It’s been a bit of a fight with the internet provider but it seems they have now agreed with me that as I’m paying them a monthly fee, they probably should get on with making a connection and providing me internet access, so they sent someone to find the plug or to whatever it is [...]
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We are alive
Posted in Family, Oops on July 8, 2009 | 1 Comment »
My Flying Brick
Posted in Maschienenfabrik Ostfildern, Oops, Scratchbuilding on October 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Memo to fellow bloggers: when writing a post about making progress, don’t publish it and forget to add a picture.
Here is the picture I should have published yesterday, showing the railcar (aka ‘the flying brick’) almost complete. The roof has managed to somehow fit into the body and the front with out any filing, although [...]
Good days, bad days…
Posted in Maschienenfabrik Ostfildern, Oops, Scratchbuilding on September 27, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Sometimes I wonder why I picked up the knife.
For most of the afternoon today, I would do whatever needed to be done (cooking, washing, reading stories etc) and then race back to the modelling board in an attempt to at least finish the cab so I could write a blog entry that didn’t rely on [...]
Oops…
Posted in Oops, Westerooge on May 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Well, it can’t always work…
So I started to make the scenery by putting newspaper all around and in between the rails. After everything had dried, on goes the diesel, and it ran fine except for one little section of track on the end of the sector plate which was dead. Very dead. I suspected I’d [...]
Stuck.
Posted in 09, Oops, Resources, Westerooge on March 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m stuck. It’s inevitable when working in a different country where things aren’t always the same as you are used to: Sometimes there is an annoying delay while you hunt for bits. This time, the bits in question are electrical -an area I’m not too confident in. I’ve found a shop on the internet that [...]
Supplies…
Posted in Oops on November 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
There’s been a hiatus in model making this week, what with work and now having a cold, and also because I was waiting for the plasticard and other stuff from www.architecturbedarf.de which finally came through yesterday, so I think I have enough plasticard to keep me going this winter, and on top of that I [...]
9 999 to go?
Posted in Baseboards, Oops on October 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Thomas Edison was heard to say “If I find 10 000 ways something won’t work, I haven’t failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward…” I’m trying to see my first attempt at a baseboard in this er… light.
Not counting my attempt last year, It’s about 15 years [...]
You can’t win ‘em all…
Posted in Oops, Scratchbuilding on June 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The roof is on, glued and has stayed in place. For a while it resisted the glue and one side stuck up like a geeky haircut, but I finally subdued it, only to find that I was 1mm short of the full width. Mercifully this doesn’t show so well on the pictures. I considered running [...]
Wheels.
Posted in Oops on May 18, 2007 | 2 Comments »
A while ago I ordered some bogies from Cambrian kits, and some wheels from Alan Gibson to run them on. Except that I ordered 14mm wheels and the bogie instructions said 12mm. So I went back and got some 12mm wheels. These arrived while we were away and as yesterday is a public holiday in [...]
Buffer Zone.
Posted in G1, Oops, Scratchbuilding on February 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I finally built up courage to rebuild the Buffers on G1. The old is gone, the new is attached and works as far as I can see… Aware of my lack of prowess with the hacksaw I did the ‘Non-stripey’ end first, worked out hoe I could make it work, and then made a worse [...]
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