Category Archives: life

Orienteering, 2016’s Last Writes…

Posted on December 31, 2016 by bawdsey

    The last few hours of 2016 ticks away, outside low cloud envelops this deeply rural welsh valley and the log burner is crackling, filling the Barn with warmth. There’s no sound travelling up from the village and it allows … Continue reading →

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Hornby Masterclass Peckett W4 R3427

Posted on December 25, 2016 by bawdsey

Perhaps the phrase of the latter half of this year regarding a few ready to run locomotive releases has been ‘gamechanger’. Go back a couple of years or so and there’s no way you’d have thought that sobriquet could be … Continue reading →

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Driving home for Christmas

Posted on December 23, 2016 by bawdsey

A couple of years back in the run up to christmas, and a hundred thousand or so less hits ago, Davide at thenightflier blog, kindly allowed me to link to his ‘Drivers’ view from the office  albionyard/skyward-head-in-the-clouds/. It was a popular post, showing … Continue reading →

Posted in 2016, aviation, blog, blogger, blogging, British Rail, christmas, dapol, DCC, Eastern Region, EM, Exhibition, film, finescale, flight, flying, flying scotsman, Friends, go pro, Great Western, hero, HO, hobbies, Hornby, Inspiration, Interweb, Layout, life, LMS, LNER, media, Midland Region, Model Railroad, Model Railway, Model Railway Journal, modeling, Modelling, Modelu, n gauge, Narrow Gauge, Nevard, O Gauge, o scale | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Wordless Wednesday 3D printing (Coast Line Models)

Posted on December 14, 2016 by bawdsey

     https://www.coastlinemodels.co.uk

Posted in 2016, 3d, 3d printing, blog, brassmasters, copyright, DCC, dcc sound, Exhibition, finescale, Great Western, HO, hobbies, Hornby, Industrial, Inspiration, Kalmbach, Layout, life, media, Model Railroad, Model Railway, Model Railway Journal, modeling, Modelling, Modelu, Narrow Gauge, Nevard, O Gauge, o scale, OO Gauge | 7 Comments

3D Developments

Posted on December 11, 2016 by bawdsey

Of late I’ve been fortunate to see some of the really excellent 3D printing developments that are coming into the hobby. This weekend a PO wagon belonging to the Abdon Clee Stone Quarries on the Cleobury Mortimer & Ditton Priors Light … Continue reading →

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Throwback Thursday

Posted on November 17, 2016 by bawdsey

Remember this post? https://albionyard.wordpress.com/2015/11/28/dapol-08-in-7mm-scale/ No,  me neither, but two weeks ago there was a weighty arrival at the yard in the form of the newly released Dapol 08 in O Gauge.    I’m getting the opportunity to have a closer … Continue reading →

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The Fallen

Posted on November 13, 2016 by bawdsey

  

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For those who gave

Posted on November 11, 2016 by bawdsey
Posted in 2016, blog, Eleventh Day, Eleventh Hour, flanders, hero, history, Inspiration, life, menin gate | Tagged | 1 Comment

Wordless, or rather, Costless, Wednesday

Posted on November 9, 2016 by bawdsey

An intriguing press release has come my way from Sarah Palmer at Mortons Media http://www.mortonsmedia, a well known UK publishing house. The release introduces a new railway modelling magazine set for release at Warley in a few weeks time. No … Continue reading →

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Manic Monday

Posted on September 26, 2016 by bawdsey

4mm scale shackles. If I give up the day job I could try out as a jeweller! A mix of frustrating, and satisfaction assembling these, and remembering to breath…

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