If the comments on the last post are an indication of the reaction, then there seems to be a measure of misunderstanding about what I was saying.Two strands at play here: the initial was if I liked the concept of the trade show, which in itself i…
There was a layout exhibited over the weekend; let’s call it Duckling Ghyle. Well known, but for some reason I’d never seen it in the flesh, despite it having been around for decades. Disappointed? Most definitely. The modelling was superb; imposs…
There was a layout exhibited over the weekend; let’s call it Duckling Ghyle. Well known, but for some reason I’d never seen it in the flesh, despite it having been around for decades. Disappointed? Most definitely. The modelling was superb; imposs…
I don’t do many show these days. Not sure why this is, but they do seem to be problematic at times particularly where the bump between entertainments happens. Anyway…Rhiw2 appeared at Eastbourne for Pevensey MRC to great applause, ‘simpli…
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….
I rather like doing these. None of your soft Welsh plastic – proper Airfix is the only way for 108s; they still stand up half a century after they were designed. This is the second of a trio of condemned 16Ts for Rhiw 2 with the white hand scrawl…
Again, the mention of Swedish Death Cleaning in the last post got some reaction, not quite as much as the book ripping which got the predictable Nazis and Salman Rushdie mentions. This has got nothing to do with railways, model or otherwise, but …
In a moment of madness I set Seething up a) to give it a run, but b) to set the fiddle yard support leg which I’d forgotten to attach. This needed a couple of 6mm holes drilled which took minutes, but the ensuing testing session took a little lon…
One of the more controversial posts here of late has been the Swedish Death Cleaning proposal. Not only has this received a sensible number of hits, but has made me and others consider what we may be doing and in some cases it has generated a bit…
On Monday night almost everyone in the known universe (or so it seemed) had an email from Hattons. This in itself was not unusual, but the information contained in it was a bit of a surprise. I’m not in the habit of perusing RMweb and the like, b…
