Wednesday, April 30, 2014

The mythical Ratio 528

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One issue that has presented itself on Edgeworth is the disintegrating Hornby resin water tower. I commented on this a couple of months ag...
Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Mastman Kit

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The Mastman Models kit isn't a kit in the way railway modellers would understand the concept. It is exactly what you get in the model...
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Monday, April 28, 2014

Bantam Tug

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From Jim Shead's Website : During the fifties and sixties E C Jones & Son (Brentford) Ltd built a series of tugs which they call...
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Sunday, April 27, 2014

Two old photos of trains

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I was looking for a card kit the other day, working my way through a bookshelf, and I tripped over an old scrapbook. The pictures were falli...
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Saturday, April 26, 2014

York 2014

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I won't keep you in suspense - my round trip to York show is 300 miles and it was worth every one of them this year. Visitor no.4700 s...
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Friday, April 25, 2014

Someone must love a Penny Post tram

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The great tramcar sale continues over on eBay and we are gradually reducing the pile of Corgi diecast models and increasing the garden rai...
Thursday, April 24, 2014

Painting a 16mm scale guard Part 2

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Railway uniforms tend to be black so I gave the Modeltown guard a quick once-over with some Humbrol 33 after picking out his shirt in 147. ...
Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Painting a 16mm scale guard Part 1

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I picked this figure up from a box at the end of the Modeltown stand at Peterborough. He was in a box of cheap figures and I liked the l...
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Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Resin tank for a warflat

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Paul asks: Where do you get the resin tanks from that you use on the warflats ? The simple answer is that they can be supplied with t...
Monday, April 21, 2014

Easter Egg Special!

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It's Easter and to me that means chocolate eggs. Yum! Anyway, this isn't a blog about chocolate, it's about making things, ...
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Sunday, April 20, 2014

16mm Society AGM 2014

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Peterborough showground. Home of the best chocolate cake in the world. Or at least it used to be three years ago. Sadly there's not sign...
Saturday, April 19, 2014

Manx Peacock

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It's spring time so the garden railway comes alive properly. Track ballast has been renewed. Rails have been cleaned. Plants have bee...
Friday, April 18, 2014

Making chain

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I needed some chain for a garden railway project earlier this week and the stuff supplied with the kit was far too small. "No prob...
Thursday, April 17, 2014

Brush painting spray paint

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I recently painted a model grey by spraying it with Halfords primer. It's lovely paint that applies straight from the can very well ...
Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Beer research

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OK, I'm busy at the moment so please head over to the BRM Blog where you will find a little post I put together yesterday on my trip to ...
Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Stop your shunting!

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Funny the things you find kicking around the magazine collection of your local model railway club. Here we have the Instructions to be obs...
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Monday, April 14, 2014

Riding Bellerophon

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It will probably come as a surprise to many people who know me, but one thing I've never done, until yesterday, was ride on the footplat...
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Sunday, April 13, 2014

Coalville Model Boat show

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To go to Coalville or not? That was the question this year. The event has snuck up on us without really noticing and I was busy first thin...
Saturday, April 12, 2014

Finished Fowler

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Finally, after over 15 years ownership, my Fowler diesel shunter is finished. The black bodywork has been washed with brown to give those...
Friday, April 11, 2014

Painted Fowler

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Look at this - I've painted the Fowler shunter at last! After a blast of Halfords grey primer, the black comes from a Revell spray ...