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Grab rails and door handles
More railbus progress - grab handrails to help miniature people climb up the front steps and door handles so they can get inside. The sharp eyed will notice that the wire handles have been filed flat...
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Ladder
The railbus roof has a luggage rack at the back, so we need some way of getting up there.Provision is made for a ladder in the kit but some of the parts were missing. I improvised with some long...
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Warehouse Wednesdasy: Newsons on the quay
Greetings from the Isle of Man!This week we have something I believe was really a warehouse, right on Douglas quayside. In the years I've known the building it has been operated as a retail...
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Monorail toy
Pete sent me the above photo last week: Knowing you liking for monorails (amongst the myriad of other things) I finally dug out one that I was given as a present back in the early to mid 1970’s. See...
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When does an old car become a classic?
This is my 1.6 GLX 5d (AC)Peugeot 206 when I bought it back in 2008. Now 19 years old and looking just as good as it did back (I've even repaired the wing mirror) then, I need to sell it on. The new...
View ArticleSaturday film club: A ride on the Groudle Glen Railway
All being well, as you read this, I am on the Isle of Man enjoying the enthusiasts events and (probably) dodging the rain. With that in mind, what could be better than a ride on the Groudle Glen...
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Blue DMU
I don't normally share magazine stuff too far in advance, but here's a little scene from a forthcoming project. Like many people my age, there is a certain nostalgia for blue DMUs and it's nice to be...
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Check your goo
Before starting work on this kit, what I really should have done is worked out how the parts so far assembled had been fixed together. Looking inside the roof, you might think solder.You would be...
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Honking great big headlamp
The railbus roof should sport a great big headlight. If you are building the kit as intended, this is obtained from the Bachmann body. Sadly, it didn't come with my kit so I had to...
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Warehouse Wednesday: Welshpool canal warehouse
Recovering some old photos the other day, I found this one taken at Welshpool back in 2010. Home to the Powysland Museum, the building is a genuine canal warehouse on the Montgomery Canal. The building...
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Dioramas in NGW
Spotted in the August 2017 issue of Narrow Gauge World magazine is a short piece about the joys of micro layouts and diorama by editor Andrew Charman.Obviously, this is my sort of thing but for added...
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Trackshack - Peel
While over on the Isle of Man, I took the chance to go and visit Trackshack, located on the Ramsey Road on the edge of Peel.For most UK modellers, Trackshack are a mail-order outfit who offer keen...
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Saturday Film club: Isle of Man steam
Shot from the signal box at Douglas station a week ago, the film shows CH Wood and Kissack departing the scene. You don't normally get to stand up here, but we were on a tour and my Dad decided he'd...
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A week on the Isle of Man
This time last week, I was enjoying the last full day of my holiday on the Isle of Man.You won't be surprised to know that I took a lot of photos, some of which I'll link to later. Not everything...
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Holly green
Locomotive livery can be a very emotive subject. On the Isle of Man, most people think of the engines running in India Red, a sort of bauxite colour. There have been others however. Ailsa Green, a pale...
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Book review: P50 Peel engineering's extrordinary legacy by Barry Edwards
Publisher: Lily PublicationsISBN: 9-781907-945762Size: 210 X 210 SoftbackPrice: £16At first glace, you'd think this book was about the Peel P50 microcar - known to many people from an appearance on Top...
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Warehouse Wednesday: Presco Buildings hut
This is one of those buildings that ought to be available from the model railway trade, but as far as I am aware, isn't.Little fibreglass hut like this were a common feature of many linesides from the...
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Footstep restoration
"It appears you've lost one of the footstep mounts." said Anonymous when I started this project, and he/she was right.Sorting this out was easier than expected. All the support brackets are plastic...
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Detail and prime
Just a few little details to add now, mainly door hinges made from lengths of micro-rod fitted with superglue. The gap-filling properties of this bed them into the body to remove the "just stuck on"...
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Saturday film club: ex-Donegal railcar in G
For reasons that will become apparent tomorrow,the ex-Donegal railcars on the Isle of Man are on my mind at the moment. I've seen them before restoration started and climbed on them a couple of times...
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