Category Archives: Kalmbach

Projects, Projects!

Well this month and a good part of the previous two in fact have been busy working on a number of projects with Paul Lunn. More to come later on this but it mixes his layout design skills, our ‘tag … Continue reading

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2014, Year of the Shelfie ..

2014 the year of the Shelfie, and a note to say thank you for taking the time to read this blog over the year. Its been quite a busy year, right the way through as far as modelling projects go, … Continue reading

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Destination Anywhere

Well, its more destination ‘AnyRail’, than anywhere actually,  https://www.anyrail.com and that’s where some of the schematic plan above has come from. More of that later .. I’m at one of those stages where you have a number of ideas/projects all running … Continue reading

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WORDLESS WEDNESDAY No.2

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Progress?

Anyone recognise this? Hold the front page, it’s a kit. That’s right ‘A Kit’. I know, I know, smelling salts all round, breath in using the paper bag, Three, Two, One, and you’re back in the room .. Not only … Continue reading

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Space, The Final Frontier II …

Last night I had the real privilege of meeting a hero, they, (whoever ‘they’ are), say you should never meet your hero’s for fear of disappointment, but this was a real pleasure. The hero wasn’t a person, but a layout, … Continue reading

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THIRTY!

Tonight, thirty years ago, as the doors closed at Scaleforum, Paul Karau, Gerry Beale and Bob Barlow arguably instigated one of the biggest changes in the UK’s model railway publishing, with the decision to produce a magazine dedicated to ‘finescale’ … Continue reading

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New! 1st Hornby King image online!

Link to first royalty free image of Hornby King! Hornby King

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Some Might Say …

As remarked upon in my previous post there are a good number of people in the hobby that spend far too much time telling you how something should be done, what can be done and what can’t be done, with … Continue reading

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Lettuce Page ….

It’s been a spectacularly daft couple of weeks in the compact and bijou world of toy trains. My good friend Andy Cooper remarked on this in his own style here http://newheymodelrailway.  Andy’s take on this is interesting as he looks … Continue reading

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