Anyway, here's the modern train shed unit by Peco. I saw this on ebay and thought it was pretty much what I needed, so was pleased to find it in Modelzone. The packaging tries to convince you that you should buy about a million of them to connect up and have a massive train warehouse, but as I'm working with limited space I think I'll stick with one for now.
It's 'pre-coloured,' so it says, but the colours are fairly basic and for sure I'll be repainting it myself (perhaps with the exception of the hazard-line doors, which I'll just weather).
Next up is the Graham Farish 'Redland' Wagon. Not much to say about this, the model looks exactly like the previous one that I bought, but I just thought this one looks nice. I can't say I've ever seen a Redland wagon IRL before, but seeing as Redland is a Bristol neighbourhood near us, it seems to help add a little more Bristolianism to the collection.
And then we come to the Noch figures. I knew I'd be buying these at some point, but seeing as they're so expensive and not really needed at this point I've been putting it off. Nevertheless, I decided to get a pack.
Finding again that it would be a cheaper purchase from Modelzone than ebay, I went straight ahead and picked up these guys. They seem to be slightly vintage male commuters.
Like it seems with all lines of items in this hobby, 00 gauge (the standard, Hornby-size railways) offers much more interesting and varied things - with Noch's 00 figures you can get everything from marching bands and police officers to builders and naked couples doing naughty things on a tiny bed. The choices in N gauge are a little more standard, but in my opinion what they lack in variety they make up for in sheer tininess.
I did not hesitate to attempt a little bit of that tiny figure photography craze that existed in the art world a few years ago:
I also bought Tamiya Weathering Master set E, ready to add dry dirt to all my lovely industrial things.
That's all for now.
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