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Cleaned and undercoated now. Distinct possibility I may be able to get moving on painting tonight.

Nice to see another Pennsy fan. Personally I am quite drawn to the Jersey coast pennsy operations along the New York and Long Branch. I even managed to get me dad (a die hard BR man) interested in the Pensylvania Reading Sea Shore Lines

Oh I enjoy the hobby as much as a cash strapped millenial with a penchant for modelling the not so ready to run aspects of the steam era railway can :P Building the Taffy mink is a huge step up for me in terms of what I can achieve now. Not so much "I can do it" as more "it can be don...

In addition to the above post.

Its taken a week to the day and several sheer moments of terror but it is over.

Cheers pal. Its truly one of those horrifying experiences as my first true go at soldering was the brass underframe on Dragon Models resin Cambrian Van and that was extremely messy. https://live.staticflickr.com/862/43800624422_bc6374d9ed_c.jpg A little more within my expertise is this scratchbuilt ...

It's probably time I posted some of my progress here. Just a bit of background. The WW&MUR stands for West Wales and Midlands Union Railway which is my ficticious Pre Grouping company. It is a post 1860s merger of a few smaller companies to create a mainline running from the Northamptonshire Iro...

Hello all,

Just to say hello. Im a bit of a rarity in that I am a pre grouping nut who is also in the process of creating a freelanced company with its own history, locomotive designs and rolling stock.