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Does red paint make it better?
Trying to reduce the impact of the buffers, I've tweaked the livery slightly over the prototype images I can find. Fully red beams with black faces look mahoosive, but painting the back beam black...
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Warehouse Wednesday: Big Welsh wiggly tin shed
Spotted as I descended the mountian from the car park at the Llanfair Caereinion Leisure Centre. This tin shed is big (I'd hoped to measure it on Google, but you can't zoom in close enough to see it)...
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October Garden Rail on the shelves
As the Gauge 1 Model Railway Association celebrates its 75th birthday, we visit the president's own line, with a show of many of the locos he has designed. We're getting technical with a look at...
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Cardboard loco kit
Spotted at The International N Gauge Show last weekend, the Kato STEAM Starter Kit Narrow Gauge Diesel Locomotive 'Billy'. It's a cardboard kit that fits on a supplied RTR motor bogie. At £96, it's a...
View ArticleSaturday Film Club: Night Mail 2
An updated version of the classic GPO Film Unit production from 1986, showing how the modern transport system still carries the mail to the masses. It all looks so vintage, and makes me feel old...
View ArticleWatching trains at Elsecar
A few minutes watching trains at the Yorkshire Garden Railway Show last weekend. Apologies for the background music, but it dorwns out the noise of the halls at this busy show. While the locos do...
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Crew
Bit of a crisis with the Lewin build - I went to my box of good figures for a crew, and the cupboard was bare! I don't know when I used the last set, but obviously didn't think to re-order. Loco crew...
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Waterborne Wednesday: SD Bovisand
My parents have just returned from a holiday in Cornwall, and as well as bringing me back several bottles of cider, they also have some interesting photos of boats. First up, is the SD Bovisand. This...
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Getting grubby
It's a long while since I broke out and airbrush and made a locomotive dirty!So long, that my Iwata has long since gone and been replaced by a Sparmax. And more importantly, the cat food boxes I used...
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Lewin
All done. A little tickle from the weathering powders, especially on the outer edges of the buffer beam where photos show rusty patches. The drive was a fiddle to fit, eventually he found a happy...
View ArticleSaturday Film Club: Welshpool and Llanfair Railway in the 1950s
If I'm honest, this wasn't the Welshpool video I was planning to bring you today, but I lost the link to the intended film, and found this instead. Fantastic old footage, OK, the quality isn't great,...
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Living the high life in London
You are probably wondering why I am drinking champagne in front of the Millemium Dome. To be honest, I'm not entirely sure myself. A couple of weeks ago, out of the blue, and invite came to visit the...
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Hornby watch
I've been too busy for any personal modelling for the last few days, so this week's blog posts are going to be a bit of a catch-up of other stuff. Mostly weird things I've aquired recently, some of...
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Whose track?
Time for a mystery. I have a short length of 32mm gauge track fitted to a piece of plywood. Steel bullhead rail, 6mm tall and 2.8mm wide is fitted into individual chairs, complete with representations...
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Waterborne Wednesday: MV Pioneer
The day I find myself rich enough to own a super-yacht, I think I want it to look like the MV Pioneer. I spotted this stunning vessel in Grenwich last week, and what a beauty she is. Built in 1996 and...
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How would I do this?
I always say that it's possible to learn something, or pick up an idea from any model railway you see at a show. No matter what the prototype, scale or level of finescaleness, the builder will have...
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GWR Towns, Villages etc.
The trouble with being interested in things, is that you often find yourself aquiring objects that no-one else wants. Handily, this keeps the costs down, but I do own a lot of "stuff". Spotting this...
View ArticleSaturday Film Club: A Steam Train Passes
Made by Film Australia 1974. Directed by David Haythornthwaite. Generally regarded as Australia’s finest railway film and winner of many awards the world over, A Steam Train Passes is a nostalgic,...
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Stafford 2022
First show visited as a punter, for longer than I can remember, and I'm pleased to say that Stafford at its new time of year, and in it's new hall was as good as ever. OK, they had booked the same...
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