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Merry Christmas 2025 and a little plan…

Firstly, to all readers, have a good Christmas and best wishes for the season, especially if Christmas isn’t your thing for whatever reason! In the usual carnage and chaos that is the run up to Christmas Day, tidying is done. … Continue reading

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Accurascale’s 57xx converts Shelfie 2 to DCC

Having been loaned an Accurascale 57xx which is DCC sound fitted, it made sense to reconfigure Shelfie2 to run in DCC.

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The Background Balance, Start at the end..

A while back I wrote about trials I was undertaking, Throwback Paint with a mix of paint types. This was the result for Shelfie2 under natural lighting which I was quite pleased with. That then was used to fill in … Continue reading

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‘Warley Show’ NEC 2024 November 23-24th

This weekend the ‘Warley’ show is on. It will be different this year, no longer run by the Warley club, the slot has been filled by Warners Publications. https://www.world-of-railways.co.uk/events/the-national-festival-of-railway-modelling-2024/ I’m there with Shelfie4 and helping me out will be James … Continue reading

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DC Control Freak

Over the past week or so there been some concurrent internet discussions regarding the latest RTR releases and what DC controller is the best to use if you’re not using DCC. This discussion has been rumbling around for a few … Continue reading

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Wordless Wednesday J68

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2024, Motivation Monday, First One In, Fifteen Minute Heros

With the festive season officially over, twelfth night and all that, it’s been quite a good couple of weeks of getting stuff done. Over the period I was able to do some short bursts, as well as lengthier sessions in … Continue reading

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Transformation Tuesday Engaged!…

Yep, I’m N gauged! This won’t come as a surprise to some readers, as I’ve worked in N gauge previously. A good few years back I built Collier Street which featured in Railway Modeller This was built from a plan … Continue reading

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Lights, Camera, Action..

This week I’ve been scratching my head quite a bit. Shelfie2 is reaching the final assembly stage. I’ve decided to go ‘hands free’ operation and have spent a good bit of time getting Dingham couplings to work, which I’ll write … Continue reading

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Heljan Telford 2018 O gauge and OO gauge announcements

This morning there’s a very interesting press release from Heljan at the 2018 Telford O gauge show. God news for 7mm modellers with the popular GWR AEC Railcar and BR Class 56 Diesels being announced below, but for the 4mm … Continue reading

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