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Category Archives: Western Region
Throwback Thursday, Back to the Future
Well this is certainly from the past, one of Albion Yards panniers drifts in to the yard with a typical coal train, quite a long while ago.. I can tell its one of the earlier images the warehouses are in … Continue reading
Posted in 2020, Airfix, Bachmann, black and white, blog, Branch Line, British Rail, Cameo, Cameo layout, dapol, DCC, dcc sound, Eastern Region, Exhibition, finescale, Forest of Dean, free-mo, fremo, fremo module, Great Western, Hattons, heljan, HO, hobbies, Hobby, Hornby, Inspiration, iphoneography, Layout, LED Lighting, life, light railway, man cave, mancave, Midland Region, model, model photography, Model Railroad, Model Railway, modeling, Modelling, Modelu, n gauge, Narrow Gauge, national train show, new year, O Gauge, o scale, OO, OO Gauge, Oxford rail, peco, railway, Railway Modeller, Rapido Trains, realism, research, scale, scale modelling, shelfie, shelfie1, shelfie2, shelfie3, throwback thursday, thursday theowback, toy train, Toy trains, toytrainset, train set, train show, trainset, Uncategorized, Wales, Welsh Marches, Western Region
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Unconsidered Trifles
It’s an unconventional title for an unconventional book. Written and illustrated by Geoff Kent, (builder of the above scene), it takes a look at the everyday scene, with emphasis on capturing architecture, and signage and infrastructure that is gradually becoming … Continue reading
Posted in 2020, accurascale, Bachmann, blog, book, book review, Cameo, Cameo layout, Eighties, finescale, freelance, great britain, Hattons, heljan, history, hobbies, Hobby, Hornby, Industrial, Inspiration, Layout, library, life, light railway, LMS, LNER, man cave, mancave, media, Midland Region, model, Model Railroad, Model Railway, Model Railway Journal, modeling, Modelling, n gauge, Narrow Gauge, new release, news, O Gauge, o scale, Old school, OO, OO Gauge, Oxford rail, peco, product news, prototype, railway, realism, research, review, scale, scale modelling, Southern Region, toy train, Toy trains, toytrainset, train set, Uncategorized, Wales, Welsh Marches, Western Region, wild swan
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Bachmann 94xx Pannier Review 35-025
If ever you wanted to know how to capture the functional, brooding mass of the last pannier, this is it. Bachmanns 94XX. The first thing that struck me on opening the box, (no video, sorry about that), is it just … Continue reading
Posted in 35-025, 35-025SF, 35-026, 35-026SF, 35-027, 35-027SF, 94XX, accurascale, b&w, Bachmann, blog, British Rail, Cameo layout, copyright, dapol, DCC, dcc sound, Eastern Region, Exhibition, finescale, Forest of Dean, Great Western, gwr, Hattons, HO, hobbies, Hobby, Hornby, LED, LED Lighting, man cave, mancave, Midland Region, model, model photography, Model Railroad, Model Railway, Modelling, monochrome, n gauge, Narrow Gauge, new release, O Gauge, o scale, OO, OO Gauge, Oxford rail, peco, Photography, product news, railway, Railway Modeller, review, scale, scale modelling, shelfie, shelfie1, shelfie2, shelfie3, Swindon, toy train, Toy trains, toytrainset, train set, train show, trainset, Uncategorized, Wales, Western Region
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Motivation Monday, Getting to the point.. I
I’m making no apologies for diving straight in to look at Geoff Forsters Off the beaten track blog for the motivation on this one Ground Frame Day and Levers and Rods. Recently Shelfie2 was visited for photos for a magazine … Continue reading
Posted in accurascale, Bachmann, blogger, Branch Line, brassmasters, British Rail, Cameo, Cameo layout, dapol, DCC, Eastern Region, Exhibition, finescale, Great Western, ground frame, gwr, Hattons, heljan, HO, hobbies, Hobby, Hornby, Industrial, Inspiration, Layout, light railway, llangunllo, LMS, LNER, man cave, Midland Region, model, model photography, Model Railroad, Model Railway, modeling, Modelling, Modelu, monday motivation, motivation monday, n gauge, O Gauge, o scale, OO, OO Gauge, Oxford rail, peco, railway, realism, scale, scale modelling, Scottish Region, shelfie, shelfie1, shelfie2, shelfie3, signalling, Southern Region, toy train, Toy trains, toytrainset, track, train set, trainset, Uncategorized, Western Region
