I rather like doing these. None of your soft Welsh plastic – proper Airfix is the only way for 108s; they still stand up half a century after they were designed. This is the second of a trio of condemned 16Ts for Rhiw 2 with the white hand scrawl…
Again, the mention of Swedish Death Cleaning in the last post got some reaction, not quite as much as the book ripping which got the predictable Nazis and Salman Rushdie mentions. This has got nothing to do with railways, model or otherwise, but …
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…
One of the more controversial posts here of late has been the Swedish Death Cleaning proposal. Not only has this received a sensible number of hits, but has made me and others consider what we may be doing and in some cases it has generated a bit…
On Monday night almost everyone in the known universe (or so it seemed) had an email from Hattons. This in itself was not unusual, but the information contained in it was a bit of a surprise. I’m not in the habit of perusing RMweb and the like, b…
And so to opening again. I closed for the usual annual oh no it’s not season. Either no one comes here anymore or everyone sussed this and (this time) didn’t moan about it. TBH I did consider closing for good, but after six weeks of not touc…
Stuff: Age: Ratios: Probabilities: Individually meaningless, but combined they create an interesting set of questions. I’m not yet in the bracket of old, but there is a lighter significant birthday in the near-ish future and this does push this c…
It’s been quiet here for a month. Not deliberate, but just busy getting out there as well as juggling two layout builds. Despite me saying that shows had decreased, I’ve managed to pop (literally in some cases) to four in the last couple of …
