Monday, August 02, 2021

A nice place to fish

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  For my latest Hornby Collectors Club project, I was asked for something with water.  No problem I though, a slice of countryside with a sm...
Sunday, August 01, 2021

Navy Day 2021

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I'll confess to feeling a certain amount of trepidation as my father and I headed to the KMBC Navy Day. It's along while since we...
Saturday, July 31, 2021

Saturday Film Club: Interesting old plastic kits

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I'm always interested in historic model kits and this video made me search for something I, and the presenter, had never heard of - Renw...
Friday, July 30, 2021

Back to Groudle in 1996

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  It's no secret I'm a big fan of the Groudle Glen Railway, and I have a large collection of souvenirs of the line. The latest examp...
Thursday, July 29, 2021

Smoke & Steam

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Many months ago, Warners decided to produce a coffee table style magazine for prototype railways.  Although very much a side-project for the...
Wednesday, July 28, 2021

Pootle's back!

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With a spare radio receiver in my hand, I thought I might as well put it into my very first boat kit - Pootle.  This George Turner kit was c...
Tuesday, July 27, 2021

Clyde Puffer back on the water

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A whopping 5560 posts ago, this 1:72 scale Clyde Puffer was the first proper post on this blog . 15 years later, it's back, because I ne...
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Monday, July 26, 2021

Hozelock reel frustration and resolution

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  This is a Hozelock retracting reel. It's a nice, neat way to have a hosepipe, and gave me a whole heap of pain on a very hot Saturday,...
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Sunday, July 25, 2021

Manx night time

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 It's three years since I was last on the Isle of Man, so here's a random photo from the last day there.
Saturday, July 24, 2021

Saturday Film Club: Holiday 1961

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This week, a plea from the producers of Look at Life for holiday weeks to be staggered to spread the season out a bit.  Plenty of lovely f...
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Friday, July 23, 2021

Fixing the pink Mini

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  Long-term readers may remember a pink Mini I built for a friends' daughter a couple of years ago . Well, it's still around, but t...
Thursday, July 22, 2021

"Hood" ready to sail

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  And there it is done. A fun little project which apart from a little hole cleaning, went together perfectly.  The finished ship is 16cm lo...
Wednesday, July 21, 2021

Assembling the Hood

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  In theory, the Meng kit pushes together, but in the same way I don't do plastic kits without paint, I don't do them without glue e...
Tuesday, July 20, 2021

Meng cartoon "Hood"

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  My dad is still working on his scale model or the warship Hood - but when looking through the Meng website after finishing my Santa Tank ,...
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Monday, July 19, 2021

New brushes

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I paint a lot of stuff, and so am always on the lookout for modestly priced brushes that are good enough for the sort of work I do.  £10 for...
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Sunday, July 18, 2021

Selly Oak sails away

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Time to wrap up the Selly Oak story as the model has now been delivered to its new owner.  The sharp eyed will notice that there are a few j...
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Saturday, July 17, 2021

Saturday Film Club: Dresden Suspension Railway

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 I visited Dresden years ago, but no-one mentioned this monorail funicular - or I'd have sought it out for a ride! More information on W...
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Friday, July 16, 2021

Pop-pop boat

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  "What did you buy at the National Garden Railway Show Phil?", I hear you ask.  I bought a pop-pop boat.  Well, it was only a ten...
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Thursday, July 15, 2021

Garden Rail August 2021

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Does building a garden railway take a long time? I set out to build a working layout, complete with plants, in a day for the National Ga...
Wednesday, July 14, 2021

Camping coaches and buying kitbuilt locos in BRM

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This months' project is one of those that grew the more I dug into it. My plan had been to take a Hornby generic coach, paint it then pl...