Out on a photoshoot and video job today we had chance to take a look at and run the new Loveless Deltic.
Just a snap for now but a full review will feature in the mag soon.
It's often suggested that as soon as you build a kit for a model, someone will bring out a ready to run example almost immediately. This happened to me with the Fowler diesel shunter last year. There I was innocently browsing the NG Trains stand and I spotted a notice bearing the picture of a loco that looked very similar to one in my unfinished kit stash.
The story began over 15 years ago. At my local model railway club, a few of the members decided that while none of us felt up t
As I mentioned in this month's BRM topic ......
Please do make time to go and see this model if you get chance; if it were an exhibition layout (which it never will be as it weighs a ton!) and the trackwork was infilled it would certainly draw the crowds as I can't think of any exhibit which has as many buildings, windows and chimney pots. The model shows Burton as it was on Monday 10th October 1921. Why that day? A local photographer had been out recording town scenes which were invalua
Just arrived from Bachmann is the superb new N gauge Class 55 Deltic from Graham Farish. Supplied for review is 371-286 BR green Class 55 Deltic D9002 'KOYLI' in mid-1960s BR green condition - look out for a full review in the June issue of BRM, on sale May 8th.
Even a quick look will reveal that it's a big step forward from the model it replaces. RRP is £99.95, which when compared to some other recent N gauge diesels looks like excellent value.
Also promised are D9007 Pinza in two-tone green
An enjoyable visit to Crawley Club's show in Horsham last weekend. Always and enjoyable event, it was good to see Kier Hardy's Wibdenshaw for only the second time, another chance to view all 58' of Alton in OO, which I haven't seem for years and also have a natter with Gordon and Maggie Gravett.
If you turn your head to one side and part close your eyes - you can see Alton!
It's always interesting to see a layout In S scale, espcecially when it includes equipment that is readi
The current beer-themed issue of BRM includes a piece on the National Brewery Centre in Burton-on-Trent. Andy York and I spent a fantastic afternoon with the team behind the museum and I can wholeheartedly recommend it as somewhere well worth a visit.
I took the train to Burton and local(ish) lad Andy picked me up from the station. With a few hours to kill before we were due at the museum, we drove around looking for interesting old buildings to photograph.
The first
This week Steve Cole and I paid a flying visit to the massive Intermodellbau modelling show in the German city of Dortmund. Having promised myself a visit for several years, I knew it was big but nothing could quite prepare us for the sheer scale of the event.
Attendance reaches almost 100,000 over the five days, with exhibits spread across eight exhibition halls and covering model railways (2 halls), radio control aircraft, RC road vehicles, military modelling, live steam, card modelling, stat
So, you need to motorise a turntable effectively. Well what we witnessed at our premises today as Alastair Milne from ADM Turntables paid us a special visit certainly made an impression. With his three 'table setup, we filmed a display of DCC locomotives easily negociating from one track to another without a single break in their sound.
The system is equally compatible with DC setups. If you'd like to see them in action or are wondering how they work, then stay tuned for a forthcoming d
Chatting to visitors to exhibitions, lack of space for model making seems to be a common problem. Some people assume that to produce anything you'll need a fully equipped workshop full of lathes and pillar drills. Nothing could be further from the truth. My workbench is a pretty small space in the corner of a room and I still churn things out.
My work area is a wooden cutting board around which are the tools and materials I'll be using. I won't pretend to be organised, if you saw me operatin
Most of my work for BRM is at the workbench, but sometimes I get out into the big, bad world. A couple of days ago, we needed a photo of a station at night for a feature so I set off to Hatton with a camera and tripod to grab some photos.
While I was shooting the infrastructure, I had to keep stopping as trains were getting in the way. Despite it being after 9pm (guess who should have done this before the clocks went forward) at least 8 trains passed by in the 40 minutes I was ther
Several people have asked me several times in person, at talks or on RMweb to write a bit of a 'how-to' on the 'photoshopping' of images for the magazine.
I've taken a scene from Tim Maddock's excellent 'Engine Wood' layout as featured in the May 2014 issue of BRM to show the whole process but somewhat condensed as an image typically takes a couple of hours to fully work through and gone from this:
To this:
This has been done as a video and narrative tutorial using screen
