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Merry Christmas from the Waverley’s lower reaches.
http://www.railbrit.co.uk/imageenlarge/imagecomplete.php?id=26541 A Happy Christmas to all my friends and those who follow the blog. I appreciate things have been a little quiet this week, but it’s been a busy week at work and no doubt the next couple of days will be rather full socially but I hope to put up some more images of…
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Fettling an old horse
Yesterday I mentioned the Hornby A3 and it’s impending makeover. Here is the first day’s work then; the medium involved in this task being the Brassmasters detailing etch. The relevant parts involved in this case are largely connected with the front end and concerned with improving the look of this end of…
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Coming up next…
Tomorrow I’m going to show you a new project as I add some Brassmasters detailing parts to a Hornby A3 In the meantime, here’s a short musical interlude… 🙂
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Winter wonderland
A short notice track weekend has seen the stock siding up at Whitrope receive additional sleepers, sufficient to make it operational when required next year. Whitrope has a very seasonal coating of snow this week and looks wonderful. I have come to the conclusion that autumn and winter are the Waverley’s defining seasons. It’s sending…
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Happy St Andrews Day!
Special wishes to all my friends and family and those who should be here to celebrate but aren’t.
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Waverley Route artwork.
One of the authors of the new book, Iain MacIntosh, is also an accomplished artist and draughtsman. He has recently completed this excellent and atmospheric pencil drawing of one of the ubiquitous V2-hauled freight services of the 1960s thundering north through Newcastleton. These locomotives and the inter-regional transfer freights between Carlisle Canal and Edinburgh…
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THE WAVERLEY ROUTE THROUGH TIME.
Today, sees the release of this years’ second new title covering the Waverley Route and offering an interesting collection of ‘Then and Now’ comparative shots. The book has been produced by local authors Roy Perkins and Iain MacIntosh. Few, if any, of the images contained in this book have ever been seen in print before; those…
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First Fumblings.
This is new territory for me but as an increasing number of highly talented modellers of my ken have migrated to the Outer Blogosphere in recent times I felt compelled to join them in opening up this New Frontier of modelling! I have long had a presence on web fora (since 2004-5, in fact), but…
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