I thought it was about time I updated my blog! I have been doing things, but nothing overlay exciting.
This is the first time I have ever painted 4mm figures before. The crew are from Dartcastings and I have used Games Workshop paints, washes and brushes. In MRJ 209 Trevor Pott describes how he produces his own personalised locomotive crews for his Churston layout and I’m rather pleased with my first attempt. Next time I will certainly be more adventurous with bending and replacing arms to
Nearly three years ago when I first started out in P4 SWAGs very own Captain Kernow very kindly converted this beautiful Bachmann Pannier using an Ultrascale drop-in-wheel set conversion. Well I thought it was about time that I finished her, so looking through some photographs I have set about thinking about how to improve this lovely little mode.
First off are the lamp brackets, this is where the fun starts as the 57xx and the 875x classes had different positions for the brackets. Lookin
Having said that I wasn't going to use a blog, seeing that Andy has gone to the time and trouble of tweaking the blog section about I thought I would reinstate mine, but use it as a workbench thread.
Right here is a snap-shot of my workbench within my 10ft by 11ft railway room. The layout itself will be worked on in here, but operated down stairs in the much larger garage, although I haven't cleared that yet! (And I don't intend to do that this week!) One of the reasons for using this roo
Greetings chaps,
First of all may I wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and a peaceful new year. can I also say many thanks to everyone who has commented on my ideas, it really is useful as a builder.
Over the last couple of weeks I've been thinking more and more about baseboard construction and how I will run the layout and something that has raised it's ugly head is that the viewer of the layout will see only the backs of the buildings; the rear of the main station building, the signa
Whilst continuing the momentum with the 'big push' for Horrabridge I've completed the track plan on templot.
The layout will have 4-5 feet cut out of it, the first cut will involve moving the bridge 1 & 1/2 feet closer to the station, and the reduction of the head shunts by approximately 3 feet.
Below are a couple of photographs showing the 8 foot station loops and goods shed. (Signal box and goods shed are temporary structures to provide an idea of where certain buildings will be.)
Horrabridge - BR Western Region circa 1956
I’m sure that everyone is fed up with me going on about it for the past two years, but I have decided to grab the bull by the horns and go for it.
Right over the past three weeks I’ve made some big decisions about my modelling. First of all I am going to build Horrabridge, secondly it will be built in P4, I had been toying with doing it in EM or even Finescale 00, but decided to continue to keep plodding with P4 rather than swopping gauge a
Greetings and welcome to my blog. I plan to add to it on a regular basis similar to Geoff (Sparky) with his Penhydd layout and show you fine fellows the progression (or lack of!) that I make. I'm more than happy for people to comment with any advice that they might have as I need to learn!
I first started modelling properly when I was 15 years old when I created a basic GWR branch line terminus set in the mid 1930s. The layout used a mixture of old SMP track left over from my late grandfa
