Blogs about Modelmaking

First things first. The book is available in two formats: pdf and ePub. Download whichever one you like, or both, they’re free:The Model Buildings of E. L. Moore (pdf)The Model Buildings of E. L. Moore …

I've just arrived back from my almost-weekly inspection visits to see the progress Himself is making on the new mini-Minffordd project and thought I would share some images.A lot of the time - and brain …

It’s Monochrome Monday again, and because the colour meter isn’t topped up until Tuesday morning, and because of colour overuse during the week prior, it usually runs out on Sunday night resulting in Monday’s monochrome …

Making good progress with the bubble cars. A second wagon is complete, and more wagons and cars are under way. Hopefully, they will be completed by next weekend. The most time consuming bit is the …

In the large image at the top of the blog, there are some interesting features, to help understand the image this is a map of the Bamberger industrial system where the lines from the Baywa …

In North America ‘proto-freelance’ is an approach to model railroads where a respect for railway operation and practice is blended with make believe to create a plausible ‘what if’ railroad. Although some do stretch the …

Work on the steam tram has been very limited recently, but I have had time to look at the boiler. 3D printed on a filament printer, it needs some smoothing. My plan involved a coat …

In 1986, we visited the DFS in Ebermannstadt and we were invited to travel along the line in a Klv12, it was tiny. I never thought that an HO version would be available, until I …

We often describe ourselves, in this hobby, as “lone wolves” because our vocabulary is biased toward narrating our experience in only terms of our output, the models we make and the stuff of our collections. …

Advert for the Austin Allegro 2 I really like making road vehicles – when I was younger I spent a lot of time building and repainting buses – most still exist,stored at my parents’ house. …