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Painful progress
This week, having received some bits that were holding the job up, I have moved the Austerity up the works line a bit. The motor/gearbox combo has been completed as has the main body of the chassis. Both have been offered up to each other successfully though testing awaits. I can’t honestly say I enjoyed…
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Good news from far away.
Having spent my earliest years by the Clyde within a stone’s throw of both the docks and shipyards of Govan, Scotland’s maritime heritage is something close to my heart. I was pleased then to hear of progress with attempts to rescue the sailing vessel Falls of Clyde from Hawaii with the intent of bringing her…
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Have you ever smashed a model?
I mean really trashed it. And not to recreate a prototype photo or to model an effect. Have you ever been soooo FRUSTRATED that something wasn’t working out the way that you wanted it to, that you just said ‘F*%K-IT‘ and smash…you destroyed it??I admit it,?I have. If by some super-human feat of self-control you…
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The Week of the Wagons
I’ve got a week off work. I always think of this first or second week of the year as my ‘Zombie Week’. Dawn comes later in these two weeks than it actually does at the winter solstice for reasons to do with the earth’s orbit of the sun and it will only be over the…
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Filthy, Dirty, grubby, meet the model of 2016… The Peckett is finished.
Originally posted on The Model Railways of Oly Turner and Chris Matthews: My modelling recently has been somewhat lazy, I have expected results from lacklustre effort and been pissed off with the outcomes, much like my recent work life. It has been a rubbish year really for most people and by about November I had really…
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A Growly Glesga Dug!
Whilst I psyche myself up to tackle the Gibson wheels on the Austerity and re visit the errant chassis on the Barclay, I decided I would finally make a start on one of the Judith Edge diesel shunter kits that have sat in my stash for six years now. I chose to go…
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Comrie Pug; Pt2
Like it is for many, this is a very busy time of year in my current line of work so there’s not been that much modelling activity since the last post. However, last night I decided to get stuck in to the Austerity and get the body correctly fettled for the chassis. This meant removing…
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Comrie Pug (Pt1)
Whilst I wait for a replacement chassis etch for the Barclay (long story) I’ve decided to make a start on the second NCB loco for Project77. Due to some confusion and overthinking on my part concerning the compensation on the Barclay, I feel that I need to start afresh with this loco and I’m doing…
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In Case of Emergency, Open Box (AA and RAC telephone boxes, UK)
Originally posted on The Beauty of Transport: There are 19 remaining in-situ examples of this week’s transport beauty at the sides of roads across Britain, making journeys more interesting and attractive, and acting as a reminder of an age in which emergency communications were much more difficult than they are today. They are AA emergency…
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