Oh yes, there’s more! On a roll and once more into the box. Well I may as well do the whole train now I’m 75% there. This is a mixed bag, and this is what I have. As per usual it came off a club stand at not much money. There are risks involved h…
And so to paint. The whole lot was given a coat of Humbrol 62 orange as a base. Then, slightly paler than normal, the body outer, a coat of Citadel Corax White. Photos of 16 tonners often show an almost white finish, so I could dare to be pale.Th…
The last piece (for the minute) for Rhiw is a skip; one of those that sits by the lineside with a mix of gash inside and seemingly has no means of being retrieved.The root is one of a pair from the Peco Modelscene range which is stamped Leafdale Models…
Yes more crazy old stuff. ref. the post below, a tally hut for the private siding. The cognoscenti will recognise this as not being an expensive etched brass kit, and for me points out exactly what is wrong with the hobby; we’re getting so the hi…
Catching up.After a week in the sun, where I actually got some modelling done, it’s back to the workbench. However this is not all moving in a linear fashion and I was minded to move away from the new project for a bit and get a couple of things done o…
Until I pick up some scraps of track from a well known West Sussex scrap box, the FY is essentially complete with running from both the off roads from Rhiw2. A bit of a departure having a running layout up in the house. This does have a slight te…
Striking while the iron was hot… literally. Time to get at least a couple of bits of track down. No outlandish methods here, all classic stuff. The board were lined up and bits of sleeper-width thin card stuck in place, followed by pairs of EM copper…
Further to the last missive; a little work today, dancing between other things, on a quick baseboard build for the new short FY for the home running of Rhiw. A ferret around in the huge pile of old baseboards and MDF off-cuts in the garage turned up en…
And back to reality. Despite a lot of trial set-ups and having trestles everywhere, not to mention a phonecall with AWK discussing Summer Springs, I haven’t really managed to crack the nut in the way that I wanted to. This is not the end of the world a…
Rhiw 2’s second outing this weekend at the Bredgar model show. Unusual these days, although I did exhibit at the almost equivalent Amberley Museum weekend for quite a number of years. The exhibition takes place in the engine shed which throws up …