Saturday Film Club: Hague model village - 1955
A trip to Holland for a model village, complete with impressive railway, from 1955 thanks to Pathe News.
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Shut the door!
What is it with people displaying their cars at classic vehicle shows? Why must they leave the doors open? The photo above demonstraites the point. Taken at the NEC classic car show on Friday (photo...
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Return to the Provendor wagon
Back in May, I failed to build a Cooper Craft Provendor wagon. It's niggled at me ever since, so when an eBay search turned up another kit, I decided to have another go. Looking back at my blog post...
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Chassis on
More lessons learned. Plain bearings fitted into the axleboxes. I even drill them out a little to deepen the hole. Both solebars are carefully shortened to fit, and amazingly, I manage to have the...
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Complete, but still fighting
Well, the provendor wagon is built, and painted, and looks a bit rubbish. Despite gloss varnishing the sides, and applying lashings of Micro-Sol, the transfers haven't sat down properly and there's...
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Uncoupling in the Hornby Collectors Club
It's time for another basics article in The Collector - house magazine of the Hornby Collectors Club.This time, I take a look at uncoupling. Pretty much fundamental to a working model railway, and...
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NEC Classic car show 2022
Last weekend was busy, and started on Friday with a trip to the Lancaster Insurance classic car show at the NEC. Now, I really wanted to go to this show. There was a sharp intake of breath at the £38...
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L&WMRS Open Day 2022
Is it really wise to leave me, Phil Parker, in charge of the teabar when it is postivly groaning under the weight of cakes piled upon it? Once again, I'd volenteered to be tea boy at the club open day....
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IPMS Telford 2022
Final stop for my fun weekend was Telford for the International Plastic Modellers Society exhibition. For the first time, I drove to the show, which meant there was a whole car to fill with kits...The...
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Go on then, what did you buy?
Tradition demands that after a trip to a show, everyone posts pictures of the stuff they have bought all over social media. If you don't believe me, just watch any model railway Facebook group this...
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Painted head part 1
While buying some wood from SLEC at the larger scale aircraft show, I spotted they also sold pilot heads for aircraft. I've looked at these before and thought painting one up would be a bit of fun, so...
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Painted head part 2
There's not a huge amount of detail in this cheapo head, I supposed you don't really need much when it will be viewed from several hundred feet away as the 'plane zooms past. I keep things simple with...
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Spruce up the unseen bits
I'm planning on taking the DHAPR Wagon Works to Warley this year, and when checking the model over, realised that for the first time ever, the public will be able to see the back of it. Now, when I...
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Getting ready for Warley
Yes, it's here. Today is all about moving stuff to the NEC for the Warley National Exhibition. The World of Railways stand is A18 - not far inside the main door. On there you'll find the BRM team...
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Last week, I found myself falling down a rabbit hole on Twitter - someone asked if a particular push button switch had a nice action, and the comments were fascinating. Well, to me anyway. Sooo many...
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Myton Hospice vans
Last year, my local club comissioned some wagons to support Myton Hospice. Well, they sold well, and raised a lot of money, so now we have gunpoder vans, again, in OO and N gauges. I think they look...
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ARII Ghost box
This is a rare kit. It must be, because it says so on the Post-It note on the end of the box. And on the many examples of the kit for sale online. So rare, that I ought to put it away in the kit stash...
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ARII Ghost box - mechanical bits
Here's what makes the Ghost Box work. The mechanism clips and screws together easily enough. The builder needs to pay attention to the orientation of the parts, but You can't put the things together...
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ARII Ghost box - painted and working
Here we go. Job done. Painting the stonework was quite fun. I started with Humbrol 64, pale grey. Once tacky, some 147 was sponged on lightly, followed by talculm powder to blend the colours and add...
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Lights, old locos, action! in the January BRM
It might be November, but our four-weekly publication schedule sees BRM reach 2023. The nights are dark, and so I'm putting some lights into 4mm scale road vehicles. The main project involves a...
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