say that the maize was unvieled late in 2009, and the layout hasn't really changed much since, there's a few more pics to put up from 2009 and early 2010, but then it didn't see light of day until May of this year, but like mum says there's a few ideas for expansion up her sleeves..... ;)

After all the hard work to create the maize field, it was time for the Jag to be put to work The Maize Monster gets going...... :laugh:

Your some talented guy Sjonnie, Fantastic build

Re filling the wallet probably a lot easier than re-stocking a table in a week Sean :laugh: but being a week apart doesn't really leave that much time. Still a cracking weekend though and still some very fine models on sale :)

The layout now at 6ft x 3ft included a maize field, that was bought in kit form from Model Masters of Weston-super-mare ( about 20 kits in total) each box covered a 4" square so it was a time consuming job to paint the base of each strip, then the corns, and finally to add the flock before glueing into place.

The Langley kits looked way too fiddely to start to attempt to build so out side help was needed, Damian did a great job on the kits that mum bought and helped her to create the "Vintage Collection" at Home farm, housed in some of the out buildings at the house. Some more models were bought from Wiking along with some by Siku and a couple more were scratch built with plans to chop up some Oxford majors, to create a county or 2, a roadless, and further ideas of a Doe............... ............. but those plans got put on hold when a theme for further expansion was discovered and board number 3 (3ft x 1ft) became reality

I'll pass your comments on to my mum Tris, but thanks for the comments on her work, there's more to come of existing layout, but since Toytrac she has mentioned another extension so who knows what she has planned, it'll be wait and see i think........ You hit the nail on the head though, until HLT started to cater for 1/32nd modellers, Railway was the way to go to get a almost anything you wanted

A few more pics of the extended layout before the grand unveiling of the Thresher, Baler, elevator and E27N tractor kits

Cheers Paul. Mum says she'll have a think about the seagulls

The next board on the layout included some old stone outbuildings and the farm house, plus more vehicles and implements were added, some scratchbuilt, and some Langley Kits expertly built by Damian

You've my mum to thank for this one Joe..... Its all her own handiwork, though you're right about the 'gulls she started with a dozen and i think there only 5 left now :laugh: Mum says cheers The layout in the pics so far Graham is about 3ft deep and 2 1/2 ft wide but there more to come in the next few pics, Mum doubled the size and added another 3ft by 2 1/2ft board, making it 5 x 3 so it doesn't have to take up loads of space

The Fleet was mainly Claas based, including a Claas coloured Unimog with John Deere tractors supplying the horses, Although there was a pair of Massey's and a Fendt, One of the Massey's painted Silver to match the Silver Lexion that was the contract harvest team at the time..... The other Massey was the contract ploughing tractor with a 5 furrow Lemken,

The First section was created back in 2008, and just featured the Engineering and Contracting yard, but plans were already going through for expansion