Saturday Film Club: Savannahlander
The Savannahlander is an Australian tourist train that takes its passengers out into the bush. Rolling stock is fantastic looking 1960s railcars with more than a hint of Buster Crabbe Flash Gordon...
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Chiltern Model Railway show 2018
Didn't this use to be St Albans show?Yes, it did, but then they made the move to Stevenage to a leisure centre and theatre complex. Result - instead of the horribly cramped and difficult to navigate...
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Miss-chief at speed
Adding a propeller makes a huge different to my little speedboat!Miss-chief still isn't the fastest model on the water, but she works well enough for me and is a really enjoyable sail. Even in...
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Brass prop miss-take
A little more on-water action for Miss-Cheif but with a slight difference, I'd managed to buy a brass 2-blade propeller for her. Conventional wisdom is the brass props are better than plastic ones....
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Warehouse Wednesday: Holt station sign
From the North Norfolk Railway, a rather nice station sign. If we have stations, we need signs and this is fairly easy one to model. Those square posts are a lot easier to deal with then the GWR round...
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Cab detail
The very open cab of "Dotti" caused me much head scratching. As supplied, you get a bench seat and a big wheel. It looks like a steering wheel, but when I posted a question on Facebook asking what...
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Book Review: A Little Saw by Andy Clark
Publisher: Andy ClarkISBN: 978-1976814907A5 softback63 Pages£3.99 Andy Clark runs the popular Workshop Shed blog. This first foray into print publishing is a spin off from his tales of making things...
View ArticleSaturday Film Club: Tiny Wimborne
I'm not sure what I like most about this weeks film. Is it the wonderful commentary? The archive (now, not then) shots of the full-size Wimborne? That more than 350 photographs taken to ensure complete...
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London Model Engineering Exhibition 2018
My annual practise run, driving to Alexandra Palace. I'm going to have to do it in a couple of months and on a Friday, so it's good to have a go in the somewhat lighter traffic found on Sunday morning...
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Time for the big guns?
The biggest surprise last week in model railway land was the announcement of the "Boche Buster" rail mounted gun from Oxford Rail. I was the the London Toy Fair and managed to handle the 3D printed...
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Whitemetal castings on
Finally, the good bit. Half an hour spent with superglue sticking the whitemetal castings in place. Suddenly the loco takes a great, big step forward.Apart from a tiny bit of cleaning up, the castings...
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Warehouse Wednesday: Bristol dockside
Years ago, I found myself on a course for work which entailed stopping over in Bristol. My hotel wasn't far from the historic docks so obviously, I took a stroll in the evening and shot a few frames of...
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Meeting a hero in the Vintage BRM
March 2018 sees a BRM with a vintage feel. Spotting a couple of Dave Rowe's early layouts at the GCR show started us off on trail of the man himself, which lead to bringing together some of the finest...
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Mr Starboard
Since this is an IP Engineering kit, I thought I ought to use one of their figures.Obviously, Mr Starboard is perfect since he's looking the right way, I have a Mr Port for another project. Slightly...
View ArticleSaturday Film club: Making track
I'm not a big fan of long videos for the Film Club, but even at just under 14 minutes, I found this one fascinating. We are looking at a very much pre-health and safety world - lots of dust and no...
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Toy Fair 2018
While my visit to the London Toy Fair a couple of weeks ago was primarily to look at model railway items, I couldn't resist pointing my camera at a few other things that caught my eye.Laser cut wooden...
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Review: The Biggest Little Railway in the World
Caveat: I have met the producer of "The Biggest Little Railway in the World"a couple of times and read two accounts from those who took part, one of which will appear in the March issue of Garden...
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Ugears miniatures
The LondonToy Fair usually sees me leave with an SD card full of photos, a bill for a stupidly expensive sandwich, and very little else. Not this year. The kind people on the Ugears stand gave me a...
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Warehouse Wednesday: Back to some wiggly tin
Back in 2015, I looked at a corrugated iron garage disappearing under a tree. The tantalising view each time I passed by made me want to know more.Well, now I can. A couple of months ago, the...
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DB Models, Bourne
Considering that Bourne and its surrounding area are home to 3 of the 4 main model railway magazines in the UK, it's amazing that there has been a dearth of model shops until very recently. Desperate...
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