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 02, 2011

Le train français des biens

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Weathering the Y51100 started with a quick dirty wash to get some grime into those crevices. Then out came the airbrush to shoot an earth ...

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Thursday, December 01, 2011

Horn and hole

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Model locomotive chinmeys used to be supplied "blind", or blanked off at the top. The exceptions were those with a screw in the bo...

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Soldering handrails

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The biggest problem with this model locomotive were the missing bonnet side handrails. On the real loco they are pretty prominent so I cou...

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Cab work

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There's not a lot of space inside this cab - it's mostly full of diecast lump covering the motor and circuit board. I'd been s...

Monday, November 28, 2011

Y51100

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My next project is a bit of a departure - a French model shunting locomotive, Y51100. The basic model is produced by NPE Modellbau but thi...

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