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Category Archives: DC
2022 First One In
Last year on First one in I wrote about Geoff Taylor’s Barmouth layout and his very clever use of ‘space’ to achieve a multi location layout. In December (21), I had the privilege of helping out with Simon George’s Heaton … Continue reading
Posted in accurascale, baseboards, Branch Line, British Rail, Cameo, Cameo layout, Chris Nevard, dapol, DC, DCC, dcc sound, Eastern Region, Exhibition, finescale, Forest of Dean, fremo, Hattons, Heaton Lodge, heljan, HO, hobbies, Hobby, Hornby, Inspiration, justdoit, Layout, LED, LED Lighting, man cave, mancave, model, model photography, model rail, Model Railroad, Model Railway, modeling, Modelling, Modelu, n gauge, Narrow Gauge, new year, O Gauge, o scale, OO, OO Gauge, peco, railroad, railway, realism, research, scale, scale modelling, shelfie, shelfie2, toy train, Toy trains, track, trainset, tree, trees, Uncategorized, Welsh Marches, Western Region, woodland, woodland scenics
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Heljan Class 02 Diesel Update
Today at Heaton Lodge Junction exhibition at Wakefield Heljan had their first EP of the 4mm OO scale class 02 diesel shunter. It’s important to note this is the first hand assembled version of the model, and there was no … Continue reading
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Heljan OO class 45
At Heaton Lodge Junction’s exhibition in Wakefield, Heljan have a small display case with some of their latest tooling and EP’s. One of those is the Class 45 in OO. My initial thoughts are that it captures the look of … Continue reading
Posted in accurascale, Bachmann, British Rail, dapol, DC, DCC, dcc sound, Eastern Region, Exhibition, finescale, Hattons, Heaton Lodge, heljan, HO, Hobby, Hornby, Layout, Midland Region, model, model photography, Model Railroad, Model Railway, Modelling, n gauge, Narrow Gauge, new release, O Gauge, o scale, OO, OO Gauge, peco, product news, railroad, railway, Railway Modeller, scale, scale modelling, toy train, Toy trains, toytrainset, train show, trainset, Western Region
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Wordless Wednesday Heaton Lodge
Posted in accurascale, Bachmann, blog, British Rail, dapol, DC, DCC, dcc sound, Eighties, Exhibition, great britain, Hattons, Heaton Lodge, heljan, HO, hobbies, Hobby, Hornby, Inspiration, Layout, LED, LED Lighting, Midland Region, model, model photography, Model Railroad, Model Railway, Modelling, Modelu, n gauge, Narrow Gauge, O Gauge, o scale, OO, OO Gauge, peco, railway, Railway Modeller, Rapido Trains, realism, scale, scale modelling, toy train, Toy trains, toytrainset, train set, train show, trainset, woodland scenics, wordless wednesday
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Heljan at Wakefield
With Simon George’s Heaton Lodge Junction on show in Wakefield, Heljan have taken the opportunity to show some of their forthcoming products including an EP of the 4mm scale class 47 and late Deltic in 7mm O gauge
Posted in accurascale, Bachmann, British Rail, DC, DCC, dcc sound, Eastern Region, Eighties, Exhibition, finescale, Hattons, Heaton Lodge, heljan, HO, hobbies, Hobby, Hornby, Inspiration, Layout, LED Lighting, model photography, Model Railroad, Model Railway, modeling, Modelling, Modelu, n gauge, news, O Gauge, o scale, OO, OO Gauge, peco, product news, Railway Modeller, scale modelling, Southern Electrics, Southern Region, toy train, Toy trains, train set, train show, Uncategorized
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Motivation Monday Spaghetti
Wiring. Yuk. If there’s something that slows a project down for me it’s wiring up a layout. Pretty much everything else I can crack on with, but this bit, it’s a real chore even for a simple three point layout. … Continue reading
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