My friends at ModelU have announced a range 3D printed of Southern Railway lineside detailing items and London South Western Railway (LSWR) Barley Twist lamps. The SR produced a huge range of 'standard' / ' catalogue' concrete at their, originally LSWR own concrete works at Exmouth Junction. Many of these items were also sold to … Continue reading New LSWR and Southern lineside detailing items available from ModelU
Tag: Exmouth Junction
#onthisday 125th Birthday of my Granddad Arthur Muspratt
My grandfather, Thomas Arthur Muspratt, known as Arthur, was born this day 125 years ago in 1899. As I have stated before on this blog he was a ganger for the Southern Railway based at Salisbury, for most of the period that I model, before he gained promotion to Sub Inspector (permanent way) at Andover … Continue reading #onthisday 125th Birthday of my Granddad Arthur Muspratt
A brand new invaluable modelling resource book: “SOUTHERN NOUVEAU – And the Lineside” by the Irwell Press
Although not strictly model news this latest book from the excellent Irwell Press stable will provide an invaluable resource for LSWR, Southern or Southern region modellers alike. 'Southern Nouveau: An essay in concrete' was originally published as a small paperback comprising of only 56 pages, 30 years ago in 1987 by Chris Hawkins and George … Continue reading A brand new invaluable modelling resource book: “SOUTHERN NOUVEAU – And the Lineside” by the Irwell Press
Workbench Witterings #4 identity changing and weathering
At long last, assisted by a few days off work over the recent Easter weekend, I have finally completed a few outstanding items on the workbench. This has mainly been around renumbering, naming and weathering a few items of rolling stock so I thought I would share with you some of the locomotives that I have … Continue reading Workbench Witterings #4 identity changing and weathering
Infiltrating the GWR at Brent…or a repainted and weathered N Class
Back at the start of December I started and posted about a repaint of a Bachmann N class into post war SR black livery for friend and fellow post war period modeller Robin Sweet (Gwrrob on RMweb) for use on his excellent, albeit GWR, layout 'Brent' based on South Brent in Devon. I detailed my … Continue reading Infiltrating the GWR at Brent…or a repainted and weathered N Class