Saturday, August 31, 2013

British Waterways Barges

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Taking photos on the canal a few days ago, I found this pair of British Waterways (now the Canal & River Trust) moored up and thought th...
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Friday, August 30, 2013

Karmann Ghia

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This is my new car. A Volkswagen Karmann Ghia. Not a real one obviously, a Matchbox model. For those who know nothing about the Ghia, i...
Thursday, August 29, 2013

Your Model Railway Village

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Partwork season is upon us again and this time there is one for railway modellers - or at least people who wish to become railway modellers....
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Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Book Review: Forget the Anorak by Michael G. Harvey

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What trainspotting was really like Michael Harvey recounts his life as a train spotter in the 1950s and 60s. Living in Portsmouth, he an...
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Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Working FLAT out

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I'm working hard on a lot of non-blogable (Read: Stuff that will appear in magazines) work at the moment so finding time to produce stuf...
Monday, August 26, 2013

Filter change

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It's time to change the filter on my spray booth. A fiver at Squires stand last week saw me the owner of a new one and I wondered how lo...
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Sunday, August 25, 2013

Midland Railex 2013

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This years Midland Railex came with the promise of a "Shunter Special" event. With this in mind, when were asked at last years eve...
Saturday, August 24, 2013

The cakes of Midland Railex

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There are two things I know for certain about the readers of this blog. First, most of you are here because you are bored at work and I'...
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Friday, August 23, 2013

How to annoy an "enthusiast"

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So there I am, shunting on Clayhanger Yard and a wagon derails. It's never happened at this spot on the layout before and there's ...
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Thursday, August 22, 2013

Shunter display

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Railex this year was promoted as a shunter special and so I promised to take along a display of model shunting locomotives. To house th...
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Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Hellingly Hospital Railway in Great British Model Railways

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An unexpected appearance for The Hellingly Hospital Railway in a new publication arriving at a WH Smith near you - Great British Model Ra...
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Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Safety first

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  One lesson learned at Hartlepool with Clayhanger Yard, was that the fascia panel hiding the lighting rig is a bit low. As we didn...
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Monday, August 19, 2013

Thornycroft Lorry

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The Thornycroft lorry is now finished and ready for the layout. Considering the fun I had with the kit, the model isn't bad looking a...
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Sunday, August 18, 2013

Unexpected wagon underframe detail

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Messing around with a Hornby 4-wheel wagon the other day, I got a bit of a surprise. Looking at the bottom of the model, there is a terri...
Saturday, August 17, 2013

Chinese pots

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Here's a handy tool - plastic pots for keeping glue fresh. They are purchased from our local Chinese take-away and each arrives with...
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Friday, August 16, 2013

Off to Midland Railex today

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Later today, we should be loading up Clayhanger Yard and heading to Midland Railex at Butterley. This year we should be on Stand 31, adj...
Thursday, August 15, 2013

Brass Mudguards

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Back on the Thornycroft lorry, I have been looking at prototype pictures. They tell me two things - the first is that this is probably ...
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Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Sacks added

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With the electrics sorted, I'm not doing the best bit of layout building - adding detail. As a start, some of the Skytrex sacks have ...
Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Micro-switching O guage points

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One of the biggest "issues" we encountered when Clayhanger Yard went to Hartlepool was that the polarity switching in the Peco po...
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Monday, August 12, 2013

Final proofing for the bookazine

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  Exciting times. Modelling British Railways Diesel Locomotives has reached the stage of final proofing. I can now log in to a clever ...