I made this a little while ago when my friend Jon and I got together for a modelling day. It is all done from plastic strip from the Evergreen range. Load test. Ready for installing on the board.
Monthly Archives: February 2017
Boilers and fittings Southwold locomotives
I have been enjoying myself today working at my watchmakers lathe. I made the chimneys for four of the Sharp Stewart 2-4-0T/2-4-2T locomotives on the Southwold Railway.The chimneys are very slender; very tall and with a slight taper – the locomotives look somewhat as if designed by Rowland Emmet (The Early Morning Milk Train cartoons).I […]
If I wasn’t a railway modeller …
… I wouldn’t have the spare materials, tools or skills to have done this. Deciding to decorate the toilet upstairs was done with mixed feelings – it is only a little room and wouldn’t take long to complete, but trying to work in a confined space and get to the areas over the toilet …I found […]
Backscene commission: Kingswear in 4mm scale
The painting was done on artists canvas and was so long I could only unroll part of it at a time in my workshop/studio. I was pleased to receive a commission from Adrian Hall, the owner of the famous ukmodelshops website to paint a backscene for his 4mm scale model of Kingswear. My wife […]