BRON HEBOG

I wasn’t intending to do this but I suppose there’s no particular hurry just now.... Months ago when I was casting the seats for Gwyrfa...

In times like these when there is so much uncertainty, so much than can leave us fearful, I am reminded what a wonderful hobby model railway...

The roof has been the focus of work on Gwyrfai this week. In the photo you can see the structure I use with the flat false ceiling, lo...

The camera can be unforgiving sometimes - this is not as rough as it looks when seen with the Mark One eyeball. I’ve faced the brass form...

I had one of my most productive days in a while at the weekend getting to grips with the returned Gwyrfai . The first task was to replace ...

I’ve got the last of the chairs for Gwyrfai cast, and while the ladies of the house watched a movie I was informed I would find very boring...

Casting of the interior parts for Gwyrfai continues steadily. I’ve managed to get a couple of sets cast each day. The bucket seat...

I’ve begun casting the seats from the new moulds for the interior of Gwyrfai . These are quite tricky to cast perfectly. The tiny leg...

Until the brass work on the front is done there’s not much more I can add to the body of Gwyrfai but I can start work on the interior. I ...

With three quarters of the body pieces for Gwyrfai made I can begin to glue them together to start assembling a carriage. The hardest ...

The festive season has been a bit of a washout for modelling, but on the last day of the year I found half an hour to have a go at making th...

It’s always a very satisfying moment to make the first cut on a new model, in this case the WHR observation car Gwyrfai which entered servi...

At last my mole has come up with the goods and I have a document which appears to be an outline plan for the new WHR observation carriage, w...

Himself’s occasional trips to Wales to volunteer on the FR have the added bonus of allowing a chance for a little spying in order to find ou...

Himself has finished off the final river bridge at the back of the layout and, almost as an afterthought, decided to check that the stock wo...

These may be the best models we have yet built. They are a pair of WHR Pullman carriages scratch built from styrene in 7mm scale. It...

I haven't written recently about the two 7mm scale WHR Pullmans I've been building for a client over the last year or so. A year? ...

Among the sundry details to be completed on 'Glaslyn' are the handrails on either side of the doors at the rear of the carriage. The...