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Open the Light
Today, I’ve been getting full swing into spring clean mode and by heck the place has been needing it. It’s been a beautiful bright day here with a hint of spring about it and there’s no denying the energising effect such conditions have on me. I’m off work all this week and though Glasgow is…
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What’s that looming over the bench (is it a monster?)
Well, as it’s a G Scale Ffestiniog Railway double Fairlie, it’s reasonable to class it as such when set against the normal 4mm content of the bench. This beast has occupied space in the Kennel for longer than I can remember without my face going red and was passed to me so that it could…
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Mystery ballaster unveiled
Latest output from the WRHA’s own ‘Skunk Works’ deep in the wilds of Northumberland is our new side discharge ballast hopper on its 1964 Ford Dexta operating platform. The hopper awaits final livery but really should have an Engineers’ Fishkind code. Seeing as it’s much smaller by a considerable degree than the ‘fish’ used elsewhere…
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February Track Weekend
Further to this report we do actually have photographic evidence of this mysterious new piece of ballasting equipment. Watch this space!
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Success Bolstered
Not too much to report tonight but the Bolster E is now structurally complete and with running gear and couplings fitted is ready for the paint shop. The J39 although largely complete lacks the sandboxes which should be ahead of the forward pair of driving wheels but everything else outstanding is essentially paint. That being…
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Incremental Gains
I’ve not been diving headlong into my modelling this last week as come evening time, I’ve just not had massive inclination to do much beyond read and keep an eye on the interesting developments in Greece and Spain for example. That said, I’ve still had a measure of activity which has meant that progress has…
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The Tender Behind (and other stories)
With the main loco body essentially complete, attention turns to the back half of the loco. Again cast buffers from my favourite source have been fitted and a drawhooks will also be fitted. As the old Bachmann tender comes it has a load of moulded and rather uninspiring faux ‘coal’ load which I’ve removed by…
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You can make me whole again…
Well, as you can see, the Jenny Frost-style makeover of the J39 continues with the smoothing down of the plasticard infill of the lower boiler. Some thinning of the moulded boiler bands has taken place to match the new microstrip bands on the new section. Replacement cast buffers have also been fixed to the beam…
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Touching (up) the Void
Some light modelling tonight as I turn my attention to the aesthetic side of my J39 project. You’ll remember the sizeable gap that existed under the boiler, something that was necessitated by the old split frame chassis under the Bachmann model. I remedied this by cutting a piece of 30 thou Plasticard and shaping it…
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Not remotely Sunday Blues
Well, I’m back to work (such as it is!) tomorrow after the first week off I’ve had since July. In truth it was pretty much a wasted week on account of the atrocious weather up to Friday although Monday’s visit to ScRSG proves the week’s honourable exception. Sleeping till 9am on what have been very…
Max Stafford's Kennel 