Building And Designing A Wood Frame/Workbench For A Model Railway

Well as like most modellers expansion is something that is thought about 75% of the time when you are not modelling. So is the same with me, as I started out with a railway layout that fit on to a single bed at the begining of this year (Voxville End TMD). But that was just [...]

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Designing A Traction Engine In 2D, By Only Looking At A Picture

I am not too sure why I have started this project But I have started to design a Steam Traction Engine that I am going to build in wood. I have downloaded a picture of a traction engine from the internet, and only using it a visual guide to the dimensions of the model. This will give [...]

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Re-use Old Railway Scenery And Buildings To Create A New Diorama

Well seen as I am on a big mission to save money, I am trying to re-use as much of my old layout ‘Boddington’ and now it is time to re-use the ‘Boddington Parish Church.’ It was a great addition to Boddington but for the past 2 months it has been sat in my cupboard collecting dust, so [...]

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Simply Doing The ABC’s In Cedar, From A CAD Design

As Like so many projects in this country start I guess “I met some one in the pub,” that was showing a bit of woodworking that some one had made. But they had quoted an extreme amount of money for this simple project. All that this person wanted was two names of their children, in a bold wood [...]

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Project ‘Train-Room’ Bringing CAD, Carpentry and Model Railways Together

Well this day has been coming for a while, even though ‘Boddington’ is a great layout that I have created like many other railway modellers we fell the need to expand! And yes I want to expand in a big way, around my household we like to call the room that my layout Boddington resides in the “Train Room” [...]

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