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Struggle with etched brass? Try this wonky bus shelter.
The trouble with etched brass kits is that they can be a bit fiddly and sometimes you bend the bits and can't strighten them out again. Sometimes though, why bother? This bus shelter at the southern...
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Brede Batchtime
The Brede Lifeboat has sailed!OK, so it's the traditional test in the bath, or as it is invariably reported in model boat mags, "place in the domestic test tank". Basically, you have to put a model...
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Upright glue bottles
Over at Iain Robinson's blog, there is tell of a disastrous accident involving some liquid plastic glue.Liquid plastic solvent is nasty stuff - it has to be to do its job - and knocking a bottle over...
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Doorway detailing
Detailing time on the Y6 Tram and that starts with handrails. The good news is that we don't have any stupid curved things encasing boilers in nigh-on-impossible to bend flowing curves. We do have 8...
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The Wisbech & Upwell Tramway by Chris Hawkins & George Reeve
Final detailing for my Y6 tram engine will be greatly assisted if I look at a few pictures and since the line the engiens were at home is the Wisbech & Upwell, then that's the book to get down from...
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Lamp irons and the RSU
I don't like lamp irons. They're a fiddly detail that I never take any notice on on real trains and couldn't really care about on models. 7mm trains really need more detail than 4mm ones (Yes, I know...
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Roof detailing
According to the Drifters, Up on the roof you only have to wish to make it so.This is rubbish although the reality isn't too difficult, at least on the Y6 roof anyway.The steam condenser (the bit with...
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National Model Boat Show 2013
Armed with a great big shopping list, we headed off to Coalville to the second National Model Boat show. Held in the Hermitage Leisure Centre, the approach isn't great. The council decided to build the...
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Industrial Train
Despite being a bit of an anorak for indsutrial railways, I've not seen very many real industrial trains. Last Sunday, on the way to the National Model Boat Show, we were heading along the A511 and...
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Prime Time
It seems a shame to cover up all the nice brass on the Y6 with primer but I guess it has to be done. OK, so the metal is a bit tarnished from sitting around uncovered, but there is something about a...
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Lifeboat window development
Over at the Brede build, the "joy" of scratchbuilding has been allayed by hitting a bit of a challenge. Lifeboats have quite complicated looking windows with two layers of metal and a thick inner rim....
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Monorails of the 19th Century by Adrian S Garner
Monorails have been the future for a very long time. Right back to 1821 according to this book. Adrian Garner has been interested in monorails for a very long time. I remember his excellent models of...
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Corrugated corner
I spotted this unassuming but character-full corner view over the weekend and couldn't resist a snap with the phone. The first thing that caught my eye was the weathered corrugated iron. Presumably...
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Fred and the A35
For a project I'm planning, a small 1950's motor vehicles is required. It has to be suitable for O gauge and preferably not a Morris Minor or VeeDub. As I'll probably repaint the model, something...
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That looks a bit Battlespace to me
Cover Picture: The drawing on the cover of our Annual is an artist's impression of what the Triang/Hornby Strike Force 10 train set might look like in a real life situation. These "Battle Space"...
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What's he fiddling with?
Another picture from the Boy's World 1967 Annual that we saw the cover of yesterday. This painting is captioned "An emergency squad of British Railways at work at the scene of a crash." and is in the...
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Scratchbuilt Brede Lifeboat
Producing a model of a Brede Lifeboat has been on my agenda for a few years now. Regular readers will also know that I've been trying and trying again, to very little effect. Until now. Thanks to...
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Plastic fun with a radar reflector
Some things are so much fun to make that it's sad when they go together properly first time as I'd like to do them again. Such it is that the radar reflector on the Brede is attempt number 1 but I...
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Kipper Box
I hate kippers. Nasty smelly things that leave their reek hanging around the house for days after they have been consumed. Sadly, the Isle of Man is full of the things. The only saving grace is that...
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Uncomfortable accesories
My Dads boat is nearly finished and he passed a detail pack from Macs Mouldings over to me for painting. The resin items are quite nice: an old fashioned (to da kidz nowadays, but just how I remember...
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