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All Blues…
I had intended to write this post about a week ago in the wake of the Aberdeen MRC exhibition where, I had been manning a demonstration stand with a couple of other accomplices from the Jolly Boy John Modellers Group (if you know, you know.) 😉 Unfortunately overnight at the weekend I started to come…
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The Blog that ran late…
Well, aye, I did say there would be a post yesterday but as it happens I was actually pretty busy with stuff and by the time I got finished it was late I was a bit tired. Since I finished with the buses I’ve had a bit of a sabbatical which is allowing me to…
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The blog that fell asleep…
One thing I am sure you can hardly fail to have noticed, particularly if you are one of my long-term followers is the sporadic nature of my blog posts over the last seven years. Events over the last year finally clarified why, what a decade ago was a relative busy blog had tailed away to…
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An Introduction to the Accurascale Class 37
From the West Halton Sidings blog. James has done a fair review of what will probably be the definitive 4mm model of the Class 37 for the foreseeable future. As I myself now have two 1980s samples, I can recommend and rather than repeat James’ thoughts, I’ll let his own blog do the talking. If…
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Dig the New Breed
There really has been a revolution (pardon the pun) in the quality of RTR wagons over the last five years or so with some new players making quite dramatic entrances on to the scene and putting the established manufacturers on notice that they are not the only guys in town. Bachmann produced a very nice…
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These aren’t the Canapes I ordered…
I try to get at least one task done each time I’m in the loft, so last couple of times I’ve been up, I’ve worked on the loading bay canopy which is basically a few Airfix canopies, butchered to fit the location. I’m happy with the general configuration so this is what I’ll go ahead…
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It was all so easy once.
I remember a time not so long ago when if you had surplus stock to sell, you could just list it on RMweb and it could be gone in 30 minutes. Not so any more. There’s always some shark wanting a cut or government regulations require you to put the most intrusive of details on…
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Other interests.
In the last year or so before my move home as I was packing most of my model stuff up and stashing it at a forward location in Scotland, it occurred to me that I still wanted something to do modelling wise. I ended up doing a couple of plastic kits, much as I did…
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Bits and pieces.
I’ve just had a couple of days off and used it to get a few things done. First off, I was down at Montrose to get the car a major service. Long needed but now she feels like a new motor! Anyway, I had a whole morning to kill in Montrose so I spent a…
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