Wednesday, September 02, 2015

Warehouse Wednesday: Ipswich

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I've been digging through my photo collection for some images to illustrate a future Ruston Quays article. Over the years I've bu...
Tuesday, September 01, 2015

Portholes

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Time for some holes in the side of the Bantam. I know you can buy lovely turned brass portholes but they cost money and since these are...
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Monday, August 31, 2015

Cheapskate modelling - Grey pastels

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  Picked up from the Arts & Craft section of my local branch of The Works for a miserly 3 quid, a pack of 12 pastels all in differ...
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Sunday, August 30, 2015

Crosti 9F

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I remember when I first became aware of the Crosti 9F. It was in an issue of Scale Trains back in the 1980s. There was a double page spr...
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Saturday, August 29, 2015

GrA's Models, Stamford

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With a couple of hours to kill before a meeting, I took the opportunity to have a look around the pretty town of Stamford rather than just...
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Friday, August 28, 2015

Making rivets

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On the tug cabin side are strips of metal riveted in place. In 4mm scale, bodgers like me will use cubes of plastic well washed with solvent...
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Thursday, August 27, 2015

Bantam back doors

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Filling in the back of the Bantam cabin shouldn't have been much more than a scribed rectangle of 2mm thick plastic. Then I looked at...
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Wednesday, August 26, 2015

Formcraft

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Over on RMweb, in the discussion about Ruston Quays, someone mentioned the Formcraft building system launched in the 1980s.   Long ou...
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Tuesday, August 25, 2015

Wagon label

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I've seen wagon labels before, sold fresh as daisies on railwayana stands. I've seen the clips on the side of wagons they fit in ...
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Monday, August 24, 2015

Tractor spotting

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  One of the benefits of visiting a farm to sail boats or play trains is that you see some fascinating machinery.   I was in a barn...
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Sunday, August 23, 2015

Skills

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Watching a recent BBC News feature on the World Skills Final in Brazil , I was fascinated in this "Olympics for useful stuff". Y...
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Saturday, August 22, 2015

Pipe repair

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  Maybe repairing a Dolphin Pools pipe fitting isn't the most common reason to be reading this blog, but I think the fix is a bit n...
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Friday, August 21, 2015

No intellegent man travels without a tape measure

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Or at least he shouldn't if he's visiting a prototype he plans to model! Working on the Bantam superstructure, I've cursed ...
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Thursday, August 20, 2015

Back of the hull

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The back of the Bantam is the area where the compromised hull shape shows more than anywhere. It's too wide so working by eye is prov...
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Wednesday, August 19, 2015

Putting on weight

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My Dad is at the stage of launching his model launch. I need to sort out the rudder linkage before sailing but first, we needed to put so...
Tuesday, August 18, 2015

Bantam bumper wrapped

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Wrapping the Bantam bumper was easy enough. A sheet of 20 thou plasticard was cut down and fixed around the edge of the support. I've...
Monday, August 17, 2015

Bantum bumper

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Work has involved a bit of plasticard noodling recently and since I enjoy this, I thought a little work on the Bantum Tug was in order. ...
Sunday, August 16, 2015

Classic cars at Warwick Retro

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I love a classic car. So last weekend, I nipped over to the centre of Warwick to spend a couple of hours wandering around and looking at ...
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Saturday, August 15, 2015

Brown stuff cures the blues

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One of the "joys" of my mix of jobs is that I get to deal with people by e-mail who are best described as knob-heads. Their n...
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Friday, August 14, 2015

Experiment with tarmac and cobbles

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One feature of Ruston Quays is a large roadway area. In real life this would once have been cobbled but aside from being a long job to lay...
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