Saturday, November 30, 2019

Saturday Film Club: The Day Stan Left

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If you like well-made films and industrial railways, then you'll enjoy this one. The 1970s archive footage is shot on 16mm film ...
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Friday, November 29, 2019

18100

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An oddity from the cupboard - a model of Metropolitan-Vickers gas turbine locomotive. The body appears to be a single-piece fibreglass m...
Thursday, November 28, 2019

Boiler fill

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This might not look like an exciting picture, but I'm happy with it. Originally, the J72 chassis block stuck out into the visible p...
Wednesday, November 27, 2019

Waterborne Wednesday: Pride of Falmouth

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Firmly in the list of boats I'd like to build a model of are the Falmouth ferries.  According to this web page : Pride of Falm...
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Tuesday, November 26, 2019

Buffer beams

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Moving on with the J72 build to the body beautiful, the main job seems to be to scrape the buffers off and replace them with metal version...
Monday, November 25, 2019

Code 75 frustration

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A recent frustration has involved Code 75 Peco track and the ramps required to uncouple tension-lock couplings. The ones you find on the ...
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Sunday, November 24, 2019

International Model Boat Show 2019

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I didn't get to this show as I was otherwise engaged at the Great British Model Railway Show , so I told my dad to take a load of p...
Saturday, November 23, 2019

Saturday Film Club: Car racing in trunking

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When I was in Hong Kong a few years ago,I found loads of model shops and the big thing they sold were battery-powered cars with wheels o...
Friday, November 22, 2019

Warley weekend

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It's that time of year again - a weekend spent in a little local show a few miles down the road from me. I'm not on the stand t...
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Thursday, November 21, 2019

Hornby sci-fi and dirty cars in the Autumn issue of The Collector

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Sometimes I struggle to think of things to write, and sometimes an idea appears that is irresistible. In this case, a series of letters...
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Wednesday, November 20, 2019

Waterborne Wednesday: Oslo Island Ferry

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Thanks to Nigel Hill who, inspired by last week's photo of a Sydney Ferry , sent me these from Oslo. He correctly says, this is pro...
Tuesday, November 19, 2019

Chassis with pickups

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Finding time to work on the J72 is proving difficult at the moment. Too much to do for work sees spare time vanishing. However, the other ...
Monday, November 18, 2019

Book Review: Colour Light Signalling for model railways by Simon Paley

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I'm not very interesting in signalling. I know the waggly arm things are important, and the colour light versions quite pretty. There...
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Sunday, November 17, 2019

The Great British Model Railway Show 2019

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With a new show, it's difficult to know what to expect. Obviously, there has been a model railway exhibition at the motor museum, Gay...
Saturday, November 16, 2019

Saturday Film Club: Ingenious bank vault on the Isle of Man

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If like me, you love weird mechanical contraptions, you'll enjoy this film of a bank vault with an amazing mechnism on the Isle of M...
Friday, November 15, 2019

Book Review: "OO" Minature Railways Handbook and Guide 1953/54

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If you believed in Father Christmas back in 1953, you'd have been hoping for a train set. Back in those days, RTR was new, exciting...
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Thursday, November 14, 2019

Glendale Rocket and light up station furniture on Garden Rail

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  The festive issue of Garden Rail hits the shops today. This means a light-up tree on the front cover and the designer insisting on m...
Wednesday, November 13, 2019

Waterborne Wednesday: Sydney Ferry

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My subject this week is Michael Portillo's fault. Watching his latest series of railway journeys through Australia, I caught the Syd...
Tuesday, November 12, 2019

J72 Brake gear

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Time for some sacrilege. I don't think the brakes on this J72 chassis are very good. For a start, when hung, I don't think the...
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Monday, November 11, 2019

Pendon and the Madder Valley

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A few weeks ago, RMweb Gold members were invited to a special private event at Pendon . We were given tours of the main scenes which...
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