Sunday, January 31, 2010

Book Review: Saga by rail: Great Britian and the Isle of Man by JIC Boyd

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Earlier this year I promised book reviews and here's the first one. Not just because I've not done much model making recently either...
Saturday, January 30, 2010

Airfix club

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The Parker household has had an obsession with collecting Airfix annuals for a while. Like most, it starts with a desire to obtain them fro...
Friday, January 29, 2010

Wadborough LMS Platelayers hut

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I like this hut. I like it so much I've built it in 3 different scales over the years - 3,7 and 16mm to the foot. You are looking at the...
Thursday, January 28, 2010

Truro box

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Steve asked me for a favour. Would it be OK if he arranged for his model " City of Truro " from the NRM to be delivered to me. The...
Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Cheese head screws - literally !

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Why do I do it ? From past experience I know that the screws that come in the packets with hinges and any other fixing are made of cheese. ...
Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Palette knife

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Who says railway modelling isn't art ? Here we see a keen exponent of the hobby creating scenery using Polyfiller and a palette knife in...
Monday, January 25, 2010

Peugeot mileometer repair

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The mileometer (odometer for US readers) on my Peugeot stopped working, or at least that is how it appeared. Normally when the ignition is t...
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Sunday, January 24, 2010

LWMRS open day - with cake

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Yes cake. I know how popular pictures of food are on-line so here's a bit of bakery porn for you to salivate over. The cakes concerned w...
Saturday, January 23, 2010

Making the beam engine go

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All the way from Denmark, Torben asks: This Airfix beam engine kit, is it with electric powered. I think not ? I have this kit when I was a ...
Friday, January 22, 2010

Working N gauge digger

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Hat tip to Iain Robinson for this, an amazing piece of work by David K Smith. Iain actually picked up on a micro (in every sense) model rail...
Thursday, January 21, 2010

Second sail

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Back to the damper van - last time the model had received front and back extensions filled with polystyrene foam. I hoped this would provide...
Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Drawer 'andles

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How am I to open the drawers in my new wooden toolbox ? The front flap fits against the drawer fronts precluding the use of a conventional h...
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Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Flockburgh & Soldering in Hornby mag

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Februarys Hornby Magazine sees the slightly delayed publication of the latest article on Flockburgh. The pictures are very nice and include...
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Monday, January 18, 2010

Leamington Show - Day 2

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Sunday dawned bright and a bit icy. Well there was a bit of ice on the windscreen that was quickly dealt with by the wipers, and the road fr...
Sunday, January 17, 2010

Leamington Show - Day 1

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I am writing this having just returned from the pub. A return that would have been sooner had the Scottish team from Blackstone Junction not...
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Saturday, January 16, 2010

Blimey - That's a big hall !

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I have been in the hall we are holding the model railway show in, just not for a long while and certainly not when completely empty. Walking...
Friday, January 15, 2010

Leamington Show this weekend !

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This weekend - 16.17 January 2010 - sees the biggest model railway exhibition the Leamington & Warwick Model Railway Society has ever he...
Thursday, January 14, 2010

New Flockburgh Website

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With Flockburghs appearance in a magazine imminent, I have finally done the website properly. It's not got details of all the locos, the...
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Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Walnut oak

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The carcase of my toolbox is made from oak. When I bought the wood it was dark but by the time I had planed and sanded, it was light. I pref...
Tuesday, January 12, 2010

More styrene

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I am determined to keep this thing afloat. Front and back the Damper van has hollow bottomed extensions and while I could just cover the bas...