Category Archives: man cave

TT120 First look

Posted on July 9, 2022 by bawdsey

This is literally my first look at the new Peco TT scale products. The first thing that strikes me, as a former (environment officer), in a very good way is the packaging, 100% recyclable! As we can see it’s not … Continue reading →

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Lost Diesels, Lost Lines (Review)

Posted on July 7, 2022 by bawdsey

In a, ‘Does what it says on the tin’ kind of way, this book pretty much does that. This is a new Transport Treasury album that covers diesels that are withdrawn, and closed lines, so this book is very much … Continue reading →

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Transformation Tuesday

Posted on June 13, 2022 by bawdsey

Twelve hours To foamathon 22. Sounds exciting!

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Wordless Wednesday, Repairs

Posted on June 8, 2022 by bawdsey
Posted in 2FS, 2mm, Bachmann, blog, Branch Line, British Rail, Cameo layout, DC, DCC, dcc sound, finescale, Hattons, heljan, HO, ho scale, hobbies, Hobby, Hornby, Layout, life, man cave, man-cave, model, model rail, Model Railroad, Model Railway, Modelling, n gauge, Narrow Gauge, O Gauge, o scale, OO, OO Gauge, peco, railroad, railway, repair, scale modelling, skillset, toy train, wordless wednesday | Leave a comment

Motivation Monday. TT

Posted on June 6, 2022 by bawdsey

This morning Peco are setting the cat amongst the pigeons announcing a range of TT track and products! Absolutely fascinating for me, I think this is the ideal scale, big enough for good detail, and small enough to get the … Continue reading →

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Throwback Thursday, ‘The Crossings’ v1.0

Posted on June 2, 2022 by bawdsey

For a couple of years now we’ve been waiting for the arrival of Peco’s OO Bullhead rail crossings and slips. Well the long crossing SL-U1194, and the single slip SL-U1180 are now in the shops. A few days back one … Continue reading →

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Asking For a Friend

Posted on April 5, 2022 by bawdsey

Any of you readers fancy a start in O gauge? A friend has for sale two of these Dapol 08’s, as new, unused. They were originally part of a plan for a small O gauge layout, and,as we all experience, … Continue reading →

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HO Indiana Shortline Wordless Wednesday

Posted on March 9, 2022 by bawdsey

No words as such from me, but this overview from Instagram by Tim Nicholson of his Indiana based HO scale layout, is really worth spending time watching. So so much to learn from it.

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Wordless Wednesday Shelfie 2

Posted on February 2, 2022 by bawdsey
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Transformation Tuesday Bachmann 4575

Posted on January 25, 2022 by bawdsey

Today is probably one of the final sections of modifying this Bachmann 4575xx. Dug out by a friend from his scrap pile the footsteps were broken and it had the original Bachmann chimney, and no chassis. It’s one of the … Continue reading →

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