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QR things + kit and scratchbuilds in HO, OO and N

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Wagons²

What did I tell you?! An update that hasn't taken more than half a year to appear!!     This time I'll be tackling two kits at the same time, hence this posts title.   So, what am I building? Two FJS wagon kits by PGC Scale Models. These are/were steel bodied four wheeled wagons used to transport just about anything that could be loaded into them!     Inside we find five sprus of three different mouldings, and a bag containing wheels, decals and white metal buffers and brake cylinder.

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Getting back into it

Well, I may have had my fingers crossed behind my back when in my last entry I said I'd try and update this more regularly! Basically, I was hit by a lack of motivation a couple of weeks after said last entry, and have only just got my enthusiasm back, largely thanks to attending this years Brisbane show.     So, what have I been doing recently? Up till last week, nothing! However, after practically doubling my rollingstock fleet with all the kits I bought at the show, I decided I should prob

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It's been a while!

Given it's Halloween today, in keeping with the spirit of things I thought I'd resurrect this blog from the dead!   Not a great deal of modelling has happened since my last entry (just under a year and a half ago!), mainly because when I switched from uni to tafe at the start of last year my workload more than doubled, up from three subjects a semester to seven, causing a severe lack of interest in my own modelling. Luckily, I'd started volunteering at the the Workshops Railway Museum at the s

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Stumped

G’day everyone.   Over the past few weks, I have finished cladding the goods shed and have made a start on the roof. Basically it’s just a bit of corrugated plastic sheet cut to size and laminated to a piece of thick card (also cut to size), then repeat for the other half of the roof.           In the last two pics, the two halves of the roof are just sitting in place with friction, so I could see how dark it was inside. The parts of the foamcore where I’ve cut around the doors a

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Plastic + Foamcore + Cardboard = ...

G'day.   Well if you were wondering, the answer to the equation in the title is hopefully this:     You may remember in my last status update, I mentioned a goods shed and this is it. This is a 20 x 30' QR goods shed drawn to HO scale in SketchUp from plans for a full sized one I found on the net. Using the CAD model, I've been scratchbuilding it, out of foamcore, cardboard and plastic sheet and strip, for the last few weeks.   Bearing in mind that this is only the third building I've

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A Wagon update + beginning next kit

G'day, about time I added an update here methinks!   Well, not a lot has happened between the last post and now. Wait, scratch that...   [rant mode on/]   Alright, firstly, during the holidays I had planned to finish the A wagon and get at least half way through another QR kit (more on this later) and begin/work on/complete a number of other things but instead, the universe had other ideas. It seemed that everytime I thought I would be able to go out and get a pack of couplers for the A wa

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And they're off!

G'day, welcome to my blog!   Here you can find what's been happening on my workbench. Basically, this workbench blog will contain any modelling project that I'm currently undertaking so you can expect to see a general mash-up of kitbuilds and scratchbuilds, conversions and painting, weathering and detailing projects in OO, N, HO and HOn3 1/2. This will include locos, rollingstock and various scenic items (i.e. mostly buildings).   So, sit down (or stand if you prefer) and hold on tight bec

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