Phil's Workbench

A daily updated blog typed by someone with painty hands, oil under his fingernails and the smell of solder in his nostrils who likes making all sort of models and miniatures. And fixing things.

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Friday, December 29, 2023

Putting the pressure on Willi

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If I want to run Willi on our club track at public events, it needs to pass a boiler test, and the problem with that is that the gauge sho...

Friday, July 08, 2022

They are talking pictures of my Willi!

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It was the offer of cake that did it. Andy Christie was opening his garden up as part of the national Open Gardens scheme, and it has a 4...

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Monday, August 31, 2020

A box for Willi

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Willi didn't arrive with a carrying box. The postman delivered him well packed, in an old Amazon cardboard box. By the time I'd ...

Thursday, August 27, 2020

A train for Willi

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Willi needs a train, and everything I have in 45mm gauge, for the line in our garden, is a bit LGB. Lovely, but hardly approproate for o...

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Friday, August 21, 2020

Willi on the tracks

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Excitement got the better of me and a day after Willi completed his test run on the bench, I brushed the leaves off the garden railway, ...

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Thursday, August 20, 2020

My new Willi

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Roll out the double entendre's , I have a new locomotive! Now, I'm not really a steam man. I mean, I like watching both miniat...

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