BRON HEBOG

We can’t manage a line up of four Pullman observation cars like the FR did recently at Harbour Station, but watch this space.... Himsel...

April At the start of the year Himself had begun painting our Britomart , a few months later it was finally lined out and had its name an...

Himself was down in Wales a week or so ago volunteering on what was once known as 'Kids Week', the FR's pioneering, and long-run...

I like it when you get to the stage of adding those little details which really complete the scene. One of them is the cemetery from which...

At last our model of 150 is ready to show you. I don't think any of our models has taken so long to paint, line and varnish as this...

Himself spent the weekend in Wales enjoying the Quirks and Curiosities II weekend on the FR. (Some of us still have to work for a living o...

Himself has been saying for months that he would wait until the weather turned warmer to catch up on his backlog of painted models which req...

The painting of Observation Car 150 is finished. Now comes the challenge of lining it out! Just like with the Welsh Highland carriage...

A couple of days ago I showed you a picture of the new Observation Car 150 being primed, now Himself has made rapid progress on painting it....

If building 150 from scratch was a daunting prospect then so must painting it - more accurately lining it out afterwards. So I'm impre...

I think I'm ready to hand 150 over to Himself to add the finishing touches and then get on with painting and lining it. (Which I'm ...

The slow process of finishing off 150 - at least the constructional part of it - continues with adding some representations of the various b...

We've been tinkering with the chassis of 150 and it seems that it finally makes it all the way around Dduallt unscathed. In fact ti...

I finally got around to taking 150 over to Himself's place yesterday to check if the alterations I made to the bogie pivot bolts did the...

It's all come together in a rush. In a couple of sessions work I've got all the seats and tables in position. In fact t...

I've been rather putting off fixing the interior into place in carriage 150. Quite why I was being hesitant I don't really know, i...

After two weeks making masters, moulds and then castings I've finally assembled all the seats and tables to make up the interior of new ...

Such is my dedication to accuracy that I drove more than 350 miles at the weekend to the 'top left hand corner' to confirm some deta...

Half a dozen lucky passengers get to sit in comfort at the business end of 150. I've made these like I did the armchairs in the mai...

This is a problem that I suspect only narrow gauge modellers encounter, when your new rolling stock doesn't fit your layout! Ha...