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Dog Cart
Detailing a model railway, as the excellent BRM Guide to building your first layout suggests, can eat your time like a fat footie fan can chomp his way through a pie at half-time. Painting figures can...
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Painted dog cart
Google quickly showed me that I could paint the dog cart nice bright colours. While there were quite a few in plain black, a couple were colourful with black highlights and so I thought this would look...
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Doncaster 2014
After 4 hours of a 2 hour journey up the M1, I pitched up at Doncaster Racecourse with less than an hour to go before the place was shut up for the Friday night. Fortunately, Edgeworth goes together...
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Hat-tip to Scale Model News for spotting this fantastic bit of animation. Steampunk chuffers in a race that reminds me of Whacky Races more than Formula 1. Aside from being incredibly well done, it...
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Double ended embossing tool
Something a bit specialised has been added to the toolbox recently - an Amaco T-3 double-ended embossing tool. I bet Iain Robinson is coveting it already. For those who aren't nerdy about scribing...
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3D photos. The future?
Over the Doncaster weekend, there was a first for one of my layouts - it was photographed by a proper 3D camera. Years ago, some kid had a go with a Nintendo 3DS but the little tyke ran off before I...
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Country House
A little taster here for a project I'm working on. The model is built from the MiniArt Country House plastic kit and very nice it is too. Assembly is reasonably simple and after painting using my usual...
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Cooper Craft Bedford Lorry
I think Cooper Craft kits are fantastic. Over the years I've built an awful lot of them. From the basic OO wagons and GWR platform trolleys through to the 16mm rolling stock, every one has been...
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Bedford Lorry first assemblies
Some of this work is more like sculpture than modelmaking. Take a randomly shaped plastic part and try to work out what you have to carve away to reveal the component within. Having said that, the...
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4 wheels on my Bedford
I was determined this lorry was going to sit flat on the deck so wanted to fit the wheels as early as possible. All model vehicles can be made to sit with four wheels touching the road, it just takes a...
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A few old models of lorries
A slight hiatus in the build of my Cooper Craft Bedford is filled with old pictures of lorries I built back in the days when diecasts were horrible, unavailable or stupidly expensive. The Bedfords...
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Fun, free, card kits
We all love free stuff don't we?Well, if you have a printer and some card that can be run through it, the people at Confused.com have produced a rather nifty model of the star of their latest adverts,...
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Partwork season - A4's everywhere!
Two new partworks out in the shops this month - Great British Locomotive Collection and Build the Mallard.The first arrives every 2 weeks with a static, OO gauge, plastic model of a locomotive. The...
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Bedford in primer
If I told you this was a whitemetal kit, and you weren't an avid reader of this blog, you'd probably believe me. With a coat of Halfords primer showing up every lump and bump, the initially...
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Painted and weathered Bedford
After a couple of extra scrapes of filler, I decided the Bedford was ready for paint. Trying to match the colours of my AEC lorries, the top half of the cab is Humbrol 103, the bottom half, the wrong...
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For Sale: Clayhanger Yard
The time has come, with 2 exhibitions this month, to part with Clayhanger Yard. I need the storage space for more projects and don't want to leave it to deteriorate when someone else can enjoy the...
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Off to Kettering
Today, we will be packing up Clayhanger Yard in preperation for its trip to the Guage O Guild show at Kettering. For those who don't know the show, it's a trade extravaganza for the 7mm modeller....
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Tramcar Clearout update
A couple of months ago, I mentioned that my Dad was clearing out his diecast tramcar collection. The plan was to drop them off with a local auction house for their next toy sale. We did this but after...
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Will it fit in the car?
Things normal people don't do when they buy a car: Drop the seats down in the back and see if the train set will fit in. After a recent minor accident, the insurance company decided that our late 90s...
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The worm that turned away
Preparing Clayhanger Yard for Kettering, I gave all the locos their usual pre-show wheel clean. Reaching the Pug, I remembered that it needed a little more attention than a polish with the fibreglass...
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