Happy Christmas to everyone out there who frequents this little corner of blogdom. Many thanks for your time, thanks for patiently reading my ramblings and for your comments, emails, and encouragement. Have a great, refreshing Christmas and New Year.
I haven’t (yet) got any railway-related christmas pictures, so I’ll have to make do with this one [...]
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Frohe Weihnachten
Posted in Bikes, Friends on December 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Scale Strategy…
Posted in 09, 1:55 scale, Friends, Körschtalbahn, Random Ideas, Scratchbuilding, Storytelling, Westerooge on November 29, 2008 | 3 Comments »
A while ago, Stephen over on the Fairlight Works Blog mentioned that he had a scale strategy: he builds layouts in different scales to suit the story he wants to tell. This spilled over into a discussion on the Narrow Gauge Railway Modelling forum.
If only I was that well organised, or that accurate. I have [...]
The Dilemma
Posted in Blogging, Family, Friends, Random Ideas, intermodal on November 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I really like making modern image narrow gauge models, and I’ve been talking a bit to John P. about container wagons for forty-foot containers, which I’d like to try in 5.5mm scale. I’m intending to make a layout for the railcar as soon as I can, although that’s not likely to be very soon: assuming [...]
No more Bannister Hall.
Posted in Friends on July 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve just heard that Dave Balcombe, of “Teetering Hall” fame passed away this week due to lung cancer. Although we never met, I enjoyed several Email discussions with him, on the subject of modelmaking and related matters, and appreciated his humour and out-of-the-box way of thinking. I knew he was going for more treatment, but [...]
Blog info
Posted in Blogging, Friends on January 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve changed to the new Blogger, as much to avoid their repeated “This would be much better in beta” messages whenever I logged on. What they don’t tell you is that Beta only works with Windows 2000 or later, as I discovered when I tried to log on with a computer using Windows 98. On [...]
New Links
Posted in Blogging, Friends on November 9, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve just discovered that a blog I read has linked to me… It’s just playing trains from John Sharp has me in his link section, which made a pleasant suprise. I’m also linked from the RJR Branchline by John Teal. Thanks for that!
Now I’ve really got to try and figure out HTML…
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