BRON HEBOG

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...

Sometimes it's tricky to find a task to fill a spare half hour at the modelling bench. If time is limited you don't want to start ...

I did get some modelling done in the days before we left for Wales, in fact there was quite a burst of activity on my latest superbarn 120. ...

I've let Boston Lodge get ahead of me in the carriage-building stakes again and this autumn I shall have to play catch-up. I've ha...

After the trauma of fitting the truss rods (every time!) making up the boxes which represent the various things hung under a modern FR carri...

Himself spent the weekend in Wales enjoying the Quirks and Curiosities II weekend on the FR. (Some of us still have to work for a living o...

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...

One of the more mundane jobs on the workbench at the moment is a re-bogieing programme on the Super Barns. The final two are going through...

I can report back on my rather pricey tube of glue and.. ..I'm quite happy with it, actually. I doesn't quite give you the fu...

I wrote the other day that I'm developing a backlog of carriage projects and here's one of them, the FR's latest 'Service Ca...

Notwithstanding my dictum not to finish one project before starting another I have taken the liberty, while I had the resin out, to cast my...

The pace has slowed a little after our return from Dinas and the flurry of activity in the weeks leading up to it. Himself will be taking ...

Himself is very busy attempting to finish off some more rolling stock with the exhibition at Dinas just a little over a week away now. Car...

While I was down visiting the rest of the family over Christmas I took the opportunity to deliver the model of new Super Barn 119 which I wa...

January In the final days of the year I like to look back at everything we've achieved in our modelling at opposite ends of the cou...

Another one of the big changes on this 4th FR Super Barn, the new 119, is a new design of truss rod - and it's a bit of pain to model. ...

I managed to eek out the last of my resin to cast a set of seats and tables for the new Super Barn 119. I'm pleased that the seats whi...

Before I can cast the seats to go in 119 I need to renew the mould. This is the third mould I've made from the master now. I usua...

There are times when you just have to grit your teeth and get on with the more boring bits of a model build. For me this is invariably the...