Thursday, December 31, 2015

Barclay Boiler part 2

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This thing is looking a lot like an upturned animal with it's stumpy feet in the air! The "feet" are sandboxes on suppor...
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Wednesday, December 30, 2015

Warehouse Wednesday: Pickering & Mayell Ltd

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  If you ever find yourself planning a little shopping in Birmingham's famous jewelery quarter, don't get an early train as man...
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Tuesday, December 29, 2015

Barclay Boiler part 1

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A couple of hours soldering and cleaning up - the boiler basics are together. Both barrel and firebox are pre-formed. The former only nee...
Monday, December 28, 2015

Tank fitting

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Fitting the inner tank sides to the Barclay is easy - tabs and slots sort out the location, although there is a quite a lot of slop so yo...
Sunday, December 27, 2015

The spoils of Christmas

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Those who know me, appreciate that I like a funny Christmas present. No expensive parcels for me, give me something silly, preferably in ...
Saturday, December 26, 2015

Box-ing Day

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It's Boxing Day in the UK. To celebrate this, I searched on the word "Box" in my Flickr photos. Of course the results includ...
Friday, December 25, 2015

Merry Christmas!

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  Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all readers of Phil's Workbench.   I hope you've all been presented with some lovel...
Thursday, December 24, 2015

Barclay footplate

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A couple of hours with the soldering tools followed by some cleaning and burnishing, and the Barclay footplate is built. Work starts (f...
Wednesday, December 23, 2015

Warehouse Wednesday: Canals again and a dry dock

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When I visited Barby Model Rail last week, I couldn't resist taking a few photos of the canal side buildings. Click on the pictures f...
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Tuesday, December 22, 2015

Does this chassis belong to something else?

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Reading the instructions for a change, I was a little surprised to be told to hack the "wings" from the Barclay chassis with a ...
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Monday, December 21, 2015

Flame out

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Working on the Barclay kit, I've found my soldering iron a bit lacking in oomph. I think it's letting me that a new bit is requir...
Sunday, December 20, 2015

Buy books!

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On a forum recently, someone was bemoaning the pages given over in a magazine to prototype photos. Apparently, these are a waste of space...
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Saturday, December 19, 2015

Barby Model Rail - Rugby

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  It's a little off the beaten track, but once you get there, for canal enthusiasts there is a lot worth seeing. The shop entrance ...
Friday, December 18, 2015

Chassis jigged

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No idea how long it took to get me this far but no more than a couple of hours. The chassis sides fold up and thanks to some nice tab a...
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Thursday, December 17, 2015

Barclay 0-4-0T

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I've an etched loco kit project lined up for the very near future and since the last one I built was quite a while ago, I thought I...
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Wednesday, December 16, 2015

Warehouse Wednesday: Leamington canalside workshop

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A few weeks ago, I took a walk around the north end of Leamington Spa looking at old workshops that might make useful models filling in o...
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Tuesday, December 15, 2015

Birmingham water taxi

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It might seem odd for someone who has recently built a Bantam Tugboat, but I've never felt that canal boats are good subjects for lar...
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Monday, December 14, 2015

Fixing footwear

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I don't like things I can't repair. One pet hate is those stupid plastics that don't react to any known glue so once broken, ...
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Sunday, December 13, 2015

Paper aeroplanes

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Mind = blown. Singapore Airlines Posted by Architecture & Engineering on Wednesday, 9 December 2015 Spotted on Facebook, th...
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Saturday, December 12, 2015

Tool p*rn

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For various MREmag related reasons, I find myself in possession of a Micro-Mark tool catalogue from the US of A. I've perused the w...
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