It has been a long time since I posted a news item and a lot has happened which has changed my priorities, somewhat:
- The etch suppliers I used to use unfortunately went bankrupt.
- I was diagnosed with a serious illness and spent about eight weeks in hospital in 2022. I am having ongoing treatment.
- I changed web host which resulted in a lot of the links in the website breaking. The other items above caused me not to be able to attend to this until now.
You may remember that I was planning to produce various locomotive kits – Great Eastern Railway 2-4-0s and some narrow gauge items. Unfortunately the demand for the kits I had produced indicated that the amount of work and investment involved would not have been a good idea. Those projects are now shelved.
I could have gone to another etching company, but I would have had to do substantial re-drawing for every single kit in order to allow for the increased undercut and different sheet sizes, and in view of the minimal etch sales I decided it would be better to spend time on other areas. Thus, I will continue to sell etches until the stock runs out. I still have a few of most things, but some items are now out of stock and will not be replenished. Get it while you can!
I decided I wanted to finish off a lot of the models I had started, and have completed or nearly completed a lot of things which have been hanging around for many years. These include rolling stock items (coaches and wagons), locomotives and two layouts. I still have other etched kits which I designed in the past and have not even started.
Over the next little while I intend to add to the gallery pages with pictures of the newly completed models. I can extend the page for my layout ‘Layer’ which is now complete, and also add a page for Yuen Long St., a layout I started in 2019 and now also largely complete. As the etched kit side of the website winds down, I intend to move the emphasis to a display of my work.
Keep looking in !