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War Department First World War Narrow Gauge Layout O-16.5 WDLR

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Black Leg Labour

Finally managed yo do something I have been meaning to for ages. I have noticed that the black weed control material that I use as a curtain at shows doesn't quite reach the floor leaving a rather stark bit of red leg showing. No one has ever mentioned it but I have noticed! One can of black spray paint from pound land which coat - you guessed it, a day when it was possible to venture outside without Arctic clothing and another thing knocked off the to do list!     Have also been spending q
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A New Toy And Quite A Large One!

As we are coming rapidly to the time of year for giving I have entered completely into the spirit and have given myself a rather large pressie! Of course money isn't important and it is the thought that counts and I have put quite a lot of thought and effort into this and only a modest amount of money so I am very pleased!   I have known about these for quite some time and have been the grateful recipient of the product of Trevor's on a few occasions but the hunt for my own has finally been fr
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The Mysterious Cases of 200 Shells

Actually the only mysterious thing about this case is why I am so mad to have started this in the first place! My search for new wagon loads has led me to loose another four days modelling time in the pursuit of realism misguided or not. This particular one is one that will actually go the other way to usual being spent artillery shell cases which were collected whenever possible and sent back for reuse. Before anyone gets too picky I must point out that they are not of any particular caliber, t
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Only Three Weeks Late!

Life has taken one of those unexpectedly busy turns in the last few weeks which is. of course good on many levels but not those that involve modelling or blogging about it. So, in the absence of anything new being created a quick update on some developments unveiled at last couple of shows.   Firstly a slightly unusual perspective on the layout from the Holmfirth show with Martin doing a great job while I swan off taking photos.     Anyone who has met the layout in the flesh will have no
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Last of the Summer Shows

Sorry, just couldn't resist the title and I know it is now nowhere near Summer but when you see where the show is I am sure you will understand. I will probably get lynched up in Yorkshire tomorrow!   This was going to concern my further developments in the production of wire loads and all the pictures are ready to go but being way past midnight now the sheer dreariness of it would have me snoring away in moments. Will save that delight up for next week.   So, almost all packed up for Hudder
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A real mixed bag

Firstly a big thank you to everyone who helped out at Tewkesbury at the weekend - a really enjoyable show. I would have some pictures but only ones are on Simon's phone and he hasn't sent them me yet.........   All available time this week (and that is not a lot), has been spent trying to sort out problems from the weekend before the next show at the end of the month in Holmfirth.   Finally got around to adding even more weight to the 3D printed wagons to try to tempt them to stay on the tra
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Tewkesbury Narrow Gauge Exhibition Tomorrow

Just a quick one as really rather busy for reasons that should be obvious. Have had a bit of a gap since the last exhibition so plenty of time to sort out all the little issues and get things like track and wheels clean again - have I done any of it? Of course not! So mad panic here but hopefully meet at least a few of you tomorrow!  
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At last - the bus is finished!

And it is with quite some relief that I can pronounce it finished at last - three weeks of quality modelling time - far more than I expected but I did do far more than I expected - which, of course, I should have expected! I am certain that I did take pictures of the intermediate stages but I can't find them now so you will have to make do with these. It did look particularly good with all the brass bits and other shiny metal and was a bit of a shame to spray it but needs must. It was almost fin
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Bus chassis finished

I certainly didn't appreciate how long this bus thing was going to take - if all goes to plan now it will be about three weeks modeling time which is a bit absurd for something that came straight out of a box. Anyway, chassis is now finished and just waiting for me to fit rear mud guards to the body and that is ready for paint. Although I may moan about how long this has taken it has been very enjoyable and quite stretching in working out how to re[lace the over scale bits. I am particularly pro
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SVR Action

As some of you may know The Severn Valley Railway is pretty much at the bottom of my garden and although the distance between the rails is a bit more than I prefer it still attracts my interest and of little Iz as it is nearest place to get an ice cream which is the normal bribe for dragging her down there to look at trains again. To make up for all those ice creams I was on my way to the gym this morning but got rather distracted by this;     Unfortunately I only had my phone with what loo
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On the Bus!

No blog for months and now another one - just like ..........   Have been meaning to add a bit more road transport at the town end in fact I actually fancy a traffic jam just to show how efficient the railway if! Getting WW1 period vehicles is in 1:43 is not easy, so tired of waiting for me to get around to a complete scratch build I was seduced by a Corgie Thornycroft bus. This is unusual in that it is actually 1:43 but is I think based on a 1925 model. The other big problem is that I absolut
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On the Wire

I know, it has been a while! Sort of just got out of the habit of blogging about my exploits coupled with the lovely things that life has a habit of throwing at you. There has been plenty going on however and have actually managed to record some of it so there may be a few retrospective entries coming up. I was actually thinking back to why I started this blogging lark and it was largely and it was largely to act as a big self imposed kick up the bum to get things moving towards my first exhibit
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Ludlow Show Saturday and Roller Coasters

