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Warley 2023 Images from the trade #4

Posted on November 26, 2023 by bawdsey

RAPIDO TRAINS UK As with the Dapol 14T tank wagon these GWR B-Set coaches are of interest for my Forest of Dean project. Whilst not specific to the lines in question to passenger services finishing before my core interest period, … Continue reading →

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Warley 2023 images from the trade #3

Posted on November 26, 2023 by bawdsey

DAPOL The Dapol stand was quite difficult to get non reflective images from, this 14T tank wagon in an appropriate Forest of Dean colour scheme grabs my interest immediately. The big Forest of Dean project is still kicking around in … Continue reading →

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Warley 2023 images from the trade #2

Posted on November 26, 2023 by bawdsey

HELJAN There are some models that have that X factor, I don’t have any significant interest in O gauge, I have no connection at all to the 153 DMU class, I’ve never even ridden in one that I recall, yet … Continue reading →

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Feel Good Friday

Posted on November 10, 2023 by bawdsey

In the pub, The Ship good beer, good company, good toys, what’s not to like? The OO class 11 above, a Heljan and Model Rail collaboration is estimated to arrive very early 2024. I can see me falling for one, … Continue reading →

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Feel Good Friday, Accurascale’s classic 37

Posted on November 10, 2023 by bawdsey

My first thoughts on the Accurascale class 37. Shot almost in real time apart from changing camera position, what you see is what I got, so no preparation as such apart from having the box ready to open. I did … Continue reading →

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F***ed Up Friday, not Feel Good Friday!

Posted on November 3, 2023 by bawdsey

Well it’s one of those Fridays. A quick bit of modelling before heading out of the corral, what could possibly go wrong? Well, the above basically, that’s what could go wrong, and has. Having completed the painting and decal application … Continue reading →

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Wordless Wednesday Shelfie 2 (Guyzance)

Posted on October 25, 2023 by bawdsey
Posted in accurascale, Bachmann, black and white, Branch Line, Cameo, Cameo layout, DC, DCC, Eighties, fall, finescale, freelance, Hattons, heljan, ho scale, hobbies, Hornby, Industrial, iphoneography, Layout, LED Lighting, man cave, model photography, Model Railroad, Model Railway, Modelling, n gauge, O Gauge, o scale, OO Gauge, peco, peco bullhead, railroad, railway, scale modelling, shelf layout, shelfie, shelfie2, toy train, TT Gauge, woodland scenics, wordless wednesday | Leave a comment

Monday Motivation ‘Sable’

Posted on October 9, 2023 by bawdsey

Many of us will have the SABLE (Stash Aquired Beyond Life Expectancy) pile. Actually mine is quite manageable, at one time I did have a collection of plastic kits that with brutal realism wasn’t going to get built, and they … Continue reading →

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Motivation Monday

Posted on August 7, 2023 by bawdsey

Sometimes just flicking through the pictures taken during projects is a useful little reminder of how things have gone, and a prompt for going. The image above is of Shelfie4 in March 23. It’s a key picture, almost a milestone … Continue reading →

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Wordless Wednesday Shelfie 4 Shapeshifter

Posted on July 26, 2023 by bawdsey
Posted in b&w, Bachmann, black and white, blog, BR Blue, British Rail, Cameo layout, DC, DCC, dcc sound, Eighties, finescale, heljan, HO, ho scale, Hobby, Hornby, Industrial, Layout, man cave, maple river, model photography, Model Railroad, Model Railway, Modelling, monochrome, n gauge, Narrow Gauge, O Gauge, o scale, OO Gauge, peco, railway, Rapido Trains, realism, scale modelling, shelf layout, shelfie, shelfie4, toy train, TT Gauge, Uncategorized, woodland scenics, wordless wednesday | Leave a comment