Just about done here. Took a fair bit longer than I’d hoped. I should know this by now; signal boxes are time thieves. Despite going down the budget/minimalist approach to the interior, this and the painting sucked up a lot of bandwidth. Pretty m…
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…
A long, long time ago in the year 2018 BT, a magazine editor warned me off using the Wills signal box kit. ‘Tricky’. So I went down the Dapol route. Now is my chance to find out. TBH the first impressions are good and it looks to be typical Wills…
The Wills SS15 stuffed and mounted on a piece of stray MDF with lashings of coal and a few Merit bits from the very bottom of the scrapbox. Quite a bit more work than most people would want to put into it, but altogether a fun little project.Supp…
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…
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…
Working to a brief can sometimes be constricting so I try to find ways of pushing it beyond the obvious and squeeze something unusual in. The Scottish needed a ‘something’ in the lower left corner so a lengthy peruse of google images of the gener…
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,…
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….