BRON HEBOG

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...

The Minffordd Weigh House has no shortage of challenges for the scratch builder who wants to make their effort look halfway like the real th...

One of the best things about resin casting is that once you've made the masters (and the moulds) it's delightfully quick to turn out...

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...

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...

I've cast, cut and fitted the sheets of Durbar plating for the FR infrastructure department's well wagon and I'm quite pleased w...

I'm in a mood to finish off some projects which have been held in abeyance for too long. One of them is the well wagon project which has...

A day isolating in the 'Covid Cave' on Sunday gave me the opportunity to get the master and the castings for the new side doors on t...

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...

In the previous post I said I had run out of excuses for not getting on with the doors on diesel 9, well, how prophetic those words turned o...

I apologise for things being a little quiet on the blog in recent weeks, which is on account of a number of factors including holidays, effo...

As I mentioned in my previous blog post I have had a go at replicating the lamp pots from the replica Pickering brake, and with one master m...

Looking back, I think the moment you realise you've become a parent - or more specifically, a Dad - is when you become aware of that uns...

It seems some of my blog readers have long memories... Just when I thought I could put the resin away for a couple of weeks, at the end of a...

The last few weeks have seen me concentrating on another production run of kits to send to Light Railway Stores , after the last lot flew of...

Casting operations are paused while I wait on a new supply of resin arriving. Such was the brisk demand for wagon kits and other castings in...

The start of the new year is much like the end of the old one, with me producing a fresh batch of kits. Most of the supplies I sent just bef...

I got a little modelling done over the Christmas and New Year holidays with a few more steps on the FR well wagon prototype. First I had to ...

October The output of new models slowed towards the end of the year, especially at my end of the operation as I spent more time concentratin...