Tuesday, March 11, 2025

4 wheels on my Brandbright wagon

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  The Brandbright wagon kit is back!  Thanks to the very generous Steve from Bole Laser Craft , I have a set of wheels, which he dropped int...
Monday, March 10, 2025

Midlands Garden Rail Show haul

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  On the basis you can't leave a show without having bought a box of something, I picked up this kit for a couple of micro cars. I'v...
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Sunday, March 09, 2025

Midlands Garden Rail Show 2025

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Cake - Excellent. On Saturday, Amie and I enjoyed Victoria sponge, and carrot cake. I tried the sponge on Sunday, and can report that it was...
Saturday, March 08, 2025

Saturday Film Club: To & From the Seaside on a Summer Saturday

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Good grief, was this only 1991? It seems like a very different world on the railways now. Proper nostalgia.
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Friday, March 07, 2025

A real life giraffe wagon

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  Regular readers will know I love the Tri-ang Giraffe wagon . Enough to have aquired 20 of them over the years, but thanks to a post of Fac...
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Thursday, March 06, 2025

Dealing with my bald spots

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  No, not the ones my barber insists on showing me in the mirror at the end of a haircut (Why? I've not got my glasses on.) but those a...
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Wednesday, March 05, 2025

Warehouse Wednesday: SR concrete hut

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Another picture from Duncan Young - this time of a classic Southern Region concrete platelayers hut.  Famously, these were designed to fit w...
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Tuesday, March 04, 2025

The secret world of hobbyists

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  I've been interviewed by Alexander Poots for the UnHerd website.  It's a nice piece, which you can read here.
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Monday, March 03, 2025

Glasgow haul

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  I am getting better at not spending money too randomly at toy train shows. However, I can't really spend three days in a hall full of ...
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Sunday, March 02, 2025

Modelrail Scotland 2025

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Let's start with the important stuff - cakes.  Empire biscuits were available from the nearby (5 minutes stroll) Greggs, and most days w...
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Saturday, March 01, 2025

Saturday Film Club: Using Humbrol Smart Mud

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I had a lot of fun with this one - using Humbrol's "Smart Mud" product to produce a farm track, complete with tyre marks and c...
Friday, February 28, 2025

Off to the Midlands Garden Rail Show this weekend

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 Time for another show, but this one's a large scale event.  Garden Rail has a small stand at the Midlands show this weekend. Not big e...
Thursday, February 27, 2025

Building a narrow guage buffer stop

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  The last job I intended doing on the NG7 layout, was to build a buffer stop for the end of the siding. It was bugging me that stock could ...
Wednesday, February 26, 2025

Warehouse Wednesday: Sheldon's Wine Cellar

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Last week, I took myself off for an early morning bus ride , and the first stop was in Shipston-on-Stour. Strolling around the town centre, ...
Tuesday, February 25, 2025

A tickle with the paintbrush

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  My first decision with the Jag, was to leave the body alone. It's shiny, but not too shiny. This is 7mm scale, and so a cherished car ...
Monday, February 24, 2025

A new (to me) Jaguar

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For my NG7 layout, I really want a modern car. Something to tell viewers that this is a model set in current times. With this in mind, I roo...
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Sunday, February 23, 2025

Isle of man map

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Spotted years ago in the Manx Electric Railway museum, this poster/map is a little worse for wear, but I don't think I've seen it an...
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Saturday, February 22, 2025

Saturday Film Club: 1975: GLASGOW's Victorian UNDERGROUND RAILWAY

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Since I'm in Glasgow, let's head back in time to take a look at the underground railway.
Friday, February 21, 2025

Welcome to Scotland

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  If everything is going to plan, as you read this, I will be in Glasgow for Model Rail Scotland .  The plan will be to take along the now f...
Thursday, February 20, 2025

Track cleaning, and windmill and plenty of layouts in the Spring 2025 issue of BRM

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I've left the NG7 layout along this month, as I wanted to build a model spcifically to take to shows. The fantastic Buggleskelly Station...
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