Sunday, June 30, 2019

Creative quotes

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Last weekend, I attended the Writing West Midlands conference with my novelist's hat on. While there, a few quotes were chucked around w...
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Saturday, June 29, 2019

Saturday Film Club: Making Transistor Radios in 1955

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A few weeks ago, we looked at building televisions in Coventry and because of this, the YouTube algorithms think I might be interested i...
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Friday, June 28, 2019

Unboxing the Ark

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You asked for it: I'll get the parts required ordered in then start work on this project. If you want to help, please click on the ...
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Thursday, June 27, 2019

Bad paint day

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I need a couple of 009 coaches for a photo. Buying RTR isn't cheap - I can have 3 kits for the price of one coach. No problem, the...
Wednesday, June 26, 2019

Warehouse Wednesday: Classic garages

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I'm not sure why these were in the corner of a field, but I'm glad they were as it made photography easier. A pair of classic mo...
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Tuesday, June 25, 2019

Wagons for the Toy Train part 2

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Three wagons, a loco and caboose. Very pretty.  I know "pretty" isn't supposed to be in the vocabulary of a "seri...
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Monday, June 24, 2019

Wagons for the Toy Train part 1

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At first sight, this might look like the result of me catching up with posters on RMweb after I've had a bad week, but no, it's so...
Sunday, June 23, 2019

GCR 2019

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Come to the show and buy the station! Well, you could if you headed to the GCR show last weekend. Bachmann released a 4mm scale vers...
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Saturday, June 22, 2019

Saturday Film Club: GT3

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Gas Turbine 3 is a fascinating locomotive. Built by English Electric and using a steam locomotive template, it must have been obvious be...
Friday, June 21, 2019

Cleaning brass with brown sauce

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There's a box of "stuff" at our boat club that members can help themselves to for free, or at least a tiny donation to club ...
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Thursday, June 20, 2019

Box van, oil depot and point motor fitting in BRM

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I don't do many N gauge projects for BRM, but this July I've built an oil terminal in the scale. It's based on a plastic kit, ...
Wednesday, June 19, 2019

Warehouse Wednesday - Amercian Diner

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I find buildings forWarehouse Wednesday by chance most of the time. There's always a camera in my rucksack and if pushed, my phone w...
Tuesday, June 18, 2019

Garden Rail July 2019

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Issue 299 of Garden Rail has appeared and in it, I've been a bit brave. Finding myself with a really interesting and well-writen ar...
Monday, June 17, 2019

Finished oil bowser

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Job done - a nice simple kit that looks nice and wouldn't tax even the newbie-est of builders.  I fancy that the oil drum will b...
Sunday, June 16, 2019

Railcar idea?

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So, there I am at the Accucraft UK open day with may Garden Rail jacket on. The stand of bargain factory seconds includes a Dora and IOM ...
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Saturday, June 15, 2019

Saturday Film Club: Gyro X car

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Gyroscopically balanced transport fascinates me. Railways have the Brennan Gyro-Monorail , an amazing train that really deserves re-cre...
Friday, June 14, 2019

The "new project" urge can strike at any time

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In the corner of Hereford Model Centre , there is a little table full of Playmobil for kids to play with. Mostly it seems to be full of dr...
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Thursday, June 13, 2019

Random rust spraying

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The oil bowser needs to be a sort of rusty black colour and so for speed, I took it out in the garden to point aerosol primers at it. If ...
Wednesday, June 12, 2019

Warehouse Wednesday: Essendine Hotel

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I pass this place every time I take a trip in to the BRM office - but not for much longer apparently. The Essendine hotel, which hos...
Tuesday, June 11, 2019

Get your glue out

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Out with the Super-phatic for the MDF parts, which works really well. So well that when I realise that there are two options for the cross...