Monthly Archives: July 2022

Things are moving with what is best described as glacial speed here at FCPyF HQ, I seem to be totally lacking in motivation at the moment. The latest class 80 cars now have their running gear fitted though. Some ballast … Continue reading →

There has not been much happening at Blackcloud Railways HQ recently but I have just found a couple of forgotten locos in the garage while still searching for a suitable base to build the High Street tram micro. They were … Continue reading →

The MDF kit used on Church Square is designed for wargaming 15mm scale, that’s about 1:100, but churches vary a lot in size. It dominates the tram micro layout but creates a modest chapel in O scale. Regulars will be … Continue reading →

A group of immigrants have arrived this afternoon. They’re the same sort of cheap Chinese knock-offs as used on the FCPyF but these are 1:100 scale for use with the trams. The paint on some of the larger scale figures … Continue reading →

The FCPyF is expanding its DMU fleet by another two cars. The class 70s are both powered and run either as single cars or with 26 (A, below) to make a two car train. At first I was going to … Continue reading →

It’s even better if you can get there by train. There is a hitherto unknown outpost of the Blackcloud Railways empire. A three foot gauge former pit to port line, mineral trains stopped running when the pit closed but the … Continue reading →

The first two images are screen grabs from eBay. The one above shows the delivery notice and the one below shows how the item was described. Note that there is no mention in the description of the item differing from … Continue reading →

During fog and falling snow… Postie has called. She left a large box on the doorstep, as eagerly anticipated. Except it is not what was anticipated at all, the advertised item is a passenger train with two coaches, the delivered … Continue reading →

Confession time. It is a series of stills as a slideshow rather than a video because there was a lot of finger prodding involved. This was the first proper operating session I’d tried with Puente Carreteros since it was redeveloped … Continue reading →