BRON HEBOG

For the purposes of checking the alignment of the board joints Himself has been testing them with what prove to be our most derailable stock...

Let's face it, there's not a lot of modelling gets done in the run up to Christmas, so I've got into the habit on the blog of t...

Foliage has been sprouting on the layout in recent days. Firstly, Himself has added the long grass to the area around the back of the hous...

Well, that was quick! Because we use acrylic paint on the buildings (as preferred by the Artistic Director) rather than the enamels tha...

Having finished the slates on the old barn roof I dropped it off at Himself's place, ready for him to paint it. We dropped it in posit...

My first project of 2017 is complete - or as least as much as I'm going to be doing on it. The old barn, which sits in the middle of t...

It's not a fast process, but I am nearing the end of fixing the strips of card slates onto the roof of the old barn. This side (whi...

I probably should have done it before I'd got 90% of the way through the build, but at the weekend I took the old barn over to Himself...

This last week I've been working on the roof of the old barn - the end that still has one, that is. The challenge with this has been t...

There's been a two week break in the barn build on account of me having to run off another batch of wagon kit castings for sale on the N...

At last I can put my dental tool away because the final wall of the barn has been scribed and the seven walls are now joined together. Th...

Scribing the barn walls has advanced steadily, although I might have hoped to have got the job finished by now. I am, however, onto the fi...

So I've made a little progress with scribing the stone walls on the old barn, as you can see. These are the walls for the smaller s...

After my last post about starting work on the model of the old barn a few people got in touch to ask about how I scribe stonework into the s...

I've picked up my scalpel for the first time in 2017. My first project this year will be to fill in one of the very glaring gaps on...

As the weeks go by Himself is making more space in the railway room - sorry, garage - and he's been able to put up a second board so tha...