Saturday, February 01, 2020

Saturday Film Club: Model ships on Round Pond in Kensington Gardens. 1936

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Before there was radio control, model boating required a stout pair of waders. You went for a paddle! A model boat valued at £100 in...
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Friday, January 31, 2020

Win a HST!

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Friday is usually retro models day on the blog. I've been asked to plug a competition for The Trainline for which one of the prizes i...
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Thursday, January 30, 2020

Layout building fun, "daring" moments and ballast in BRM

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When I spotted the Hornby Family Fun Project at its launch last year, I knew that there was an interesting Phil Project in the box. My ...
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Wednesday, January 29, 2020

Waterborne Wednesday: Radium Yellowknife

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Spotted moored in Toronto, the tugboat Radium Yellowknife has an interesting history according to Wikipedia . Built in a Southern Canada...
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Tuesday, January 28, 2020

Bargain eye protection

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When doing anything involving a cutting disk on camera, I feel I should say something about wearing eye protection. Those disks will sh...
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Monday, January 27, 2020

Cleaning track in a tunnel

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A recent magazine project involved me building a layout with a tunnel. After construction had finished, the track needed a bit of a polish...
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Sunday, January 26, 2020

London Model Engineering Exhibition 2020

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A lovely day to visit the big smoke for the first trip of the year to Ally Pally. The show seemed busy with visitors, but a little thinn...
Saturday, January 25, 2020

Saturday Film Club: The Rocket

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Stephenson's Rocket is an iconic locomotive, but possibly more revered than it deserves to be. The famous yellow livery didn't l...
Friday, January 24, 2020

Faller Hit Train

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The Faller Hit Train from the 1970s has been on my wishlist for around ten years judging from this post . A combination of utterly mad ...
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Thursday, January 23, 2020

A challenge in the Hornby Collectors Club magazine

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If you visited the Hornby Collectors Club show at Gaydon last year , you could pick up a goodie back containing a Hornby mug and a wagon....
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Wednesday, January 22, 2020

Waterborne Wednesday: Welsh fishing boat

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A nice simple fishing boat photographed in Aberystwith harbour.  Not a big boat and the net handling gear at the stern is pretty sim...
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Tuesday, January 21, 2020

Finishing touches

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After the brickwork is dry, it's time for some finishing touches for the hut. Windows and doors are painted. Glazing is carried out u...
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Monday, January 20, 2020

Paint or pencil?

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Normally I like to colour bricks with pencil crayons , but for this model, I've gone for dry-brushed paint. I'm not really sure ...
Sunday, January 19, 2020

Chiltern Model Rail Show 2020

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Sunny Stevenage for Sunday and a feast of quality layouts to enjoy. There were too many to list but a couple really stuck in my mind. Ab...
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Saturday, January 18, 2020

Saturday Film Club: A ride on a Lego railway

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Back in July 2018, we featured an amazing Swiss garden railway built by Varda Elentári Furre in Garden Rail .  The line lives outsid...
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Friday, January 17, 2020

MARS Propellorfahrzeug

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Since Hornby has yet again failed to re-introduce the Battle Space Turbo car, I'll have to go for the next best thing - the LGB MARS...
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Thursday, January 16, 2020

Garden Rail February 2020

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We've a bit of a wagon theme going on this month with some Wood Valley Works models, an amazing build of a Bole Lasercraft model in...
Wednesday, January 15, 2020

Waterborne Wednesday: 1965 Amphicar

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Is it a car? Is it a boat? Nope. This is an Amphicar. An amazing vehicle was produced in America between 1960 and 1963, but...
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Tuesday, January 14, 2020

Sticking the walls together

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A real expert would spend hours carefully honing the chamfers in the corners of this kit. I am not an expert, I just trim them so the o...
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Monday, January 13, 2020

Pete's hut

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My friend, Pete Blakeman, passed away recently. He had been ill for some time and so disposed of his unbuilt kit collection. Mostly 7mm s...