Sunday, July 31, 2011

Farewell to drawers full of bits ?

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Yesterday I quickly reviewed some Scalescenes card kits for ISO shipping containers. These are interesting models but it's the delivery ...
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Saturday, July 30, 2011

Scalescenes cardboard shipping containers

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Here's what I call a good idea - cardboard kits for ISO shipping containers. Scalescenes have been producing kits for several years an...
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Friday, July 29, 2011

Abandoned railway van

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Friday randoms this week are more random than normal. These photos were taken on a camera so old that it used film - Probably a Zenith 12 ...
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Thursday, July 28, 2011

Bracket mysteries

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Last week I showed the horror that was my workbench, buried as it was in "stuff". Since then, I have finished the projects I was...
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Wednesday, July 27, 2011

The Toy Box, March

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Another town, another model shop discovery. For literary reasons, I visited March in Cambridgeshire last week and wandering around the town...
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Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Damper van - Heavy Man !

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This blog does not normally cover die-cast releases, I can't get over the idea that's it's just blokes buying toy cars. However ...
Monday, July 25, 2011

St Stephen's Road buildings

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My modelling time has been consumed over the last couple of weeks with a pile of projects for Hornby Magazine's latest layout - St Ste...
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Sunday, July 24, 2011

Sail servo bodgery

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Do you consider yourself to be an engineer ? When you hear Kevin Webster in Coronation Street referred to as such, do you wince or shout ...
Saturday, July 23, 2011

Sprue

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Sprue. The leftover branches of a plastic kit. There are at least two approaches to building a kit: Option 1 – Read the instructions a...
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Friday, July 22, 2011

ex-LNWR dock tank

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Introduced in 1896 these small shunting tanks had the very short wheelbase of 7ft 3in and a trailing Bissell truck to cope with the very s...
Thursday, July 21, 2011

Are you a messy worker ?

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Lest you think dear reader that I operate in some luxury workshop with acres of space and hot and cold running nymphets handing me tools a...
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Wednesday, July 20, 2011

The chippies on fire !

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There's a myth that only the best modelling is only found on the workbenches of those who write for magazines. We sit in our ivory tow...
Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Foxdale progress

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Over on the Foxdale desk, my Dad is making great progress on the fancy crossover section of the track. All the points around the crossover...
Monday, July 18, 2011

Resin casting - Part 2, making the castings

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With the mould ready , producing castings is easy. The recipe is simple, pour some hardener into a pot and then add the same amount of the c...
Sunday, July 17, 2011

The future of model railway control ?

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Last weekend, I had the opportunity to have a go with the latest Hornby Railmaster software attached to the magazine's N gauge layout....
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Saturday, July 16, 2011

Festival of rocketry

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The Festival of Rocketry is an international rocketry event organised and run by the United Kingdom Rocketry Association to encourage and...
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Friday, July 15, 2011

Hunslet shunting

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A random picture ? Yes indeed, welcome to the first "Random Friday" where I put up pictures of stuff that I've been sticking...
Thursday, July 14, 2011

Point lever mistake

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When I built Melbridge Parva , I thought that as an industrial yard, the points would be operated with levers rather than from a signal bo...
Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Resin casting - Part 1, making the mould

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Sometimes you need a lot of identical items when building a model. In the example I'm about to show, the need came about because we had ...
Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Hornby Magazine LIVE 2011

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Oh, the pressures of being a best selling author ! Or at least that's what I thought half way up the country on a motorway full of spr...
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