Showing posts with label "Handyman Hall". Show all posts
Showing posts with label "Handyman Hall". Show all posts
Tuesday, March 12, 2019

Minitrains Marvel

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Take a bow, Minitrains Plymouth Diesel.  Two days solid running - well over 14 hours - without a murmur.  OK, I did give it a d...
Monday, March 11, 2019

The return of the Handyman Hall Railway

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For the Leamington Show, I dug The Handyman Hall railway out of storage. Despite not having seen the light of day for at least 5 years, ...
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Thursday, September 29, 2011

Facilities for miniature model boaters

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Down at the model lakeside on the 009 model railway, I felt it was time to make sure my model boaters were both safe and comfortable. The ...
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Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Failed experiments in pagoda painting

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Not everything I try works, but since you lot seem to like to read about failed experiments, here goes. The plan: Paint the pagoda in ru...
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Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Whitemetal pagoda

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The GWR had some funny ideas and one of the odder ones was the choice of pagoda roofed buildings for branch line halts. Distinctive but, why...
Thursday, September 22, 2011

Building detailing

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Sticking with card for the time being, the building detail was built up from off-cuts of a sheet intended for use in a domestic printer. I...
Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Cardboard tile cutting

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Normally I like to top model buildings with Wills moulded plastic slate roofing but for Handyman Hall, I thought that something different wa...
Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Freelance card buildings

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One of my ideas behind the 009 model railway was to try and create lots of vantage points to watch the trains from. In the corner of the b...
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Friday, September 16, 2011

Grass'n'Flock

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Static grass is nice but I didn't want a lawn on this model railway, I wanted the sort of unmown scrub you see on hillsides. To get th...
Thursday, September 15, 2011

Noch Grass

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All that brown paint needs to be covered in something and the fastest and most realistic option is static grass. Now the fashionable way...
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Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Crown Textured Emulsion

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Another non-trip to the model shop. It seems that after yesterday being spent wondering who wants mud coloured walls, I now have to consider...
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Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Brown brown, deeper and brown.

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Do you use proper model making products for all your model railway needs ? I don't. I prefer to use everything and anything as long ...
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Thursday, September 08, 2011

Edging and smoothing

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The sides of the Handyman Hall model railway exposed the structure that supported the track and it wasn't pretty. I had expected this an...
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Wednesday, September 07, 2011

Bent wood fiddle yard

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Even on a pizza box model railway, hiding the trains away for part of the circuit seems like a good idea. I fancied a convex curved wooden s...
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Tuesday, September 06, 2011

Just like icing a cake

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Marvelous as insulating foam is, it still needs a surface coat of plaster to smooth things out. I picked some Homebase own brand filler. I...
Monday, September 05, 2011

Foam scenery

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Back in the old days, railway modellers would use chicken wire and wooden formers covered with plaster bandage for hills. This works well ...
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Thursday, September 01, 2011

Bridge building

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The more observant amongst you will have spotted that I appear to be building a fairground ride rather than a model railway. Track floatin...
Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Ballasting

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Happy with the running, it was time to do one of those jobs I hate in railway modelling - ballasting. It's boring, takes forever and if ...
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Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Test trains over the gap

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This probably looks a little foolhardy. Running trains over track supported by nothing more than thin air ought to be a recipe for disaste...
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Monday, August 29, 2011

Nailing down the track

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Yet another novelty for me - nailing model railway track down. With the hand built stuff we attach one rail to the sleepers, glue these down...