Category Archives: Scottish Region

Warley 2022 Heljan

Posted on November 27, 2022 by bawdsey

Warley for me was a full day of just catching up with people face to face, after around two years. Here’s a selection of the Heljan products on show. I’m particularly taken with the class 104. The class 58 wasn’t … Continue reading →

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Realism Redefined / Heljan Introduce O Gauge PCA

Posted on November 26, 2022 by bawdsey

High-quality ‘O’ Gauge powder tank wagons for cement and chemical traffic to be released in 2023. One of four exciting announcements from HELJAN this weekend at the Warley National Model Railway Exhibition is an all-new PCA powder tank wagon for … Continue reading →

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Heljan OO Newton Chambers Car Transporter

Posted on November 24, 2022 by bawdsey

HELJAN’s range of high-quality ‘OO’ gauge rolling stock will expand in early-2023 with the release of six coach packs featuring the stylish double-deck car transporters built by Newton Chambers for BR Eastern Region in 1960/61. Visitors to the Warley National … Continue reading →

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Brutal Sunday

Posted on September 11, 2022 by bawdsey

Well it’s a Sunday, and this is brutal. I’m putting together Ratio’s ARP signal box kit, and it’s brutal! Not the kit as such, though there are some ‘clunky’ elements to it, but the core prototype design, as a building … 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 This is a new Transport Treasury album that covers diesels that are withdrawn, and closed lines, so this book is very much … Continue reading →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 Heljan TT 31

Posted on June 13, 2022 by bawdsey

Please don’t forget as you join your local interweb cake and arse party, that to participate you need to ignore the following; UK mainstream 7mm RTR doesn’t exist, there’s no market for it. UK mainstream 009 RTR doesn’t exist, there’s … Continue reading →

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Motivation Monday Spaghetti

Posted on November 1, 2021 by bawdsey

Wiring. Yuk. If there’s something that slows a project down for me it’s wiring up a layout. Pretty much everything else I can crack on with, but this bit, it’s a real chore even for a simple three point layout. … Continue reading →

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Heljan Class 104 DMU

Posted on October 22, 2021 by bawdsey

The first public image of the CAD’s for the 4mm scale class 104 DMU have been released today. With several detail differences to be produced this is good to see progress on this project which has suffered delays due to … Continue reading →

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Wordless Wednesday Rails Terrier (4S-010-005)

Posted on September 22, 2021 by bawdsey
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Throwback Thursday The War Department Bucketlist

Posted on September 16, 2021 by bawdsey

Back in the midsts of time I always wanted a complete set of British Rail ‘Standards’. Don’t know why, but I set about the task Hunter gatherer stylee, and apart from the WD 2-10-0, I ended up with all the … Continue reading →

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