Tag Archives: Canada

Business as Usual

Posted on November 19, 2013 by bawdsey

Business as usual, being messing around with Panniers. Warley is this coming weekend and it’ll be the layouts last showing in public. I usually try and do a couple of new items, usually rolling stock or motive power, and this … Continue reading →

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Modelling Grassland and Landscape Detailing (Review)

Posted on November 6, 2013 by bawdsey

Modelling Grassland and Landscape Detailing Price: 24.95 Published by Wild Swan Publications 2013 ISBN : 978 1 908763 068 Written by Gordon Gravett This book written by Gordon Gravett, is the third dealing specifically with the techniques he and his … Continue reading →

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Night of the long knives …

Posted on October 31, 2013 by bawdsey

This hobby is one of those where you pick up all sorts of skills, even if its only becoming an expert on packaging and opening the aforementioned items. I don’t know about my regular readers but I often get asked … Continue reading →

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Six of the Best

Posted on July 28, 2013 by bawdsey

Some more stunning footage from the recently rebuilt Mosquito flying from Hamilton Airport in Canada with the CWH Lancaster, Spitfires, Hurricane and B25 Mitchell. The Mosquito is one of my favourite aircraft and I can remember being allowed access to … Continue reading →

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Canada Post

Posted on October 15, 2012 by bawdsey

Well, its not a post about Canada Post but its a post about Canada. I’ve spent a bit of time on and off in Canada and its one of my favourite countries. Canada has always been deeply etched into the … Continue reading →

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Goodbye ‘Northlander’

Posted on September 28, 2012 by bawdsey

By 7:15pm today the Northlander will have completed its last run, and the ‘Near North’ will have lost another community link to be replaced by bus services. Image of 1805 courtesy of http://www.flickr.com/sean marshall

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