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This month we held part 1 of our planned locomotive workshop on converting a Dapol Terrier to 2mm finescale (that is the chassis).Before we got under way there was time to admire Keith's point work for a fiddle yard. This is constructed with flat bottom track soldered directly onto a PCB board, with ....
It's been too long! I took over responsibility for restoring a 4mm scale layout over the Summer. It proved more challenging than I had expected, so I have been spending all my modelling time working on that for the last few months. It is time to get back to Burghmire!I decided to start with a quick ....
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Viewers alerted by wiring nightmares should avert their eyes now... As per usual with my blog entries they are a mix of positive and negative experiences but it's all about the process and how we get there, right?
This weekend I looked to test the turnout in situ before sp ....
Evening all,
The trip to Wycrail yesterday allowed me to make a few purchases and undertake some further work today on the new track insert(s) - A set of Xuron track cutters, new soldering iron 2mm chisel bit and a soldering iron cleaner were ticked off the shopping list.
First thing tod ....
November saw our largest ever attendance with 9 people sitting round the tables for the usual mix of work and chat.
Gareth brought his latest creation, a scratchbuilt SECR F1 class. It is powered using a Dapol Terrier chassis in the tender. He was also planning his next project, an early GER loco ....
Currently I'm working on the signal cabin for Corrieshalloch. This is the last major building planned for the layout. There would have been one of these at each end of the station, controlling each end of the crossing loop, but my layout only features one end of the station.The cabin is based on dra ....
Added a new page to website describing the construction of the Cattle Dock on Modbury. ....
In spite of the front truck being split in three places, the #8220;Shay#8221; run without having a break for 8 hours on Mark Fielder#8217;s #8220;The Pizza#8221; layout. The Searails PowerMAX! motor is not cheap but, in my opinion, it#8217;s worth every penny. The three disconnected logging tr ....
Evening all,
Something I mentioned in my last blog update was that I wanted to replace the turnout(s) which had intermittent faults. The more troublesome being the turnout in the station having power issues as well as the odd derailment when running around. The other suffers the occaisional de ....
Once more in sunny Edinburgh for this month's meeting. Alistair, Alisdair, new face Alastair, Stephen, Andy, Nigel, and Simon met at Graham's house.Alisdair gave a short talk on "wagons from plastic kits", starting with a look at the 2mmSA 1887 RCH kit and how it can be bashed into a number of inter ....
I enjoyed assembling all the components of this little locomotive. The tender, the cab, and the boiler soldered to the frame: Tender, cab, and boiler soldered to the frame The two steam cylinders engine is made up of pewter and brass components soldered together: Engine More small components have be ....
The regular monthly meeting date for October is normally a week out, the second Sunday of the month is usually taken up by the Model Railway Exhibition held in the church hall Willmington where we meet. The October meeting is normally held one week later. However, this year the 'home' exhibition did ....
Closing out our 2018 outings was a trip to Wigan this weekend. Friday evening saw us finding a local hostelry where we were amongst a rather partisan bunch watching Wigan play Castleford in the Rugby League semi final. Wigan won so everyone in the pub was happy although when we got back to the hotel ....
I have now completed shaping all the contours associated with the layout. These have been created from balsa wood and Ronseal High Performance Wood Filler. Please see some pictures of progress to date taken at the 2mm Association AGM yesterday. ....
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