Wednesday, November 02, 2022

Larger scale aircraft 2022 - you do NOT need a 'plane!

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I couldn't stay long at the Berlingo event mentioned yesterday, because I wanted to pack another in on the same day. This time the stati...
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Tuesday, November 01, 2022

Berlingos and Bacon

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My parents have a Citroen Berlingo. It's their second one thanks to someone parking a Golf in the back years ago. It's an odd car. U...
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Monday, October 31, 2022

Unboxing the Victory

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  My job presents endless temptations. When interviewing the guys from Planet Industrials a few years ago, they told us about their first RT...
Sunday, October 30, 2022

Trevor Cousens - RIP

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  I can't remember when I first met Trevor, probably at a L&WMRS exhibition many years ago when he'll have been sat behind a hug...
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Saturday, October 29, 2022

Saturday Film Club: Hoversprite

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This is mad. So of course, I love it. And want to build a model.  It must have been pretty noisy in there though!
Friday, October 28, 2022

Off to the GBMRS this weekend

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  Today, I will be mostly packing up my car with models to show at the Great British Model Railway Show this weekend. At the time of writing...
Thursday, October 27, 2022

Tea and cake with the Heart of England Narrow Gauge Modellers

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  An e-mail arrived a couple of weeks ago from the Heart of England Narrow Gauge Modellers. I have a freind who is a member and this means I...
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Wednesday, October 26, 2022

Midlands Model Engineering Exhibition 2022

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With a long break from exhibiting, and being shut away in their workshops, it's nice to see a rush of new models appearing at the MMEE t...
Tuesday, October 25, 2022

Cars at the Spa 2022

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I've been very busy over the last few weeks, with precious little time for my own modelling, but I have been out and about a bit, so the...
Monday, October 24, 2022

The Dumpy Book of Railways of the World

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  Needing something to rest a camera on during a photo shoot at a show, I grabbed this for a quid. It looked interesting, and at 130mm by 10...
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Sunday, October 23, 2022

6000

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It's taken 16 years, but this is the 6000th post on Phil's Workbench! Thank you everyone who continue to read this stuff every day. ...
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Saturday, October 22, 2022

Saturday Film Club: London in the 1930s

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I'm not normally a fan of colourised film, but this one has been coloured, stabalised and a who lot of other ized things, plus it's ...
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Friday, October 21, 2022

The mystery R733 coaches

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Picked up on a second-hand stall for four quid each, these Tri-ang/Hornby coaches are a bit of a mystery.  Described as "Swedish" ...
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Thursday, October 20, 2022

Finished goods shed

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  There we go. A few evenings work, and I have an N gauge goods shed. The build has been deliberatly slow to let paint and glue dry rather t...
Wednesday, October 19, 2022

Warehouse Wednesday: Airport control tower

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Pulling into the car park at the Bicester Heritage Centre for the G1MRA 75th birthday celebrations, and dodging a Tiger Moth that was being ...
Tuesday, October 18, 2022

Modular construction

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  To keep painting simple, I'm building the goods shed as a series of module. The colours of the plastic provide a pretty good guide to ...
Monday, October 17, 2022

Peco Goods Shed

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  I'm dreadful for looking at a kit for sale and immediatly wanting to have a go at it. Bursting cupboards will atttest to my eyes being...
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Sunday, October 16, 2022

Iain Rice RIP

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  Much has already been written about the sad passing of Iain Rice, and I feel I ought to jot a few words down on the subject, as, just like...
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Saturday, October 15, 2022

Saturday Film Club: Upson Down tramway

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Time for a short video I recorded a few weeks ago covering a little tramway layout that looks great moving, but is impossible to photograph ...
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Friday, October 14, 2022

Rivarossi Virginia & Truckee locomotive

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This is a locomotive I know very little about, and had never felt the desire to own. Not until it was offered for a fiver at the G1 birthday...
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