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Warehouse Wednesday: Demolishing Ford Foundry
Another Not a Warehouse this week but digging around my collection, I thought this deserved an airing. Heading north from Leamington station, the view from the window was either enhanced or ruined,...
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On sale today!
Some of you may know that for the last few years, I've been working with my friend Candice writing a novel. Well, today is the big day that it goes on sale!Kate vs The Dirtboffins started out as a few...
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Accucraft Sea Lion
I recently read on Facebook, someone complaining that their feed was full of people on model railway groups posting the latest thing they had bought and it was getting boring. Well, today I'm doing...
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Warley NEC 2015
The Warley model railway exhibition at the NEC is the largest model railway exhibition in the UK. I spent the whole of last weekend there. And I saw almost none of it. My time was pretty much entirely...
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Has anyone seen my lorry?
One of the problems with exhibiting at that NEC is that when the show closes, everyone wants to get out at the same time. Setting up takes the best part of a day, knockdown, a few hours. The hall is...
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Why DCC is rubbish #375 - Wheel cleaning
Wheel cleaning under DCPlace loco upside down in Peco cradleAttach flyleads to the back of a controllerHold leads against wheelsHold fibre pen on each wheel in turnWait for a few moments and shiny...
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New NCB loco
August 1957: Local railway enthusiast Archebald Robotham sneaks his new Kodak Brownie Starlet into his snap bag and while partaking of lunch, take a photo of newly built a NCB Hunslet loco parked up in...
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Warehouse Wednesday: Birmingham tie plates
Today we are back in Birmingham, exploring the canals. For a change there are some actual warehouses in the photo, but I'm more interested in the building nearest the camera on the left. It appears to...
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Industrial loco, card building and lighting up the underground
If you were loitering around the BRM stand at Warley, you'll have seen this issue already. Hard work by the production team and a printing press a short stroll from the office allowed the January issue...
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The guts of an Electrotren
If you are as stupid as me, you don't always pay attention when dismantling a model locomotive.If the loco concerned is an Electrotren and you try to pull the baseplate off, you'll stretch the wires...
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Tool p*rn
For various MREmag related reasons, I find myself in possession of a Micro-Mark tool catalogue from the US of A. I've perused the website a few times but there is something about seeing a the amazing...
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Mind = blown. Singapore AirlinesPosted by Architecture & Engineering on Wednesday, 9 December 2015Spotted on Facebook, this is captivating. As far as I can tell, the guy really is making these...
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Fixing footwear
I don't like things I can't repair. One pet hate is those stupid plastics that don't react to any known glue so once broken, can only head towards land-fill. Another issue is shoes. Occasionally, the...
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Birmingham water taxi
It might seem odd for someone who has recently built a Bantam Tugboat, but I've never felt that canal boats are good subjects for large, radio control models. They are at home in narrow waterways but...
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Warehouse Wednesday: Leamington canalside workshop
A few weeks ago, I took a walk around the north end of Leamington Spa looking at old workshops that might make useful models filling in odd corners of a layout. Now, I've been in the south of the town...
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Barclay 0-4-0T
I've an etched loco kit project lined up for the very near future and since the last one I built was quite a while ago, I thought I'd better get a bit of practise in with the soldering iron. And I'd...
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Chassis jigged
No idea how long it took to get me this far but no more than a couple of hours. The chassis sides fold up and thanks to some nice tab and slots design, everything locates reasonably accurately in...
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Barby Model Rail - Rugby
It's a little off the beaten track, but once you get there, for canal enthusiasts there is a lot worth seeing. The shop entrance is low-key but once inside, it opens up into a veritable model railway...
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Buy books!
On a forum recently, someone was bemoaning the pages given over in a magazine to prototype photos. Apparently, these are a waste of space because he can get all the pictures he needs on the Internet....
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Flame out
Working on the Barclay kit, I've found my soldering iron a bit lacking in oomph. I think it's letting me that a new bit is required as the metal parts aren't that large, for a 45W iron anyway. No...
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