BRON HEBOG

More fettling of the stock has been going on this week over at Himself's place. Our Merddin Emrys has had its bogies out so that the ...

April At the start of the year Himself had begun painting our Britomart , a few months later it was finally lined out and had its name an...

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...

The poor weather so far this week has had at least one compensation - it's forced Himself to retreat from the garden into the safety of ...

Our latest carriage, the service car 125, is just about finished. It's been given a coat of matt varnish with the aid of an airbrus...

Himself has finished painting 125, the new FR Service Car, and all that remains is to give it a coat of varnish. He did spot something ...

The wild weather of late has kept Himself out of the garage which means he's made a fair amount of progress on painting the new Service ...

The new service car is going straight into the paintshop over at Himself's place. Before it gets a coat of primer, though, he had to c...

Himself found the time for a litle light modelling in the run up to Hogmanay and cut, shaped and fitted the brass roof to the service car 12...

A rare midweek day off meant I had a view hours to try and finish off some of the remaining jobs on 125, the biggest of which was adding al...

The bits I needed for the bogies for 125 arrived in the post and half an hour with a soldering iron, a set of broaches and some superglue la...

I've continued fitting out the 'kitchen' of 125. Along the 'top' of the 'engine side' there is a conti...

No, not you. I'm referring to the high security storage in the buffet area of Service Car 125. The bit I've been working on is t...

I was intending to continue working on the under frame of 125 next - those tricky truss rods. (Well, they're tricky for me anyway, bec...

I did warn you not to expect rapid progress on 125. For various reasons it's been one of those weeks where I didn't get a lot done...

After taking the best part of a fortnight to cast another batch of wagon kits to resupply our friends at Narrow Planet I've been able to...

It was the moment of truth for carriage 125 the other day. Having completed the ends with my best guesstimate of their respective widths t...

The carriage ends are normally quite simple but 125 requires a bit more brainpower because they are not identical. The trickiest aspect is...

So, I plucked up the courage to slice the other side of 125 almost in two, except for a sliver of a cantrail along the top. I won't pr...

After a break of a few weeks I've picked up where I left off on the service car 125. The first task was to add the top layer of beadin...