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Showing posts with label Avalon Line. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Avalon Line. Show all posts
Saturday, 28 June 2025

'Avalon' - Finishing Touches

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'Avalon', my subtle reworking of a completed and pre-painted Avalon Line loco is now completed. Having realised that the model was l...
Wednesday, 25 June 2025

'Avalon' - a midweek extra

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These photos were meant to be pretty much the final ones of 'Avalon' with it's new LRS/Narrow Planet plates in place, but I real...
Saturday, 14 June 2025

Avalon Loco Progress

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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 a...
Saturday, 31 May 2025

Avalon and Austria

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Last seen on arrival in January ( An Avalon Arrival ), work has finally progressed on the pre-built Avalon Line locomotive that I acquired f...
Saturday, 11 January 2025

An Avalon Arrival

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As mentioned a couple of months ago in  O9 Archaeology , the revived 7mmNGA sales operation under  has recently turned up several interestin...
Saturday, 12 August 2023

Buffers and Baggage

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For a while I really couldn't be motivated to get anything going on the workbench, however the weather was really telling me to stay ind...
Friday, 31 March 2023

The March of Time

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Time has flown by in the first quarter of 2023, and from a modelling perspective there has been little to report. I spent some time trying t...
Thursday, 5 January 2023

Tramcar Triumph

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The O9 tramcar was varnished in a spare moment on Christmas Eve, using Halfords matt lacquer as an alternative to Dulcote or a Humbrol aeros...
Saturday, 8 October 2022

Clerestories and Controllers - O9 Tramcar Progress

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We last saw the O9 tramcar build with the bulkhead panels in place on the floor and some seat supports in place on the platform ends. The se...
Sunday, 2 October 2022

October Spawned a Tramcar

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Having decided that the outline drawing in my last post was pretty close to what I wanted to achieve on the Kato bogie chassis, last week I ...
Tuesday, 27 September 2022

A Tramcar Doodle

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It seems like only yesterday, but turns out to be a number of months ago (four to be precise), I was looking at ideas to build an O9 railcar...
Tuesday, 31 May 2022

Railcar Doodles

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It's been a bit of a quiet spell at the workbench of late, but this week I have at least been thinking about doing something, which is...
Sunday, 4 April 2021

Diorama Developments - To The End...

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Diorama developments must go in pairs, as I was building the bench for 'Humberston' this piece of Slaters 7mm scale fence was also i...