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Ramblings about whatever I happen to be making, butchering or bodging!

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My First Scalescenes Kits

I still don't like the RMweb blogging feature, but thought I'd give it another try. I'd intended to do a lot of modelling during the summer, and have done quite a lot on my O/O-16.5 gauge Cheapside Yard, but getting back into modelling led me to discover lots of interesting stuff about why I'm so disorganised, and not good at starting and finishing jobs, and I've been working on things to help deal with that. So it's been a worthwhile distraction, as it's just possible I may turn into a prolific
BG John

BG John

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4mm Loco Shed - Part 2

With the walls built and assembled, the next job was the roof. I was trying to use as much of the Dapol kit as possible, especially bits that would otherwise end up in my collection of spare parts that may not find a use elsewhere. The slates are a pretty good match for size and spacing with the Wills sheets I was going to use for the rest of the roof, but nowhere near as sharply defined. As the shed was going to be at the back of the layout, I didn't think this would matter.   The first step
BG John

BG John

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4mm Loco Shed - Part 1

I'm currently building a Dapol loco shed, but think I must have misread the instructions, as it looks a bit different to the picture on the packet!   All through the late 70s and 80s when the original Abbotsbridge was on the exhibition circuit, I got away with telling viewers that the loco shed had burned down, so I thought it would be rather nice for the new Abbotsbridge to actually get its shed! As this is intended to be a quickie layout, and getting something presentable to run my stock on
BG John

BG John

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Progress on a 35 Year Long Kit Build!

Way back in the late 1970s, I started building the Hornby Dunster Station Building kit for my EM gauge Abbotsbridge. Here it is in 1982 at an exhibition, showing clear signs of being unfinished.     I often used to comment to exhibition visitors on how the layout was far from finished, and the usual response was that it didn't look that way to them! About the only exception was the late Bob Symes, who was judging the layouts at the Astolat Club exhibition in Guildford, and remarked on how t
BG John

BG John

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7mm Station Building Mock-Up

Being new to 7mm scale, I haven't got my head round the size of it yet, except that it's BIG!!! I've got a track plan for the layout printed out full size, with some track and stock standing on it, and I wanted to see what the buildings would be like. For my OO Ingletyme, I knocked up some quick mock-ups from the main parts of the Scalescenes kits I'll be using, but without the paper overlays. For this one, I thought I'd do a bit better, and use it as an opportunity to practice designing buildin
BG John

BG John

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Hello World!

I have to admit that I find RMweb blogs so irritating that I rarely look at them! I much prefer the forums, but decided to give blogging a try, as it seemed the most logical place to write up what's happening on my workbench. Maybe I'll become less irritated by them in time if this works!   I've had ambitions to model several subjects for between 40 and 47 years, but haven't yet managed to achieve any of them! I've built a few layouts, but never had enough locos and rolling stock to operate th
BG John

BG John

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