Sunday, May 05, 2019

RMweb members day

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Last weekend, I donned some tweed, and headed to Taunton for the RMweb members day. The event is a nice, relaxed day where a group of ...
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Saturday, May 04, 2019

Saturday Film Club: Making enamel signs

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An interesting film showing how the enamel direction signs dotted around London are made by Isle of Wight based " Signs of the City...
Friday, May 03, 2019

Romford Bulldog motor

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Found in the basement of an old model shop, this is proper, vintage model railway stuff. An unused Romford Bulldog motor. Basically, ...
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Thursday, May 02, 2019

Why you need an in-line fuse

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A couple of weeks ago, I arrived at the model boat club, put my boat down on the bench and wandered over to see a friend who was having t...
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Wednesday, May 01, 2019

Warehouse Wednesday: Small, rendered storehouse

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I think Gordon Gravett would make a good job of this one.A pretty simple building with render and brickwork. I'm sure he'd scrib...
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Tuesday, April 30, 2019

Brake van done!

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Job done.  A little brake van with loads of character. The wasp stripes give it a modern look I think, and I liked them from the ori...
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Monday, April 29, 2019

Terminator tail lamp

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One of the features of Mark's brake van that appealed to me was the working tail lamp. Maybe I'm just a big kid, but working ligh...
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Sunday, April 28, 2019

York 2019

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Another unexpectedly busy show. A ten-minute photo shoot turned into an excellent 2-hour interview followed by much chatting with the tr...
Saturday, April 27, 2019

Saturday Film Club: A ride around the Southport Model Railway Village

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I'd never heard of the Southport Model Railway Village until I heard it was up for sale.  A quick look on the website, and it l...
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Friday, April 26, 2019

Edward the Blue Engine

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Last week, we had one of my oldest model locomotives on the blog, this week my newest. Edward was my favourite from the Rev Awdrey s...
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Thursday, April 25, 2019

Tracklaying, a stone cottage, Burton-on-Trent, a railgun and 7mm barn in BRM

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I've been busy in this month's BRM. We start with some tracklaying on the OO gauge Billy Bookcase layout. There's some fidd...
Wednesday, April 24, 2019

Warehouse Wednesday: Alison Street factory

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Spotted on a wet day in Digbeth, just around the corner from the Police station, this factory is in Alsion Street. You can get a good lo...
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Tuesday, April 23, 2019

Brake body

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The body for my brake van owes something to Mark's model, but also a lot to a Model Earth 7/8th scale design we featured in Garden...
Monday, April 22, 2019

Brake!

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At the National Garden Railway show a couple of weeks ago, and item of rolling stock caught my eye. It wasn't a kit or ready to run m...
Sunday, April 21, 2019

Pickling history

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I visited Notre Dame cathedral once. 12-year-old Phil was on a school trip to France, the first time I'd been abroad, and we were left t...
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Saturday, April 20, 2019

Saturday Film Club: Easter 2018 on the Isle of Man

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Some film from the Isle of Man this time last year. Plenty of railway action for your bank holiday!
Friday, April 19, 2019

My second model locomotive

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My second ever model railway locomotive recently turned up when I was looking for something else. In fact, when I found it, I realsied it ...
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Thursday, April 18, 2019

Garden Rail May 2019

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Big stuff this month in Garden Rail. We've the largest Product News section ever - 7 pages full of new models - mostly because I wa...
Wednesday, April 17, 2019

Warehouse Wednesday: Visual Packing

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Driving to Ally Pally a few weeks ago, I was running early and decided to investigate a chimney I could see in the middle of some houses...
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Tuesday, April 16, 2019

Battery box FAIL

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My Saltford Models Ruston is at least 30 years old, but since it had performed sterling service on previous temporary garden railways, I ...
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