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Coalville Model Boat show
To go to Coalville or not? That was the question this year. The event has snuck up on us without really noticing and I was busty first thing in the morning supporting my sister when she took part in a...
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Riding Bellerophon
It will probably come as a surprise to many people who know me, but one thing I've never done, until yesterday, was ride on the footplate of a railway engine. Obviously I've ridden behind all sorts of...
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Stop your shunting!
Funny the things you find kicking around the magazine collection of your local model railway club. Here we have the Instructions to be observed with the working of royal trains. Most of it covers block...
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Beer research
OK, I'm busy at the moment so please head over to the BRM Blog where you will find a little post I put together yesterday on my trip to the National Brewing Museum in Burton-on-Trent. Before we went to...
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Brush painting spray paint
I recently painted a model grey by spraying it with Halfords primer. It's lovely paint that applies straight from the can very well indeed. The problem was that after a little hand lettering, I needed...
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Making chain
I needed some chain for a garden railway project earlier this week and the stuff supplied with the kit was far too small."No problem", I thought, "I'll quickly make some up."The technique is simple...
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Manx Peacock
It's spring time so the garden railway comes alive properly. Track ballast has been renewed. Rails have been cleaned. Plants have been pruned. While we had the Peacock out I couldn't resist taking a...
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16mm Society AGM 2014
Peterborough showground. Home of the best chocolate cake in the world. Or at least it used to be three years ago. Sadly there's not sign of it. Perhaps some lucky git ate it all before I got...
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Easter Egg Special!
It's Easter and to me that means chocolate eggs. Yum!Anyway, this isn't a blog about chocolate, it's about making things, so looking for a connection, I decided that the ideal topic for today would be...
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Resin tank for a warflat
Paul asks: Where do you get the resin tanks from that you use on the warflats ?The simple answer is that they can be supplied with the kit when you buy it from the Double O Gauge Association. However,...
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Painting a 16mm scale guard Part 1
I picked this figure up from a box at the end of the Modeltown stand at Peterborough. He was in a box of cheap figures and I liked the look of his pose.Anyway, I'm assuming that he made it in the cheap...
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Painting a 16mm scale guard Part 2
Railway uniforms tend to be black so I gave the guard a quick once-over with some Humbrol 33 after picking out his shirt in 147.On it's own, the black looks a bit stark so I left it half an hour and...
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Someone must love a Penny Post tram
The great tramcar sale continues over on eBay and we are gradually reducing the pile of Corgi diecast models and increasing the garden railway locomotive funds. It's interesting to see which models are...
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York 2014
I won't keep you in suspense - my round trip to York show is 300 miles and it was worth every one of them this year. Visitor no.4700 started his visit with a trip to the restaurant at the top of the...
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Two old photos of trains
I was looking for a card kit the other day, working my way through a bookshelf, and I tripped over an old scrapbook. The pictures were falling out so I stuck a couple under the scanner. Both date from...
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Bantam Tug
From Jim Shead's Website: During the fifties and sixties E C Jones & Son (Brentford) Ltd built a series of tugs which they called "Bantams".I first became aware of Bantam tugs when I visited the...
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Mastman Kit
The Mastman Models kit isn't a kit in the way railway modellers would understand the concept. It is exactly what you get in the model boat world however. A vac-formed hull, deck and front fender are...
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The mythical Ratio 528
One issue that has presented itself on Edgeworth is the disintegrating Hornby resin water tower. I commented on this a couple of months ago and the only good news is that a couple of applications of...
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Fitting the deck
Since I wasn't going to be using the deck supplied in the kit, I needed to fit a new version.This isn't scary as on a Bantam as it is on other vessels since it's just a flat sheet. There needs to be a...
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Bantam drivetrain
I've commented before that it seems odd one of the first tasks to be carried out when building a model boat is to make holes in the hull. In other words take the very part you rely on to keep water...
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