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The one thing about this paint is it goes down like sand and cement with no clumping, after I put the camera away I put some down to make a rough road from the traction yard to a plot that will become a permanent way yard, I'd thought of putting one in but decided to spur of the moment, will sand it...

Have put in the concrete base of the traction depot over the course of the last week, started with household wall filler poured into a frame of 3mm plastistruct square rods pined out to frame the area to be filled sanded down twice until i was happy that the rail hight was protruding, then painted w...

Thankyou,,

The ends were from BHE, I'm going to use the TPM for my next project which should involve motorising rather than a dummy, and then after Christmas the CEP should be out and alot of third rail units should be operating,,

ha, it's like when people talk about norbert dentressangle taking over the haulage industry and always spelling it wrong,,,

Some trully brilliant work on those flats there,,,, the palm trees just amazing!!!!!!

brilliant video thankyou for sharing it,,, could watch those units go round for ages...

i have a square of hair that looks like a mousey blond wig, just the right colour for dry long grass that i use for that purpose i dont know who makes it tho, got it from squires tools in bognor,,,

Mark II coaches with any luck,,,,,

Tried to make a tree today and for an experiment it came out really well, its flat backed as its against the backdrop,,, http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/4867/img0296i.jpg http://img845.imageshack.us/img845/6185/img0300xc.jpg they were made using the method in octobers railway modeller, i wont pos...

we have grass,,,,,,, tested my noch/gaugemaster puffer bottle on a patch of earth today and i quite like the results,,, some lighter dryer grass colour will go on now before fixing with hairspray or the big tin of artists varnish i have,,, http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/8977/dsc01055h.jpg http://i...

The starts of platform 2 appeared today, made from scalescenes printed on A4 label and simply stuck to card,,, i also completed the ballasting in the sidings but didnt take photographs, and as seen i put the backboard in on the window side (station side) the whole lot will be dust sheeted over in a ...

Been doing a little work the last few days, been painting the to be grassed areas a nice brown and getting some ballast down too,,,, http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/9607/dsc01047de.jpg also i completed the first of what will be 3 scalescenes tunnel portals on the layout, it all went together really...

Have a search for info on marchwood military port I don't know if the loco's were civvy or army but I remember seeing two types sitting there, marchwood even had a couple of items of passenger stock that went to and fro, I used to work there but can't actually remember ever seeing anything operating...

Had the time and the nice weather to get a DCC run done today and also test the track for level laying as the class 47 and my Dapol mk3's have a slight coupler vairiance and were showing every drop or rise in rail top hight, i made the decission to replace one of the lines across the bridge and may ...

£18 more than the one I bought from the big shop in Liverpool but not bad,,,,