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Category Archives: Boltorr Road Halt
Bridge over the Boltorr Brook
Living in the land of HO rather than OO doesn’t provide much local opportunity for finding a UK outline kit in your local model railroad store. Fortunately, when it comes to structures like a steel plate bridge on a railway … Continue reading
New Header for That British Bloke
I thought it was time for a new look at the otbb blog. I’ve kept the text elements the same, but merged in a view of my model railway, the Boltorr Road Halt. The shot is comprised of an ex-GWR … Continue reading
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Bolt Tor Tunnel Portal
I’m pretty sure that the rest of the granite structures on Boltorr Road will not be made in this manner. Manufacturing and applying hundreds, if not thousands of clay chips to represent rough hewn granite blocks certainly gives a very … Continue reading
Boltorr Embankment to Bolt Tor Tunnel
I know. I really need to get on with establishing the rest of the landscape. But occasionally just putting a couple of engines and coaches on the tracks give a preview of what will eventually be. It’s a carrot. So … Continue reading
I Went Down To The River …
… Studying about that good ol’ way … The ancient Boltorr Brook is now reduced to an overflow from the Boltorr Reservoir. Consequently, at this point it’s fairly deep in the middle, but otherwise pretty lazy. After passing over the … Continue reading
Static Grass – first test
You know how it is … I can’t wait … Landscaping on the Boltorr branch is only half done – let alone the trackwork. But I couldn’t wait to try out the Magic Grass Machine. Basically, the groundwork has been … Continue reading
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Tagged GrasMaster, grass, landscaping, Noch, static adhesive, static grass, wet water
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Boltorr Beattie
Sometimes I can’t stop myself. Here’s a L&SWR Beattie well tank 2-4-0WT emerging from Bolt Tor tunnel (in construction). I was just trying to get a sense of the scale and perspective of the landscape. You can’t really tell from … Continue reading
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Tagged Beattie 2-4-0WT, Bolt Tor Tunnel, model photography
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