Friday, September 02, 2016

Hero of the footplate

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Driving the Barclay is this slightly camp figure from the Border Miniatures "Heroes of the Footplate" range. I'm not sure...
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Thursday, September 01, 2016

Not matt

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  Model railway frustrations No.65 - paint that should dry matt and doesn't. I'm looking at you Humbrol 33 and Railmatch We...
Wednesday, August 31, 2016

Warehouse Wednesday: Wolverhampton Low Level Station

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On Saturday, I mentioned that I'd been for a stroll around Wolverhampton looking at old railway sites. When the trip was mentioned, ...
Tuesday, August 30, 2016

Lined out

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  The Barclay would probably look fine in plain green, but I need the practise at lining models out so I've loaded up the bow pen w...
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Monday, August 29, 2016

Molten metals paint

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  Metal is tricky in model form. Ideally you'd make whatever it is in the right material and just polish it, but that's not alw...
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Sunday, August 28, 2016

Hotline train sets

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Searching eBay for monorail stuff, I discovered that in the 1970, Mattel produced a futuristic train set called Hotline. The range included...
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Saturday, August 27, 2016

Broad gauge rail - still in use!

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  Earlier this week, I joined a group on a walk around Wolverhampton looking for the remains of old railways.  More of this later,...
Friday, August 26, 2016

Dumb buffers made of wood

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  Narrow gauge locos don't often have buffers outside of Talylln land. Mostly there is some sort of chunky centre coupling. The Bar...
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Thursday, August 25, 2016

Plumbing the cab

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  Cab plumbing is simple enough - some (supplied) 0.8mm copper wire is fitted into  0.85mm holes drilled in the lost wax castings fitte...
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Wednesday, August 24, 2016

Warehouse Wednesday - Square chimney

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A few weeks ago, I was asked if I had any pictures of chimneys.  Digging through my photos, I was amazed to discover that you could ...
Tuesday, August 23, 2016

Sandbox handles

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  Normally once I start sticking castings on a locomotive, the model begins to come to life, but not this time. The odd proportions of ...
Monday, August 22, 2016

Time to turn the soldering iron off

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  Happy days. The soldering on the Barclay body is complete. Everything else can be glued on.  Last job was the cabside handrails. ...
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Sunday, August 21, 2016

Sail the Bismark!

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  Mention a partwork publication on any forum and within 3 replies, an “expert” will tell you that the things never complete their ru...
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Saturday, August 20, 2016

New bumper required

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No good deed goes unpunished.  The Bantam tug makes an excellent rescue boat - it's manoeuvrable and strong, but after helping s...
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Friday, August 19, 2016

What a difference 19 years makes

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  Lead photo in the Melbridge Dock article in the current BRM is this shot by Andy York showing the Y7 shunting behind Dougie and a sea...
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Thursday, August 18, 2016

Melbridge Dock in BRM

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  While we exhibited Melbridge Dock at Doncaster earlier this year, Andy York took the chance to point his camera at it. The results ca...
Wednesday, August 17, 2016

Warehouse Wednesday - Valves in a box

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Tucked away behind Alexandra Palace, I found this black box with hand wheels. Most people would ignore it, but I thought it was worth a ...
Tuesday, August 16, 2016

Barclay chassis testing

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A quick coat of Railmatch "Weathered Black" followed by a bit of cleaning up the next day and the chassis is ready for a test...
Monday, August 15, 2016

Painted primer

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  Stripping this chassis down will be a faff so I've treated it to a brush coat of lovely Humbrol primer. I did buy a new pot, but ...
Sunday, August 14, 2016

A little bit of stop-motion animation

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It's another free book Sunday and this week I've been working with the Sport Bulldog I built last year and "Parker and Wi...