I have been considering one of these printer models myself, so will be very interested in the answers to Jim's questions as well.
I bought a small magnetic whiteboard with the idea of using it to keep track of what locos and units are stored in the engine shed area,...
Now, getting away from building or kit-bashing rolling stock, I did some more fiddling, this time on a job on the layout I have been wanting to do...
And now, the Hudswell Clarke No.70 'Beatrice' is all but complete apart from a little weathering. [ATTACH]
Etched plates fitted to the class 92 and Hunslet. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
After not receiving much from Britain for quite some time (Royal Mail postal strikes, not sending internationally, etc.), I have had waves of...
Yes, indeed! :thumbup: The MN is from Golden Arrow Productions. I can't remember for sure when I got it, but at that time there was no hint that...
There have been some more developments on Newton Broadway regarding new arrivals, conversions and builds, since that last post. The second...
My Accurascale sound-fitted class 92, 92 043 'Debussy', has arrived. I have given it a run and it is everything that others have said in the...
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For anyone interested, I have just done a quick video of two pre-grouping trains of 4- and 6-wheel coaches running around Newton Broadway. [MEDIA]
I remember riding the Taits back when my family first arrived in Melbourne, in 1966. I also saw them at least twice a day, every school day,...
The second project was more of a fix up for a mixed-up model. I bought it cheaply some years ago off a now deceased BRMA member. I'm not quite...
In recent times, I have been trying to run a few locomotives and units that haven't been run for a while. In doing so, I have found I needed to do...
If someone does wish to connect the smoke unit, they should check the current draw first. Many such units draw too much power for direct...
These X04 motors are very easy to wire for DCC, as are similar open-frame motors (like, for example, the one Hornby Dublo and Wrenn used in the...
A recent acquisition from my trip to Denmark, bought second-hand from Togcenter in Gentofte (a northern suburb of Copenhagen) adding to my small...
There were also several 'Tin' HAL style driving trailers made to replace war- or accident-damaged cars from some 2 BIL and 2 HAL units, so the...
You may have that last one the wrong way round: the last 'Tin' HAL, 2700, had a 4 SUB DMBS with a HAL DTC. It was confined to the Eastern section...
After running the six Accurascale CDA wagons, I dug out my old Hornby models in English China Clays (ECC) livery, and the comparison is really...