Monday, May 12, 2025

Bristol haul

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Trade was good at Bristol, lots of buy, and a few unicorns.  Let's start with something I didn't buy.  Yes, the famous Tri-ang TT go...
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Sunday, May 11, 2025

Bristol 2025

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  The friday afternoon at Bristol really throws me. I get up early, drive to the show, set up, and it's lunchtime. Then the show opens, ...
Saturday, May 10, 2025

Saturday Film Club: Pantograph Mill: The Coolest Machine Adam Savage Owns!

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Pantograph Mills are fascinating. A tool I've wanted to own ever since reading about them in an old MRJ. If only I had the space.  I cam...
Friday, May 09, 2025

The Web Model Fitting Co.

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  I love an old modelmaking catalogue, and picked up this gem at York. Can you imagine such a bombastic cover appearing nowadays?  Inside th...
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Thursday, May 08, 2025

Layout in a Day in the latest Garden Rail

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How fast can you build a garden railway? It turns out, that three and a half hours is long enough for our team. That's how long it took ...
Wednesday, May 07, 2025

Warehouse Wednesday: Hell. On. Earth

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Last week, the Groudle Glen Railway posted a video of Sea Lion running on Facebook . One of the comments was:  A railway I can't get to ...
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Tuesday, May 06, 2025

Motor in

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  This is an old kit, so power comes from a chunky brushed motor. I suspect there will be a brushless conversion available, but in my hands,...
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Monday, May 05, 2025

Suspension

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  With bost sides of the gearbox bolted together, I get to attached the chunky universal joints that will drive those rear wheels.  Being re...
Sunday, May 04, 2025

Key Model World 2025

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Welcome to the show that I'm so target market for, it could have my picture on the programme cover.  A mix of model railways, plastic mo...
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Saturday, May 03, 2025

Saturday Film Club: A Close-up Look at the Sentinel Diesel Shunter

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My friend Anthony has been poking his camera around another loco, this time H001, one of the first Sentinel diesel shunters produced.  One ...
Friday, May 02, 2025

Bristol today, and tomorrow, and Sunday

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  Later on today, I should be set up at The Bristol Model Railway Exhibition for the weekend.  My NG7 layout will be on the World of Raiwlay...
Thursday, May 01, 2025

How long is that bolt?

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  There are a lot of hex-head cap screws in this buggy, and they are many different lengths. How long? Well, using a ruller is fiddly, but t...
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Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Building the gearbox

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  Step 1: Make up the gear shafts, and fit them in the box. Not difficult, if you take things slowly and pay attention. The instructions are...
Tuesday, April 29, 2025

Tamiya Sand Scorcher

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  For various reasons, I've become a bit jaded about model railway building. Because of the Andy-shaped hole in our team at work, and th...
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Monday, April 28, 2025

York haul

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Of course, I bought stuff at York. You know the rules, no going to a show without supporting the trade a little.  First, a Hornby Steampunk ...
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Sunday, April 27, 2025

York 2025

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  To York!  As usual, I travelled up on the Saturday so I could stroll around the city, watching buskers, and generally enjoying one of my f...
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Saturday, April 26, 2025

Saturday Fim Club: The Class 01 - Built for Tight Corners and Tough Jobs

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Ignore the commentary, and there are some intertesting shots of 01 diesels here that I don't remember seeing before. Although Ben Bucki...
Friday, April 25, 2025

Berlingo bonnet stay clip

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  This is a really important piece of plastic. So important, that when it breaks, it needs to be replaced - a job that is a bit of a pain.  ...
Thursday, April 24, 2025

Red Wharf

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  It's cold outside, There's no kind of atmosphere, I'm all alone, More or less. Actually, I'm not alone, I'm in the L...
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