Showing posts with label buildings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label buildings. Show all posts
Thursday, September 24, 2026

R486 Town Bank in The Collector

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My quest to build all the 1980s and 90s Hornby "Made in West Germany" kits continues, with one of the lesser-known models, R486 To...
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Friday, August 02, 2024

Airfix church in The Collector

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  Time to tackle a kit over 50 years old for the Hornby Collectors Club magazine, The Collector .  Last time, I built a Tri-ang hardware s...
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Wednesday, May 22, 2024

1/32nd Street Scene

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Not really a "Warehouse Wednesday", but a stunning street scene spotted at the G3 Society AGM last weekend. The model is actually ...
Tuesday, April 23, 2024

Tri-ang shop in "The Collector"

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  The latest issue of the Hornby Collector's club house magazine drops through the letterbox, and in it is my contribution, a build of t...
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Thursday, October 05, 2023

Crooked House in BRM

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  One main project for me in November's issue of BRM - if you've been looking at the news in the last few months, you'll have he...
Friday, September 22, 2023

Plaster N gauge buildings

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  Three, very nice, N gauge (OK, scale, but you know what I mean) buildings, for a fiver. Thanks Elaine's Trains at TINGS. Apparently, ...
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Monday, May 29, 2023

Fame is, R7361

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  I am properly famous. Never mind having your name in lights above a theatre entrance, or appearing on billboards. There is a building in t...
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Tuesday, April 05, 2022

R279 Mock Georgian House - Part 1. What's in the box?

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  Regular readers will know I'm a fan of the Hornby Town & Country range of plastic kits produced in the 1990s, so when I chanced up...
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Saturday, February 13, 2021

Saturday Film Club: Build a Fairy house from cardboard

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A really impressive build - creating a fairy house out of cardboard and lashings of hot glue.  Recording this video must have taken some eff...
Tuesday, January 19, 2021

Making pavements

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  One of the jobs I've been least looking forward to on Selly Oak is laying the pavements. I'm not sure why, it's just a task I ...
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Monday, November 16, 2020

Brace yourself!

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      The Selly Oak viaduct is the biggest structure I've built in many years, and my normal methods need a bit of adaption.    With the...
Wednesday, November 11, 2020

Building more plastic walls

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 A little sequence of photos showing the construction of the final big bits of the Selly Oak walls.      All the work is carried out with 2m...
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Wednesday, October 28, 2020

Canal bridge sides

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The massive canal bridge is another exercise in repeated modelling. The basic concept is a curved top slab for the side, but the ribs are nu...
Wednesday, October 21, 2020

Brickwork patching

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 I love working with styrene - it's so forgiving. There aren't many materials that allow you to make invisible joins in so easily.  ...
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Tuesday, October 20, 2020

Leave the door ajar

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  I can't remember which magazine it was in, but I remember an amazing, beautiful, model railway layout where the author made the point ...
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Wednesday, October 14, 2020

Developing the repeatable Part 2 - The arches

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Now for the REAL challenge - the viaduct the railway runs along the top of. Unlike the road, these will be at least visible and people mig...
Wednesday, September 30, 2020

Airfix coal offices

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  Talking of tickling up old models, a couple of Airfix coal offices have been across the workbench for a projects.  On the right we have on...
Sunday, May 17, 2020

Jesus might save, but this time I couldn't

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Soppy Phil sometimes spots waifs and strays on stands at model railway shows and buys them to save the poor model from the bin.  Two ...
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Thursday, April 09, 2020

Tenterden shop kit

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Another model from the kit stash. This City Streets kit came my way a few years ago, I think from a blog reader whose name I can't fin...
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Tuesday, January 14, 2020

Sticking the walls together

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A real expert would spend hours carefully honing the chamfers in the corners of this kit. I am not an expert, I just trim them so the o...
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