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Author Archives: bawdsey
Motivation Monday, Mindheim’s Musing
I don’t need to mention the current (October 22), cost of living rises in the UK to anyone. If you’re awake you’ll be all too aware of the impact of Brexit, Ukraine etc etc on national and world economic and … Continue reading
Posted in accurascale, america, americana, Bachmann, baseboards, blog, Branch Line, British Rail, Cameo, Cameo layout, canada, DC, DCC, dcc sound, Exhibition, finescale, freelance, fremo module, gouge, Hattons, heljan, ho scale, hobbies, Hobby, Hornby, ikea, Industrial, inglenook, Inspiration, Layout, layout design, man cave, man-cave, model, Model Railroad, Model Railway, Modelling, monday motivation, motivation monday, n gauge, Narrow Gauge, O Gauge, o scale, OO, OO Gauge, OO9, peco, peco bullhead, Peco TT, railroad, railway, Rapido Trains, Ratio, realism, research, scale modelling, shelf layout, shelfie, skill, toy train, train set, TT, Uncategorized
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Cavalex Trains4U KFA PFB Flat Wagon Review
This year has been a bit of a quiet one for the blog, two layouts ticking over and a busy domestic and work schedule, hence relatively few updates. However earlier in the year I had the pleasure of speaking to … Continue reading
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Tagged Cavalex, Model Railroad, Model Railway, OO Gauge, T4U, Trains4U
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Motivation Monday, Iain Rice, Influencer
This weekend the hobby lost one of its greatest influencers, Iain Rice. So why might that be a motivation? Well Iain was a prolific writer and modeller across the hobby, not only here in the UK but its fair to … Continue reading
Posted in accurascale, Bachmann, blog, British Rail, Cameo, Cameo layout, DC, DCC, Eighties, epitaph, finescale, heljan, hero, history, ho scale, hobbies, Hobby, iain rice, Inspiration, Layout, layout design, life, man cave, media, model, Model Railroad, Model Railway, Model Railway Journal, Modelling, Modelu, monday motivation, motivation monday, n gauge, Narrow Gauge, news, O Gauge, o scale, obituary, OO, peco, prototype, railroad, railway, Railway Modeller, realism, research, scale, scale modelling, scaleforum, shelfie, skill, toy train, track, track plans, TT Gauge, Uncategorized, wild swan
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Brutal Sunday
Well it’s a Sunday, and this is brutal. I’m putting together Ratio’s ARP signal box kit, and it’s brutal! Not the kit as such, though there are some ‘clunky’ elements to it, but the core prototype design, as a building … Continue reading
Posted in Airfix, architecture, Bachmann, blog, British Rail, Brutal, critic, Great Western, gwr, history, HO, ho scale, Hornby, Industrial, King Charles, King Charles III, Layout, layout design, LMS, LNER, man cave, model, Model Railroad, Model Railway, Modelling, n gauge, new release, O Gauge, o scale, OO, OO Gauge, peco, planning, Prince Charles, railway, Ratio, review, scale modelling, Scottish Region, shelfie, shelfie3, signal, signal box, signalling, Southern, toy train, Uncategorized, world war two
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Wordless Wednesday (keep him quiet)
Posted in accurascale, Bachmann, blog, DC, DCC, finescale, freelance, Hattons, heljan, HO, ho scale, Hobby, Hornby, Industrial, Inspiration, Layout, man cave, media, model, Model Railroad, Model Railway, Model Railway Journal, Modelling, n gauge, new release, O Gauge, o scale, OO, OO Gauge, peco, planet industrials, product news, railroad, railway, Rapido Trains, scale modelling, shelfie, toy train, train set, wordless wednesday
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Wordless Wednesday Shelfie 3
Posted in accurascale, Bachmann, black and white, blog, Branch Line, British Rail, Cameo, Cameo layout, DC, DCC, DMU, finescale, heljan, ho scale, hobbies, Hobby, Hornby, Inspiration, iphoneography, Layout, layout design, man cave, model photography, Model Railroad, Model Railway, n gauge, O Gauge, o scale, OO Gauge, peco, peco bullhead, railroad, railway, scale modelling, shelfie, shelfie3, toy train, trainset, wordless wednesday
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Larkrail Exhibition 2022
It’s a week today that Shelfie2 will go to its first exhibition in completed state. Larkrail is a really nice one day show at the eastern end of Bath. It’s a show I look forward to, quite the trip for … Continue reading
Posted in accurascale, Bachmann, Branch Line, British Rail, Cameo, Cameo layout, DC, DCC, dcc sound, Eighties, Exhibition, finescale, Hattons, heljan, HO, ho scale, hobbies, Hobby, Hornby, Layout, layout design, LED, LED Lighting, model, model photography, Model Railroad, Model Railway, Modelling, n gauge, Narrow Gauge, O Gauge, obituary, OO, OO Gauge, peco, peco bullhead, prototype, railroad, railway, realism, scale, scale modelling, shelfie, shelfie2, toy train, track plans, train show, trees, Uncategorized
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Throwback Thursday
This came up on a Facebook memory thing, and being eight years old it intrigued me to re-read it. I did, and it brought a wry grin, (or it may have been wind), to my face. In the above post, … Continue reading
Posted in accurascale, Bachmann, baseboards, blog, Cameo, Cameo layout, DC, DCC, finescale, Hattons, heljan, HO, ho scale, hobbies, Hobby, Hornby, Layout, layout design, man cave, mancave, model, Model Railroad, Model Railway, Modelling, n gauge, Narrow Gauge, O Gauge, o scale, OO, OO Gauge, peco, peco bullhead, Peco TT, railroad, railway, scale modelling, shelfie, shelfie1, shelfie2, shelfie3, throwback thursday, thursday throwback, toy train, TT, TT Gauge, Uncategorized
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