BRON HEBOG

It's been quite a few weeks since I've done any work on the NWNGR replica replacement carriage. A couple of nights ago while half th...

If you've been reading this blog over the last couple of months you may recall I have started work on building a second model of the NWN...

This is not a groundbreaking development in the world of model railways, but it is a classic case of us being late adopters. Himself is expe...

Body sections for the 'replica of the replica' of carriage 24 have been cast with moderate success. This is the first time I've ...

I didn't see this one coming but I've spent the last couple of weeks working on scratch building a carriage again. What you are seei...

Browsing my photo reel the other day I was reminded of another one of those project I'd always intended to get around to 'one day...

Digital Command Control - or DCC as we have all come to call it - is a wonderful thing, but let's not pretend it doesn't have a lot ...

Last week I posted about the 'Barn' carriages in their short-lived varnished wood livery which were scratch built for the Minffordd ...

I'm very unusual, I freely admit it.  I've always liked the original 'teak' livery on the FR's 'Barn' carriages,...

It's been so long since I did any narrow gauge model making that I can no longer remember what it was, or when it was I was working on i...

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...

Now the festivities are over it's time to start thinking about what will be the next project on the workbench. Himself spent the days fo...

Here we are into the second half of our annual review, and the pace of projects slowed down a little over the summer months, as I suspect it...

And so we come to the end of another year of lockdown and exhibition-less modelling - for us at least. It's ironic that the reason I beg...

Now the varnish has set, and the bogies been fixed on,  Himself has sent me a couple of pictures of our new replicas - Ashbury 21 and Hudson...

I've got more action to report from the paint shop. Himself has been busy with the multi-coloured Hudson semi-open carriages - one the r...

As well as the Vale of Ffestiniog II, Himself has been doing some work on replica carriage 21 this week. Now all the detailing work has bee...

Tinkering has been completed on the scratch built Hudson toast rack replica 39 and it is about to move to the painting stage. Himself has ta...

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 ...