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Playing or creating?
Model Railroad Hobbyist is a bit of a mixture – I suppose like any periodical – but at least it’s free! However, issue 80, October 2016 has some good things in it. The editorial has some good words on model … Continue reading
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ESNG meeting – 6 October 2016
We had a slow start to the evening, with Derek the At sunning himself in Portugal, and the Cha(I)rman suffering from an overdose of early milk rounds. The rails looked a bit empty, as Paul was also on holiday, so … Continue reading
Jon’s modules – retirement projects?
As my income drops dramatically, here are a few additions to the gloat box….. A very neat sheet metal bending tool, for those etched brass kits. Supplied quickly and painlessly by this on-line shop. I never remember what I need … Continue reading
Respect the scale
More on the size question, this time from the OST blog. It’s aimed more at ‘O’ gauge, but a lot of these thoughts can be factored into any scale. Many of the layout design conventions we take for granted were … Continue reading
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Odd modelling idea #2222
Just a quick post today, as my daughter has hi-jacked her father’s laptop to complete her dissertation….. From the Daily Telegraph: Eurostar train ploughs into wild boar causing delays for passengers Eurostar passengers were delayed after a train ploughed into … Continue reading
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Does size matter?
Well, the title should get me a few reads, anyway….. But what I really meant to say was provoked by Martin’s ‘G’ scale electric… Looking at this locomotive provoked the proverbial ‘train of thought.’ It’s a brilliant model, but I … Continue reading
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Really?
The BBC news website reports…. Turner Prize exhibition opens with giant buttocks, train rides and scrap metal …..Visitors can ride on Josephine Pryde’s Lapses in Thinking, a train that goes around the gallery….. When I read the headline, I thought … Continue reading
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ESNG PlayDay – 25 September 2016
What an excellent afternoon playing trains. 13 paying members, and the treasurer missed the excitement of collecting so much money. Plus three guests, and with three separate railways set up the hall was getting rather full. We put a large N-mod … Continue reading
Heritage Modelling
Jerry Clifford writes in Model Railway Journal #249….. There have, of course, been some superb finescale models of railways in the heritage era. Tom Everett’s contemporary model of Ropley is just one example, but there is no denying they are … Continue reading
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ESNG meeting – 21 September 2016
A busy club night on Wednesday, with a dozen or so members present. Good to see Paula and family again, as well as the usual suspects. No Cha(I)rman though, as he had a milk round at 3am or so the … Continue reading
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