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So… I've started designing my layout… to accomodate my live steam and battery operated Gauge 1 locomotives. The part of the garden I can use is 30 meters long. On the left side it's about 9 meters wide and on the right side about 12 meters. The plan is to start with the yellow oval, so I...

At last a little bit of dry weather and I have marked out the circuit for the new line in the garden . This is all very exciting and I hope all goes to plan. I'm sure that with your help it will all go well. The plan is firstly to work out how to post pictures and text on the forum so that it...

I'm sure I've posted some of this elsewhere but failed to find it so a new bespoke thread on this developing build I think is in order. The cab has already been done and a test build completed, there are a few corrections to be implemented from lessons learnt on the 1:43.5 build but...

OK 1/35 scale, but even so what an exquisite box of tools this is! Listed as discontinued on Eduard's website, but two available right now on Ebay: EDUARD 1/35 PHOTO-ETCHED WWII GERMAN TOOL BOX & TOOLS MODEL KIT TP030

I'm very happy to report that Fred Phipps is making good progress with the master for what will be a resin cast body for the ubiquitous 12T BR van. Looking good for fertiliser deliveries to North Cornwall in 2016........ Simon

Hi, I'm still tinkering with the BR 44, and I thought it merited it's own thread. As I find time, I shall copy earlier construction posts from the general German Modelling thread. I've been looking at the tender. It's a pretty decent model, but there are a few things that can be done to...

Following the demise of my previous garden line, I've spent most of this summer and autumn replacing fences and starting on the build of another garden railway. The big difference is that this new one is a continuous circuit to exploit the use of my live steam engines - something my end to end...

A few weeks ago at the S scale Autumn Meeting, I swapped a Mike Williams G3 wagon kit for two 1/32 scale wagon kits. The kits were a combination of underframe kits and one piece resin bodies with work being started on one of the underframes. Both kits are of a GWR two-plank wagon - not very...

Ok, New thread, does what it seez on zee tin, my rabblings and scatter gun dabblings in the Eurozone. Picked up a couple of German locos at Telford this weekend, an O gauge MBW V200 which was going for a good price, I think ;) not checked if it was a bargin or not, best not to I suppose :cool...

This is not my first attempt at a garden layout - I've had three previous attempts. The first two attempts were in my house in Scotland which was located on the side of a hill so the three quarter acre garden was terraced and the two attempts there consisted of a lot of digging and barrowing to...

Yes the scatter gun has been out so for a change of scale I dragged this shelf queen out of storage. It's a convoluted story but I ended up with this Aster kit for the Titfield Thunderbolt. However if built straight out of the box it would end up like this...

Having just carried out some refurbishment on my line outside, I thought I would start a thread. For a more complete story it made sense to start at the begining - 12yrs ago. My usable garden is approx 8x8mtrs, so it was a bit difficult to guess what my minimum radius could practically be, so...

Hi My wife has always wanted a garden railway. I have always refused to build one. I didn't see how a garden railway could satisfy my finescale desires. Then Steve went and built his Castle and my wife and I visited Simon's layout, and Fred Phipps is about to release a D600 warship, and I...

My latest project...........for the delight of the ' Bodger of Bath' , if he EVER finishes his Manning Wardle :laugh: [attachment=2:3hxhnm8t]rusmod5.jpg[/attachment:3hxhnm8t] [attachment=1:3hxhnm8t]rusmod7.jpg[/attachment:3hxhnm8t] [attachment=0:3hxhnm8t]rusmod8.jpg[/attachment:3hxhnm8t]...

Embryo G1 Garden line I'm a bit embarrassed posting this here, because it has been seen elsewhere and progress is so pitiful, but anyway here goes. This is by way of a "place marker" for my garden line which I have at last started actually building. Building in the sense that I have track...