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I haven't done a Blog Post for some time however I felt like this was a good time to do one. Welcome to my mini-review of the Ixion O Gauge 16" Hudswell Clarke model.
I decided to keep things very simple and limit it to three pictures. Now I have followed the Ixion Website for quite some time now and the photos on there were absolutely fantastic; however opening the box and seeing the product in the flesh was truly amazing. The packaging from Ixion is exquisite - both func
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Today's entry is something a little different, still keeping with the theme of myself using me inexperience to bumble through making kits much to your amusement. However today we shall be swapping the comfortable world of Stephensons Gauge and working on something a little slimmer. Yes today Is my introduction to O14 scale; and the starter kit from KBscale. I should point out here and now I have nothing to do with KBscale - aside from being a satisfied customer. The stor
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Before you read any further I must issue a warning, this kit was assembled by myself. An amateur at kit assembly and very much fumbling my way through into the new territory of 7mm Scale. The following blog post contains examples of poor technique, possible rushed assembly and some extremely close up photography that may make the professional wince - viewer discretion is advised.
A bit of history first - as is standard for one of my blog posts. I bought this kit off of
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I haven't done much with the Ginny since last time - the body has been sprayed in Red undercoat and it is a very nice finish for Halfords spray paint - I will be using their Carmine Red colour for the bodywork for the topcoat.
State of play at the moment, I think I am going to paint the underframe tomorrow in the absence of anything better to do currently. I have a nice tin of Black paint which is similar to blackboard paint that I think will provide a good finish for the u
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I've been fiddling about on the layout having a 'runnng session' working out some tweaks for the track layout and what works and doesn't work. Half-way through the afternoon I felt a change of era, from BR (S) to Southern Railway - perfect as it gave me the opportunity to run my new A1X Terrier from Hornby - the first Terrier released in a 'Mainland' Southern Railway livery - all previous Southern Liveried Terriers have been based on Isle of Wight examples - with the wrong bunk
Apologies but Photobucket was being un-cooperative last night, so I couldn't link in the photos to my description.
On bogies at both ends, this is the trailing bogie. I will need to glue on a whitemetal shoebeam at some point as well.
Motored end; the body is just resting on the pivot here so one axle isn't in contact with the rails - once it is screwed down at the correct location this will not happen.
Apologise, blurry undersize. The RH Trailing bogie has had the whitemetal
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I have done some more work on Ginny, one of the benefits of being unemployed is lots of spare time - downside is no real money to spend on doing something you want to do like modelling. where I left off is the main body had been cleaned of flash & test fitted to make sure it is fine; since then I have cleaned up the resin motor bogie shroud that was clean of flash snipped the Spud's axles and fitted the resin shroud as well.
The trailing bogie however caused me a sig
O Gauge is indeed seductive, I have been patient. I ordered a Wagon the end of last month and it arrived yesterday. So today; I have spent some time putting it together. A Must enjoyable experience - especially looking back at the empty sprues and realising that you have put it together. It's a GWR 4-Plank wagon kit by Peco. So far today I have managed to build the sides, and the chassis which is more free running then I imagined it would be.
Here is a photo of how the wagon stands currentl
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This morning I was awoken by the Postie on a rare Saturday delivery; he had my loco I just bought off of eBay. A 00 Gauge Wills Finecast SE&CR P Class all built all for the princely sum of £20. Bargain, so I up-wrapped the package with my tea this morning only to find that inside was not a P Class, but a SER R1 Class locomotive upon further inspection it is a Hornby Dublo plastic body ontop of a incomplete EM Gauge chassis.
Irritated to some extent which I discovered it being
I've finally decided to get around to finishing this one off; bought it god knows when and it's only been out of the box a handful of times.
Cleaned up the resin bodywork this afternoon; there was only a little bit of flash to remove that was mainly on the small tilting quarter-lights where I had missed bits first time around; one thing I have had to remember very quickly is that the model is 'handed' it took me two or three attempts before I realised the floor of the unit goes in a certain
