Tag Archives: Hornby

Bachmann/Brassmasters/Shawplan Trinity 08

Posted on February 26, 2012 by bawdsey

Not quite the holy trinity, but a decent place to start. Many years ago when t’interweb was a bunch of MSN chatrooms and Yahoo groups with people in effect emailing each other abuse, I did a makeover of four Bachmann 08’s, one … Continue reading →

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Inspiring Magazine

Posted on February 16, 2012 by bawdsey

Yesterday I received a copy of Narrow Gauge and Industrial Railway Modelling Review, from Bob Barlow. Bob has recently taken the editors chair, Roy Link now taking on the role of production editor. The magazine has always been a good … Continue reading →

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Keeping Up Appearances

Posted on June 22, 2011 by bawdsey

In the previous post I mentioned the next big thing will be the backscene. Well the photo backscene has arrived and I’ve been trying it out today. The early results are quite promising, though an issue with it is the … Continue reading →

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‘Albion Yard’ Cinderford, Glos.,

Posted on June 13, 2011 by bawdsey

In pretty much the first posting on this blog I wrote that work on Albion Yard had stagnated, I’d also had an accident with the layout in storage damaging some of the track, and that has pretty much been the … Continue reading →

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3F’s, Fowler, Finescale, and F …

Posted on February 2, 2011 by bawdsey

This evening I’ve started on a Brassmasters 3F Jinty upgrade. The idea behind this is for a Gloucestershire based BLT layout based on Barry Norman’s plan of Dursley. Hopefully it’ll provide a showcase for a couple of new ideas on … Continue reading →

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Rural idyl

Posted on January 29, 2011 by bawdsey

A lot of my modelling has recently been done associated with projects for magazines, books or for a couple of mates layouts. All this is ok but this week I’ve just built something for the fun of it. For a … Continue reading →

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New Directions

Posted on January 23, 2011 by bawdsey

Albion Yard is just one of the projects I have under way at the moment, surprisingly it’s been in progress for about eight years! This blog was initially to record the progress of the work I did for the layout, … Continue reading →

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