For my current customer project based on a Colonel Stephens style branchline terminus in OO (1/76 scale), I'm using the Peco Lines...

Progress with my current commission. A OO Gauge (1/76) branch line terminus in a foot print of 4 x 1 feet. Exit left to fiddle yard. I’m usi...

Finally finished the tiniest layout I’ve ever built. Just 14x4 inches without fiddle yard. Designed to live in a small plastic storage box. ...

A little fun in the studio, messing about with one of my photo planks, a grubbed up Hornby J15 and a recently built Airfix windmill. The ...

March 2018 update... Since moving in to model making commissions the diary has been filling up nicely, keeping me nice an busy when not...

 A little bit of loco tweaking last Monday. A Bachmann LNWR Webb Coal Tank renumbered and weathered (washes and dry brush, sealed under a...

In December I was as a commercial job invited up to the Scottish Borders to give a Hazelbank a scenic up and under. The layout depicting a...

Brakevan rides today! Happy New Year! Apologies for the lack of posts here, I've been rather busy with photographic shoots for Mod...

Regular followers of this blog know that I tend to concentrate on backwaters - frequently in the west of England. As a nice change a couple ...

Click to enlarge The problem with with small shelf type layouts can be achieving a believable looking depth. Fountain Colliery is only 1...

Click or tap to enlarge The works train stops at the works halt to pick up Roger Sprocket - a tiresome man, who for all of his career has wo...

Toy trains don't have to be an expensive hobby, disposable coffee stirrer are a great source of cheap timber, or possibly free if you ha...

As always, click on the fuzzy photo above for a bigger view - a really big view in fact because I'm too lazy to resize the original file...

I regularly get requests as to whether I can undertake model making commissions .... so, with a deep breath I have decided to take on a li...

Brew Street update. Starting to look like a layout with the J15 looking very at home here. It's ex-box, so will need renumbering and gru...

Extending Brew Street from its original 2 x 1 feet to a whopping 4 x 1 - I think I've reached the point of no return. In its origin...

A little messing about to possibly extend Brew Street. And in anticipation I've ordered another diorama case from www.timhorn.co.uk to ...

60 years ago today, Johnson 1P No. 58086 departs Combwich through an early morning late summer mist. This loco sadly was withdrawn just 2 ye...

I've been asked to 'enhance' a Metcalfe printed card kit. Mostly involves adding card overlays to formerly printed detail alo...

Click to enlarge Here's a cheap trick for fans of the 3 foot rule (don't get too close basically).... Some budget yard lamps,...

iPhone 7 photo as shot, note bleached highlights and clogged out shadows. Click for a bigger view Love them or hate them, for mobile ph...

Yesterday I dedicated time to sorting out the right hand side where trains exit stage. Disappearing roads in to a backscene are a problem, w...