Saturday, October 05, 2013

Scaleforum 2013

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Things I know about Scaleforum: It's the show for P4 modellers Everyone wears tweed No one looks like they are enjoying themselves ...
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Friday, October 04, 2013

Soldering irons for wagon building

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Dan asks: What soldering irons do I need for brass wagons I would like to solder up and start the art of soldering. I have read your Pa...
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Thursday, October 03, 2013

Modelling British Railway Diesel Locomotives now in the shops

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  My spies tell me that the top bookazine Modelling British Railway Diesel Locomotives is now on sale in WH Smiths around the country. ...
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Wednesday, October 02, 2013

Matt varnish test

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After a couple of days talking about shiny things, I thought that perhaps I ought to take a look at curing the gloss problems on models. ...
Tuesday, October 01, 2013

Shiny, happy diesel roof

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Sticking with the shiny theme from yesterday, I was looking out from the footbridge at Ayelsbury station and noticed the state of the roof o...
Monday, September 30, 2013

Shiny, happy, motor cars

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Spotted at Scaleforum this weekend (full review of the show coming on Saturday), right on the front of an otherwise excellent layout - st...
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Sunday, September 29, 2013

Mr Ben in Model Boats magazine

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  My second cover photo in a month! This time it's Model Boats magazine that does the honours with a photo of my little boat Mr B...
Saturday, September 28, 2013

Daventry's unxepected model shop - CT News

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It's amazing where you discover interesting shops. In Daventry I spotted CT News on the main street - it's a newsagents, book sh...
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Friday, September 27, 2013

Cardboard window

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Working on a little secret project (well, one I can't mention yet on the blog) I've been trying some of the laser-cut card windows ...
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Thursday, September 26, 2013

Wonky Plasticard

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I'm doing a little model building work, some of which involves brickwork. My standard method for making 4mm scale brickwork involves ...
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Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Book Review: The Great Western's Last Year by Adrian Vaughan

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It must have been strange for the GWR board as they sat down for the first meeting of the year on 24th January 1947. By the end of the yea...
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Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Missing links - O gauge coupling chain

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Stuff that should be easy to find at a model railway show No.2 - Coupling chain for use on O gauge wagons. You'd have thought so anywa...
Monday, September 23, 2013

Humbrol Arcylic primer

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Priming metal is a pain. Cellulose primers work but they tend to be too thick to allow the detail to show through. The brush you use is toas...
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Sunday, September 22, 2013

GMC wrecking truck

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Do you like including slightly random military vehicles on your model railway? Are you slightly ashamed when people see it and you try to ...
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Saturday, September 21, 2013

Horse Hearse

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Funeral processions are a bit of a cliche on model railways - if you build a church then you, by law, have to fill the front of it with e...
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Friday, September 20, 2013

The Model Shop, Northampton

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A shop that does exactly what it says on the, errrr, sign. 10 minutes stroll from the Northampton town centre, past a Games Workshop, a no...
Thursday, September 19, 2013

Stripping car bodies

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First job on the O gauge cars - get the paint off them. The plastic bodied Citroen needs a gentle strip so I used Precision Paints Supe...
Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Cars for Clayhanger

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Looking over Clayhanger Yard, I think I need another road vehicle tucked away. Looking around Guildex, I was struggling slighty - there a...
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Tuesday, September 17, 2013

A big day for the blog!

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Indulge me for a moment please - this is a big day for the Phil's Workbench blog and I can't resist getting a bit nerdy about it. ...
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Monday, September 16, 2013

Dock in a box in Hornby Magazine

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With lots of other work floating around, my contribution to the October issue of Hornby Magazine is a bit limited. On the other hand, i...