Back at the club (WMRA) spring open day I discovered that on my Bachmann Hall (6969 Wraysbury Hall) the R/h side connecting rod had somehow become disconnected at the wheel end. I finally got around to assessing the fault last week, discovered the circlip that should have been holding it on, wasn't there. I ordered a few replacement circlips from the Bachmann spares service which then arrived promptly. On the same order I added three sets of Manor tender wheels for another project. The service f
It has been a long while since I last painted a batch of the Dapol (ex Airfix) figure sets. Started tonight, so far a base coat of 50:50 PVA followed by a coat of watercolour black as a wash to fill in the shadows. First time attempting this black coat base after seeing it described several times.
They will need some more touching in before I add the over colours, again with watercolours. The joys(?) to come will be the drilling and fitting of pins to fix them rather than the supplie
