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National Micro-car rally 2015
"Can you help me with me legs?"An odd request to my father and me when we arrived at the rally. Fortunately, the legs in question belonged to a mannequin belonging to a gentleman collecting for a...
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Prototype for everything, peeling transfers
Spotted at the Gloucester & Warwickshire Railway, a station sign with the letters peeling off. Apparently they were removed during the war when with the threat of invasion looming, signs were...
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Class 37
Over the weekend, I dropped in to the International N gauge show. The aim was to find plenty of new products to report on for MREmag. While there, I was staggered by the quality of some models in the...
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Warehouse Wednesday: Sepia Works
I'm not sure where this photo was taken. Possibly Birmingham, but I didn't write anything on the back of the print and as you can tell by the cars, the shot dates from the 1990s. Interesting canal side...
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ERG wagon kits
This blogging lark is great. As yesterday proved, all you need to do is post a picture and there is a good chance someone will be able to identify the location. So, here's a new challenge. I've been...
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Bantam update
A busy week has limited the time I could spend working on the Bantam tug. However, I have fitted out the wheelhouse. Since the view inside is limited, I'm not going to go mad in there.The wheel is an...
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TINGS 2015
The International N Gauge Show - usually shortened to TINGS isn't one I normally visit but being just around the corner, and the place where you are most likely to find new products in the scale, a...
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End of the big bottle
January 2012. I bought the biggest bottle of Slaters Mek-Pak I could.Last week, I finally finished it off. That works out less than a fiver a year for liquid glue. It's not like I'm a light user of the...
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New Street sation mock-up
Yesterday, the new look Birmingham News Street station was fully opened to the public. A few days earlier, I finally answered a question that had been bugging me for a while, and it turns out to be...
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Bantam test sailing
Thursday is model railway club night and since it shares the site with the model boat club, I decided it was about time I took the chance to test sail the Bantam without anyone else on the water. First...
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Warehouse Wednesday: Bishophill Coachworks
Pedants will point out that this isn't strictly speaking a warehouse, but I think the right hand side of the building might just have been a storage facility at some point. Anyway, it's my blog, I'll...
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Ynys Gwyntog
I've been very busy recently so this is just a quick post. Ynys Gwyntog was on display at Scaleforum last weekend as a tribute to its creator, Bob Barlow. I remember being impressed with it in NG&I...
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Book Review: Playing with Trains by Sam Posey
Sam Posey is described as a "Grand Prix legend" in the front of the book. Those outside the USA probably won't have heard of him but this apparently he raced in Formula 1 for a couple of years and...
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NOT a toy
From the packaging of the excellent Ratio SS91 Lever/Ground frames kit. I know that they have to write this on to exempt the kit from the regs relating to toys but I do wonder sometimes. I mean, while...
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Scaleforum 2015
Tweed time!Scaleforum takes place in the same venue as Railex but is marketed at members of the Scalefour Society. The layouts invited are all P4 and the trade represents this finescale market. All...
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New layout building bookazine!
Out now - The BRM guide to Building Your First Model Railway!Officially available from all good, and some disreputable, branches of WH Smith from October 12th. It will also be sold by some model...
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Modelu Figures
One of the stands I was keenest to visit at Scaleforum was Modelu. A new business, Alan Buttler has developed the technology to 3D scan and then print figures for model makers. Using stereo...
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Warehouse Wednesday - Derby's back alleys
Scanned in from an old photo, I've identified the location by the name of the boxing academy. This is the sort of scruffy back street scene I'd love to model properly. The buildings are old and have...
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Busy October ahead
Flipping the calendar over to October shows a month that's looking pretty busy. 3rd October - Daventy Model Railway Exhibition with Melbridge Dock. So desperate are they for a hint of celebrity, I'm...
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Daventry tomorrow
Today, or at least the later part of it, will be taken up packing Melbridge Dock up for it's trip to Daventry Model Railway exhibition tomorrow. We don't get the chance to take the Dock out for shows...
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