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A kick in the tip
May 23, 2022 May 23, 2022
Progress on bits and pieces
May 23, 2022 May 23, 2022
Two more models of GWR rolling stock in 7mm scale
May 9, 2022 May 9, 2022
It’s been almost a year: what happened?
May 6, 2022 May 6, 2022
Dropping a hint pays off big time.
April 6, 2022 April 6, 2022
It only took 56 operations for the light to come on…
March 16, 2022 March 16, 2022
In which I finish more GWR Opens.
March 5, 2022 March 5, 2022
A couple of examples of the GWR’s “brown vehicles”.
March 5, 2022 March 5, 2022
Comparing 7mm and 1:48, as well as 7mm in different eras.
February 21, 2022 March 1, 2022
A classic British Rail diesel, because not everything 7mm is Edwardian.
February 20, 2022 February 20, 2022
A pair of special GWR models.
February 5, 2022 February 5, 2022
My Edwardian locomotives now have something to pull.
February 4, 2022 February 4, 2022
Zooming with a great bunch of modellers one province to the left.
February 1, 2022 February 1, 2022
Great tool. Painful handle. Problem solved.
January 27, 2022 January 27, 2022
A return engagement with the GWR in 7mm. The fleet has grown…
December 4, 2021 December 4, 2021
A new book that might just inspire your next Achievable Layout.
November 5, 2021 November 6, 2021
Photographing the same locomotives in California and Saskatchewan.
October 11, 2021 October 11, 2021
The Decauville gets an engineer, and the estate railway gets some personality.
September 5, 2021 September 10, 2021
An exceptional book for any student of prototype operations.
August 31, 2021 August 31, 2021
A decade of blogging.
August 29, 2021 August 30, 2021
A dog and his chuffer.
August 26, 2021 September 5, 2021
Exploring the GWR at Tetbury in 7mm scale
August 6, 2021 December 4, 2021
Thoughts on the Niagara St. Catharines and Toronto Railway – and working on a freight motor in 1:64.
May 27, 2021 May 6, 2022
Getting things sorted, now that some needed furniture has arrived.
February 13, 2021 February 13, 2021
How low can you, er, stoop…
December 12, 2020 December 12, 2020
How does one design a layout to showcase a busy chunk of street running? Here’s a preliminary sketch…
December 11, 2020 December 21, 2020
Port Rowan modelled the end of the line. Here are some thoughts about the beginning.
December 8, 2020 December 9, 2020
What worked. What didn’t.
December 6, 2020 December 7, 2020
Exploring the new layout space, and a first look at the room itself.
December 5, 2020 December 8, 2020
I have a new, nice, generous space and am still exploring ideas about how to fill it.
November 10, 2020 December 6, 2020
The spammers win.
October 7, 2020
Nine years of blogging about Port Rowan ends with big news.
August 29, 2020 August 29, 2020
160 people from around the world Zoomed in for an hour to learn about S scale. I know – right?
May 22, 2020 May 22, 2020
May 21st at 7pm Pacific Time, I’ll be winding the mainspring on my computer and firing up the ZOOM!
April 30, 2020 April 30, 2020
Borrowing a trick from TV and film production.
April 30, 2020 May 8, 2020
Scratch-building an important customer at the end of the line.
April 30, 2020 May 8, 2020
This heavily modified brass model carries baggage and express to Port Rowan.
April 27, 2020
One of the few S scale resin kits offered by Funaro & Camerlengo.
April 27, 2020 April 27, 2020
The April 2020 layout tour.
April 24, 2020 November 10, 2020
Moving a conventional convention onto the web.
April 21, 2020 April 30, 2020
Don’t you already blog – a lot – somewhere else?
April 21, 2020 April 21, 2020
An accidental brass purchase gets a handsome paint scheme, thanks to a trip to the military modelling shop.
February 21, 2020 April 21, 2020
An extensive rebuild of an S scale brass model, including custom paint masks.
October 16, 2019 April 21, 2020
A diesel with trolley poles? You bet I’m interested!
April 11, 2019 April 21, 2020
A pleasant gift – twice!
August 21, 2018 April 21, 2020
That time two dozen people spent 13 hours in my layout room, shooting scenes for a movie.
July 6, 2018 May 8, 2020
Some of the excellent layouts I saw while visiting Texas.
June 22, 2018 April 22, 2020
David Barrow influenced a generation of hobbyists. Here’s what I learned when I visited his layout.
June 22, 2018 April 22, 2020
A visit to an exceptional model railway in Proto:48.
June 21, 2018 November 10, 2020
While in Texas, I joined a couple of operating sessions.
June 21, 2018 April 22, 2020
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