Railroading
Foam Brick Walls – Basic Painting This week I’m painting foam brick walls, the ones we cut last time. This is just the basic brick colours with all the weathering coming next time. Foam is flexible and so you need to use flexible paints, such as acrylics, which have a little give in them. Check …
Foam Brick Walls – Cutting the Walls I’m incredibly lucky to have a Mum who bought a new Brother Scanncut and gave me her old one! I’ve been looking for a way to do individual brick walls in both O and HO scale. I’ve also been watching a lot of cosplay videos and I love …
I decided to base my upcoming snow and ice diorama on Lapworth canal locks, near to where I live. There’s loads of water, some moving, some not, space for snow and structures to ice up. It should all be beautiful but of course, there’s no snow there now and there may not be for years… …
Modelling Jigs and Tools I will admit I’m a little obsessed by my 3D printer. A lot of my modelling in the last couple of weeks is that boring stuff that just doesn’t make good videos – building baseboards, 3D designing widgets, jigs and tools. That brings me on to the topic of this blog …
This weekend was Warley Model Railway Show. Warley is the highlight of my modelling calendar and is the largest UK show. This time, I barely got to see it as I was busy with the Exec Producer, Pat, from the Great Model Railway Challenge plus I was on a stand. I still got to spend …
How to Repaint a Building (Yes, I got it wrong the first time!) This was really easy and made such a difference to the model building. I started it 4 years’ ago and it has just languished because something just always bothered me… the colour. Here’s how I repainted it in 4 easy steps. Materials …
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Here’s a gallery of a few of my favourite photos of my work: ]
Inspiration This video is really different to usual. II’ve been thinking a lot about new YouTube projects and what to do next and what inspires me to model what I do. There’s no easy answer! This is a little bit of my thought processes in how I decide what to do in my modelling. …
Planning One of the most fun parts for me is planning a project. This micro layout has started to take form in my mind and I’ve been playing around with real track to see what fits. It’s certainly not easy fitting a dockside into a small space… Track Plans This is based on 25″ Ordnance …
NMRA Orlando 17 – General Interest Tours I went on only one of the many general interest tours at this NMRA National Convention to the Kennedy Space Centre – awesome!