Hobbyist Michelle Hemchaoui
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As one project nears It’s end, another one starts!
I’m making a new railway crane out of this Tri-Ang one with a more realistic control cab, with a vertical boiler! The boiler in question is made from a gaugemaster(?) solder tube.
-Michelle
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Initially I though of grinding off the face of the model. Kinda glad I didn’t do that (despite already trimming off the edge of the nose). It was better to cut out the face entirely, which meant more creative freedom on the back of the loco, and also I have a new face!
-Michelle <3
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Echoing from my Instagram post,
Thank you to everyone we saw at the open day yesterday, we hope you enjoyed it!
Thank you to everyone that saw the End of the Isle during It’s second appearance, and first in It’s complete state. All the nice comments you made about the layout and It’s detail were really lovely to hear and heart warming, so thank… Read more
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Layout is all set for tomorrow!
Again, If you have nothing else to do, come along to our open day! (Poster below)
-Michelle <3
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With model railway club night over and done with, I decided to spend the evening working on the Islander, in heels!
Not that they add anything of benefit to the loco, but as a trans modeller, It’s another part of the life I’ve been living since March. Just gotta get used to wearing them regularly rather than for a 1 minute laugh.
Anyway, the…
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Its a storage cupboard that opens and closes!!!
-Michelle
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While ‘Red Rolt’ is under construction, here’s no.5 Midlander!
I completed this in early 2024, here is some photos of the model alongside Its donor model.
Again, a lot of dremeling was done to get the chassis to fit, the windows to open up and the cab door to be the size it is on the real thing (pre-rebuild). Again, using my usual…
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Work kinda knocked me out for the afternoon, so there was no way I was going to add the 3rd layer of gloss varnish onto the main layout tonight. big sad…
But, I did manage to get my second layer of static grass laid on top of the fiddle yard for the Isle. I know It’s a fiddle yard, but I want It to look pretty even though the public won’t…
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Heyo,
I dunno how well this is ganna go.
So heres some pics of the layout I’ve been working on for the past year…
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