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Jings! Is that the time?
It’s been way too many months since I put anything up on here but it’s been a pretty tight few months with any modelling activity geared towards subsistence as I negotiated some stormy waters in relation to some household bills and structural repairs. Finally, calmer seas appear to have returned and with them the chance…
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57 Years since launch of the classic Mini.
A significant date that I had admittedly forgotten about. Well done to Nigel for this wee salute!
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Manky Minerals
As part of what is becoming known as Project 77, I have turned out the first of what promises to be a fair few 16t mineral wagons in battered and careworn 1970s condition. I experimented with some new elements with this pair and whilst I’m not 100% happy with the result it does have promise…
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Southern Boogie
Things have picked up a fair bit of late and these two models have just been finished. Both are Bachmann OO base models with the C Class being turned out as DS 240; in reality a stationary boiler at Ashford in 1965-66 but with licence taken to assume that she had a brief period…
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Lazy Sunday Afternoon…
It’s a good weekend here at the end of my two weeks’ holiday with plenty of work going on in the workshop. It may be the fact I tidied it or it might be the fact that my creative instincts have kicked in a bit more of late but there’s definitely an upswing in work…
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Reorganisation of works.
Over the last week or so I’ve been busy WITH rather than in the shed. It was in urgent need of new roof felt, having been put up in 2008 and not having had any attention since and in any case, the interior was so cluttered and untidy that it had ceased to be…
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Bo’ness and Kinneil Diesel Gala, July 2016
Yesterday, I made the trip up to Bo’ness for the Summer Diesel Gala. After a week off spent largely on tasks at home (more of which in a forthcoming post), I felt a wee change of scenery was in order and this provided as good an excuse as any. For sakes of variety I drove…
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Too much of a good thing.
I’ve spent far too little time on modelling of late. Sometimes I get a minor surge of enthusiasm which all too frequently gets bogged down in a swamp of indecision as I survey the sheer depth of modelling material I am surrounded with. Add to this the additional distractions of a considerable side interest in…
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The Far North Line
Originally posted on highland miscellany: In my last visit to the Highlands, I took my father up to almost the extremity or our island to Thurso. The purpose of doing so was to mooch around portions of the Highland Railway north of Dingwall but also to drop in on Richard Doake. Richard is a fellow…
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Vintage Wagonry
Whilst I’m off after a small but important hospital procedure I’m getting back into some modelling. A secondary project I’m running involved what will ultimately be a display case with representatives of Scotland’s five major pre-1923 railway companies. I just feel it’s another bit of our national industrial heritage that needs celebrated a bit and…
Max Stafford's Kennel 