Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Trutexture building papers

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A couple of weeks ago, I was sent a pack of building papers from a new company: Truetexture . Brick and stone papers have been around sin...
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Monday, January 30, 2012

iCar

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I can't work out if this is neat or not. What you see is an iCar from Minuteman Scale Models in the USA. The idea is that you slot you...
Sunday, January 29, 2012

You aren't ALL Brian Monaghan !

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(Note to younger readers, Brian Monaghan was the Railway Modeller's official photographer back in the 70's and 80's. A bit like ...
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Saturday, January 28, 2012

Railmatch 402 = Track colour

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Mike asks: I was reading your blog item on the demise of Humbrol 170, where you mentioned a Precision alternative namely "underframe d...
Friday, January 27, 2012

Raise the exhibitors !

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I mentioned on Monday that my assistant operator over the weekend was a shortarse vertically challenged. The layout backscene comes within ...
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Thursday, January 26, 2012

Chassis testing

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I hate diesels. With a chuff-chuff, you get to build the chassis and then spend many hours tweaking the thing to make it work properly. No...
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Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Class 25 Bogie sideframes

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The most striking component of the Class 25 kit were the bogie sideframes. Not an easy part to build as I've found out in the past , I a...
Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Class 25 side skirts

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Under the Class 25 body on the etch were some odd dangly bits. The general consensus was that these are supposed to represent those parts se...
Monday, January 23, 2012

Leamington & Warwick MRS Show 2012

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Well, that's the local show over with for another year. It all seemed to go very well. There were a lot of people coming in the door. Th...
Sunday, January 22, 2012

Fastbuilding ?

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I bought a kit recently which proclaimed that it could be built in less than 30 minutes. Apparently this is A Good Thing. Surely not ? A...
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Saturday, January 21, 2012

L&WMRS Show 2012

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As you read this, I should be standing in the exhibition hall at Stoneleigh on a little bit of carpet which I hope will keep my feet warm....
Friday, January 20, 2012

L&WMRS Exhibition 2012

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Today, for me anyway, is all about setting up the Leamington & Warwick Model Railway Exhibition at the Stoneleigh Park Exhibition Centr...
Thursday, January 19, 2012

Next stop the bonfire

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On Monday, things weren't looking good for my little Isle of Man test track . The boards had warped and I'd dunked them in the bath ...
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Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Joining Lionel Track

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Here's a problem you don't encounter in the finescale model railway world. I was helping a friend set up some Lionel trains track - ...
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Tuesday, January 17, 2012

G2 boiler handrail mysteries

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I've been looking at a lot of photos of steam trains recently. Mostly Super D's which have been in front of many snappers lenses. Al...
Monday, January 16, 2012

Trying to avert baseboard disaster

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My Dad is ready to finish the track work on the Isle of Man test track so we dug out the board from the plastic box they live in and put the...
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Sunday, January 15, 2012

Video: Micro Fairey Huntress on the water

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A nice day at the lake allowed me to film the Mighty Atom and its sister boat on the water. These little vessels really do work well - not...
Saturday, January 14, 2012

Basic Class 25 chassis

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I don't watch a lot of TV and when I do it's usually while I'm doing something else. However, I do quite like those American s...
Friday, January 13, 2012

Engineering pickups

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The Super D has a fantastic chassis, amazing motor and so I need to do a decent job with the electric collection. Fortunately, there is enou...
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Thursday, January 12, 2012

Goods shed and 009 Stock in Hornby Magazine

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Christmas plays havoc with magazine schedules. I received a call about the February issue of Hornby mag well before Christmas so I could hav...
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