Tuesday, December 10, 2024

Warehouse Tuesday: Steinbruch Cement Works

Steinbruch Cement Works

Most people, when taking a boat along Lake Thun, will take pictures of the beautiful scenery. I did, but then there is this ugly cement works on the shore - and I pointed my camera at this too. 

I suppose you can argue it's not the ugly commercial site in the wold, but this is a stunning place, and here we have industry. There's no railway, and the road access doesn't look that impressive, so shipping by boat must be the order of the day. After all, there's no other reason to build it here!

Steinbruch Cement Works

Monday, December 09, 2024

Rare kit alert

 

For my column in the Hornby Collectors Club magazine, I am alway on the lookout for vintage kits. In the past I've appealed for Hornby Church R599, and finaly, eBay yeilded one at not too stupid a price. For a kit that used to be everywhere, until I was looking for one, that was anoying. In it's place, I built the Airfix church, so this has to sit on the back burner for a few months. 

The NEC delivered a very reasonably price R190 Country Cottage. Made in West Germany, by Pola I think, it's a basic model, but pretty much complete apart from some easy to replace chimney pots. 

The instructions are amazing though. 

R190 Country Cottage instructions

That's an exploded sketch, drawn by a child it appears. This isn't a hard kit to build, which is handy 'cos you'd be struggling if you relied on this.

Next on the hitlist - R278 The Bell Inn Country Pub Kit. Another Pola based model, complete with stickers to add the stonework to the walls.

Sunday, December 08, 2024

Wicked model locomotive

 

Wicked locomotive

Last weekend, I took a short city-break in Paris. Waiting at St Pancras, there is a display advertising the film Wicked. I don't know that much about it, but on one cabinet, there is this fantastic OO gauge locomotive. Now, this is what Hornby needed in the Steampunk range!

If you want to see the rest of my Paris photos, there is an album on Flickr. Not much train content though!

Saturday, December 07, 2024

Friday, December 06, 2024

Rat

Rat

I've been very bus recently, so no blogable modelling has taken place. Instead, enjoy this picture I took while on a photo job a couple of months ago. It make me chuckle.

(Hint: Class 25 locos were nicknamed "rats" by gricers)