Category Archives: Kalmbach

Throwback Thursday Exhibitionist…

Posted on March 25, 2021 by bawdsey

A bit of a home exhibition here some seven years ago! This pic popping up on a Facebook feed this week. All three, Albion Yard, Bawdsey, and Shelfie, (WIP foreground) have subsequently left the building. The reason for them all … Continue reading →

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Wordless Wednesday LMS Push Pull

Posted on March 24, 2021 by bawdsey
Posted in 51L Models, Airfix, Bachmann, blogger, Branch Line, brassmasters, British Rail, Cameo layout, Comet Models, Conversion, DCC, Eastern Region, finescale, Forest of Dean, Great Western, gwr, Hattons, heljan, HO, hobbies, Hobby, Hornby, Inspiration, Kalmbach, Layout, LED Lighting, LMS, LNER, man cave, mancave, media, Midland Region, model, model photography, model rail, Model Railroad, Model Railway, modeling, Modelling, n gauge, Narrow Gauge, O Gauge, o scale, OO, OO Gauge, Oxford rail, peco, railway, Railway Modeller, Rapido Trains, realism, research, scale, scale modelling, shelfie, shelfie1, shelfie2, Southern Region, toy train, Toy trains, toytrainset, train set, train show, Western Region, woodland scenics, wordless wednesday | Leave a comment

Wordless Wednesday, Going with the Grain

Posted on March 10, 2021 by bawdsey
Posted in america, americana, Bachmann, blog, Cameo, Cameo layout, canada, canadian national, canadian pacific, DCC, dcc sound, Eighties, exactrail, finescale, free-mo, fremo, Hattons, heljan, HO, hobbies, Hobby, Hornby, Industrial, Inspiration, Kalmbach, Layout, LED, LED Lighting, man cave, mancave, model, model photography, model rail, Model Railroad, Model Railway, modeling, Modelling, n gauge, Narrow Gauge, national train show, nmra, O Gauge, o scale, OO, OO Gauge, peco, railroad, railway, Rapido Trains, realism, scale, scale modelling, shelfie, tangent, toy train, Toy trains, toytrainset, track, train set, Uncategorized, usa, wordless wednesday | Leave a comment

Mazak Rot, A matter of Time..

Posted on February 14, 2021 by bawdsey

Mazak Rot has unfortunately blighted some models in the hobby, across many manufacturers and for a while. It frequently manifests itself after a period of time often years, and that’s the problem you don’t know if you’re going to end … Continue reading →

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Heaton Lodge Junction

Posted on February 12, 2021 by bawdsey

Simon George’s epic 7mm scale project Is beginning to make waves in the mainstream media. About as far away from a shelf layout layout as you can get, and in a proper mancave of man caves, a warehouse basement! https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9251581/And-stop-200ft-Man-recreates-rail-junction-Britains-biggest-model-railway.html … Continue reading →

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Requiem For Steam

Posted on January 13, 2021 by bawdsey

A year or so back I took a look at Essential Witness and Transition by Jim Shaughnessy and Colin Gifford respectively. This week our ever genial postie tapped on the door and left this gem, Requiem For Steam. If you’ve … Continue reading →

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Throwback Thursday, Happy Christmas

Posted on December 24, 2020 by bawdsey

Well, 2020! This should probably be a #throwbackthursday post, not just because it’s a Thursday, but if you actually caught 2020, you’d certainly want to throw it back.. 2021 will have to go some to make it as memorable as … Continue reading →

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Warley Virtual 2020

Posted on November 25, 2020 by bawdsey

This weekend would normally be the annual Warley National exhibition, COVID-19 obviously has taken its toll this year and well into 21 of the exhibition scene. However, this year Warley will be running a two day show on line, see … Continue reading →

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Wordless Wednesday (Shelfie3 Prototyping)

Posted on October 28, 2020 by bawdsey
Posted in accurascale, Airfix, Bachmann, blogging, Branch Line, British Rail, Cameo, Cameo layout, dapol, DCC, dcc sound, Eastern Region, Eighties, finescale, Hattons, heljan, HO, hobbies, Hobby, Hornby, iphoneography, Kalmbach, Layout, LED, LED Lighting, LMS, LNER, man cave, mancave, Midland Region, model, model photography, Model Railroad, Model Railway, modeling, Modelling, Modelu, n gauge, O Gauge, o scale, OO, OO Gauge, Oxford rail, peco, prototype, railway, realism, research, scale, scale modelling, Scottish Region, shelfie, shelfie1, shelfie2, shelfie3, Southern Region, toy train, Toy trains, toytrainset, train set, trainset, Uncategorized, Western Region, wordless wednesday | 2 Comments

Motivation Monday Southern Alberta Rail

Posted on October 12, 2020 by bawdsey

As many friends and quite a few readers know I have a thing going on ref North American and Canadian short lines. I’ve primarily worked in HO (see above), but not long ago Chris Mears of Prince Street turned my … Continue reading →

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