Showing posts with label hints'n'tips. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hints'n'tips. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 16, 2026

I like big bolts and I cannot lie

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  Melbridge Dock is held together by bolts.  Eight are used to fix packing boards on to the end of the baseboards, to turn the modelling int...
Monday, February 23, 2026

Making Peco OO9 slate wagons go around really tight curves

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  My railway under a cake cover goes down very well at shows. The only whinge is that the Peco tippers are a bit of a fiddle to couple up, a...
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Wednesday, August 28, 2024

A Gu desert pot comes in handy, again...

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  With everything painted, it's time for assembly. Wheels slide on to the axles, followed by the axleboxes. These locate into slots moul...
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Tuesday, September 19, 2023

The perils of buying second-hand steam locomotives

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  My plan for the club steam day, had been to take two locos along. The Garden Rail Peckett and my Regner Willi.  In preperation, because it...
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Wednesday, August 16, 2023

Roof rolling

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    Nice thick plastic sheet is included for the roof, but in the past I've found that simply bending it on the model produces a dip in ...
Monday, June 19, 2023

Wheel cleaning

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  After all the spraying, including a coat of varnish to seal in the transfers, the wheels were pretty filthy. Time for cleanup, which turne...
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Tuesday, August 02, 2022

SAR boat on the water

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  Batteries charged, it's time to take the pilot boat to the lake and see how it handles. First though, I tie the superstructure to the ...
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Thursday, July 28, 2022

The one-minute model boat stand

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  When working on a model boat, having the thing rocking around on the workbench is a bit of a nuisance. The correct thing to do, is build a...
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Tuesday, April 19, 2022

Super fast flagstone painting

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  My current mag project has a very tight dealine, so I've been using plenty of quick'n'dirty techniques in order to get it out ...
Wednesday, October 13, 2021

Dirt stops solder - deliberatly

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Time for a job I don't enjoy, soldering the washers on to the crank pins to hold the rods in place. It's one of those jobs where eve...
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Thursday, April 01, 2021

Rescuing brass parts superglued together

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  Look at this photo. What have I done wrong?  Yes. Yet again, I've but the signal levers in their frames back to front. The hand grabs ...
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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, February 04, 2020

Gluing brass to wood

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My dad is hard at work building the Hachette Hood partwork. There's an awful lot of really nice etched brass to cover the superstructu...
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Tuesday, January 28, 2020

Bargain eye protection

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When doing anything involving a cutting disk on camera, I feel I should say something about wearing eye protection. Those disks will sh...
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Monday, January 27, 2020

Cleaning track in a tunnel

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A recent magazine project involved me building a layout with a tunnel. After construction had finished, the track needed a bit of a polish...
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Tuesday, October 22, 2019

Setting up a Hobby Holidays chassis jig

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Clever people don't need jigs to set up a chassis. I can do it, but as I own the tool, why wouldn't use it?  One issue I di...
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Monday, October 07, 2019

A gentle tap with a big hammer - how does that work?

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Writing something a few days ago, I came across this picture and was reminded that I meant to post it here and ask a question. In the p...
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Monday, August 19, 2019

When's my water set?

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On a recent project, I made use of Woodland Scenics "Deep Pour" water system . It's easy enough to use, mix the two chemi...
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Monday, July 29, 2019

Too much heat!

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Or maybe too much haste. With my holiday looming and a piece on whitemetal soldering to write for Garden Rail, I was cracking on with a...
Thursday, July 25, 2019

Cutting foamboard square

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For a project, I need to cut some foamboard. It's not a material I use a lot as I've never been happy with the edges I cut. I wan...
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