Flying Scotsman 0 Gauge Model

Created by: Lester Caine, 21 October 2025
Last modified: 24 October 2025

Friday 24 of October, 2025

By Lester Caine
24 October 2025

OK all the magazines rescanned and a set of electronic copies in the folder. Next step perhaps is to OCR them so I can search for content, but I've got the Parts List pages as a single document and was going to scan through the recommended tools list, so I've just run ocrmypdf on that. And failed. While the block on white and white on red text has been recognised, the black on yellow boxes have been missed and those are the 'You will need' boxes. AH it's only some boxes th…

Wednesday 22 of October, 2025

By Lester Caine
22 October 2025

One might think that I should have remembered to check things before scanning ALL of the magazines? More haste less speed! I had sort of spotted that some of the pages did not quite look right, but reducing the 600DPI scans down to thumbnails always causes some problems with rendering. It was not until I'd actually reordered all of the A3 scans down to A4 that I actually started to look closer and when stripping the assembly instructions, it became obvious that something was wrong. At fir…

Tuesday 21 of October, 2025

By Lester Caine
21 October 2025
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As this will be running in parallel with the Dalek project and is something I will pick up and put down at times then a separate blog diary is appropriate.

I have had a few problems due to a couple of parts going missing after the various movements of my property around different storage locations, but I've just received the final part, the sides of the tender, which has been a rather expensive purchase at 10 t…