Wednesday, January 31, 2018

Warehouse Wednesday: Bristol dockside

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Years ago, I found myself on a course for work which entailed stopping over in Bristol. My hotel wasn't far from the historic docks ...
Tuesday, January 30, 2018

Whitemetal castings on

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Finally, the good bit. Half an hour spent with superglue sticking the whitemetal castings in place. Suddenly the loco takes a great, big ...
Monday, January 29, 2018

Time for the big guns?

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The biggest surprise last week in model railway land was the announcement of the "Boche Buster" rail mounted gun from Oxford Rai...
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Sunday, January 28, 2018

London Model Engineering Exhibition 2018

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My annual practise run, driving to Alexandra Palace. I'm going to have to do it in a couple of months and on a Friday, so it's ...
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Saturday, January 27, 2018

Saturday Film Club: Tiny Wimborne

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I'm not sure what I like most about this weeks film. Is it the wonderful commentary?  The archive (now, not then) shots of the f...
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Friday, January 26, 2018

Book Review: A Little Saw by Andy Clark

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Publisher: Andy Clark ISBN: 978-1976814907 A5 softback 63 Pages £3.99 Andy Clark runs the popular Workshop Shed blog . This fir...
Thursday, January 25, 2018

Cab detail

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The very open cab of "Dotti" caused me much head scratching. As supplied, you get a bench seat and a big wheel. It looks like a ...
Wednesday, January 24, 2018

Warehouse Wednesday: Holt station sign

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From the North Norfolk Railway , a rather nice station sign. If we have stations, we need signs and this is fairly easy one to model.  ...
Tuesday, January 23, 2018

Brass prop miss-take

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A little more on-water action for Miss-Cheif but with a slight difference, I'd managed to buy a brass 2-blade propeller for her.  ...
Monday, January 22, 2018

Miss-chief at speed

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Adding a propeller makes a huge different to my little speedboat! Miss-chief still isn't the fastest model on the water, but she...
Sunday, January 21, 2018

Chiltern Model Railway show 2018

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Didn't this use to be St Albans show? Yes, it did, but then they made the move to Stevenage to a leisure centre and theatre comple...
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Saturday, January 20, 2018

Saturday Film Club: Savannahlander

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The Savannahlander is an Australian tourist train that takes its passengers out into the bush. Rolling stock is fantastic looking 1960s...
Friday, January 19, 2018

Britfix balsa glue

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Brought in with an old wooden boat kit recently, this tube of glue takes me right back to my first modelling days. I can't remember...
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Thursday, January 18, 2018

February Garden Rail and EiM

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Garden Rail is looking back tot he snowy weather just before Christmas to see how those whose layouts are affected by great big dollops o...
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Wednesday, January 17, 2018

Warehouse Wednesday: Brick and stone

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Mystery building time. All I know about this is that I took the photo while on the Ecclesbourne Railway. The design also seems a bit...
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Tuesday, January 16, 2018

Bonnet detailing

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Fun time - the body goes together well enough so I get to move on to the detailing stage. Plastic rivets are supplied - these being Cambri...
Monday, January 15, 2018

Getting the right angles

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I've probably mentioned these before, but some of the most useful tools I own are these cast iron angles bought from Squires tools. ...
Sunday, January 14, 2018

Scoutrail 2018

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The first show of the year within sensible driving distance for me is Scoutrail at Kidlington. I've exhibited there many years ago a...
Saturday, January 13, 2018

Saturday Film Club: Triang TV adverts

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It's been a week of product announcements from the big two UK model railway manufacturers and as usual, social media is full of peop...
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Friday, January 12, 2018

Palitoy S Gauge coaches

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S scale has always fascinated me. A couple of years ago, I had the chance to build a wagon kit in the scale for a magazine series and th...