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 […]

… 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 […]

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 […]

Here is a view of a layout I am building.   It is a model of the Southwold Railway at a scale of 3.14 mm/1ft.   You can see the bare boards for the layout on my baseboards page and the rolling stock

The Eveleigh Family have just been for their hols up in the north of England, where we always go for a week in the summer.   We rent a cottage and go for walks in the hills …   Ribblehead viaduct from the top of Whernside   Class 66 runs round its train at Blee […]

Well, there are images of some of my paintings now on the paintings page and I am working on the services pages – bespoke baseboards and backscenes at the moment.  I took lots of photographs this morning in the garden while it was nice and sunny. On Thursday evening last it was our approximately monthly […]

At the moment, the news is that I am gradually learning how to put this site together and it is getting bigger all the time!   Soon I hope to have good quality images of some of my paintings to display.   I also want to get more on the layout pages.