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Interzone.
Followers of this blog will be aware of my intention, formally announced last July to sell up and move back to Scotland. At that time I gave myself nine months to complete the mission. World events obviously had other plans… Realistically, I still had work to do on the place when Lockdown kicked in and…
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Half the size, twice the fun!
In addition to clearing my own backlog I’m also dealing with some items from friends, including these n gauge locos. The techniques are essentially the same for locomotives in all three scales I have weathered, but you can see that the overall effect is the same regardless. Anyway, I probably don’t have to say too…
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Loose Ends
As previously mentioned, in spite of all the other activity that going on here, some modelling has occurred. Primarily, it’s been a kind of tidying up exercise. Over the last ten years or so an accumulation of part completed or even barely started projects have festooned the corners of the shed and what you see…
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Waiting to Proceed.
I surely don’t have to comment on the strangeness and uneasiness of the times we are currently going through together, there’s an entire media circus out there fully engaged in that task, so really this is all the mention it’s getting here though virtually everything in this entry is a result of it! I currently…
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December 1900
RAILWAY SMASH NEAR BERWICK. ————— TRAFFIC DISORGANISED. ————— MAIL TRAINS DELAYED. ————— Early yesterday morning, when a goods train on the North-… December 1900 The railways of Scotland have always been dangerous places and remain so. Random Scottish History has been publishing a fascinating series of summaries gathered from press reports in 1900, showing…
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Lovely, lovely models!
It’s been almost ten years since Dapol announced their NBL type 2s and although it’s been an incredibly long gestation, here they finally are. For a long time there was scepticism on the part of many, me included about what the quality of the end product was going to be like but in the intervening…
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Not been idle
The blog has been quiet lately partly due to some difficulties with publishing posts and also because there has been so much else to occupy my headspace. It ranges from political mess around us; so appalling that I have decided (in a U.K. context) to disengage from the madness and concentrate on developments in my…
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Batch Cooking!
Having completed the major external work to the fence and garden at last, I have a bit more time for modelling and other creative pursuits again (although it has to be said that Scubaidh’s walks absorb a fair chunk of the day!) for the first time in a good while. This activity started gently a…
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Upgrading pickups on the Bachman 08
Originally posted on The Model Railways of Oly Turner and Chris Matthews: Due to a bit of an oversight in the design process, early Bachman 08’s have always had issues with pickups that bear on the tread of the wheel, rather than the rear face as is more conventional. However, I’ve never actually had too…
Max Stafford's Kennel 