O9 Modeller
Railway modelling in 7mm scale on 9mm gauge track, representing 15" gauge miniature railways and 18" gauge industrial railways. (Plus anything else that I choose to include!)
Saturday, 21 June 2025
Parking up the Mini
Saturday, 14 June 2025
Avalon Loco Progress
Work is progressing well on the reworking of the pre-built Avalon Line loco. Although I want to keep as much of the original paint finish as possible, I felt that the all-encompassing grey finish needed something to both break it up and add some colour. The obvious and realistic thing to add was an area of red to the buffer beams and/or the coupler blocks. In the end the latter were carefully masked off, only to find that I had no red oxide primer to hand...
Saturday, 31 May 2025
Avalon and Austria
Monday, 26 May 2025
Sign of the Time
Saturday, 17 May 2025
Tyred
To my surprise the effect, although subtle, works! Not bad for an idea sparked by looking at my car tyres after a trip down the lane to the Sherwood Forest Railway...
Saturday, 3 May 2025
Three Pound Mini
- Fixing the front wheels with a slight steer to the right and sanding a flat into the base of the tyres so the model sits better on the road,
- T-cutting the paintwork on the body to remove imperfections in the surface (I picked this tip up in one of Gordon Gravett's books) and carefully removing paint from handles and trim reveal the metal surface,
- Spraying the body, chassis and interior with Humbrol matt varnish, subsequently re-coating the body in Halfords matt lacquer as it looked too matt (!),
- Weathering, including the wheels (more about them another time...) and a few bird deposits to hide lumps in the paint on the roof,
- Adding (HO scale) windscreen wipers over the moulded originals and weathering the screen.
Saturday, 26 April 2025
Watching the World
A new addition to 'odsock Corner is a lone figure sat on the bench outside the office watching the world go by... I've decided to be very careful and not over-populate the tiny scene so apart from train drivers and passengers, this is likely to be the only figure actually on the ground, so to speak.
In a new direction for me this is a resin 3D print, sourced very economically from Eddie King's 3D Printing For Charity who attend many shows in Lincolnshire, the East Midlands and surrounding area and raise money for the Lincs and Notts Air Ambulance. I've seen the air ambulance land in our village twice in the last year, so this is a very deserving cause.