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Twenty Twenty, Motivation Monday, first one in.
It’s been a bit quiet of late on the blog, due to external influences both to do with the hobby and ‘life’, including a bit of man cave reconstruction! This year I’ve a couple of layout projects I...
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Transformation Tuesday Shelfie 1
In the quest of transforming the mancave the question of Shelfie1 has arisen! Basically I no longer have a use for it, so should it be of interest I’d be happy to accept offers for it. The tree lines...
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Shelfie1, Thanks For Your Service.
My last train out of Shelfie1 this morning. The layout has gone to a new home to primarily be a home layout and photo set. It’s been a nice layout to build and operate, for such a small layout it was...
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Throwback Thursday, ‘that’ copy..
This magazine, this issue, is possibly ‘that’ copy for me. Many of us will have a favourite newsstand magazine and can recall a few issues that for them, made the difference, the one that got them...
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Throwback Thursday, Turn up the Volume!
It’s interesting for me to step through the back catalogue of the images of this layouts (Shelfie2) development. The picture above was taken yesterday in natural lighting in our garden. The picture...
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Transformation Tuesday Wrap Round Completion
Today’s one of the milestones in getting Shelfie2 completed. With little breeze and good drying weather it was time to get the backscene completed. Using a technique suggested and highly effectively...
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VE Day
Written in 1944 by John Edmonds, the following epitaph seems particularly appropriate in these times. When you go home, tell them of us and say, For your tomorrow, we gave our today.
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Throwback Thursday, The 74
74xx Bachmann 64xx 31-636 It was around five years back that Bachmann brought their 64xx to market. Adding to the high and low cab variations of the 57xx family already in the range. I bought a couple...
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Hornby Prairie R3723/R3723x
Hornby Large Prairie R3723 R3723x R3719x R3721x R3725x The first of the Hornby Large Prairies has arrived at the man cave. Firstly an apology, I’ve taken it out of its box and run it already. Sorry...
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Hornby 61XX R3723 Review
Hornby Prairie R3723 R3723x R3719 R3719x R3721 R3721x R3725 R3725x In through the man cave doors this week from Hornby is their latest release of a GWR 61xx design. The original Hornby 61XX model was...
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Motivation Monday, The 02
Nope, not the arena. This one.. Craftsman 02 kit This is one of those escapees from the shelf of doom. It’s been kicking around for quite a while, and last week I decided it’s about time it got...
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Transformation Tuesday & The Skill Fading Shelf Queens…
We’ve all got them. Projects that get started and then ‘mature’…. I can look around the man cave and see an almost embarrassing number things that have been started and are yet to reach conclusion....
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minerva chris-klein Lovely bloke, he’ll be missed. RIP
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Motivation Monday 02 Forwards
Craftsman 02 It’s funny how this little engine has been quite the motivator. Started as much as eight years ago, likely quite a bit more, but I can’t really remember it’s been so long! But this one...
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