Category Archives: life

Last one out 2025

Posted on December 31, 2025 by bawdsey

Today I have mostly been tidying up. Making room for stuff, and theoretically getting rid of stuff, which mainly means making a tidier pile of stuff. I bought into MRJ immediately I saw it and have every copy since 0, … Continue reading →

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Merry Christmas 2025 and a little plan…

Posted on December 25, 2025 by bawdsey

Firstly, to all readers, have a good Christmas and best wishes for the season, especially if Christmas isn’t your thing for whatever reason! In the usual carnage and chaos that is the run up to Christmas Day, tidying is done. … Continue reading →

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TT120 TTown and TTrack Planning …

Posted on August 8, 2025 by bawdsey

When TT120 was announced it caught my attention. A scale between N and OO/HO appeals to me particularly if the quality of products are good. My plan for a Forest of Dean system layout is one that at the moment … Continue reading →

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#FEF The Greatest Gathering

Posted on August 1, 2025 by bawdsey

This weekend I’m helping out on a friends trade stand at the greatest gathering in Derby. These rail open days and events really aren’t my thing, but having the opportunity to wander round some classic British first generation traction has … Continue reading →

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Independence Day

Posted on July 4, 2025 by bawdsey

Here’s a thing, often in the UK there’s a lot of emphasis on being in a model railway club or society for all the benefits and experience you can gain. At the moment I’m only a member of one society, … Continue reading →

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Wordless Wednesday Maple River

Posted on June 18, 2025 by bawdsey
Posted in accurascale, Albion Yard, Bachmann, blog, Branch Line, Cameo, Cameo layout, canada, Canadian, canadian national, canadian pacific, DC, DCC, dcc sound, Eighties, exactrail, finescale, HO, ho scale, Hobby, Hornby, iain rice, Industrial, Layout, layout design, life, man cave, maple river, model photography, Model Railroad, Model Railway, Modelling, Modelu, Narrow Gauge, nmra, o scale, Ontario, OO Gauge, peco, railroad, railroad model craftsman, Rapido Trains, realism, scale modelling, shelf layout, shelfie, shelfie4, tangent, toy train, TT120, woodland scenics, wordless wednesday | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

Are US Tariffs a threat to the UK model railway hobby?

Posted on May 1, 2025 by bawdsey

Below is a Facebook post from the Hobby Industry Coalition, a group of North American hobby companies whom in the main supply ‘US’ outline products for their market. https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1L1txjXbEn/?mibextid=wwXIfr The US Tariffs are recognised above, as a potential threat to … Continue reading →

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Wordless Wednesday RiP Andy York

Posted on March 26, 2025 by bawdsey
Posted in artist, b&w, black and white, blog, BR Blue, British Rail, Cameo layout, Eighties, finescale, Friends, hero, hobbies, Influencer, Inspiration, layout design, life, media, model, Modelling, OO Gauge, realism | Leave a comment

The Background Balance, Start at the end..

Posted on January 18, 2025 by bawdsey

A while back I wrote about trials I was undertaking, Throwback Paint with a mix of paint types. This was the result for Shelfie2 under natural lighting which I was quite pleased with. That then was used to fill in … Continue reading →

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Twenty Twenty Five, First one in..

Posted on January 1, 2025 by bawdsey

2020, that was quite a year. Seems mad that we’re talking best part of five years ago! So looking back at some of my first one in posts the 2020 entry caught my eye. In it I refer to the … Continue reading →

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