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Foster Street - Time for another update.

paulprice

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Well its been a while since I last posted an entry on here, some might say its not been long enough :). The reason for this is not because the Domestic Overlord has been scheduling my every waking moment.

 

The real reason is that in part I have lost my modelling mojo, and because I have been bogged down with some of the boring time consuming jobs that have been backing up, like wheel cleaning etc.

 

Anyway thanks to Phil of this parish the fiddle yard on Foster Street is finally having the point motors wired up, and route matrixes fitted to make operation easier. Now Phil reckons, or rather tells everyone that he is an electronics Guru, but I know he is still jealous of my God like soldering ability.

 

Anyway one of the jobs I needed to do is not only clean the wheels on the loco fleet, but to finally fit traction tyres to the Jubilees which decided to throw at least one, at the same time, at the last outing. So I got the stock box down and decided to at least get this job completed, the problem is nothing is ever easy for fast, and if I have anything to do with it usually a lot more complicated than it needs to be.
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Most of the fleet has been weathered to some degree or another, so while I had them out I decided to touch up a few areas, and ensure that they all had crews in the cabs. Not a quick process (the excitement of fitting traction tyres has to be experienced to be believed) anyway after working out how many footplate crew I needed I set about the hacking/ mutilating the little people about and fitting them to their locos.

 

Being a cunning little squirrel I took advantage of this and added my latest Evil Bay bargain Jubilee to the fleet, which means I now have 6, I also added officially my latest Royal Scott to the fleet to, which was a gift from some very good friends. Its in the preserved Maroon livery, but its a little stunner so will stay in this livery and enter the fleet, all it needs is headlamps adding and some very light weathering.

 

Anyway time for a quick rant........ At the latest exhibition outing, a very nice Chap, commented that my freight trains were un-prototypical as there were too many tarps on the wagons, and that they looked totally wrong.

 

Apparently they were the wrong colour, size and the lettering was all wrong, my heinous crime must have been totally horrific as he failed to notice the presence of the Elephant train on the layout.

 

So I took all his remarks on board, as he left viewing the layout, still with the use of his legs, and with a little smug look on his face, I vowed to resolve the situation. So what did I do? Did I return home and remove every tarp from the fleet, NO I DID NOT, I applied even more to the fleet, and as the commercial ones were so WRONG I made my own.
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Apparently I can be a little stubborn from time to time, so I have to procure more open wagons and then I can have more tarps........HA READ THAT AND WEEP ANORAK MAN....

 


Well I think the Domestic Overlord is about to send me to bed, so until the next time, as ever Happy Modelling :)

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nick_bastable
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its always amazing that  those that criticize never have their own work on display where as active modelers often offer helpful suggestions and hints

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paulprice

its always amazing that  those that criticize never have their own work on display where as active modelers often offer helpful suggestions and hints

 

Your right, I thought it was just me, still for every crank at an exhibition, its good to see that they are outnumbered by normal people. If only us on the operating team on Foster Street could be classed as normal.

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Those wagon tarps are very neat.

 

I tend to think that far more open wagons were sheeted when on the move than is depicted on models, if your chap at the exhibition turns up again ask him why so many had five digit serial numbers. 

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Sooo much LMS goodness, I may start drooling. Really nice work! :)

 

Don't get me started on people who feel they have the right to criticise other peoples hard work. One such incident (that I wont recount) is why I don't actively wargame any more.....

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Black5

Good to see Foster Street on here again. Began to think you might be on a new project.

I think in any hobby you get times where things get a bit stale and you struggle for ideas, my current one being what to put on the front board edge to deter people from wanting to touch things. I was always told " look , but don`t touch "

I agree with the others regarding the chap at the exhibition. I often wonder what their hobby is. Be nice to see what they do. I bet they wouldn`t stand any suggestion that something might not be quite right.

Our hobby is full of compromise and modellers license, without it we`d have no layouts.

 

Cheers just now.

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andyram

The layout is superb Paul, don't let the "rivet counters" grind you down. It is your layout, you run what you like. Will seem strange at Weston this weekend without the procession of Jubilees on Foster Street!

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paulprice

Those wagon tarps are very neat.

 

I tend to think that far more open wagons were sheeted when on the move than is depicted on models, if your chap at the exhibition turns up again ask him why so many had five digit serial numbers. 

Thanks about the tarps being neat, but perhaps they are too neat, maybe they need messing up a bit?

 

Trust me he is not the worst of them, the problem is they sometimes hunt in packs :)

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paulprice

Sooo much LMS goodness, I may start drooling. Really nice work! :)

 

Don't get me started on people who feel they have the right to criticise other peoples hard work. One such incident (that I wont recount) is why I don't actively wargame any more.....

Its good to meet another LMS fan, I thought I was the only one ?

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paulprice

Good to see Foster Street on here again. Began to think you might be on a new project.

I think in any hobby you get times where things get a bit stale and you struggle for ideas, my current one being what to put on the front board edge to deter people from wanting to touch things. I was always told " look , but don`t touch "

I agree with the others regarding the chap at the exhibition. I often wonder what their hobby is. Be nice to see what they do. I bet they wouldn`t stand any suggestion that something might not be quite right.

Our hobby is full of compromise and modellers license, without it we`d have no layouts.

 

Cheers just now.

Well speaking about new projects, I have been thinking about a new layout with more of a mainline feel, which means I can run my Duchess loco's so it wont be long before.................

 

I found the problem with people touching at exhibitions tends to be more adults, I even had one chap who reached out and lifted an engine from the front of a train. When I asked him what he was doing he said he had not seen an Ivatt Class 4 in N gauge and wanted to find out who made it.

 

When I said it was scratch built he remarked it was nothing special and dumped it back on the layout, the cheek if it :)

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Guest Midland Mole

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Its good to meet another LMS fan, I thought I was the only one ?

 

I cant understand why there are people out there who are NOT fans of the LMS! :D

 

I'm hoping to be able to run most LMS loco designs on my layout (although sadly not any Stanier pacifics). The sight of a Jubilee, Scot or Patriot is enough to get my heart racing. :)

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Black5

Totally agree with Midland Mole. All but two of my locos are  L M S  but i have to confess to owning a Bullied pacific and an A4, both gifts. I f i run them i tend to look the other way!!!!!

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paulprice

I have to admit to having one of those Spam can things and 5 LNER locomotives, Im not going to mention the GWR loco's.

 

IM PAUL AND I HAVE A PROBLEM

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