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Category Archives: life
Hornby 61XX R3723 Review
Hornby Prairie R3723 R3723x R3719 R3719x R3721 R3721x R3725 R3725x In through the man cave doors this week from Hornby is their latest release of a GWR 61xx design. The original Hornby 61XX model was the 1970’s Airfix model, well … Continue reading
Posted in 61xx, accurascale, Airfix, Bachmann, Branch Line, British Rail, Cameo layout, dapol, DCC, dcc sound, Eastern Region, finescale, gwr, Hattons, heljan, HO, hobbies, Hobby, Hornby, Kalmbach, Layout, life, LMS, LNER, man cave, mancave, media, Midland Region, model, model photography, Model Railroad, Model Railway, modeling, Modelling, monday motivation, n gauge, Narrow Gauge, O Gauge, o scale, OO, OO Gauge, Oxford rail, peco, product news, R3719, R3719x, R3721, R3721x, R3723, R3723x, R3725, R3725x, Railway Modeller, Rapido Trains, research, review, scale, scale modelling, Scottish Region, shelfie, Southern Region, toy train, Toy trains, toytrainset, train set, train show, Uncategorized, Western Region
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Throwback Thursday, The 74
74xx Bachmann 64xx 31-636 It was around five years back that Bachmann brought their 64xx to market. Adding to the high and low cab variations of the 57xx family already in the range. I bought a couple for the Forest … Continue reading
Posted in 2020, 3d, 3d printing, 64xx, 74xx, accurascale, Bachmann, bachmann 74xx, blog, Branch Line, British Rail, cambrian, Cameo, Cameo layout, dapol, DCC, dcc sound, Eastern Region, finescale, Forest of Dean, Great Western, gwr, Hattons, heljan, HO, hobbies, Hobby, Hornby, Inspiration, Layout, life, LMS, LNER, man cave, mancave, Midland Region, model, model photography, Model Railroad, Model Railway, modeling, Modelling, Modelu, n gauge, Narrow Gauge, O Gauge, o scale, OO, OO Gauge, Oxford rail, peco, railway, Railway Modeller, realism, research, review, scale, scale modelling, Scottish Region, shelfie, throwback thursday, toy train, Toy trains, toytrainset, train set, trainset, Uncategorized, Wales, Welsh Marches, Western Region
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VE Day
Written in 1944 by John Edmonds, the following epitaph seems particularly appropriate in these times. When you go home, tell them of us and say, For your tomorrow, we gave our today.
Posted in 2020, america, australia, aviation, blog, bomber command, canada, east kirkby, epitaph, europe, Friends, great britain, hero, history, Inspiration, iphoneography, john edmonds, john maxwell edmonds, just jane, Lancaster, life, new zealand, news, nx611, Old school, pilot, poem, remember, remembrance, Uncategorized, united kingdom, usa, ve day, victory europe, world war two, ww2
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Throwback Thursday, Turn up the Volume!
It’s interesting for me to step through the back catalogue of the images of this layouts (Shelfie2) development. The picture above was taken yesterday in natural lighting in our garden. The picture below shows the ‘concept’ I was thinking of … Continue reading
Posted in accurascale, autumn, Bachmann, blogger, Branch Line, brassmasters, British Rail, Cameo, Cameo layout, DCC, dcc sound, dingham, Eastern Region, Eighties, fall, finescale, fremo, Great Western, gwr, Hattons, heljan, HO, hobbies, Hobby, Hornby, iphoneography, Kalmbach, Layout, life, LMS, LNER, man cave, mancave, Midland Region, model, model photography, Model Railroad, Model Railway, modeling, Modelling, Modelu, n gauge, Narrow Gauge, natural light, O Gauge, o scale, OO, OO Gauge, Oxford rail, peco, Photography, railway, Railway Modeller, Rapido Trains, scale, scale modelling, scaleforum, Scottish Region, shelfie, shelfie1, shelfie2, shelfie3, Southern Region, throwback thursday, toy train, Toy trains, toytrainset, train set, train show, trainset, tree, trees, Uncategorized, Western Region, woodland, woodland scenics, woods
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Wordless Wednesday Shelfie3 ?
Posted in accurascale, Bachmann, blog, Branch Line, British Rail, Cameo, Cameo layout, DCC, dcc sound, Eastern Region, finescale, Great Western, gwr, Hattons, heljan, HO, hobbies, Hobby, Hornby, iain rice, Ian Futers, Inspiration, Layout, life, LMS, LNER, man cave, mancave, Midland Region, model photography, Model Railroad, Model Railway, modeling, Modelling, n gauge, O Gauge, o scale, OO, OO Gauge, Oxford rail, peco, railway, Rapido Trains, scale, scale modelling, Scottish Region, shelfie1, shelfie2, shelfie3, Southern Region, toy train, Toy trains, toytrainset, train set, trainset, Western Region, wordless wednesday
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Throwback Thursday, ‘that’ copy..
This magazine, this issue, is possibly ‘that’ copy for me. Many of us will have a favourite newsstand magazine and can recall a few issues that for them, made the difference, the one that got them hooked! I remember this … Continue reading
Posted in accurascale, Airfix, Bachmann, blog, Branch Line, British Rail, Cameo, Cameo layout, DCC, dcc sound, Eastern Region, Eighties, Exhibition, finescale, Great Western, Hattons, heljan, HO, hobbies, Hobby, Hornby, Ian Futers, Inspiration, Layout, life, LMS, LNER, magazine, man cave, mancave, media, Midland Region, model, model photography, Model Railroad, Model Railway, modeling, Modelling, n gauge, Narrow Gauge, O Gauge, o scale, OO, OO Gauge, Oxford rail, peco, railway, Railway Modeller, Rapido Trains, scale, scale modelling, Scottish Region, shelfie, Southern Region, throwback thursday, toy train, Toy trains, toytrainset, train set, trainset, Uncategorized, Western Region
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Cancellation Scalefourum 2019
Regrettably due to unforeseen and unavoidable family circumstances we’ve had to withdraw from Scalefourum 2019, where we’d been invited as guest layout. We extend apologies to Terry and the Scalefourum team, and readers who were hoping to see us there.
Posted in blog, Cameo, Cameo layout, DCC, dcc sound, dingham, Exhibition, finescale, hobbies, Hobby, Layout, life, man cave, mancave, model, model photography, Model Railroad, Model Railway, modeling, Modelling, n gauge, Narrow Gauge, news, O Gauge, o scale, OO, OO Gauge, peco, Railway Modeller, scale modelling, scaleforum, shelfie, shelfie1, shelfie2, train show
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Throwback Thursday , Standing Back
It is interesting sometimes doing that arty ‘stand back’ and look at what you’ve done. I’m doing this a lot at the moment, getting the layout ready to go out for the second time. This picture was taken early January … Continue reading
Posted in 2019, accurascale, autumn, Bachmann, blogger, Branch Line, British Rail, Cameo, Cameo layout, dapol, DCC, dcc sound, dingham, Eastern Region, Exhibition, finescale, Hattons, heljan, HO, hobbies, Hobby, Hornby, justdoit, Layout, LED Lighting, life, man cave, mancave, model, model photography, Model Railroad, Model Railway, modeling, Modelling, Modelu, n gauge, Narrow Gauge, O Gauge, o scale, OO, OO Gauge, Oxford rail, railway, Rapido Trains, scale, scale modelling, shelfie, shelfie1, shelfie2, throwback thursday, toy train, Toy trains, toytrainset, train set, train show, trainset, Uncategorized, woodland scenics
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