I must point out that the title of this post does not infer that there is to be a roller coaster at the Ludlow Exhibition tomorrow, in fact, something far more exciting will be there - my layout! The roller coaster is more a description of life here at the moment but that would actually fail to express the magnitude - a whole theme park might be more accurate! Anyway, that is a very roundabout (theme park - get it?), way of apologising for lack of recent posts. There has been some stuff of inter
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Yate show and more loads

This was going to be Happy Christmas message, then things got hectic. Then it was going to be a Happy New Year message, but I got ill. January has been a blur so here it is - Happy February!   I couldn't put it off any longer as at some ridiculous hour tomorrow morning (Sat), we are heading off down the M5 for the Yate show - anyone in the area please do drop by.   I have been playing with various projects recently, mostly restarting and even finishing a few stalled ones. I have been taking
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Royston show - this Saturday

At Peterborough I had a chat with someone from the Royston club about taking the layout there next year however someone dropping out and a quick message to me has turned this into this Saturday instead! So, if you are around about North Hertfordshire do drop in.   This has meant a slightly accelerated look at the snag list from the last show but has hopefully resulted in a couple of useful improvements. First up was to lok at a couple of locos that had misbehaved - couldn't find anything wrong
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Expong and the real thing

Well Expo NG went off really well in the end despite some last moment difficlties with my entire rosta of opperators going sick on me at the last moment. The day was saved however by super hero Tevor standing in at the last moment even if this did entail me driving fifty miles in the wrong direction over tractor infested country roads to pick him up up and drop him back. Admited,y there were far fewer agricultural vehicles on the return leg at 1am in the morning but that was more than made up fo
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Multi-media and crowd control

After having finally recovered from the Peterborough show I have been able to turn my attention to a few little things that have been on my todo list for quite a while. I warn you now this is probably not the most exciteing post ever but might get a few people thinking. Will cover the crowd control first. I must point out straight away that I have nothing against the Great British public (or at least not those who come to model railway shows!), but having a layout which is operated from the fron
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Another show down!

As in another show successfully completed rather than something more OK Coral! Very busy all weekend but very enjoyable as the visitors seemed to be particularly pleasant and interested and heaped more than enough praise on my efforts to over inflate my ego!     Everything was very nicely helped along by Andy, David, Danial and Jareth - a big thank you to all of them.   Not 100% smooth though, on Saturday morning many locos just were not as smooth as I would have liked. Luckily I had enou
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A stitch in time!

As in the Crochat is ready (sort of), for Peterborough show at weekend. This has been a very stop start project with the main body coming together (all scratch built in Nickle Silver in case you missed previous posts), very quickly in some free time last Christmas and then it just went on the back burner with the heat being turned up a bit a couple of months ago when I tackled the bogies, again scratch built. Finishing off has been done in a real hurry in the last few days and am I afraid it sho
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Getting Board (8x4)

What few spare moments I have had recently I have squandered in a slightly different direction. For some time I have wanted a circular test track to help with running in and ironing out problems with couplings, so one sheet of 8x4 ply and some 2x1 and 3x1 I have this;     Yes, a new cat bed! He didn't hand around very long once I got the rip saw going so before long I had this;     A stupidly heavy and not completely stable baseboard! The other reason for doing this is that I recently
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More Crochat, a new toy and giant spiders.

After a stupidly busy Summer with all maner of complications ( but with a bit of fun thrown in!), I have finally managed to get down to a bit of play time. Having spent several weeks thinking about it, I came up with a plan to motorise the bogies driving just one axle on each through a High Level Minimiser gearbox - very clever units and interesting to put together. So after a couple of hours work I had this;     Nothing particularly adventurous and only exotic tool used was my brilliant li
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Inspiration

Found this wonderful set of photos on Guardian website while I really should have been doing something more productive. There is a link at top of article to photographers website and new book which could be very good timing with a birthday coming up.   Would be good to see what 'Job' can do with these - right up his rather grimey street!   https://www.theguardian.com/cities/gallery/2016/jul/28/fading-england-1970s-snapshot-people-and-places-in-pictures
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Taking up Crochat

One of my secret projects can now be revieled although anyone who made it up to Mickleover last January would have seen it. Yes last January, the back burner has been very busy! I put the basic body together pretty quickly over last Christmas / New Year and this is what it should look like;     And this is what it does look like;     Body is Nickle Silver with various bits of brass section employed here and there. Am particularly pround of the air vent disc, for these I soldered some s
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22mm Frame Spacer

I warn you now - this is not the most interesting post ever! It is not that there has been nothing interesting going on, quite a lot of it actually but conseqently have been too busy to write about it! I will get around to it soon. But, without this post things might not get any more interesting as I am stuck. I am working on a little project that I have not written about yet as all the pictures are on the little white camera which is on one of it's regular disaperances, but have a problem with
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Super Simplex - part 1

Crikey! Another post - what is going on?   Quite simple really, I have started to build my Super Simplex (see later for explanation), and have just got to the point where I need to fit the pick ups...... or blog how far I have got so far. The fact you are reading this suggests which course I took!   Anyway, the Super Simplex is my third attempt at the Nigel Lawson 20hp Simplex kit. The previous two do work but only after several modifications and four years of messing about. This is a long a
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