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Picture of the Month – April 2017
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Hornby announce full 2017 range; a Southern Railway / Southern Region related roundup [updated 16/01/17]
Hornby have today announced their full range for 2017. As with the range for 2016 new tooling announcements fro 2017 have already been made during the last year via their informative Engineshed blog and a presentation /launch at the Warley National Model Railway Exhibition. These from a Southern Railway perspective has already included the announcement last … Continue reading Hornby announce full 2017 range; a Southern Railway / Southern Region related roundup [updated 16/01/17]
Happy New Year! First 2017 Picture of the Month and a hint to next week…
Happy New Year, lets hope that 2017 is not eventful for the wrong reasons like some of the events from last year (to many RIPs to mention)... the first picture of the month for 2017 is... Just a quick heads up, the next few days will see announcements from both Hornby and Bachmann of their … Continue reading Happy New Year! First 2017 Picture of the Month and a hint to next week…
SR Diagram 1529 and 1530 cattle trucks arrive from @Hornby as part of their 2016 range
Announced as part of their range for 2016 this time last year the SR cattle trucks (technically correctly termed as being trucks being a sub set of wagons) have arrived in the last week or so from Hornby and certainly raises the bar again for rolling stock. Hornby have produced two different diagrams of SR truck. … Continue reading SR Diagram 1529 and 1530 cattle trucks arrive from @Hornby as part of their 2016 range
Warley 2016 updates from a Southern Perspective [updated 30/11/16]
Well the annual event that is the Warley National Model Railway show at the NEC has now been and gone and by all accounts it appears that it was a good show, not that I was able to see as much of it as I might have liked. I had a good weekend on the … Continue reading Warley 2016 updates from a Southern Perspective [updated 30/11/16]
Hornby announce the ex SECR / SR / BR(s) Wainwright H Class 0-4-4 tank as part of their 2017 range.
Today, via their Engine Shed blog, Hornby have announced that they are to produce the ex SECR / SR Wainwright H class 0-4-4 tank as part of their 2017 range. The blog post also includes images of the first 3D Stereolithography printed samples showing the excellent progress that they have made so far. Ever since they posted a … Continue reading Hornby announce the ex SECR / SR / BR(s) Wainwright H Class 0-4-4 tank as part of their 2017 range.
Recent 2mm model releases from Graham Farish and Dapol
Further to my recent post on a number of SR / BR(s) related products that have arrived in 4mm scale this post catches up on recent 2mm releases. These are the Graham Farish Bulleid 3 coach sets and from Dapol the SR Class V Schools 4-4-0. Dapol The Dapol Schools Class V 4-4-0 was first announced back in 2012 and since then … Continue reading Recent 2mm model releases from Graham Farish and Dapol
Recent 4mm model releases and from Hornby, Dapol, and the latest Class 24 from SLW
Some say that Southern modellers have never had it so good. Over the last couple of months a number of SR / BR(s) related products have arrived in 4mm scale (a future post will catch with recent 2mm releases). These have included: from Hornby the Class 71, ex LSWR 0415 Adams radial tanks, ex LSWR … Continue reading Recent 4mm model releases and from Hornby, Dapol, and the latest Class 24 from SLW
Southern Big Tanks, new books from The Irwell Press
Hot of the press from my friends at the Irwell Press are four new excellent paperback books all about the Southern Big Tanks. The four books cover the London Southern Western Railway Urie G16 class 4-8-0Ts and H16 4-6-2Ts Z class and the later Maunsell Z class 0-8-0Ts and W class 2-6-4Ts. These follow in … Continue reading Southern Big Tanks, new books from 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