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Morning all, Regulars to the Sheep Chronicles may well have seen reference made to a change in approach to my modelling courtesy of a day spent at Expo EM in Bracknell a few weeks ago now. Now despite what it suggests, this doesn't necessarily mean abandoning 00 gauge and adopting EM and...

Hello everyone! Welcome to my workbench where I shall be chronicling my modelling endeavours as well as general musings on the historical influences behind them. As stated on my welcome thread 'Greetings from the Fens', the eventual aim is to model the L&FR. However, time, space and, notably...

Hello, Greetings to you all.... With encouragement from @AJC @Rob R and @john lewsey I've started this post to tell the stories of the various bits of rolling stock I build. Or try to..... This continues from a previous thread 'Greetings from Gosforth East' but for necessity of completeness...

This is rather nice - courtesy of the BFI and the East Anglian Film Archive, a trip from Witham to East Maldon with an excursion to Wickham Bishops and a fine hound. I think it's probably only available in the UK, and since it's based on 8mm cine film the quality isn't wonderful, but to me at...

Hi all, I've just asked Brian Dale if he has any recollections of GE 4 wheel carriages being used for anything other than passenger use, but thought that whilst I'm at it I would put it out there amongst the rest of the forum. I bought 3 GE Models 4 wheel 3rd class coach kits a while back...

I've been trawling through my Grandfather's photographs and these were taken when he was living at Leigh on Sea as a boy and commuted to Fenchurch Street to attend the City of London Boys School. The photgraphs would have been taken around the 1914-1923 period Two have been posted on this...

I am painting my N7 as Stratford engine 69712, I want to highlight the smokebox ring, I believe they were not painted but the ge boys burnished them. so at present the loco is sprayed black. I am wondering should I paint the ring or use a scapel to scrape off the paint back to whitemetal...

I have been ask to build a Y6 tram engine for someone, and I thought maybe some of you will be interested how I go about it. It will be a slow build as work gets in the way at this time of year. Others may do it differently, so comments will be most welcome. So far I have done the side skirts...