BRON HEBOG

After a long pause there's some progress to report on our project to build a modern day James Spooner from a Backwoods kit. As you can s...

I've always thought painting models to get them looking right is a hell of a lot harder then building them in the first place. Thus, I w...

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...

For a humble yard shunter the Dinas-based Baguley Drewry number 9 carries an exotic mix of colours. Himself is making solid progress adding ...

Himself took the decision on which colour scheme to paint diesel 9 out of my hands by giving the bodyshell a couple of coats of yellow befor...

With the construction phase done Himself is putting the Pickering brake carriage through the paint shop. After being sprayed with primer it ...

Every so often I am astounded by Himself's ingenuity. A case in point is when I received an update on progress with painting the boiler ...

An exciting moment in the build of 130 as the first of coat of paint is applied to the bunker and tanks. Trying to choose a colour for a mod...

It's a rare day when Himself and I are as one on the question of colours - especially greens! But we had a rare outbreak of unity in cho...

Himself is in the early stages of painting Livingston Thompson The challenge with this one is to make it look convincingly neglected as if...

A little progress update on Van 51 which Himself has been finishing off. It looks good with the FR crest applied on the side but until ...

Princess is beginning to look suitably distressed. The choice of which era to depict our new tow-along model was left to me, and I deci...

Himself has begun painting the 3mm 2-8-0 tank, which means stripping the whole chassis down again so it can be sprayed black. He’s not ...

Himself is cracking on with completing the two WHHR Ashbury carriages ahead of the show in Greenock next month. They’ve both had at lea...

Himself isn’t the only one being diverted by non-NG projects this week - although mine is at least still 4mm scale. I’ve got to the sta...

The Gladstone Carriage is finally, finally, finished. The last job was to paint the curtains on the posh compartment in the middle whic...

A new item of stock which didn't manage to make it to the show at Perth was the Gladstone carriage which is still in the process of bein...

Himself has begun the process of painting our latest carriage, a reminder of the days when our most senior politician was probably regarded ...

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...

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