MORE PROGRESS ON MY PORT DIORAMA AND EDITING

Yesterday was a day without a minute to spare, my meeting with Peter Waller of the Online Transport Archive was in the form of an almost Christmas dinner, well we had Christmas pudding. Then I called in at Tim Bubbs and Glen joined us soon after, had a refresher look at Tim's collection of die cast and tin plate models and even spotted the garage that I played with aged 3, Minic circa 1950 ish. Hows that for long term memory, shame the short time is not getting any better but its easy enough to laugh it off, Mandy has me on expensive vitamin pills. So today our friend Sue is with us and its her favourite spag bog for dinner.

I worked my way through lots of possibilities for the roads on the dock part of the diorama, really I've fallen back to my original thoughts, I really need as much space as possible for displaying the lorries and that will work out best so I've even been laying the concrete base for the back drop and the outline span of the elevate entrance road, they'll exit to a roundabout  on the rear so a line in and out, some parked up outside. Containers hide the vanishing roads. Quite pleased with it so far. The older section will be fun with a truck stop from 1960s and a nice muddy parking spot.

The girls have been out shopping and getting presents, the PMP DVD orders weren't too onerous so on top of that. I'm going to try out super smart photos for the Youtube clips, I can't use the stills they are too high resolution but I can take a screen shots and put titles on it, if it works I'll go back and see if I can freshen up interest a bit. The milk float DVD is still No1 for Christmas period. Anyway enough of lorries how about some trams, the illumination are on late this year at Blackpool how about some trams then.