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Piscine in the wind?
Hornby have just released their model of the BR variant Blue Spot fish van. These vehicles were distinguished by their long wheelbase, making it possible for individual vehicles to be marshalled in fast passenger trains if necessary. In the second half of the 1960s as fish traffic was lost to road hauliers, many of these…
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Small, but perfectly formed…
Just a quick shot of two N gauge diesels being finished for a friend. Bachmann Farish diesels are a joy to work with, being such nice delicate models. These two are intended for a 2mm Mid-’60s Waverley Route layout. It’s always better to exercise a bit of restraint when finishing small models like this and…
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A Good Day’s work.
Being on a shift that allows a bit of free time today I used this to assemble the Roadrunner Plus gearbox and attach the Mashima 1424 motor. Having done so with care and with close observance of the instructions (at last!), I have ended up with a very smooth-and powerful mechanism. Static testing has so…
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Sleeping Beauty.
Last week I acquired, via a well-known online junk shop trading post.😉, this rather nice half-built kit of a Stanier ‘Princess Royal’ Pacific. There’s clearly still a lot of work to do so this one probably won’t be on the bench for a bit. There are numerous small parts required to complete which aren’t much…
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What news from Warley, friend?
I’m not one to get overly excited about new locomotive releases on the Ready to Run front these days as; A- They are increasingly irrelevant to Scottish and Northern English modellers on the whole and; B- I generally prefer to build my own, having complete control over the specification of the chassis and running gear…
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Rolling my own…
Regular readers will be aware of the excellent work of Iain MacIntosh, whose work I regularly highlight on here. I used to be a keen drawer at school thirty-five years ago and whilst I did scramble my way to an O Level, I never really built upon that. I kept my hand in for a…
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1M88 at Kershopefoot
A Derby type 4 heads south through Kershopefoot on the 1M88 Waverley service to St Pancras via Leeds.
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More items for sale
All the above locos are offered for sale. They have all been weathered, coaled and custom name/numbering added along with Markits bogie wheels. I’m looking for £130 each for the pacifics and £80 for the K3. These locos as portrayed are all Waverley Route regulars. Thanks!
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Waiting in the wings…
Whilst my attention has been understandably focused on the previously noted locos, I’ve continued to work on the rolling stock fleet. The Palbrick is an old Ks lit which has been hanging round like a bad smell for two years after I made something of a balls-up of the running gear. I ultimately binned the…
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About time!
It’s been a while, but slowly, steadily, the bugs on the Jumbo have been getting ironed out to the point where she is running rather smoothly, given the limitations of the cheap Bachmann train set controller that serves as the test plant here. Shortly then, I’ll be adding brake blocks, permanently fixing the rods and…
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