My apologies for the lack of posts recently, life has continually got in the way and killed any momentum with the modelling projects. Life has been very busy away from railways and this has been in a generally good way but many weekends hav…
It has been a while since my last update but progress of various projects has been made over the last few weeks, with some of these models creeping towards the finishing line. Unfortunately time for modelling has been a little limited, with…
Over the last few weeks I have also managed to complete the weathering of an Heljan CCT, which was finished in the olive green engineers livery. This is a lovely model but the factory finish was quite shiny and toy like, so I set about toni…
Over the last few weeks I have also managed to complete the weathering of an Heljan CCT, which was finished in the olive green engineers livery. This is a lovely model but the factory finish was quite shiny and toy like, so I set about toni…
With the layout set up in the lounge last weekend, I continued with adding in some of the details. This involved gluing in some of the buildings to the dairy platform and wiring in the the lights, alongside adding some lights to the area at…
This week I have had a little time off work in order to push on with the layout detailing. There are a few little niggles with the layout I am trying to tidy up, such as a few areas of the backscene and removing some vegetation in one area
Next weekend I am planning to put the layout up for a week and start working my way through multiple modelling tasks across the various layout boards. There are a few larger jobs to undertake, such as replacing a bit of curved track where t…
Next weekend I am planning to put the layout up for a week and start working my way through multiple modelling tasks across the various layout boards. There are a few larger jobs to undertake, such as replacing a bit of curved track where t…
Another wagon that has recently rolled out of the paint boxes is a weathered Dogfish wagon, which is the Heljan rtr early olive green model. The weathering was initially applied using my airbrush and Railmatch enamels. After applying most o…
Another project I recently managed to finish was the repainting of a Lionheart BSK coach into olive green livery. Repainting 'ready to run' stock in O gauge is a somewhat move involved process than in OO gauge. due to the construction of mo…
Another project I recently managed to finish was the repainting of a Lionheart BSK coach into olive green livery. Repainting 'ready to run' stock in O gauge is a somewhat move involved process than in OO gauge. due to the construction of mo…
Over the last couple of days I have managed to finish putting my Heljan Class 33 back together. This has been one of those projects where nothing has gone right and the modelling has been a bit slow and disjointed. I originally reassembled