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Girls on Film (well two blokes actually)
Well that’s a wrap as telly and filum experts would say. Paul Lunn and I have just finished two days filming with Chris Walsh of Activity Media. The two days were quite intense with changes from...
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We Can Be Hero’s
Hero Train! Hero’s in toy trains? Well here’s two of them. A GoPro hero, and a Bachmann 08. GoPro cameras are well known for their build quality, functionality, compact size, robustness, and last but...
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Time on your hands ..
I’ve often said it but time is the most valuable commodity we modellers have. It matters not if you ‘buy’ time, either literally by paying someone to do something for you, or making the best use of...
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The Future of Exhibitions
My good friend Mr Cooper of ‘The North’ has written eloquently http://newheymodelrailway. regarding how the standard of the reporting of recent shows exhibitions has slipped of late. Some of course...
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Twenty Twenty Vision
This week there’s been quite a kerfuffle about Bachmann’s 20% price rise, most noticeably on assorted forums and meejah. Basically rising costs have meant that Bachmann have passed on elements of...
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this is why we fly
Another one of the occasional posts showing life from the other side of the door, I’m lucky I get to see this from time to time. This is an Instrument approach into Queenstown EN Zed. I must go there...
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Lettuce Page ….
Can you see wod id iz yit?… It’s been a spectacularly daft couple of weeks in the compact and bijou world of toy trains. My good friend Andy Cooper remarked on this in his own style here...
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Some Might Say …
As remarked upon in my previous post there are a good number of people in the hobby that spend far too much time telling you how something should be done, what can be done and what can’t be done, with...
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100
Today I look out into a cloudless sky, the epitome of a summers day. One Hundred years ago ‘the war to end all wars’ started, and pretty much everyone who reads this blog will have been touched by...
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New! 1st Hornby King image online!
Link to first royalty free image of Hornby King! http://norvenmunky.wordpress.com/2014/09/08/hornby-king/
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Hold The Front Page! Read All About It!
Bob Barlow’s new baby! Bob Barlow of http://www.greystarpublications.com/ last week launched a new entry into the UK magazine market, Finescale Railway Modelling Review,...
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THIRTY!
MRJ 0 & FRMRFirst editions Tonight, thirty years ago, as the doors closed at Scaleforum, Paul Karau, Gerry Beale and Bob Barlow arguably instigated one of the biggest changes in the UK’s model...
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Space, The Final Frontier II …
Last night I had the real privilege of meeting a hero, they, (whoever ‘they’ are), say you should never meet your hero’s for fear of disappointment, but this was a real pleasure. Buckingham EM gauge...
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Progress?
Anyone recognise this? Hold the front page, it’s a kit. That’s right ‘A Kit’. I know, I know, smelling salts all round, breath in using the paper bag, Three, Two, One, and you’re back in the room .....
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Destination Anywhere
Severn & Dean Well, its more destination ‘AnyRail’, than anywhere actually, https://www.anyrail.com and that’s where some of the schematic plan above has come from. More of that later .. I’m at...
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Severn & Dean
You’ll note a new page on the blog, this is to cover the larger layout project, the post below is the first page entry. Today’s been an interesting day having the privilege of watching Chris Nevard...
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