Showing posts with label Gauge 1. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gauge 1. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 05, 2025

B4's first run

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    Summer evenings are great. I can go to railway club, and have a sail beforehand. Or, if have a new loco to try on the outside track, I c...
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Monday, August 04, 2025

Gauge 1 North haul

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  Well, this wasn't part of the plan.    At last year's show, there was a kit for a B4 tank engine, complete with its chassis and wh...
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Sunday, August 03, 2025

Gauge 1 North 2025

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  Time for the tweed, and a trip up north for the annual G1 extravaganza. This year, I had a good reason to go, other than just "networ...
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Sunday, August 11, 2024

Gauge 1 at Kidderminster 2024

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My trip to Kidderminster station on the SVR was a spur of the moment decision. Suddenly finding myself with a free Saturday, and the desire ...
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Wednesday, August 07, 2024

Finished G1 wagon

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  And there we are - job done. If you didn't wait for paint to dry, the kit could be assembled in about an hour and a half, and even tha...
Tuesday, August 06, 2024

Buffers and couplings

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  Both buffers and couplings on this kit will be familiar to anyone who has built an O gauge kit. You can see the buffer components above. T...
Monday, August 05, 2024

Brake gear

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  I'm loving this kit! The brake gear is a joy. For example, the back of the safety loop is moulded in with the main part containing the...
Thursday, August 01, 2024

Wheels in

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  Another easy job, the W-irons locate into holes in the solebar that match up with a lug on the front. You can't go wrong, and you woul...
Wednesday, July 31, 2024

Body, and a bit of paint

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  Well, this big scale seems simple enough! Building the body is no harder than it is in OO - to be fair, the pieces are just the same, but ...
Tuesday, July 30, 2024

G1 Anniversary wagon

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  You can't leave a model railway show without at least one bag or box of goodies. That's the law.  From G1 North, I came away with ...
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Monday, July 29, 2024

I made it to Wikipedia!

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Looking for something online, I alighted on the Wikipedia entry for Gauge 1 model railways .  Imagine my surprise when I spotted that the ma...
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Thursday, June 22, 2023

Van done

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  There we go - finished! Considering I bought this at Easter, completing the job by the end of June is some sort of record.  I'm very p...
Tuesday, June 20, 2023

Springs

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  Nearly there. A quick clean up of the buffers shanks and they bolt stright in with the accompanying spring. It's a few minutes very sa...
Tuesday, June 13, 2023

The sweet smell of methylated spirits

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  I love the smell of meths, so when the transfers in the G1 kit turned out to be methfix ones, I was happy. Not least because this means no...
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Tuesday, June 06, 2023

More metal

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  More metal to fix on to the G1 van - this time some rather nice lost-wax cast handrails. All slotted into position easily, with the except...
Tuesday, May 30, 2023

Brakes on

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    The van kit came without instructions, but fortunatly, they can be downloaded from the Slater's website. Handy, because without them...
Tuesday, May 16, 2023

Wheel woes

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  The van is up on its wheels, but fitting them wasn't quite as easy as I'd hoped. Both axles could be persuaded into the axle boxes...
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Monday, May 15, 2023

MR (big) box van kit

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  Spotted on a stand at York, a Slater'S Gauge 1 box van kit. Part built, but, as far as I can tell, complete, and priced about £30 chea...
Friday, May 12, 2023

My first gauge one wagon

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  In my stash of future projects is a Barrett Steam LNER J65 live steam kit. Picked up at a bargain price, that still required me to go an...
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Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Gauge 1 Garratt seen in the wild

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For many years, I've been suggesting to Trevor at Mercian Models that he ought to produce his rather nice industrial Garratt kit, curre...