On the modelling bench, a Hornby (ex Lima) Class 59, 59005 'Kenneth J Painter'. Hornby have sadly made a hash choosing the prototype...

"Most of us would secretly quite like a model railway layout, especially when you see these attractive little scenes created by the rai...

Bit of a bumper update for Catcott , with yesterday seeing a few trees finished off from copper wire originals. Bend wire > solder joins ...

Catcott, 16 May 2008 , added the hairy bits to the right hand side, a mix of hanging basket liner and Silfor, in turn colour adjusted with t...

Another 24 hours, another snap, this time showing the beginnings of the grassy bits on the left hand side of the layout. There will be a ban...

The pic to the left of Catcott Crossing Halt , shows the attack of the hanging basket liner earlier today. It will be trimmed, using small s...

'Anglicizing an Austrian’ aka ‘transforming a smart Austrian, into a rusty, old & possibly English style leaking wheezer geezer’. Ha...

In the good company of RPG members Mr Wright & Mr Brunt, 34067 'Tangmere' successfully hides the Queen of Scotts rake of vintage...

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...

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...

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...

Having just crossed over from the down slow onto the down fast, Merchant Navy Class Pacific No.35028 'Clan Line' proundly displaying...

Posed on Cement Quay, a modified Hornby 'Shark' departmental brakevan, a recent release from the Margate company. Modifications incl...

A recent shot of the new dried peat transfer shed on Catcott, my 5'00 x 15" '00' diorama/layout of Catcott Crossing which ...

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...

Tuesday the 26th February, we had a chance to pop by Midsomer Norton. The Somerset & Dorset Railway Heritage Trust have been very busy ...

ViTrains 37422 & 37403, again used as a test bed for the new baby camera. Here we are looking the other way to normal.

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...

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 ...

WCRC 47826 & 47804 power through the outskirts of Egham with the Doncaster to Portsmouth and return 'The Valentine Express' on S...

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...

Over the Christmas period, using various scratchbuilt elements & castings from Monty's Model Railways, I knocked up this shelter bas...

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...

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...