Category: PECO

Non comfort

This is turning out to be an interesting project. The working title is Caol which was thought of in a hurry just to tag it, though I have casually looked up the Gaelic for camel to replace it. To save you looking it is… camel. Natch. The brief is/was…

A hurried 09 layout

 Busy, with all sorts of stuff and no time to get it on here. The trackwork for the latest RM epic is driving me mad and is taking way too long for such a simple plan, but at the edge of that is the above. Built to get Mrs F away for a weeken…

A hurried 09 layout

 Busy, with all sorts of stuff and no time to get it on here. The trackwork for the latest RM epic is driving me mad and is taking way too long for such a simple plan, but at the edge of that is the above. Built to get Mrs F away for a weeken…

Where is March going?

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…

A most boring building.

 This came about purely to get a spade in the soil ahead of the recently arrived package. The new project (as yet to be officially named) draws it’s inspiration from Arisiag on the WHR. Those in the know will quickly ascertain why this is. As usua…

Saturday Ramble. Delivery time

 And we’re off again.Delivery yesterday brought the first batch of stuff. This has not been without problems thus far and I doubted whether it would actually happen. This time the order will be split to attempt to cut down the over/under ordering….

Platform

 There is a slightly different headspace with Drovers Brook that other recent efforts in that not being an exhibition beast it doesn’t need acres of backscene height to create a box for travelling. To that end I need to work out just how low I cou…

Trefach in Railway Modeller

For obvious reasons the 009 layout build has only had glances here and now is revealed in a series of articles in RM beginning this month. The first on the reasoning behind the design and the baseboard. Most of this is not new for regulars here, but th…