Monday, August 31, 2020

A box for Willi

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    Willi didn't arrive with a carrying box. The postman delivered him well packed, in an old Amazon cardboard box. By the time I'd ...
Sunday, August 30, 2020

Happy retirement Philip!

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    No not me, there's no chance I'll ever be able to retire - it's the good looking one on the right in this photo.  From the D...
Saturday, August 29, 2020

Saturday Film Club: Climb the Forth Bridge

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   I'm not good with heights, so I'm not sure if I envy anyone heading up to the top of the Forth Rail bridge. Mind you, it's a ...
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Friday, August 28, 2020

Splat autopsy

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My Migo Splat has a broken leg. It was fine and then suddenly things went wonky and useless.  This flexible tripod is invaluable, as I expl...
Thursday, August 27, 2020

A train for Willi

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    Willi needs a train, and everything I have in 45mm gauge, for the line in our garden, is a bit LGB. Lovely, but hardly approproate for o...
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Wednesday, August 26, 2020

Waterborne Wednesday: Racing hovercraft

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  Other than this is in the Isle of Man motor museum , I can't tell you anything useful about this hovercraft - other than it is seri...
Tuesday, August 25, 2020

Lindberg Tugboat - all done

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     For the final shots of the tugboat, I wanted to sit it on some brown water. The obvious choice would be the model boat club, but we...
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Monday, August 24, 2020

Finishing touches to the tugboat

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    After testing on the water, I found a couple of little tweaks I wanted to make to the tugboat . First, every time the superstructure wob...
Sunday, August 23, 2020

Do I need a DSLR?

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    My Nikon D5000 has died.  When I switch it on, the lights in the viewfinder flash on and then there is nothing. My first thought was a f...
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Saturday, August 22, 2020

Saturday Film Club: Mad, German, flying steam locos

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  Finescale model railway fans, look away now.  I don't really know what to make of this video, other than it's mad and I love it.
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Friday, August 21, 2020

Willi on the tracks

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    Excitement got the better of me and a day after Willi completed his test run on the bench, I brushed the leaves off the garden railway, ...
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Thursday, August 20, 2020

My new Willi

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    Roll out the double entendre's , I have a new locomotive!   Now, I'm not really a steam man. I mean, I like watching both miniat...
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Wednesday, August 19, 2020

Waterborne Wednesday: Pl5 on a trailer

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  Taken on the Isle of Man couple of years ago, fishing dingy PL5 is berthed on its trailer on the beach.  This is an interesting little p...
Tuesday, August 18, 2020

Back on the water

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      On a nice, sunny, calm day,  I took the tugboat to our pool (don't get excited, you've probably got inflatable paddling pools ...
Monday, August 17, 2020

All the bits are finally painted

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Updates on the tugboat have been thin because I've been painting all the detail parts, and that's not very exciting, even for this b...
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Sunday, August 16, 2020

66 731 Captain Tom Moore

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    Number 3200 of 3500 - Hornby's "Thank you NHS" special edition class 66 locomotive.  Not my usual choice of model locomoti...
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Saturday, August 15, 2020

Saturday Film club: London Docks

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  With all the tugboat work, I thought these films showing classic London docks would be interesting. It seems amazing to me that there used...
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Friday, August 14, 2020

Getting animated in September's BRM

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I'm getting mobile in the latest issue of BRM. My big build is a working chair-o-plane kit in Ho scale. Now, I could have just stuck the...
Thursday, August 13, 2020

Garden Rail September 2020

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One of the joys of garden railways is that they develop over time, so we revisit The Peckforton Light Railway, built by regular Garden Rai...
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Wednesday, August 12, 2020

Waterborne Wednesday: St Mawes ferry

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Let's get things straight, even if I built a model of the May Queen, there's no way I'd be tacking the dazzle camouflage! To b...