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The two new slab wagons now complete with loads

I used the one called spray mount in the blue and silver cans. I have experimented with other spray cans of impact glue to do this when I ran out of the other. It did the job but goes stringy which you can get rid of but is less stait forward to use. The spray mount is meant for sticking paper/photo...

P.S. this maybe stateing the obvious but these things get hot! May want to wear some gloves but not so thick they interfere with your dexterity.

If you go on youtube find the videos by "summerland steam" on steaming the Accucraft Ragleth, it's much the same as an Edrig.
I watched these films by Mr Bird before running my first live steam locos and found it helpful.

Have you run one of these before?

I'm genuinely astonished at how well you can scribe MDF (I've seen Cain Howley do this too, he also has a fondness for basing models on PS kits). It's a material I haven't dared to mess with as I assumed if you took the surface off it would swell up when painted or something... I've heard a lot of ...

The finishing touch was to make the metal parts as convincing now as the wood. I had already used a method I found in Garden Rail magazine to rust my entire fleet of vee tippers. This method uses 3M spray glue, powdered iron appiled to said objects. When thoroughly dry dunk in copper sulphate soluti...

Once I finished off the wagon frames as described it got an application of wood stain. Later it got rubbed with a load of limestone dust from the bottom of the chippings pile. This did not achieve the desired result first time a lot of the dirt rubbed off with the wood stain first time, but with a c...

Will be making some more of these Phil Sharples slab wagons up soon. I tried a few different types of flat wagon out and liked these best so will become standard. As I started to put the kit together I workedin a wood grain effect with a small scribe, at the same time taking the sharp edges off with...

I enjoyed the videos of the Overcombe light railway and I'm wondering if it is possible to see a track plan? There is a possibility that I may be building another garden railway in the future, it would be another quarry and it would be all on a level patio. I would like a very convoluted track plan ...