Monday, March 31, 2014

H&M Walkbout - the coolest model railway controller ever

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Back in the 1980s, H&M produced what I consider the coolest model railway controller ever made - the walkabout. Just look at it. Pure ...
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Sunday, March 30, 2014

London Festival of Railway Modelling

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From Leamington, Alexandra Palace isn't too bad to drive to, even on a Friday afternoon. Well, it wasn't last Friday anyway. Maybe m...
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Saturday, March 29, 2014

History under our feet

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Wandering around, it's amazing how some incredibly mundane things survive. Take this manhole cover I photographed in Finchley at the ...
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Friday, March 28, 2014

The North Bay Railway

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Earlier this week, I took a trip to Scarborough. One of the discoveries I made was that it's a b****y long way from where I live. The ...
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Thursday, March 27, 2014

Screwfix folding sack truck

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One problem with talking a layout (Edgeworth) to exhibitions on my own, is that this can mean carting the baseboards around halls single han...
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Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Locomotive Superpower for Edgeworth

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While exhibiting my beginners layout, Edgeworth last weekend (blog post about this on Sunday) we had a few invaders on the tracks. In t...
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Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Tiny Toolbox

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When people ask which aspect of railway modelling I enjoy most, the answer is simple - adding detail. One of the reasons I build little...
Monday, March 24, 2014

Ooops

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Never let it be said that I hide things when they go wrong. Sometimes bad things happen and there's no point in pretending they don'...
Sunday, March 23, 2014

Larger Scale Show 2014

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Some people only go to the big shows. The ones that are fashionable. The ones everyone else goes to. I've always said this is a mistak...
Saturday, March 22, 2014

A discrete turntable

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    Found in the August 1950 issue of The Model Railway News, is this fantastic turntable. I love the neatly made curtain around its ...
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Friday, March 21, 2014

The London Festival of Railway Modelling

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  According to the blurb in the latest magazine: The BRM Project Layout Edgeworth will also be in attendance. Edgeworth was built b...
Thursday, March 20, 2014

Paint it white

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David Asks: I was given an Airfix model of the Canberra as a child and it came out  of the box white. Roughly forty years later I boug...
Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Beetle Built

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3 hours steady work and this is the result - a GWR "Beetle" prize cow wagon. If I'd pushed myself, I reckon half an hour co...
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Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Below the solebar

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Back to the Beetle story and I stuck the brake gear stuff in place pretty quickly. To help the builder, Parkside mould guide marks under ...
Monday, March 17, 2014

Unusual visitors and test running

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We had one unusual visitor to Edgeworth at Leamington - a Korean brass Ho American loco. Not a normal thing to find on a 1930s GWR branch...
Sunday, March 16, 2014

Leamington Spa 2014

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An early start for me - 7:45 at Radio CWR for a quick interview to plug the event. I'm told that it all sounded OK but have managed to a...
Saturday, March 15, 2014

Dragline digger

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I'm a bit busy today, so please amuse yourselves by looking at these pictures of a Bennie Ruston-Bucyrus 54RB I spotted at the Snibst...
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Friday, March 14, 2014

Sides on

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Simple task next on the Beetle van. Stick all the sides together. The parts locate well enough. A little plastic solvent run in to the cor...
Thursday, March 13, 2014

Dirty Sentinel, Pizza and coupling in BRM

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In the first post-Edgeworth BRM of the year, I've not been idle. First there is a Hornby Sentinel loco weathering project. Regular r...
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Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Beetle windows and doors

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First job according to the instructions, with the Beetle van kit, is fitting the glazing. Plastic sheet is provided along with measurements ...