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Category Archives: blogger
Throwback Thursday 94xx
Here we are, more Pannier shenanigans! This time it’s a personality swap! A few of the 94xx’s had tank fillers in different positions, a couple of feet further back than normally associated with the class. There’s not many of them … Continue reading
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Mazak Rot, A matter of Time..
Mazak Rot has unfortunately blighted some models in the hobby, across many manufacturers and for a while. It frequently manifests itself after a period of time often years, and that’s the problem you don’t know if you’re going to end … Continue reading
Posted in accurascale, Airfix, Bachmann, blogger, brassmasters, British Rail, Cameo layout, dapol, DCC, dcc sound, Exhibition, golden valley, Hattons, heljan, HO, hobbies, Hobby, Hornby, Kalmbach, kr models, Layout, life, LMS, man cave, mancave, mazak, mazak rot, model, Model Railroad, Model Railway, modeling, Modelling, n gauge, Narrow Gauge, O Gauge, o scale, OO, OO Gauge, Oxford rail, Patriot, peco, product news, R2628, R2634, railway, Railway Modeller, Rapido Trains, reference, review, Royal Scot, scale, scale modelling, toy train, Toy trains, toytrainset, train set, trainset, Uncategorized
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Throwback Thursday, Happy Christmas
Well, 2020! This should probably be a #throwbackthursday post, not just because it’s a Thursday, but if you actually caught 2020, you’d certainly want to throw it back.. 2021 will have to go some to make it as memorable as … Continue reading
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Motivation Monday, Getting to the point.. I
I’m making no apologies for diving straight in to look at Geoff Forsters Off the beaten track blog for the motivation on this one Ground Frame Day and Levers and Rods. Recently Shelfie2 was visited for photos for a magazine … Continue reading
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Motivation Monday Ground Frame 1
It’s a Monday and having had quite a good run of finishing man cave shelf queen projects, my attention is turning to those small completion jobs for Shelfie2. As it’s a simple one ‘engine in steam’ yard it has a … Continue reading
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Throwback Thursday, Turn up the Volume!
It’s interesting for me to step through the back catalogue of the images of this layouts (Shelfie2) development. The picture above was taken yesterday in natural lighting in our garden. The picture below shows the ‘concept’ I was thinking of … Continue reading
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Throwback Thursday , Standing Back
It is interesting sometimes doing that arty ‘stand back’ and look at what you’ve done. I’m doing this a lot at the moment, getting the layout ready to go out for the second time. This picture was taken early January … Continue reading
Posted in 2019, accurascale, autumn, Bachmann, blogger, Branch Line, British Rail, Cameo, Cameo layout, dapol, DCC, dcc sound, dingham, Eastern Region, Exhibition, finescale, Hattons, heljan, HO, hobbies, Hobby, Hornby, justdoit, Layout, LED Lighting, life, man cave, mancave, model, model photography, Model Railroad, Model Railway, modeling, Modelling, Modelu, n gauge, Narrow Gauge, O Gauge, o scale, OO, OO Gauge, Oxford rail, railway, Rapido Trains, scale, scale modelling, shelfie, shelfie1, shelfie2, throwback thursday, toy train, Toy trains, toytrainset, train set, train show, trainset, Uncategorized, woodland scenics
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Woodland Development
Back at the beginning of the year, the woodlands along the rear of the layout were being blocked in. Most of it was acceptable, but in cliche corner with my over bridge scenic break, getting the trees and overhang right … Continue reading
Posted in 2019, accurascale, autumn, Bachmann, blogger, Branch Line, British Rail, Cameo, Cameo layout, DCC, dcc sound, dingham, Eastern Region, Exhibition, finescale, heljan, HO, hobbies, Hornby, Industrial, iphoneography, justdoit, Kalmbach, Layout, LED, LED Lighting, man cave, mancave, Midland Region, model, model photography, Model Railroad, Model Railway, modeling, Modelling, n gauge, Narrow Gauge, O Gauge, o scale, OO, OO Gauge, Oxford rail, peco, railway, Rapido Trains, scale, scale modelling, Scottish Region, shelfie, shelfie2, social media, Southern Region, throwback thursday, toy train, Toy trains, toytrainset, train set, train show, trainset, tree, trees, Uncategorized, Wales, Western Region, woodland, woodland scenics, woods
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