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You used to be able to buy Burberry check paint...
Some old paint tinlets discovered at the back of a drawer. On the left Gloy enamel that complies with the 1974 Toy Safety regs and has a picture of a penny-farthing bicycle that looks like the one from...
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Citroen Berlingo wiper blade changing, a warning
People are nervous about fiddling with cars nowadays. Manufacturers know that if anything is too easy then the dealer network will be deprived of income. Thus, while cars are generally less in need of...
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Mystery Tool 6
This week's puzzle. Why does anyone need an egg timer on the end of several feet of string? And they need one enoug to groove the bit of wood, attach the timer properly and fit a loop to tie the string...
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Return of the Bantam
It's probably sacrilege to say so, but sometimes I get few up with model railways. With a load of projects for work on the go, I need a break. I also want to tick of a personal project that is staring...
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There's a hole in my hull
Re-starting the Bantam project, I remembered that I wasn't entirely happy with the weight distribution in the hull. While the model sat level when stationary, give it a bit of thrust and the nose...
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Magnetic attraction
Chalk this one up as something I've always wanted to try. The idea of using rare-earth magnets to hold down a model boat superstructure won't be new, but I've not done it before. The Bantam deck is...
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Little wooden hut
If you've been looking at MREmag.com this week, you'll know that I've got a fairly major project going on there at the moment building a new website for the magazine. This has coincided with a few...
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Preparing the Brede
 Last week, in preparation for the boat club lifeboat day, I hastily dug out my scratchbuilt Brede Lifeboat planning to give it a sail.  While I built the boat a couple of years ago, it's never really...
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KMBC Model lifeboat day 2015
For the last few years, the Lifeboat Enthusiast Society has held a sailing day. The event has moved around the country and this year (and next), it's Knightcote MBCs opportunity to host it. We're quite...
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3D printed "little" Phil
Lat week, I visited the London 3D print show. Waiting around for my colleagues to join me, I filmed a printer producing little head and shoulder models of visitors. While doing this, I was leapt on by...
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I mentioned yesterday, that I was filming 3D printers in action when I was leapt upon and scanned. Even though I've seen the process many times, I still find it mesmerising - hopefully you do too, as...
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Apparently yesterday's video showing 3D printing didn't work for some people. Sorry about that. The problem was that I had put the film on Flickr, and they recently "upgraded" their service so that it...
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#3dBenchy
Wandering around the 3D Print show, I spotted a little orange boat. Being a bit of a boat fan, I took a closer look. I liked the cartoony style - it had a definite "cute" about it. Then I saw another...
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Little Phil puts on his specs
One thing that "Little Phil", the 3cm tall 3D printed model of me was missing, was a pair of glasses. I've worn 'specs since I was 10 but it seems that 3D scanners struggle with glasses , so like a...
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Pen/shovel
Sorry, I've been very busy lately, so you'll have to make do with a photo of a souvenir from the 58th Model Engineer exhibition in 1990. Call a spade and spade? Not when it's also a pen...
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Railex 2015
To Stoke Mandaville with a shopping list!Railex is one of THE shows to attend if you want top pick up lots of modelling bits and pieces in one hall without all that pesky mail-order nonsense. As such,...
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Be careful where you dip your brush...
On the left, Plastic Weld, and excellent adhesive for sticking ABS to anything. On the right, DCC Concepts Clean Flux, the first flux I've used that both aids soldering and doesn't require cleaning...
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Mystery Tool 5 - Solved!
Back on May, I asked you all about this mystery tool. At the time I thought it might be for bopping annoying people at the front of my layout when exhibiting. It appears not. The man known as "the...
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Canterbury Miniature Commercials Fordson Van
Now for something very unfashionable - building a model road vehicle from a kit. I think I bought this one in along with 3 others at Chatham show around 10 years ago. At the time you couldn't buy the...
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Building the Fordson
Nothing to challenging about this build - the resin body just needs a little cleaning with a sharp knife around all the openings. The whitemetal chassis is fine and the wheels just require a touch of...
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