Gav's Workbench

I have been modelling the railways of South Australia since 1977 and more recently British outline since 2007. Some future projects will include some American railroading such as the Virginian Railway and a new venture into another British outline layout of the LNER in the early 1930s.

Monday, 2 December 2013

Getting a bit plastered!

Having done some more testing on the track, I was happy to start the plaster work over the aluminium flywire to form the hills and landscap...

Friday, 22 November 2013

"Commercial Street" - 1960s South Australian Railways

Here is a unique hinged baseboard idea that many English modellers had developed many decades ago of modelling a fold up railway kn...

Progress with Porthminster

During the course of winter I had to take a break from Porthminster to build a small fold-up South Australian Railways layout for a pre...

Friday, 21 June 2013

Porthminster Modules & Track

Construction of the modules proved to be more difficult than first thought due to the shapes needed to produce each module. There are so fe...

Saturday, 23 February 2013

Tunnel portals for Penwith Station

Tunnel portals for either end of Penwith Station were originally intended to be like the famous Box Tunnel but would have been too large f...

GWR Diag. C23 Third Class coach

Using the two Compartment sections of the Triang Brake Third coaches can result in a very convincing 10 compartment Diagram C23 coach. T...

Wednesday, 30 January 2013

GWR Diag. V5 Passenger Brake Van

Not one to pass up a challenge, I saw the potential in making up two different types of passenger stock from a pair of old Triang Clerestor...

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