I while back I said no more 9mm track. Then I built a small 09 scale layout. Then there is this. There is link wiring to do and then there are questions. Will it be operated? Unlikely/only minimally. The 009 layout has been hawked about by young …
Deep into the ritual of track laying with the TT. There have been some hiccups. Well, more U-turns. OK, if I’m honest, it really wasn’t working and I had to change my entire mindset. Was this a product fault? Obviously I cannot say tha…
Deep into the ritual of track laying with the TT. There have been some hiccups. Well, more U-turns. OK, if I’m honest, it really wasn’t working and I had to change my entire mindset. Was this a product fault? Obviously I cannot say tha…
Image: Steve Croucher/Peco studio A task is to hand. This month’s Railway Modeller contains a fairly standard BLT plan of the month. You will all have obviously bought this so no need for me to expand on the reasoning behind said plan, and ag…
Continuing the process of getting my eye in. This was snuck out of the RM office. It’s tiny. Not N gauge tiny, but the equivalent N gauge item is six bits and a chimney pot. This is three frets and layers of 1mm wood with jigsaw location. This la…
It had to happen sooner or later. I’d mooted it a couple of years back, thinking that it was the new big thing, but it got a negative response. However, all Tiger-like it was bounced at me, almost forcefully. The turn point it would seem is the H…
The humble British standard van, and the British standard model railway scale. Fairly obvious, but to clarify: we have a kit-built Ratio van in OO, a Lima in HO, a Hornby in TT:120, and a Peco in N. This was set up to take a look at how they comp…