Ahh the Project 70. I mentioned this a year ago here the result was Drovers Brook which has has scant coverage here it seems despite being the current favourite and permanently set up. I mooted back then that there would be a round the room e…
I picked this Mk1 ex-Dapol Hornby-badged Terrier up a couple of months ago off of Marketplace from a chap down the road for the princely sum of £25. He assured me it ran; which it did… after a fashion. Visuals suggested that the wheels could be…
A day out with your mates, is how I generally describe the Steyning exhibition. Yes it is public, but for some reason there is a high proportion of what I call proper modellers. Not in some sort of elitist way, more that they make things in the traditi…
What feels like a return to full-time model-type things, the pressure to keep moving is on. The first on the list this month was to get Drovers Brook more or less done for the Steyning exhibition. This is not really an exhibition beast, so lots of jerr…
This has became a signature cameo now and harks back to the layout that titles the web page. The 009 layout in question, built some 26 years ago, featured the Airfix/Dapol schoolboy figure looking through the bridge railings. Since then, if there…
The box just about done. This has been a bit of a battle in more ways than one, but I have roughly what I was after. To recap: The top half is a Ratio GWR M&H style small box, picked up part built for a fiver, The lower section is Wills sheet and a…
No section of the above is either finished or fixed, but at that point where you need to get it perched together so get an idea of how it will look. Having a kit without the setting part of a lower section to work to is not a good starting point,…
Working on multiple fronts at the moment. The above is the signal box for Drovers Brook and is the obvious M&H Ratio kit. This was picked up for a fiver off a club stand and came with the bottom half missing, but the important top half unstar…
The push for the next week is to get Drovers Brook done. In the great scheme of things there isn’t that much to do; once the ground is covered it’s just detailing. The whole thing sits just on the right side of twee; in that it breaks no rules an…
A bit of a push yesterday afternoon on getting some ground cover on. The yard area with a mix of some of Mr. Hill’s chinchilla dust (which is more like fine ballast) and some American earth dust that I have a bag of. The green stuff is three colo…