Category Archives: LED Lighting

Monday Motivation, Saturday’s Try Out

Posted on March 6, 2023 by bawdsey

This, above, was where I was Friday morning. The day after, a Saturday no less, the appearance is markedly different, there’s weed and grass in the early stages of development. The core operation shakedown of Shelfie 4, Maple River is … Continue reading →

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Introducing, Shelfie4 Maple River

Posted on March 3, 2023 by bawdsey
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Wordless Wednesday Water

Posted on February 1, 2023 by bawdsey
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Motivation Monday, Take me to the River

Posted on January 9, 2023 by bawdsey

So the motivation today was checking out yesterday’s application of the AK Interactive Atlantic Blue onto a test piece of plastic sheet. The luminosity above is caused by the light falling on the wet acrylic gel medium. It dried well … Continue reading →

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Shelfie 4, The River

Posted on January 8, 2023 by bawdsey

No, I haven’t gone all Springsteen, not that there’d be anything wrong with that, but the river in question is Maple River, the layout title and water feature on Shelfie 4. On this riverside shelf layout I want to try … Continue reading →

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Wordless Wednesday, Laramie Wyoming

Posted on November 9, 2022 by bawdsey

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Larkrail Exhibition 2022

Posted on July 16, 2022 by bawdsey

It’s a week today that Shelfie2 will go to its first exhibition in completed state. Larkrail is a really nice one day show at the eastern end of Bath. It’s a show I look forward to, quite the trip for … Continue reading →

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Motivation Monday, Modelling Mosaic

Posted on March 28, 2022 by bawdsey

It’s a pleasant Monday morning here, the suns out, it’s warm and I’m fortunate enough to be sitting outside and planning my next Shelfie 3 moves. This weekend just gone I was sitting at a mosaic table and chairs, the … Continue reading →

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Transformation Tuesday, Relax…

Posted on March 22, 2022 by bawdsey

Well what’s the transformation then? Beer? nope, no change there, DMU?, nope, no change, a shelf layout?, nope, still no change. The reason for popping the top off this cool one, is the transformation in operating this layout, Shelfie 3. … Continue reading →

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Wordless Wednesday Shelfie 2

Posted on February 2, 2022 by bawdsey
Posted in accurascale, artist, Bachmann, Branch Line, British Rail, Cameo, Cameo layout, DC, DCC, dcc sound, dingham, Eighties, finescale, fremo, Hattons, heljan, HO, hobbies, Hobby, Hornby, Industrial, iphoneography, Layout, LED Lighting, man cave, man-cave, model, model photography, Model Railroad, Model Railway, Modelling, Modelu, n gauge, Narrow Gauge, O Gauge, o scale, OO, OO Gauge, peco, railway, realism, scale modelling, seventies, shelfie, shelfie2, toy train, train set, trees, Uncategorized, woodland scenics, wordless wednesday | Leave a comment