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Garden Rail - April 2019 - No. 296
Garden Rail hits the shelves today and as usual, we've an interesting mix of articles.The main feature is the Kittatinny Mountain Railroad, built by Shawn Viggiano, a really good looking logging...
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Railmail wagon
One for the extinct model shops collection - a Graham Farish OO gauge wagon in Railmail livery.Younger modellers will be surprised that Grafar produced in OO, the name now being attached to N gauge...
View ArticleSaturday Film Club: A trip around Barmouth Junction
Sit back and take a trip around Geoff Taylors model, Barmouth Junction. The model includes a mix of scenic station scenes and hidden track - most of which is a complete mystery to the operators. I've...
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Judging photos for Bachmann
A couple of months ago, I spent a few hours at Bachmann's Leicestershire HQ.My first job was to return the G scale Thomas train set I'd borrowed for the Peterborough show, but it wasn't the main reason...
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Building a radio control switch
Club membership is very useful sometimes. All these new-fangled 2.4mHz radio sets we now use support 5 or more channels rather than the 2 from the "good old days". Most of the time I only use 2, but it...
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Clamping curved things
Clamping curved bits of boats while the glue dries is always a bit of a nightmare. I have wasted many hours trying to persuade a pair of flat-faced and parallel jaws to hold things while they decide to...
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Warehouse Wednesday: Colourfull Northlights
How about this for a modelling challenge?Spotted on a visit to the Custard Factory in Birmingham, these Northlight ex-factory buildings have been decorated with serious arty graffiti.Scratchbuilding...
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Big transfers for a big wagon
For a few months, I've had one of the IP Engineering vans given away as gifts to new subscribers sitting around. You might have seen it in my Butterley video.My plan had always been to brand it for...
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Off to Ally Pally
Lordy lordy Mary Poppins, It's a right two and eight and no mistake.Yes, it's time to head to the capital for the London Festival of Railway Modelling. I'll be floating around the hall for a couple of...
View ArticleSaturday Film Club: Making model trains
Here's a mystery from the Pathe archive - a 90 second film showing O gauge model railway stock being built, but who for? I'm assuming Bassett-Lowke, but plastic coach body sides? Some impressive lining...
View ArticleMidlands Garden Rail Show 2019
Last weekend, it was large scale model at the Warwickshire Events Centre. I pointed the video camera at them and bring you the results.
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Painting with sponge
I seem to be using sponge for painting things as often as use a paintbrush recently. Some might say it always looks like I've painted with a tar brush, but we'll let that go...First job - 16mm scale...
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Photo tent review
I've mentioned in the past that I have to take photos in odd places, and don't really want to be dragging a great big booth with me. Well, a few weeks ago, I spotted an interesting advert for something...
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Warehouse Wednesday: Tinsley Park Clock
Tinsley Park coke and coal. Lovely clock, photographed by me last century. I wonder if it's still there? Or even where it is? This would make a nice model though, probably well suited to a downloadable...
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Go DCC, baseboard building and doughnuts in BRM
After a couple of months tangling with 3D printing, for the April 2019 edition of BRM, the team decided that I ought to go and learn about DCC.For this, I was dispatched to Digitrains where I spent an...
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Primer catastrophy
Needing some red oxide primer for the bottom of his boat, my dad drops into the local Halfords. They are out of stock.He asks the staff, who check with the office. Red oxide primer is only available in...
View ArticleSaturday Film Club: Building a 16mm train set
An old film, but relevant to posts late next week, so pay attention.
View ArticleLondon Festival of Railway Modelling 2019
Not my best video I'm afraid. There were a couple of problems, every time I pointed the camera at a layout, it stopped working. Now, this was rare, but I simply didn't have time to wait around and get...
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Death of a model shop
A very sad post to start the week. Saturday saw the last trading day of Gee Dee Models in Nottingham.I'd not planned to visit, rushing to the closing down sale of any model shop seems a bit ghoulish,...
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Return of the wooden train
As I hinted on Saturday, the IP Engineering wooden train set is back. It's sat in a box for over a year, but now I need more pretty 32mm gauge rolling stock for my "Build a layout" project at...
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