Saturday, April 30, 2011

Book Review: INSIDE a diesel locomotive

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I picked this slim, hardback book while browsing a stand at the York exhibition last week. For the princely sum of £1 I became the owner of ...
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Friday, April 29, 2011

Royal Train

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Is that a bandwagon I hear approaching ? Well I'd better leap on it then... Congratulations to Peco for producing what must be the mo...
Thursday, April 28, 2011

A quick trip around the garden railway

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  On a nice sunny day, what better way to spend some time playing with the garden railway ? Some time ago we bought one of those micro v...
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Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Back of an envelope calculations

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I have a plan of the Brede lifeboat. I have photos. I needed rudders. The plan is 1:20th scale and the boat I need rudders for is 1:12th. ...
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Tuesday, April 26, 2011

The Big Brede

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If you've been reading this blog for a very long time then you might just remember that I started building a Brede Class lifeboat . The ...
Monday, April 25, 2011

York Model Railway Show 2011

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I'm writing this in an effort to remain topical having just got back from the show. It has been a very long day so I'll stick to bul...
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Sunday, April 24, 2011

DCC - A new religion ?

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Well, it's Easter so let's talk about religion. Not in the sort of way you might if you wish to rid yourselves of Jehovah's Witn...
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Saturday, April 23, 2011

Isle of Man G series Van

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It's a lovely day outside and I'm sure you'd rather be out there than reading this stuff, so just a quick post. The Isle of ...
Friday, April 22, 2011

G van chassis

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If I have to chose between rolling stock that looks good or works properly, I go for the later every time. Visitors to exhibitions will ha...
Thursday, April 21, 2011

Manx G Van

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Opening the box on the Branchlines kit for the Isle of Man railways G Van everything looks very promising. The main component is a very ...
Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Grille removal

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More old style modelling. This time the removal of the grilles on the sides of this model locomotive body. Those supplied look like they w...
Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Class 26 Nose job

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Starting work on the Class 26 diesel, I get to make progress on the biggest difference between the Class 33 body and the loco I want to buil...
Monday, April 18, 2011

Diesel dangly bits

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Everyone focuses on a different thing when looking at a model (Oh err missus). For some, it't the chimney or roof detail, others the w...
Sunday, April 17, 2011

What sort of model maker do I aspire to be ?

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In the latest issue of the Gauge One Associations magazine, there are some photos of models by Attilio Mari. Not just shots of completed mod...
Saturday, April 16, 2011

Lineside hut in the garden

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Spring is in the air and some progress has been made on the garden railway. We now have a "stone" built lineside hut courtesy of a...
Friday, April 15, 2011

Cul-de-sac

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Walking towards York Minster I spotted this rather lovely collection of buildings. Despite being near one of the most important religious ...
Thursday, April 14, 2011

York Model Shops

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I love York, it's a beautiful city and as befits such a place, it has a couple of excellent model shops a few minutes walk from the very...
Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Exercise for model makers

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Right you lot, it has come to my attention that some of you are looking a bit, how shall we say, tubby. No a touch pudgy. No, still not ri...
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Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Howes of Oxford

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Back in the good old days there was a business in the centre of the venerable city of Oxford. Yee Howes Olde Modele Shope, purveyors of the ...
Monday, April 11, 2011

More underframe

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A couple of hours with some packets from the Plastruct rack and bits of plasticard and I've manged to finish detailing the bogie sidef...
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