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Under a week to go until the Great Cornish Model Show! April 15 & 16 2023. This year we are expanding our show from just model railways to include modelmaking from other subjects including model boats, ships, aircraft both radio controlled and static, radio controlled trucks, military...

I do try, but sometimes a thread title doesn’t work on the first go. I’ll think on it. It started with a phone call. A chap called and asked if I’d be interested in helping him by building some coaches. Well, as it’s more or less what I do these days, I said I was happy to chat about it...

With my loco construction (currently rebuilt Royal Scot 46109) having run out of steam for the moment, I thought I might post something about my P4 layout. Actually, I'm not sure this should be here as the section is called "Layout Progress) and the layout hasn't made any progress for some years...

In view of the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic and the restrictions on social interaction that are likely to remain in place for the next few months, it will not be possible to hold expoEM Spring in its usual format for the second year running. Instead, the EMGS are going online to host a 'Virtual...

I recently threatened to post some details of my under-construction model of Bodmin General on here. The initial evolution of the layout has been the subject of a thread on the Scalefour Forum but I thought I'd widen the audience and try and be more disciplined about updating progress. Having...

A new website to catch up with progress on 'Kingswear for Dartmouth' in P4. We'll expand it as the job progresses, but there's already some interesting modelling to see, and some of the research is included to provide background info. Hope you like it so far........Kingswear P4 site

Good morning, and reight good it is to be here. I’m a Yorkshireman, or more correctly nowadays, a Northumbrian, for I’m living in what we now call Northumberland, though I have documentary evidence that the old kingdom of Northumbria included Leeds so I claim the best of all worlds. No...

Morning all. I thought I'd put details of what I'm working on presently. Don't quite know when the modelling bench got christened the 'tinking table' but it was some time ago. Anyhow, this is what it looks like in its tidier moments. Last off the production line was this Bachmann 2MT tank...

I started this layout just after the Cameo Competition was announced last year. I've only recently joined this forum but I wanted to share my efforts. I find that different forums generate different responses to the same material. Please forgive the copying and pasting, after this post I'll...

Hi, all. As the Competition has been on going now for a few months I thought it was about time that I started documenting my entry. Preface My entry, 'Dudley's Coal' is a small P4 layout set in the early 1920's in the Black country, the layout is based on the railways of the Earl of Dudley. The...

The below is a bit of a reposting from over on RMweb where I first posted it and edited as appropriate. Key Points: Mid 1960s BR Green/Blue changeover period. Set more towards the Western Section of BR(S). 3rd rail electric EMUs Oil depot, goods shed and house coal loading Possible military...

Thought I'd make a topic for the layout now something is starting to happen with it (there planning and thoughts stuff over on the blog on here too). The most recent entries below: Key points of interest: NSE 1988-1994 era (initially) SE London area (Woolwich/Charlton) 3rd rail electric...

I have been finishing the tenders for these loco's. Here is a picture of one of them. Just got to make the other one.

Hello Dear Reader/Insomniac, Welcome to my virtual workbench. Please wipe your feet. Would you like a cup of tea? You are cordially invited to: leave now with your sanity intact stick around and partake in the joyous expose of ignorance, ham-fistedness and crap puns that make up the...

I am building a RT Models K class Manning Wardle, and decided the Gibson wheel were too chunky, so I drew up and designed my own new wheel centres had Modelu 3D print them for me. The wheels are fitted to Exactoscale tyres. My whhels have the correct ten spokes and a 2mm axle. The attached photo...

I have two Brassmaster kits a Jubilee and a Black 5. I will be building the Tenders first both will be sprung.

Hi all Those who follow my new street thread will know I've been toying with a little side project, called Brettell Road (after a few name changes) I must admit I'm a bit out of practise with this track building stuff and this took a bit longer than I thought. Above is an overview of the...

Despite my recent dabbling with 7mm, this is still my main project. A little slice of North Lincolnshire that most people have never heard of! It'll be going in the garage, which we're busy converting - well, it's been cleared of six years' worth of rubbish and materials are in hand! :D All...

See how my first thread goes... My personal layout project is based in North Lincolnshire in the early 1990s, 1992 to be exact. It based on the North Lindsey Light Railway (a little known branch which ran north from Scunthorpe towards the River Humber) and I've amended history just a tad; this...

Some current stuff in the throes of being built... PO wagons in the process of being detailed up - more beckons here... Next! This ex SNCF 16 tonner awaits its tarpaulin rings..... Yes this is 4mm. Wibble!!! And finally.. Decrepit auld LMS/BR 3-Plankers in the paintshop...