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My journey as I return to railway modeling after an absence of about 30 years.

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More Scapyard BoB/WC Class beginnings.

Decided to attempt to scratch build a BoB boiler as I feel it would teach me a lot and I would be able to have a very detailed and dilapidated version of a rebuilt and unrebuilt locos. My biggest problem is that I only have photos from around the web and a couple of really poor plans of just one side. So my versions will be very detailed but not as accurate as I would like. Much of the build so far comes from looking at photos and judging by eye and the exhisting Dapol kit.  
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Dapol Bob gets uprated detail

Here is the first of possibly 4 BoB/WC class locos I intend to build in scrapyard condition, this is very much work in progress so it looks a little rough in places at the moment  
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Photos of another scrapyard 61XX

Here is another loco which I completed pretty quickly, I had removed the stack to use on another side project, so I used this as an experiment to try out the "salt n hairspray" paint layering effect. I scratchbuilt some piston cylinders and other bits to use with this and some of the other four remaining Class 61XXs that I bought at a discount from my local model shop. As I was trying to build this quilckly I did not do too much extra to it with regard to adding rivet overlays or thinning mouldi
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Scrapyard loco 90% completed pictures.

This is the 61xx almost finished all I need do now is give it some weathering and detail painting for areas like the backplate. Note I have also created a pile of scrap that represents many actual recognisable parts from this and other cut up locos.       All the extra components for this with exception to the handrail knobs and hand wheels have been scratch built, I dont believe in spending money on things that I can build. In fact thats what gives me the
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Building a scrapyard loco

This is a set of photos of one of the scrapyard locos that I started in order to "hone my rusty skills" Its a Dapol 61XX class witch I have modelled to represent it in the process of it being cut up. This went off my original concept of representing a rusty hulk set in the 1970-1980`s this would be more suited to the late1960`s when many places would have had such a scene.  
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Intro

I have started this Blog as a means to track my progress as I begin to return to my most favoured hobby of my youth. I last had a model railway over 28 years ago and always intended to get back into it one day and to possibly to go down the P4 or EM route. However I now do not wish to spend time and expense that it would take to learn to build my own track and modify rolling stock at this time so I will be going down the OO route. The fantastic level of detail available in RTR now, compared to
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