Category: Bryn Nadolig

The road to Bryn Nadolig

Although it may be too early to be thinking about carving the Christmas or Thanksgiving turkey, for myself, it’s been a long overdue task to commence work on carving the hills of Bryn Nadolig. Like any project however, making a start on something is so…

Breaking ground on Bryn Nadolig

As the year slowly draws to an end and thoughts once more return to how many days there are left until Christmas, I thought it was about time I broke ground on Bryn Nadolig and got to work cutting the foamboard that will form the basis of my namesake C…

Sticking with my plan

Finally the track for my small OO9 Christmas layout has been laid. The day after Christmas! Still, I was thankful for the few spare hours on Boxing Day to glue the final sections of track in place that had been teasing me over the course of the pa…

The Violalakenslip layout frame

In keeping with my IKEA themed model railway layout that occupies one wall of our loungeroom, I colour matched the small layout frame that I built for Bryn Nadolig with the IKEA Eket display cases that this little OO9 layout will sit upon. When I sent …

Keeping within 1st Radius

For some modellers the sight of a 600 mm x 1200 mm x 7 mm sheet of plywood isn’t going to do much to excite the senses or go too far towards completing the benchwork in your walk around model railway plans. So when the sheet measured only 596 mm wide x…

Narrowing my modelling projects

With so many half completed model railway projects either underway or accumulating in boxes in the wardrobe, last month I had one of those honesty sessions with myself where I asked; ‘just where are you going to find the time to complete any of them?’ …