Tag: Modelling
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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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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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A Day Well-Spent
I finished the 12 ton steel van today, trying out some new effects with the airbrush and also with some powders. As I said when I started this project, these vehicles weathered in a way not dissimilar to a ship in my eye. How effective my attempt at recreating this is, I’ll leave for others…
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