The top shot of Catcott Burtle shows the original concept from July 2007, this illustration being from a Photoshopped pencil sketch knocked ...

Here are a couple of Bachmann 16 tonners picked up the other day. 'Before' and after about 90 mins work with 'sleeper grime'...

My other interest is old cars; here's my rebuilt 1978 MGBGT posed near the railway bridge at Totter's Lane in Hampshire, whilst on o...

Sporting a rather jolly 'Cathedrals Express' headboard on what is in fact 'The Sunny South Special', No. 6233 The Duchess of...

Catcott Update OK, about 2 hours work today got the whirlygig fiddleyard baseboards together. Here they are in all their glory in approximat...

Catcott Update A shot of Catcott crossing keeper's cottage showing the revised sash windows and fence. The foreground will be home to an...

Catcott Update As an alternative to plummer's hemp after a visit to my sister's allotment, I came across some asparagus plant tops. ...

Catcott Update OK, this one might appeal to the cheapskates like me, who needs to go to Tandy or one of those electonicfile stores for some ...

Pictures from the 2008 Woodcote Rally http://stuffedtiger.fotopic.net/c1546276.html . Many digitaly captured pictures to add, including scan...

I'm so taken with Humbrol Matt 109 as used in the mechanical 'orse, the previously out of the box Bemo HOe locotractor, is also bein...

D2298 performed many of the Highbridge to Glastonbury goods workings serving the Clarks shoe factory at nearby Street after the end of steam...

Messed about today with the telegraph wires using 'Slik Worm Invisible Elastic Thread' as recommended by Graham Muz! Highly elastic,...

Back in the summer of '62, well known Bath based photographer Ivan Locksmith captured this unusual view of Templecombe's ex GWR 0-6...

The 9F, a standard issue tender driven Hornby 'Evening Star', was inherited in 2001 after the death of a good friend. As a sort of t...

What could have happened? In real life, the GWR Radstock to Bristol route closed due to a landslide in the late 1960's. Imagine though, ...

Catcott , the little 5 ft x 15 inch trainset has taken a backseat over the last week or two while the 59 took precedence. Back to the sort o...

OK, here we are on the other side of the operation after the front end surgery, repaint, new grills (A1 Models) and weathering . Scale coupl...

Left: 59004 powers past Worting Junction with the 7V01 Woking to Westbury empties , 13 January 2005. A bit of a change from my current his...

The little hut in this picture is based on the little ground frame at Ashcott & Mere between Glastonbury and Shapwick on the former Burn...

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...