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  "description": "Simon Cox shares how a private model railway show at Chailey pushed him to complete key parts of his layout and reflect on progress and future detailing ideas.",
  "path": "/post/2014-09-14-whitesands-quay-first-outing/",
  "publishedAt": "2014-09-14T09:00:00.000Z",
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  "tags": [
    "Whitesands",
    "Modelling"
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  "textContent": "{loading=\"eager\"}\n\nWork in progress gets out the house\n\nRecently I realised that it was five years ago that I had built the baseboard framework after Richard Glover gave me the plans for Whitesands Quay. Yes, I have moved house since and yes I have a lot more room in which to model but blah blah blah excuse excuse etc. So in an effort of mightly finger pulling out I asked if I might take Whitesands Quay to an annual private show at Chailey and was given the nod.\n\nThis gave me a target to get some things done on the layout and I did the track rebuild, the cottage enhancements and finished the build stage of the La Meuse — so that is a pretty effective motivation technique! As it was I rushed a few things the night before including the cutting out of the holes to the fiddle yard — measured with perfection except that I forgot to add the height of the track and 3mm MDF it sits on so only my diminutive A class Japanese diesel would go through.\n\nThe day was mostly about chat anyway so there wasn’t much running on the layout but having the deadline has helped progress.\n\nIn the image below I had pinched one of Chris O’Donoghues boats from his in-progress Compass point — which was looking fantastic — and that has given me a few detailing ideas for later.\n\nWhitesands Quay Chailey 2014",
  "title": "Whitesands Quay first outing"
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