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Visited a newly opened hobby shop today - while browsing the teeny railway section, a young clerk remarked: "you actually like trains? Don't you find them boring?"

I don't want to head in to work - I want to browse RMweb and have a snooze!

A budget O gauge gronk? Dapol, stop toying with my imaginary wallet! Not to mention Hatton's minus VAT comes out to a very sweet £140!!!

Made some quick paper mockups of a Wisbech tram in 2mm and 7mm scales -- fun stuff!

You know you're hamhanded when you've got more scars from modelling than you have actual models to show for!

A moment of silence for Alan Pegler and his family - to him we are graciously indebted. ):

is pondering the freelance style of modeling ala John Ahern's MVR at Pendon..

Just ordered my first ever RTR loco! I'm excited - but amazed at how quickly £90/$140 went!

So I'm RMweb user #13333 - sign of luck or bad omen? You decide!

Looks like my American "hand egg" team's season ends here! Lungs are coarse from shouting. Back to RMweb then!

Did Dapol's 121 sell like hotcakes or was it merely a short production run? Green with whiskers are nowhere to be found!

A round of e-applause for Jim and Andy for working so vigilantly over the holidays to fix our little home away from home!

How I'd love to leave the armchair stage of this hobby - but that dictates getting a higher paying job. Acquiring the latter requires further education - which requires even more! What a world.

Wrecked my leg at work today - I'll be hobbling a while, but I've finally a legit excuse to while away my hours on RMweb..

I should have known that being assured by my boss that I wouldn't work today would mean just the opposite..

Just discovered that Jack Trollope and company have updated the Small Layout Scrapbook with their long awaited tribute to Carl Arendt. Fantastic work to all involved!

I've just realized that in all my eighteen years, I've never ridden behind a standard gauge steam loco. If only preserved steam was more accessible here in the states..

Some oddities from an American show - a $400 pre-China Farish spamcan, an ancient Roco shunter, and a Lima brake van. Ten dollars later the latter two came home with me - the spamcan shall have to wait for some other poor chump!