Dawson Creek re-born on IKEA Lack…

I don’t want to wait… for our lives to be… oh, hang on, this is Dawson Creek, not Dawson’s (I’m sorry, I’m sure I’ve used that before, groan)…

A casual search of the blog will turn up the history of my Dawson Creek schemes over the past decade. A collection of North American 009 locomotives even had their own layout for a time, although unfinished, before a change in my circumstances meant I didn’t have space to keep it. The fuel for this fire was lit by a teenage visit to the Yukon and kept alive by the idea of gold, mining and narrow gauge… flavours of the railways around Dawson in the Klondike along with the Dolly Varden much further down the coast near Prince Rupert… 

In my workshop the new IKEA Lack shelf remains destinationless… I did ponder about adjusting the Modern Goods scheme to fit, but clearing that off, I placed a few 009 models… then dug out the mining stuff, and then the books, and then this happened!

So this re-hash of the original round and round scheme has grown up - selecting the more interesting elements and juggling them to fit it’s an ode to Creech Bottom. It fits, it works, it’s exciting…

Will it be built?

Probably not, for whilst the scheme and the process of creating it was a nice distraction, you’ll see from yesterday’s Friday Update that the space is now playing host to my South Wales coal project. However, sharing it here may give you ideas on how you can take a particular plan and combine different elements to create something similar but new, remembering the marriage of space and prototype from my first book. Until next time though, more soon…

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