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…
And into the meat of the project. Unusually, I may put more up here about this one. Most of this is now a repeating cycle of build operations and I’m struggling to make any difference between the previous builds. Essentially I have a) a bri…
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…
I thought that I’d better take a look at the instructions.And it was at this point that I did. Possibly slightly arrogant, but the though of constructing this…. and then painting it seemed; well, making life hard for myself. So a day later I ha…
Back to the smaller projects for a moment. This for Warners, is a gentle upgrade of a Wills coal yard kit. I’ve done a few of these now, so fairly straightforward. Here with the full chimney, open door and rainwater goods. The paint and a stuff a…
And there we have it. ‘Caol’, AKA The Scottish, delivered in crate form to the RM office. You may have got the impression that I’m glad to get rid of it, and that would be more or less accurate. Not though because it was a bad idea, but more that…
At the point where things get a full test – with croc clips naturally. A couple of rough edges to sort out, but the 66 runs through everything as does the more unforgiving Terrier. With the expected stock being RTR DMUs, Class 66/37 and som…