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A little help for my friends…
I’ve completed some models today for a couple of friends who wanted weathering jobs done. I’ve got to say the new generation Farish 37 really has its beauty brought out by some thoughtfully-applied techniques. In both scales, the techniques are roughly the same with over sprays of acrylic, oil washes and dry-brushed enamels. With the…
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Bang for your buck?
Today, I spent an enjoyable day at the Wigan Model Railway exhibition. A good day was had meeting and conversing with friends, admiring the modelling of others. Inevitably some money changed hands also as shows like this are good for getting those otherwise hard to find items. A visit to the Shawplan stand proved somewhat…
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Waverley Route Artwork
My friend Iain MacIntosh is working on another of his excellent pencil drawings. This one, like the last is of a Gresley V2 class, but this time on a Waverley Route passenger working. Iain’s work goes from strength to strength and this looks like being even better than his previous production. Whilst Iain hasn’t confirmed…
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Further items to shift
With Wigan exhibition this week, attention turns to gaining some funds to invest in new EM equipment. Shown above is a Cowans & Sheldon 10 ton general purpose crane. These could be found in goods and Engineers’ yards over the BR system from the late 1950s till the early 1990s. This started life as a…
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Useful new book
A very useful publication has arrived today; Hugh Longworth’s BR Mark 1 & Mark 2 Coaching Stock (ISBN 978-0-86093-650-3) Ian Allan Publishing. This is to my mind a companion to the excellent volumes by Parkin and Harris respectively. Rather than try to go over the same ground as those excellent technical appraisals, this book carves…
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Summer evening’s walk
Seeing as it was such a good evening, I decided to give Abi an extra walk and spontaneously picked the path from Lyneside Station to Fauldmoor Crossing. This was the true racing ground of the Waverley Route as it got into its stride out of Carlisle, past Harker and trains could attain high speeds before…
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For sale
Moving to EM has generated a need to return to basics in the sense that it would be folly to try and convert such a large fleet, particularly those that have already had improvement work. In any case, such enhancements as Easichassis don’t come cheap and things, some well-loved have to go to make space.…
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In Between Days
Whilst I’ve been busy with the Jumbo, I had to pause whilst I was awaiting a new gearbox unit for it. I decided to take advantage of this lull to tackle another wagon. The Ratio LMS 12T van is an old but excellent kit that belies its near forty year age in terms of quality.…
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Tender Process
More work carried out on the tender to allow a satisfactory mating between the chassis and the main body. This involved removing a lot of material fore and aft to accommodate the frame ends. The forward end is now attached by an 8BA screw and the rear is retained by a plastic lug which is…
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Urban Camouflage
During the course of my work I regularly get railside and today whilst in Kingmoor Yard I noticed this strikingly graffitied wagon in a consist of spoil wagons and vans. Now graffiti is an emotive subject but whilst it can be a real nuisance it can’t be denied that some of it is fabulously done…
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