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Off to Doncaster this weekend
It's time for me to head up to Doncaster for the Festival of British Railway Modelling.The back of my car will be full of:Didsbury Green4 cake box models2 Dave Rowe Emett dioramasSo, check out the...
View ArticleSaturday Film Club: Railbuses on the Kent & East Sussex
File this one firmly in the "Films I didn't think existed" drawer. A silent Pathe news film showing the Ford railcars running on the Kent & East Sussex Railway. Hardly any photos of these things...
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Stafford 2018
If there is a lesson to be learned from Stafford this year, it is:Take more cash out of the hole in the wall before you go.It's not because the showground is a notorious mobile phone, and therefore...
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Lets try some acrylic paint
Dotti is a bit of a test bed and this continues as the paint goes on. I'm pondering if I need more acrylic paint and less enamel in my life. Water-based paint seems like a better thing, it certainly...
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Dotti Done
And with a few washes of Lifecolor dirt followed by a blast of same (thinned with windscreen wash) from my airbrush, Dotti is ready for service. On the track, she's a bit light. Attempting to haul a...
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Warehouse Wednesday: HS2 College
Spotted in Doncaster, the HS2 college is an impressive building. Better than my slightly fuzzy photo anyway.Time for a new camera perhaps...The building could be any posh companies modern HQ, but it...
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Garden Rail - April 2018
Plenty of excellent stuff in this month's Garden Rail.Our main layout is the 71 mile track laid for The Biggest Little Railway in the World TV series. One of the stars, Andy Christie spills the beans...
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Veron Veronica model boat kit
Found in an attic by a fellow railway modeller, this Veron Veronica kit must date back to the 1960s. His father had started the kit, and built the hull to a high standard, and then for some reason...
View ArticleSaturday Film Club: Birmingham New Street
This week we see a legendary layout that I read about many times, but never saw for real. Don Jones model of Birmingham New Street station. At the time, this vast project was utterly audacious. Massive...
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Doncaster 2018
As I write this, it's a week beyond my arriving at Doncaster racecourse for the Festival of British Railway Modelling. Getting in before lunch meant I was there in time to do some filming for our DVD...
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You bought what?
This being the Interweb, the law seems to be that once you've been to a model railway show, the contents of your shopping bag must be posted for all to see and covet.Well, here's my stash from...
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Tiny signal box
A little project - the Peco NB-3 signal box kit - part of a future Cake Box model. It's a nice kit. Everything goes together well and if you are careful with the painting, the result is a very pleasing...
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Warehouse Wednesday: Onibury Signal box
Yesterday we had a tiny model signal box. Today, a tiny full-sized one. Onibury, found on the Shrewsbury to Hereford line, sits beside a level crossing and closed station that is now a private...
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First play with AK chipping fluids
Time for a bit of a play with something the plastic modellers have used for some time - AK Interactive Worn Effects and Heavy Chipping fluids.The results can look brilliant, but like most advanced...
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H&M Loco tester
There aren't many tools I aspire to own, but a cheaper item on this list the the H&M Locomotive tester.Dating back to the 1980s as I recall, this is a rather nice rolling road that works for both...
View ArticleSaturday Film Club: Great Cockrow Railway
We've seen a couple of miniature signalboxes this week, let's spot a third on the Great Cockrow railway courtesy of Pathe News. The commentator makes one point that I've often laboured when chatting to...
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Playing trains at Penman Pools
As those who are signed up to the new BRM Express e-newsletter will know, I spent last Sunday in the company of 11 other modellers operating Geoff Taylor's Barmouth Junction layout.Starting as the most...
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Beach buggy build
We're all supposed to have "Bucket Lists" - that is a list of things we'd like to do before we kick the bucket. You're supposed to want to chuck yourself out of a perfectly good aeroplane or annoy...
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So, I alone in all the world can create the finest orange at will?
Reading the instructions, one point jumped out at me. Rather than specify a body colour, the modeller is told to mix equal parts of green and metalic gold.Hmmm. Well, you are supposed to use Revell...
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Warehouse Wednesday: Corff fan daear
All the way from Bwlch-Y-Ffridd in Wales, a much-modified van body.End doors, corrugated iron roof, lichen clinging to the woodwork - all great features on a model.(According to Google Translate, the...
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