BRON HEBOG

Things have been a little quiet in the world of Bron Hebog these last few weeks - at least on this blog - but we've been quietly working...

Having cleaned every wheel on ever item of rolling stock ahead of Model Rail Scotland this weekend - and, no, he didn't count them -  Hi...

I walked into my modelling den the other day, fully intending to look out the superbarn moulds and make a start on 'Bob', when my ga...

It's possibly the affect of age, and a touch of confusion creeping in, but I was very surprised to discover recently that we didn't ...

The next instalment of our review begins in April when I was making the interior for another 'bowsider' which was destined to become...

Himself got to an advanced stage with carriage 20 - having given the body a coat of primer - when he spotted something that wasn't quite...

I must confess I’d overlooked how much there was still to do to finish carriage 20. Since I handed it back with the interior done Himse...

This week saw me finish work on the interior of bowsider 20. These are quite complicated to make, especially the ones with two first cl...

I've returned from a week's holiday and got straight down to work on the next project - creating an interior for 'bowsider' ...

Our new Garraway-era 17 is finished and has been taken for a test run on Dduallt. Comparison with the twins 11 and 12, show that the sh...

Bowsider 17 has reached the stage where Himself is adding the transfers, the most obvious of which are the big numerals on the doors. F...

Sometimes modelling is about finding pragmatic solutions to tricky tasks, and so it is with painting a panelled bowsider. Himself has s...

I've had a surprise delivery. I returned home from work yesterday to discover Himself has been beavering away on bowsider 20 (versi...

The colour curse has struck again! We really should learn to do our research properly first... Himself has been getting on with painting...

Himself has got bowsider 17 almost ready to be painted. It’s had the ventilator hoods above the doors added in styrene and the grab handl...

Making up an interior for bowsider 17 has been satisfyingly swift and straightforward. It's helped by this carriage only having the...

Projects are piling up on my desk now. I already have the Gladstone Car to make an interior for and now Himself has handed over the body o...

Himself has soldered together yet another new carriage - this one is going to be our second version of bowsider 17. The first was made ...

After my (assisted) efforts to construct a Worsley carriage body Himself has continued with another of the batch I have bought, which is an ...

I've established a tradition on this blog in the last days of December of taking stock of everything that Himself and I have achieved ov...