Category: 009

Trefach in Railway Modeller

For obvious reasons the 009 layout build has only had glances here and now is revealed in a series of articles in RM beginning this month. The first on the reasoning behind the design and the baseboard. Most of this is not new for regulars here, but th…

Trefach

Photo Craig Tiley/Peco studioA missive from the Ed. rolled in yesterday informing me that photos of the 009 Trefach had been taken and enclosing the above shot. The layout will be appearing later this year in RM as a 3-4 part build similar to the previ…

Wave goodbye to the Seething Pigs

 Still quiet hereabouts and for good reason. The main is the finishing of the Peco epic (of which more later) but also for the finishing and testing of the arm-twist 009 layout Seething. This built purely to fulfil the wishes of Mrs. F. and thereb…

009 dreaming

 Been busy. Actually, been busy slimming down in several different ways much of which is another story. The main thrust has been trying to get Trefach finished on schedule, which hasn’t been easy; a lot of time-hungry walling, fencing and building…

Wyatt slate fencing

 Back through the mists of time; well 1979 to be precise, the iconic Dovey Valley appeared in RM over two issues. One of these contained a method of constructing slate waste slab fencing using plastic sheet. This has been used by 009-ers ever sinc…

Grass at last

 It would have been stupid to think that this was going to be a quick project, but my inability to play the game and therefore not build things at they were intended or to take the easy road has slowed things to a crawl. This has not been improved…

Saturday Ramble

In a moment of madness I set Seething up  a) to give it a run, but b) to set the fiddle yard support leg which I’d forgotten to attach. This needed a couple of 6mm holes drilled which took minutes, but the ensuing testing session took a little lon…

Too much to do?

 I find myself in the position of too much to do at the moment, to the point where I spent near on12 hours standing today working on the 009 project. Bliss some would say, but only from the position of having a choice. There is a 16t mineral on th…

009 groundwork

 Getting some ground shape in place is always a good thing especially when the the picture in your head is in the lumpy side and you are staring at a flat board. The back boards had been cut quite a while back as part of the baseboard bu…