Simon Cox
Simon Cox
Simon Cox
Hello – this is my personal website. I bring you a smattering of articles to read, images to soak in while you wander about the web and a few thoughts to ponder on while you drink your tea in the short articles section.
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Last night on the very quite train home (during England’s match) my train was passed by the Brighton Express. As it passed at only a couple of miles per hour faster then we were going I noticed some very prominent T-Mobile stickers in on...
Is someone stealing your content? You probably don't know. I just read a piece over on Learning Movable Type that sparked this post off. If you publish RSS feeds then I expect someone will have used those feeds to fill their auto...
Dashes vs Underscores is an ongoing debate about whether it is better to use a dash, or hyphen, in file name or to use an underscore instead. Over the past few years I have always used the underscore both at work and in home projects....
2 ton iron coal wagon kit by A Knights Work My Easter 2006 project was a 2 ton iron coal wagon kit by A Knights Work which I purchased a couple of months ago to test my soldering skills - or lack of them. It's all brass and does not fit...
Just dug up an old 009 Society leaflet I picked up from Imrex 90 - 16 years ago! I had intended to join the society at the time but life got in the way as usual and I didn't sign up for another 11 years. The society is still going strong...
The Greenwich and District Narrow Gauge Railway Society have a new website for the ExpoNG exhibition - www.expong.org. Expo Narrow Gauge is on the 29th October this year and I certainly will be going along. Hopefully I will get a proper...
I was given the Scaloox starter pack for Christmas and I decided to have a go at building the water tower and coaling stage which was a good simple project to test out this new building form. Scaloox is a modular building system with...
This one really bugged me. I was trying to validate some code I had uploaded to a staging area on a site and it would not validate back on my PC running CSE HTML Validate because something somewhere was inserting extra bits of...
The 2006 January edition of the Railway Modeller has a two page spread of the ExpoNG including a very good picture of Loxley Barton Falls and a small mention in the text. Available at most good newsagents. Narrow Gauge World January and...
This year I have been eating a lot more Japanese food - mainly because I really like it but also because its good quality food. Itsu who have a takeaway stall outside my office provide me with excellent miso soup and what they call a...
Only 8 and a half hours before the public get to see Loxley Barton Falls. It's 2am and I am not frantically getting everything ready having spent the evening finishing the layout, adding figures and finishing off the rolling stock. This...
I genuinely cannot believe this - I won! I did not think I had a chance and when I saw the other layouts I just put the competition out of my mind as the others were so good. Looks like Loxley Barton Falls struck the right chord with the...
I realised this morning that the Gallery images did not contain any of the final model as it went to ExpoNG 2005 yesterday. So this morning I did a quick photo shoot. The image above is my favourite as it really captures the dark...
Hunslet 2-6-2 Locomotive No. 07 is a Parkside Dundas kit built by me in the early 1990's. This is kit DL01 Welshpool & Llanfair Light Railway Hunslet 2-6-2 Tank Loco No.14 which was rescued from Sierra Leone. I have modelled the kit as a...
Today I filled in the waterfall and stream. I had already added the base water using a Woodland Scenics 'Realistic Water product and on top of that I added strands of Deluxe Products' Scenic Fibre glued in place for the main drop of the...