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Another visit to Wharfeside
I took another trip up to visit the lads at the ScRSG in Glasgow today and spent much of the afternoon on Dave Franks’ Wharfeside layout. I was able to test a couple of locos including the 782 which, after minor adjustment performed exactly as intended. She’ll be perfectly happy worrying plate wagons in Broomloan…
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Bounding Onward!
Since yesterday I’ve done a fair bit more to the 2P including the difficult task of getting the firebox mounted. This also meant that I had to shim the smokebox saddle up by 1.75mm to maintain the correct pitch of the boiler. It was then I realised that I also had to somehow reproduce the…
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Jamieson Fowler 2P kit
Last week I found this very old nickel silver Jameson kit for an LMS 2P 4-4-0 on line. These kits are old and basic bit there’s something pleasing about the very simplicity of them – essentially it’s a scratch-build aid although there’s some basic pre-forming. To go beneath the loco I am going to use…
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Visitor
Thanks to Jamie for hosting my wee Jumbo last night. And also for the excellent chilli! 🙂
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Elitism
Originally posted on Alba Weathering and Effects: “Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man… It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of comparison is gone, pride is gone.” C.S. Lewis. I have…
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Disclaimer
Followers of my humble blog are respectfully reminded that the work illustrated here was created by a non-technical person with no formal background in engineering or any technical subject. I understand that some people may look down upon me for this but in the era when I left school, such career paths were going off…
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What goes around comes around
Originally posted on New Hey to North Ballachulish: Last year a few established modellers who were a bit cheesed off with the oppresive bullying culture prevalent (and still is) on RM Web, decided to set up our own forum dedicated to people who actually do model, and not just pontificate about it, or those who…
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2014, Year of the ‘Shelfie’ / Selfie
Originally posted on Albion Yard: ‘Shelfie’ 2013 was, we are told the year of the ‘selfie’, basically a self portrait taken with a smartphone or tablet and bunged on the interweb for millions to drool over. Interestingly there’s some research that shows that if you are looking at some kind of text on a web…
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Here comes the sun…
And I say; it’s alright! After the wettest, dreariest winter I can remember in my entire adult life I’m pleased to say that spring has sprung with a resounding boing! in these parts this week, resulting in the house and garden being reconfigured into ‘spring/summer’ mode with the garden furniture removed from the conservatory and…
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Wee things (with nothing to do with indy)
Originally posted on Wee Ginger Dug: This is not a blog post about Scottish independence, Scottish politics, or the wit and wisdom of Johann Lamont. Not that anyone anywhere can write about the wit and wisdom of JoLo, which is probably why LabourHame has died. Regular readers of this blog will know that I am…
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