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A(nother) House in My Hand
Last year I wrote about the Kickstarter project by Andy Vaughan here. This was followed up with my progress with the sheds here in February. Since then, other UFO projects have managed to get in the...
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Soldering Track – or what I did on my school holidays.
I have been trying, over the past week and a half, to get enthused about Swallow’s End, my embryonic 2mm shunting plank. The biggest hurdle has been finding time – and the second has been dealing with...
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South East Queensland Area Group Meeting – 11 July 2015
Once again – a couple of days late! Must do better.This month we went back to Graeme’s and had another look at Thornbury. Only 5 of us this time so a bit more room to spread out and get on with...
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South East Queensland Area Group Meeting – 8 August 2015
Back to David’s this month (and hopefully back at my place next month with the building finished although possibly in the inside Craft Room rather than the outside Train Shed depending on how much has...
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Sorry for the tardiness of recent months. The long running renovation of my house finally came to an end about 6 weeks ago – officially just after the September LAG meeting (which we had here anyway)...
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Thebest-laidplansofmiceandmenoftengoawry - at least that's the Sassenach translation of Robbie Burns' ode To a Mouse. Like lots of clichéd lines, it has the benefit of truth behind it. So it is with...
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Friday Night Update - 29 April 2016 or Adventures in 3D Printing
Lots of people have embraced the development of 3D printing as a viable form of modelling - although there is an on-going debate in the LAG about its status regards kit v scratch built for the purposes...
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Friday Night Update – 6 May 2016
I was part of the group of members of the 2mm Scale Association who signed up for a batch of LNWR etches, designed by David Eveleigh, to be produced late in 2015. Fast forward a few months and though...
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LNWR D33 Covered Goods Van
As I have mentioned in previous posts, I recieved a number of these etches as part of the organised run in March. The D33 was, until the building of the D88 (at least as I understand it) the most...
View ArticleSouth East Queensland Area Group Meeting – 14 May 2016
I thought I should get back into providing a monthly update on what we get up to.Only a small turn up this month owing to people being on holidays or ill. Nevertheless the meeting was successful with...
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St Alban’s Abbey Goods Shed – Part 1
I developed an interest in St Alban’s Abbey LNWR station back in 1998 when a mate and I first started kicking the ideas around about an exhibition layout. Whilst my current incarnation is a “based on”...
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Beer Vans - Part 1
British Railways – as many readers will know – was obliged to carry anything which someone brought in for transportation. Well, maybe not “everything” but pretty well anything you can think of, the...
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Friday Night Update – 27 May 2016
Next weekend is one of the highlights of my modelling year – the annual trip up the Mountain (well hill if you are Swiss or live anywhere near a European mountain range but for around here, it’s a...
View ArticleAnd yet it moves - Swallow's End gets power
I've been trying to get organised to get blogging again following my recent trip overseas however work (sorry!) has been getting in the way a bit. I've been getting some modelling done however and...
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2mm Scale Hudswell Clarke
Australasian members who came to this years’ Supermeet in Brisbane got a look at the first locomotive kit (which maybe available RTR in 2017 – in the sense that a bunch of us might get organised enough...
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The Return
Like Lazarus rising, I have come back to this blog as a means to keep track of what I am doing modelling wise and, having also returned to the setup for modelling and photographing which I started with...
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Atso-Cad LNER D120 Pigeon Van - a reprise of sorts
Just on four years ago I posted about building one of the resin kits which had been done as a limited run of these vans. My comment then was that I hoped I would eventually get my own if it were added...
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DIY Transfers
One of the LAG members dabbles a bit in USA outline. My original trainset, given to me at birth, is also American and I have, from time to time, dabbled a bit myself. The collection isn’t...
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DJM Mermaids
So I thought I’d do a review of the most recent purchase to arrive from my “local” hobby store – Hatton’s of Liverpool. I’d actually been going online to buy some short shank NEM couplers and was...
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Mermaids repainted
Last week I wrote about the two DJM mermaids I received from Hatton’s and indicated they’d be joining the UFO pile to be back liveried into black from Civil Engineer’s Dutch. Well as it happens, I got...
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