We arrived home last night after a few days down in Wells. This was our first visit to Wells and also my first vist to Railwells. Late on Sa...

I've been using the following photograph as a colour guide for the stone work on the barn. It was taken a few years ago when I was in Co...

With the repainting of the 7 plank progressing more to the warm dark shades of browns, I thought I'd try a different approach with the B...

Well the attempt at creating a bare wood effect on the old wagon is going OK but I'm still ending up with warm browns not the more washe...

A few years ago (blimey it was in 2011) I built a 7 plank private open wagon and tried to paint it to represent bare weathered wood. Though ...

As an early birthday present a 'footplate experience' at the Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway was organised by my daughter and ve...

2015 turned out to be a year for wargaming. The fact that is was 200 years since The Battle of Waterloo enticed us to put on three ofthe fou...