Category Archives: Branch Line

Filum stars

Filming today, hard work but good fun!

Posted in Bachmann, Branch Line, British Rail, Eastern Region, Exhibition, Forest of Dean, Great Western, hobbies, Hornby, Industrial, iphone, Kalmbach, Layout, life, LMS, LNER, media, Midland Region, Model Railroad, Model Railway, Model Railway Journal, Modelling, Nevard, OO Gauge, Photography, research, Scottish Region, shelfie, social media, Southern Region, television, Uncategorized, Wales, Welsh Marches, Western Region | Leave a comment

19th Nervous Breakdown

With just a day to go before filming and still work to do, I’ll probably be on my 29th let alone 19th by the end of the week! Pretty much everything else is done, Paul Lunn has worked the ‘storyline’ … Continue reading

Posted in Airfix, Bachmann, Branch Line, brassmasters, British Rail, DCC, dcc sound, Eastern Region, Exhibition, Forest of Dean, Great Western, hobbies, Hornby, Industrial, iphone, Kalmbach, Layout, LMS, LNER, Midland Region, Model Railroad, Model Railway, Model Railway Journal, Modelling, Nevard, OO Gauge, Railex, Scottish Region, shelfie, Southern Region, Wales, Welsh Marches, Western Region | Leave a comment

Dead Line

With filming commencing this week on a layout planning DVD, myself and Paul Lunn are beavering away to get everything complete. This is Wharfedale Road, a ‘shelfie’ I’ve built for the filming and have a day or so left to … Continue reading

Posted in Airfix, Bachmann, Branch Line, British Rail, DCC, dcc sound, Eastern Region, Exhibition, Great Western, hobbies, Hornby, Industrial, iphone, Kalmbach, Layout, life, Midland Region, Model Railroad, Model Railway, Model Railway Journal, Modelling, Nevard, OO Gauge, Railex, Scottish Region, selfie, shelfie, Southern Region, Western Region | 3 Comments

Western Wanderers

This weekend I’ve been immersed in western region influences. I’d always wanted to get hold of a 97xx either the K’s kit or at a push one of the Korean brass imports made in the 80’s by Samhongsa. This weekend … Continue reading

Posted in Airfix, Bachmann, Branch Line, British Rail, DCC, dcc sound, Eastern Region, Exhibition, Great Western, hobbies, Hornby, iphone, Kalmbach, Layout, Midland Region, Model Railroad, Model Railway, Model Railway Journal, Modelling, Nevard, OO Gauge, Railex, Scottish Region, Southern Region, Wales, Welsh Marches, Western Region | 2 Comments

Wales in Nottinghamshire

This weekend no shelfies for me, it’s a big trainset , Aberbeeg, 70’s South Wales in scale7 at the Nottingham show.

Posted in Branch Line, British Rail, DCC, dcc sound, Eastern Region, Exhibition, Great Western, Hornby, iphone, Kalmbach, Layout, life, LMS, LNER, Midland Region, Model Railroad, Model Railway, Model Railway Journal, Modelling, Nevard, Photography, Scottish Region, Southern Region, Uncategorized, Wales, Welsh Marches, Western Region | Leave a comment

Shock, Horror! Internet proved wrong …

In a shock development today, a fault was found in the internet! A factual error was discovered on a posting made yesterday …. Yup I’ve had a better opportunity to look at Hornby’s Sentinel and realised that the outside frames … Continue reading

Posted in Airfix, apple, Branch Line, canon, DCC, dcc sound, Exhibition, hobbies, Hornby, humour, Ian Futers, Industrial, iphone, Kalmbach, Layout, life, Model Railroad, Model Railway, Model Railway Journal, Modelling, Nevard, OO Gauge, review | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Hornby 2015 predictions and Sentinel maintenance 101

Well with Christmas day out of the way, it was time to give one of Santa’s presents a little run. I’d been fortunate enough to receive one of the new Sentinel shunters from Hornby and with a little time on … Continue reading

Posted in apple, Bachmann, Branch Line, British Rail, canon, DCC, dcc sound, Exhibition, hobbies, Hornby, humour, Industrial, iphone, Kalmbach, Layout, media, Model Railroad, Model Railway, Model Railway Journal, Modelling, Nevard, OO Gauge, Photography, review, Uncategorized, Western Region | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 13 Comments

Christmas

For all the readers and followers of the blog, have a good Christmas and wishing you the compliments of the season. Paul M-P

Posted in Bachmann, Branch Line, brassmasters, British Rail, canada, canon, Chris Nevard, christmas, Exhibition, hobbies, Hornby, humour, Layout, library, life, media, Model Railroad, Model Railway, Model Railway Journal, Modelling, OO Gauge, paint, Photography, Rapido Trains, travel, Uncategorized, usa, Wales, Welsh Marches | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

It’s all over now …

Warley, the final frontier, Captain Slogg etc etc. Well the layout very nearly was matchwood let alone a log on last Thursday afternoon. On test set up, I always do one prior to an exhibition, the layout had developed an … Continue reading

Posted in Bachmann, Branch Line, British Rail, DCC, dcc sound, Eastern Region, Exhibition, Forest of Dean, Great Western, hobbies, Hornby, humour, Ian Futers, Kalmbach, Layout, life, LMS, LNER, Midland Region, Model Railroad, Model Railway, Modelling, Nevard, OO Gauge, Scottish Region, Southern Region, Uncategorized, Welsh Marches, Western Region | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Warley & The Digital Backscene

This weekend is the final show for the layout, and we are stand B50 at the NEC Warley show. One of the main features of the layout is the backscene, which is a digital print. It is one of the … Continue reading

Posted in Bachmann, Branch Line, British Rail, canon, Chris Nevard, copyright, Eastern Region, Exhibition, Forest of Dean, Great Western, hobbies, Hornby, Ian Futers, Kalmbach, Layout, LMS, LNER, Manchester, Midland Region, Model Railroad, Model Railway, Model Railway Journal, Modelling, Nevard, OO Gauge, Photography, Railex, Scottish Region, Southern Region, Uncategorized, Welsh Marches, Western Region | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 8 Comments