Apologies for the rather ‘basic’ title of this blog, but it sums up how I’m feeling at the point. I have now finished the landscaping on the other board that runs behind the railway. I’m rather pleased with the results from this, which was probably the hardest task landscape wise. The landscaping in front of the …
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Building my first etched coach, Comet Models E147
Work is going well with my first etched coach kit, ex GWR ‘E147’. Strictly speaking, this isn’t a coach that I believe worked on the Bala-Blaenau Branch but it a variety of Non Corridor Brake Composite. The two most common coaches used on the line are not produced in model form, those being the Collett E157 …
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Pannier Prevails
Evening all! Well, 4645 is now finished. I have weathered her, using the Brian Jones photograph from the cover of Book Law/Foxline’s ‘Bala Junction to Blaenau Ffestiniog’ as my guide. The front numberplate was supplied by ‘Pacifc Models‘ and the rear tools were from ‘247 Developments’ (the bucket is a springside fire bucket). The lamp …
Planning – Detailing a Bachmann 57XX/8750
As most of you will know, for Trawsfynydd I will require a number of Pannier Tanks. I’m now at the point in deciding how far I wish to detail my Panniers. I had already decided that adding lamp irons is a must! I also intend to add the missing handrail on the running plate, plus …
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Trawsfynydd – Modelling the GWR line across the Welsh Mountains
© Copyright Ben Brooksbank and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence. The decision to model something separate from Thirsk came about around a month ago. As I mentioned last week, Thirsk is a long project and at the moment finances can’t support the building of a home for it, let a lone the …
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Rebranding…..
As you have probably seen, my blog has gone through a bit of a revamp. Now that I’m doing modelling other than just LNER, 50AWorks didn’t seem right. I now present TFModelling (make a note of it, as the old link doesn’t work anymore), which I think has an obvious connection to me, as well …
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