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19 April 2008
When steam goes in the wrong direction
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In the good company of RPG members Mr Wright & Mr Brunt, 34067 'Tangmere' successfully hides the Queen of Scotts rake of vintage...
17 April 2008
Canon G9 appraisal
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Canon G9 review. As long as you don't expect this camera to perform like a DSLR, for a small carry everywhere camera it's great. Say...
11 April 2008
Streak!
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Captured between rain showers, LNER A4 Class 4-6-2 no 60019 Bittern, powers away from Virginia Water with a private charter Euston-Staines-G...
09 April 2008
Silfor grass
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This morning's work on Catcott Burtle (about 45 mins), saw the rhyne bed painted a darkish grey emulsion colour, then coated with a thic...
22 March 2008
Cold and wet..............
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Having just crossed over from the down slow onto the down fast, Merchant Navy Class Pacific No.35028 'Clan Line' proundly displaying...
17 March 2008
Shark Attack!
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Posed on Cement Quay, a modified Hornby 'Shark' departmental brakevan, a recent release from the Margate company. Modifications incl...
08 March 2008
Rural Industrial Grot
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A recent shot of the new dried peat transfer shed on Catcott, my 5'00 x 15" '00' diorama/layout of Catcott Crossing which ...
02 March 2008
The End of Printed Matter?
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Spurred on by a current thread on RM Web , I felt an over due ramble........ Like many, in my world, increasingly far too much time is spent...
27 February 2008
Sunny morning at Midsomer
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Tuesday the 26th February, we had a chance to pop by Midsomer Norton. The Somerset & Dorset Railway Heritage Trust have been very busy ...
22 February 2008
I was bored......
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ViTrains 37422 & 37403, again used as a test bed for the new baby camera. Here we are looking the other way to normal.
20 February 2008
Another test shot
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Another test shot with the little Canon G9; this time from a little further back, we see 60026 crawling along through the weed ridden tracks...
19 February 2008
Point and shoot
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Most of my magazine work is carried out with a digital SLR. Sometimes though, it is desirable to place the camera actually on the layout to ...
16 February 2008
'The Valentine Express'
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WCRC 47826 & 47804 power through the outskirts of Egham with the Doncaster to Portsmouth and return 'The Valentine Express' on S...
09 February 2008
Tasty Tractor!
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Recently I acquired a couple of the new ViTrains Class 37/4 to play about with. To make this one look a little more lifelike, it's had a...
10 January 2008
SR Concrete Platform & Shelter
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Over the Christmas period, using various scratchbuilt elements & castings from Monty's Model Railways, I knocked up this shelter bas...
12 July 2007
We've never had it so good?
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Like many, in 2000 I came back to the hobby after a break of 15 or so years. There is so much more for the modeller these days. We moan abou...
06 July 2007
Engineering or art?
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If people stood back from their layouts a little more and squinted at what they had created, thus taking in the 'feel' rather than c...
02 June 2007
'00' or 'EM'?
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In an ideal world, If I was to start all over again I would probably opt for EM, however with 25 years of toy trains under my belt, Personal...
11 April 2007
Rant for Wednesday
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Embracing the overall scene and the British misconception of what creates a realistic scenario. In the USA and many parts of Europe, many ra...
03 March 2007
'OO' bullhead ready to lay track system
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I think there would be enourmous demand for a ready made 16.5mm bullhead UK outline track - just look at how many club layouts use SMP with ...
02 March 2007
And then there was light ....
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I've been playing on and off with model railways since 1978, though like many people, I get bored from time to time and venture off into...
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