Meifford Diary

 

A loose journal ...

of Random Items!

 

 

 

 

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No.4 Ogwen in the shed for maintenance

 

 

 

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Dai, waiting for the train to pass before resuming work on the line

Building the Pike Bros. Tippers

First real blog - the making of the pike bros tipper wagon set - kits from Locos n Stuff.

Finally completed after about two years in the making is a set of five tipper wagons, plus the ‘runner’ and although the kits are not without fault, I am very pleased with the results. When I bought them they were available as individual kits, or as a rake of three or more along with what’s known as the ‘runner’ wagon; a small flatbed truck that goes between the loco and the first tipper.

Getting Distracted.

The problem with being a railway modeller is that there is so much to what we do. We build the foundations (baseboards), create the landscape, lay the track and then to some degree or other, make the buildings that give it form and then potentially make all the locos and stock that run on our railway!

Don't mention people.

Why do we do it?

I mean, sometimes there is this feeling that there are other things to do in life than trying to re-create pantiles in miniature, or make a small forest of trees and on a bad day when none of it looks right we also manage to glue fingers together and then top it all with resting the tip of the soldering iron against said fingers whilst trying to make up the latest etched kit!

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