Monday, August 31, 2009

Now you've made them, it's time to use them...

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Happy days. I've stuck rivet strips all over the tank end of the Garratt locomotive. I did my best to follow the photo and the results d...
Sunday, August 30, 2009

Channel Tunnel model railway

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Last Sundays' post about a missing model railway concerned a model of a proposed channel tunnel scheme. This prompted Graham W to take ...
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Saturday, August 29, 2009

Lines of rivets

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Here's how you get nice straight lines of rivets - use all the bits of the press. That means the cross-slide which has only been out of...
Friday, August 28, 2009

Riveting plastic

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Adding the rivets tot he Garratt bunker seems, to me, to be a job easier carried out in plasticard than metal. I could cut little bits of br...
Thursday, August 27, 2009

Underframe alternative ?

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As you may have guessed from my description of the build, I didn't find the Select-a-car kits to be that easy to assemble. Once I had pu...
Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Inside the bunker of a Garratt

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Loitering around after the show at MOSI a week ago and wearing an "Exhibitor" badge prominently, I spent a lot of time crawling al...
Tuesday, August 25, 2009

White ?

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What has happened to Halfords paint ? You used to get a spray can with a colour coded top that looked like it had been painted with the con...
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Monday, August 24, 2009

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It's not just modelling projects that kick around for ages, I manage to prevaricate with VW stuff too ! Just under the windscreen on a V...
Sunday, August 23, 2009

Missing models - Part 2

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Another British Transport film, this time the appropriately (for this blog) named " Modelling for the Future ". 8 minutes showing ...
Saturday, August 22, 2009

Stake wagon

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Stake wagon Originally uploaded by Phil_Parker Thanks to the joys of (temporary) full time employment doing proper webmastering stuff rather...
Friday, August 21, 2009

On30 tub

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My particular kit was the gondola, or in English, open wagon. To make this, 4 cast resin sides are added to the basic flat wagon. These fit ...
Thursday, August 20, 2009

On30 chassis

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The Select-a-car chassis looks pretty simple. Reading the instructions didn't show up any issues so I ploughed on in the same way I alwa...
Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Select-a-car

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In my quest for unusual wagons for the forthcoming On30 layout, I decided to try a Backwoods Miniatures Select-a-car kit . This was slightly...
Tuesday, August 18, 2009

The only Beyer-Garratt built in Manchester this year

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Well, the only Garratt built in the Manchester Museum of Science & Industry this year during the "Great Garratt Gathering" any...
Monday, August 17, 2009

Great Garratt Gathering

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Workbench Originally uploaded by Phil_Parker or: "Phil's Workbench on tour" For the last few days I've been based at the e...
Sunday, August 16, 2009

Missing models - Part 1

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Watching a British Transport film the other day - " Railways For Ever! " - among all the nostalgia, one scene leapt out at me. It ...
Saturday, August 15, 2009

2 Mags

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Two articles in two magazines for me this month. In Railway Modeller you can read about building a Gauge 1 Ruston loco . Alongside my text i...
Friday, August 14, 2009

Crewmen

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Thanks to speedy work by S&D Miniatures and some lightening fast painting by yours truly, the Garratt Locomotive has a crew. I'm a l...
Thursday, August 13, 2009

Yet another Garratt

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Initial Garratt Bits Originally uploaded by Phil_Parker Oh, look, some bits for a O gauge industrial Garratt. Yes, one down, one to go. All ...
Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Dirty Blue Garratt

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Dirty Blue Garratt Originally uploaded by Phil_Parker One down, one to go. The first Garratt is finished. Well apart from a crew (on order) ...