Saturday, November 08, 2025

Saturday Film Club: Transforming A New Wagon into a Railway Workhorse!

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Some proper modelling from Lucy Pitch - who I've known since I first bumped into her running Modellers Mecca. There are some handy techn...
Friday, November 07, 2025

Fleischmann MV9 diesel locomotive

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  I was tempted to title this post "My first Fleischmann" - but thought Google would prefer a more detailed description.  Picked u...
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Thursday, November 06, 2025

Wheels in

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  An odd feature of the Ratio kit is that the solebars don't fit under the floor, as they do in every other wagon kit I can recall; the ...
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Wednesday, November 05, 2025

Warehouse Wednesday - Coaling cranes

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How do you get the coal in a great big Harz Railway steam engine? Not with some sort of Carnforth-style coaling stage, but using one of a pa...
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Tuesday, November 04, 2025

Bearing up

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  It's a long while since I built a plastic wagon kit, and I need to remember how to do jobs that used to come naturally.  First up, fit...
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Monday, November 03, 2025

SR 12 Ton Box Van kit

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  While I might own many hundreds of projects, finding something suitable to build as a demonstration isn't easy. Whatever I pick has to...
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Sunday, November 02, 2025

The Great British Model Railway Show 2025

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  It's very handy having a show six miles away from home. Chuck everything in the back of the car, and I should be in the hall in little...
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Saturday, November 01, 2025

Saturday Film Club: The Last Great Playset: Matchbox's EPIC 1970s Railway Goods Yard

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File this in the "Toys I didn't have, but always wanted" pile. This video hasn't changed my mind - but no, I have too much...
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Friday, October 31, 2025

Mystery Garratt painting

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Spotted on the wall of a model railway club during a photoshoot earlier this week. No one knew anything about this painting, not even where ...
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Thursday, October 30, 2025

BRM December 2025

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Yes, it's the end of October, which means time for the December issue of BRM - that's 13 issue a year schedule catching up with us. ...
Wednesday, October 29, 2025

Warehouse Wednesday: Elend goods shed

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Yes, another picture from Germany. I've had so little modelling time recently, I need to milk my holiday for content.  That said, this i...
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Tuesday, October 28, 2025

HO Schwebebahn

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    This is the model I was always going to buy. Not cheap at 59 Euros for a static item, but having spent the money to go and see the real ...
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Monday, October 27, 2025

MMEE Haul

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  The Model Engineering show is always a chance to pick up a few useful bits. Normally, I'll dig into the tool stalls, but there's n...
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Sunday, October 26, 2025

Midlands Model Engineering Show 2025

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A bit of a flying visit to the show this year, but enough to find a few interesting things to photograph.  My favourite was this Meccano mod...
Saturday, October 25, 2025

Saturday Film Club: The Weird Pod Metro That Lies Forgotten Under A Paris Suburb

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The trouble with building the future, is it dates quite quickly. 
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Friday, October 24, 2025

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  If all goes to plan, I'll be spending the weekend behind a demo table at the Great British Model Railway Show.  I'm planning to br...
Thursday, October 23, 2025

Modellbahn Apitz, Wuppertal

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My mate Dave tells me there are several model shops around Wupperal. Well, there were a few years ago, but now there is only one within stro...
Wednesday, October 22, 2025

Schwebebahn haul

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  Look, I have wanted to visit the Wuppertal monorail for many, many years. There were going to be some souvenirs purchased. Ahead of the tr...
Tuesday, October 21, 2025

Schwebebahn (The Dingle-Dangle)

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This is the face of a very happy man. Riding the "dingle-dangle" in Wuppertal. I've wanted to visit this unusual line for more...
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