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Wiring a multi-pin plug
Ā I'm making up an inter-baseboard lead for a new project and this involves wiring up a couple of multi-way plugs. Ā Back in the old days, these would have been honking great things that you could have...
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Swizzle yard
Here's a clever idea spotted at the weekend. The fiddle yard on Loughborough Midland is vast and it's important to stop trains in the right place. What you need is some handy markers that can be seen...
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Super cheap clock repair
Years ago, I bought a computer monitor shaped clock from someone on eBay. I've always liked clocks and have to stop myself building a vast collection of them in all shapes and sizes. The Nokia monitor...
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Great Central Railway model event 2015
To Quorn for the first MREmag.com exhibition stand!With the magazine under our control we decided it was time to do some events handing out leaflets and encouraging new readers. You can make an on-line...
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Scale Rail International - Launch Issue
Not so long ago, well known railway editor, Chris Ellis produced a magazine called Model Trains International. For those who remember his time at Scale Trains back in the 1980s, the format was very...
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Summer modelling tools
Summer is here and it's time to start collecting model making tools. How better to paint 4mm scale figures than by supergluing their feet to a lolly stick? I've found that ones from Magnum ice lollys...
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Slumbering P Class
Poke your head inside the engine shed at Melbridge Parva and you might find a P Class locomotive awaiting its next duties. Perhaps it will feel fire in its belly today, or maybe it has been left to be...
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Mineral wagons
Once upon a time, I thought all 16T mineral wagons were the same. I'm old enough to have seen trains of them hauled by blue diesels through my local station. At the time I didn't think anything of it -...
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Off to Beaconsfield tomorrow
Tomorrow, all being well, we'll be exhibiting at Beaconsfield Model Railway showĀ with Melbridge Dock. I hope the cake is good and that if you drop in, you say hello.
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Airfix QuickBuild Beetle
Back in January, on the Hornby/Airfix/Scalectrix stand at the London Toy Fair, I spotted something very exciting indeed - a Beetle!Draw a venn diagram of things I like and both Lego and Veedubs will be...
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Parker & Son Fabrications
Over on the British Railway Modelling blog, I've written up a quickie project I built to try out some free downloadable building elements supplied on the August 2015 DVD. The 4mm scale model is based...
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I bought Hornby - for 50p
An irresistible bargain from the weekend - Hornby for 50p!An ideal blog project I'm thinking. What am I planning? You'll have to watch this space...
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Bluebell Model Railway event
Ā Just over a week ago, I headed down to the Bluebell Railway for their model railway event. While it was a nice day out, the real aim was to go and photograph the pre-production Oxford Rail Adams...
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Hornby factory
I've become a little obsessed with the Hornby "Town and Country" range of plastic kit buildings. There are several in my collection and I wouldn't mind picking up the rest. While they were badged...
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Scenic BRM
It's the annual British Railway Modelling scenery special issue and so I've been getting all green fingered. I've built a 7mm scale diorama based around a Petite Properties greenhouse kit. Despite...
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Codename Edgeworth 2
If you've watched the DVD that arrived with your copy of BRM this month, then you'll have seen me introduce our new project layouts - Ruston Quays.After building Edgeworth last year, we've been keen to...
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Stripping paint
Back at the 50p Hornby building, I've spent half an hour at the sink with some Precision Paints Superstrip in an effort to remove the old paint. As you can see, I had reasonable success with the red...
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Beaconsfield 2015
Mid-summer exhibitions are rare. It's generally considered that most punters will be outside doing summery things and won't be easily enticed into a warm hall to look at train sets. However, more and...
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VW Campervan for sale
If you've seen my local paper then you might have spotted thisĀ advert in the motoring classifieds. Yes, it is time to sell Ashley, my VW campervan. Truth is, I've not driven him on the public roads for...
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Windows
While stripping down the building, I tried to remove the plastic windows carefully, decided they were too well stuck in place and just bust them out with a poking finger. Replacements were cut from 1mm...
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