Sunday, May 31, 2015

Railex 2015

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To Stoke Mandaville with a shopping list! Railex is one of THE shows to attend if you want top pick up lots of modelling bits and pieces i...
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Saturday, May 30, 2015

Pen/shovel

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Sorry, I've been very busy lately, so you'll have to make do with a photo of a souvenir from the 58th Model Engineer exhibition i...
Friday, May 29, 2015

Little Phil puts on his specs

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One thing that "Little Phil", the 3cm tall 3D printed model of me was missing, was a pair of glasses. I've worn 'spec...
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Thursday, May 28, 2015

#3dBenchy

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Wandering around the 3D Print show, I spotted a little orange boat. Being a bit of a boat fan, I took a closer look. I liked the cartoony...
Wednesday, May 27, 2015

Hopefully, THIS video works

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Apparently yesterday's video showing 3D printing didn't work for some people. Sorry about that. The problem was that I had put t...
Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Video: 3D printing

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I mentioned yesterday, that I was filming 3D printers in action when I was leapt upon and scanned. Even though I've seen the proces...
Monday, May 25, 2015

3D printed "little" Phil

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Lat week, I visited the London 3D print show. Waiting around for my colleagues to join me, I filmed a printer producing little head and shou...
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Sunday, May 24, 2015

KMBC Model lifeboat day 2015

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For the last few years, the Lifeboat Enthusiast Society has held a sailing day. The event has moved around the country and this year (and ne...
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Saturday, May 23, 2015

Preparing the Brede

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  Last week, in preparation for the boat club lifeboat day, I hastily dug out my scratchbuilt Brede Lifeboat planning to give it a sai...
Friday, May 22, 2015

Little wooden hut

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If you've been looking at MREmag.com this week, you'll know that I've got a fairly major project going on there at the momen...
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Thursday, May 21, 2015

Magnetic attraction

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Chalk this one up as something I've always wanted to try. The idea of using rare-earth magnets to hold down a model boat superstructu...
Wednesday, May 20, 2015

There's a hole in my hull

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Re-starting the Bantam project, I remembered that I wasn't entirely happy with the weight distribution in the hull. While the model sat ...
Tuesday, May 19, 2015

Return of the Bantam

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It's probably sacrilege to say so, but sometimes I get few up with model railways. With a load of projects for work on the go, I need a ...
Monday, May 18, 2015

Mystery Tool 6

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This week's puzzle. Why does anyone need an egg timer on the end of several feet of string? And they need one enoug to groove the b...
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Sunday, May 17, 2015

Citroen Berlingo wiper blade changing, a warning

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People are nervous about fiddling with cars nowadays. Manufacturers know that if anything is too easy then the dealer network will be dep...
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Saturday, May 16, 2015

You used to be able to buy Burberry check paint...

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Some old paint tinlets discovered at the back of a drawer. On the left Gloy enamel that complies with the 1974 Toy Safety regs and has ...
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Friday, May 15, 2015

I'm not sure I'm getting any better at this

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On the left, the second wagon I ever built. Constructed at least 25 years ago. On the right, the most recent, constructed about a month...
Thursday, May 14, 2015

Wagons and a cottage in BRM

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Plenty of wagon action from me in the June issue of British Railway Modelling magazine . I'm hard at work saving a few second hand ex...
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Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Trix electric motor

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That's a Meccano motor everyone said. And it turns out we were all wrong. It's actually from a Moto Trix construction set. Look...
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Tuesday, May 12, 2015

War Department Deans Goods

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A wartime Deans Goods locomotive, manufactured by Mainline and re-painted into this livery by John Webb, as far as we can tell. 62 of t...