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Wordless Wednesday (Shelfie3 Prototyping)
Posted in accurascale, Airfix, Bachmann, blogging, Branch Line, British Rail, Cameo, Cameo layout, dapol, DCC, dcc sound, Eastern Region, Eighties, finescale, Hattons, heljan, HO, hobbies, Hobby, Hornby, iphoneography, Kalmbach, Layout, LED, LED Lighting, LMS, LNER, man cave, mancave, Midland Region, model, model photography, Model Railroad, Model Railway, modeling, Modelling, Modelu, n gauge, O Gauge, o scale, OO, OO Gauge, Oxford rail, peco, prototype, railway, realism, research, scale, scale modelling, Scottish Region, shelfie, shelfie1, shelfie2, shelfie3, Southern Region, toy train, Toy trains, toytrainset, train set, trainset, Uncategorized, Western Region, wordless wednesday
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Motivation Monday Ground Frame 1
It’s a Monday and having had quite a good run of finishing man cave shelf queen projects, my attention is turning to those small completion jobs for Shelfie2. As it’s a simple one ‘engine in steam’ yard it has a … Continue reading
Posted in accurascale, Bachmann, blog, blogger, Branch Line, brassmasters, Cameo, Cameo layout, dapol, DCC, dcc sound, EM, finescale, Great Western, gwr, Hattons, heljan, HO, hobbies, Hobby, Hornby, Inspiration, Layout, life, llangunllo, man cave, mancave, media, model, model photography, Model Railroad, Model Railway, modeling, Modelling, Modelu, monday motivation, motivation monday, n gauge, Narrow Gauge, New Radnor, O Gauge, o scale, OO, OO Gauge, Oxford rail, peco, railway, Rapido Trains, realism, research, scale, scale modelling, shelfie, shelfie2, toy train, Toy trains, toytrainset, train set, trainset, Uncategorized, Welsh Marches, Western Region
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Wordless Wednesday, Chris Klein, Minerva Models
minerva chris-klein Lovely bloke, he’ll be missed. RIP
Posted in accurascale, Bachmann, blog, Branch Line, British Rail, Cameo, Cameo layout, DCC, dcc sound, finescale, Forest of Dean, Great Western, gwr, Hattons, heljan, hobbies, Hobby, Inspiration, Layout, life, Model Railroad, Model Railway, modeling, Modelling, Modelu, n gauge, Narrow Gauge, news, O Gauge, o scale, obituary, OO, OO Gauge, Oxford rail, peco, Railway Modeller, scale, scale modelling, toy train, Toy trains, toytrainset, train set, train show, trainset, Wales, Western Region, wordless wednesday
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Transformation Tuesday & The Skill Fading Shelf Queens…
We’ve all got them. Projects that get started and then ‘mature’…. I can look around the man cave and see an almost embarrassing number things that have been started and are yet to reach conclusion. This one above is just … Continue reading
Posted in accurascale, Airfix, Bachmann, blog, brassmasters, British Rail, Cameo layout, decals, Eastern Region, finescale, Hattons, heljan, hobbies, Hobby, Hornby, Inspiration, justdoit, Kalmbach, Layout, life, man cave, mancave, Midland Region, model, model photography, Model Railroad, Model Railway, modeling, Modelling, n gauge, Narrow Gauge, O Gauge, o scale, OO, OO Gauge, peco, railway, Railway Modeller, Rapido Trains, scale, scale modelling, Scottish Region, shelf queen, shelfie, skill, skillset, toy train, Toy trains, toytrainset, train set, train show, trainset, transfers, transformation tuesday, Uncategorized, Western Region
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Wordless Wednesday Shelfie3
Posted in accurascale, Airfix, Bachmann, black and white, brassmasters, British Rail, Cameo, Cameo layout, canon, DCC, dcc sound, Eastern Region, Eighties, finescale, Great Western, Hattons, heljan, HO, hobbies, Hobby, Hornby, Kalmbach, 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, obituary, OO, OO Gauge, Oxford rail, peco, Photography, railway, Railway Modeller, Rapido Trains, scale, scale modelling, Scottish Region, shelfie3, Southern Region, toy train, Toy trains, toytrainset, train set, trainset, Western Region, wordless wednesday
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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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