Category Archives: Conversion

Feel Good Friday Improving Bachmann’s Standard Class 5

Posted on February 23, 2024 by bawdsey

This is the most recent part of the improvement package I’m doing on the Bachmann Standard Class 5, and as this covers the improvements made to the front bogie wheels and the chimney, sort of comes under the #fef banner! … Continue reading →

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Noughties Bachmann Makeover Part 2

Posted on January 10, 2024 by bawdsey

Continuing my makeover of Bachmann’s OO BR standard class five, I’ve now completed the tender conversion. The model as supplied comes with a BR1G tender and this needs converting to a BR1 type. So above is the vidjo of how … Continue reading →

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2024, Motivation Monday, First One In, Fifteen Minute Heros

Posted on January 1, 2024 by bawdsey

With the festive season officially over, twelfth night and all that, it’s been quite a good couple of weeks of getting stuff done. Over the period I was able to do some short bursts, as well as lengthier sessions in … Continue reading →

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A noughties Bachmann Makeover

Posted on December 23, 2023 by bawdsey

An introduction to a makeover I’m giving to a Bachmann BR Standard Class 5. The model dates from the early noughties, and still holds its own today. The overall accuracy is excellent, the shape and core dimensions are all there … Continue reading →

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Monday Motivation ‘Sable’

Posted on October 9, 2023 by bawdsey

Many of us will have the SABLE (Stash Aquired Beyond Life Expectancy) pile. Actually mine is quite manageable, at one time I did have a collection of plastic kits that with brutal realism wasn’t going to get built, and they … Continue reading →

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Throwback Thursday, 4575 From the Shelf of Doom

Posted on December 29, 2022 by bawdsey

A while back, roughly two years ago, this 45xx passed through the man cave. It came from an estate sale as a non-runner. The original idea was to rob the chassis from it and place it under a Bachmann 4575 … Continue reading →

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Motivation Monday, a Show!

Posted on February 14, 2022 by bawdsey

This past weekend I went to my first show in two years. And I’m pretty certain the last show I went to was the Doncaster show in 2020. I wasn’t sure what to expect on arrival, obviously C19 here in … Continue reading →

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Transformation Tuesday Bachmann 4575

Posted on January 25, 2022 by bawdsey

Today is probably one of the final sections of modifying this Bachmann 4575xx. Dug out by a friend from his scrap pile the footsteps were broken and it had the original Bachmann chimney, and no chassis. It’s one of the … Continue reading →

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31st Monday Motivation

Posted on May 31, 2021 by bawdsey

Well it’s a Monday and the sketch pad, pencil and track layout books are out, and that can only mean one thing. It’s a Monday I’ve got a book, a sketch pad and pencil. Over the past week or so … Continue reading →

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Transformation Tuesday Heljan 07

Posted on April 12, 2021 by bawdsey

With the influx of small locomotives into the ready to run market, it’s becoming much easier to make industrial style layouts. Many mainline locomotives were sold off into industrial use, and taking this a step further for a magazine piece, … Continue reading →

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