Category: Modelling
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Mr Blue Sky…
A good weekend has been had here on the layout with a visit from my mate and his lad. We got the other fascia board on the layout and it’s accompanying end board done. Following this, we had a mess about and settled on the track layout, also working out the positions for the major…
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Some kind of progress.
After a long long time of struggling to get motivated, last week something happened… It’s been five long years since I last attended Model Rail Scotland at the SECC and a lot of water, not all of it kindly has passed under the bridge since then. I decided though that I was going even just…
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St Clements Yard.
After all those years of ideas without a place to build them in, the move last year finally made some material action possible. One of the selling points of the new place was a fully equipped loft which met my needs perfectly. The next stage was to assess the available space, weighing that against my…
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Getting down to business at last
I’ve been off work this week which has allowed me to finally get properly to grips with the long procession of models requiring enhancement. This week that has meant some top-end 1960s-era mainline power. First pair out the door into today’s early spring daylight were A2s No 60530 and 60535, both in 1965 condition.’535 is…
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Captain’s Log, Stardate; WTF?
As someone who’s been following Scottish politics since the great independence debate took off in 2011-12, I’m pretty used to ill-informed, bat-shit craziness by now but I have to say that this post, spotted on a well-known UK model railway forum by an ‘alert follower’ 😉 still made me rather astonished in a Jo-La sort…
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Where you’ve been and where you’re headed…
Well, there we are. Our wee blue world has completed another circle of the sun,bringing to a close a year of great change on a personal, national and global scale. It’s been a funny old year from my own perspective as an old career finally ran its course and I sit right in the middle…
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The Scottish School
Back in the autumn of 1977, when it appeared that the railway interest I’d picked up in the summer wasn’t going away anytime soon, I joined the East Kilbride Model railway club. At that time, they had their ‘Nerston Junction’ layout in operation and to a new enthusiast like me, it was a thing of…
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For External Use Only.
I recently finished these two models for a friend. First one is a nicely constructed O gauge J39, 0-6-0. In addition the effects, I also added a cab storm sheet and coal for the tender. I’m very pleased with how the model turned out. The second model is a Bachmann Class 24 diesel, converted to…
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More 2P sub assemblies
Before work today, I grabbed a couple of hours at the bench and surprised myself with the progress made. Cab splashers applied, firebox and boiler/smokebox fabricated. Whilst these are relatively simple shapes in terms of the Fowler design, I suspect the real challenge will be mounting the sub assemblies squarely in relation to one another.
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Possible new Reid Atlantic kit from 52F
(Image courtesy of WRHA Archive.) Whilst a number of kits exist for models of the Caledonian and Highland Railways’ larger locomotives, there is nothing similar for the NBR (sorry, I just don’t like the full title!) 🙂 equivalent, WP Reid’s impressive Atlantic Class locomotives. Built in the early 1900s to handle crack East Coast services…
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