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Pannier Progress

I make no apologies for another image of 3737, it’s one of my favourite locomotives. It’s basically the Bachmann Branchlines OO model that I’ve re-numbered weathered and today spent an hour opening the rear cab doors and windows. It’s a … Continue reading

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Manchester 2011 Preparations

It seems odd that almost a year to the day on the ‘Bawdsey’ blog I was writing about the final preparations for taking that layout to Manchester. A year on I find myself in a similar position. I’m now into … Continue reading

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Keeping Up Appearances

In the previous post I mentioned the next big thing will be the backscene. Well the photo backscene has arrived and I’ve been trying it out today. The early results are quite promising, though an issue with it is the … Continue reading

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More 3F’s

Following from my earlier post I’ve now sourced a second 3F, this being a ‘keyhole’ variant, so called due to the sandbox filler which is visible in the lower centre of the side tanks. That sandbox filler looks a bit … Continue reading

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Rural idyl

A lot of my modelling has recently been done associated with projects for magazines, books or for a couple of mates layouts. All this is ok but this week I’ve just built something for the fun of it. For a … Continue reading

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Reprise III

The planning is now pretty much finalised, a single line extension to one of the sidings. The useful feature of having detachable buildings is that I can re-arrange them to suit a new scenario. Above you get an idea of … Continue reading

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Reprise II

This week the layout has been reassembled in preparation for a new phase of work on it. At the moment it’s standing without any buildings permanently fixed allowing me to spend looking at the structure of the layout, its track … Continue reading

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