I’m the sort of modeller who views a Ready-to-Run model as a starting point from which an individual model can be created. So when I was tempted by Manchester Ship Canal’s version of Hornby’s Peckett W4 thoughts turned to changing the loco’s identity. Rather than a bland number a name might be more fitting for […]
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Here’s the finished and reassembled Panavise looking much better than it did in the last post. The cast iron base received two coats of Hammerite Hammered Silver and the aluminium parts received a coat of Hammerite Special Metals Primer then two coats of Hammerite Hammered Silver. The gouge in the top of the vice head […]
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I recently picked up a Panavise on eBay, although it was in poor cosmetic condition it was functionally fine, just needing a new set of jaws. Now I could have just replaced the jaws, give it a quick clean and it would be ready to use, but where’s the fun in that? With a bit […]
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