Category Archives: life

Filum stars

Filming today, hard work but good fun!

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Dead Line

With filming commencing this week on a layout planning DVD, myself and Paul Lunn are beavering away to get everything complete. This is Wharfedale Road, a ‘shelfie’ I’ve built for the filming and have a day or so left to … Continue reading

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Wales in Nottinghamshire

This weekend no shelfies for me, it’s a big trainset , Aberbeeg, 70’s South Wales in scale7 at the Nottingham show.

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Happy New Year Bargain!

A quick post today to say thank you for everyone who has read and commented on the blog over the past year, I hope reading the blog has given you as much enjoyment as I’ve had writing it. 2013 was … Continue reading

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Shock, Horror! Internet proved wrong …

In a shock development today, a fault was found in the internet! A factual error was discovered on a posting made yesterday …. Yup I’ve had a better opportunity to look at Hornby’s Sentinel and realised that the outside frames … Continue reading

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Christmas

For all the readers and followers of the blog, have a good Christmas and wishing you the compliments of the season. Paul M-P

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Skyward, Head in the Clouds

Many of my regular readers will know that I work in the aviation industry and have done so for many years. As part of that vocation I’ve been fortunate enough to ride ‘up front’ with the engine drivers on many occasions. … Continue reading

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It’s all over now …

Warley, the final frontier, Captain Slogg etc etc. Well the layout very nearly was matchwood let alone a log on last Thursday afternoon. On test set up, I always do one prior to an exhibition, the layout had developed an … Continue reading

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Octagenarian Model Railroader

This dropped on the mat this morning. 80 years young, why young? One thing that I’ve always liked about MRR is that it rarely feels stale and seems to evolve, whilst still covering news, reviews and overall good quality modelling. … Continue reading

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The Canadians are coming!

Just a quick update, yesterday, after an interesting drive across the top the pennines,  through snow and snow showers, I and some other enthusiasts were treated to a presentation of the Canadian Company Rapido, Jason Shron was a very engaging … Continue reading

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