Paternosterrow

Really beautiful modelling and those photographs are full of character.

 

Keep the photos coming.

 

Cheers,

 

Mark

Wow. What an achievement, Mike, that third shot from last is just fantastic.

 

Can't wait to see it with lights! :-)

Great modeling.

Agree with Mikkel about the third picture.

I thought you'd been quiet of late, Mike.

 

Now I know why: creating a masterpiece!!

 

If it wasn't for the tension lock couplings on the loco, I quite honestly, would have believed I was looking at a photo of the real thing. Another member, I reckon, heading for the lofty heights of MRJ!!!!

 

Well done, Mike.

 

Jonte

 

Ooh! Almost forgot to ask: how did you replicate the rivetting? Fabulous!

Apologies for not realising before, Mike, however, I've just read through your last couple of blogs and see that you've been waylaid. I am sorry.

 

Glad to see that since you've since returned to some form of modelling (a good sign) and may I wish you a full and speedy recovery.

 

This prompted an old war story of mine for which I apologise in advance: I suffered with kidney stones at the unusual and tender age of four and a half - I had my operation to remove them (and it was a full op back in those days) on my fifth birthday. I'm afraid I was much too young to remember the whole affair, apart from the odd recollection of being hospitalised for a couple of months or so. Still, there were no lasting effects apart from a significant scar across my abdomen which unfortunately grew with me and ruined my (other) modelling career! Still, the ladies I've met over the years have all considered me extremely brave to have fought off that rather large shark with massive teeth !!

 

Please continue to keep us apprised of any developments with this excellent topic, Mike, but only when you feel up to it, of course.

 

Best wishes,

 

Jonte

Really beautiful modelling and those photographs are full of character.

 

Keep the photos coming.

 

Cheers,

 

Mark

Cheers, Mark

 

Hope to post more soon after the lights have been done.

 

Mike

Wow. What an achievement, Mike, that third shot from last is just fantastic.

 

Can't wait to see it with lights! :-)

 

Thanks, Mikkel.

 

Personal preference is a funny old thing as I'm rather partial to the first shot - particularly how the light falls on the back plate of the Class 3 Tank (if I'd only removed that pesky coupling first!)

 

The lights arrived yesterday so I'm going to get busy on them asap.

Great modeling.

Agree with Mikkel about the third picture.

Many thanks, Job.

 

More soon.

Apologies for not realising before, Mike, however, I've just read through your last couple of blogs and see that you've been waylaid. I am sorry.

 

Glad to see that since you've since returned to some form of modelling (a good sign) and may I wish you a full and speedy recovery.

 

This prompted an old war story of mine for which I apologise in advance: I suffered with kidney stones at the unusual and tender age of four and a half - I had my operation to remove them (and it was a full op back in those days) on my fifth birthday. I'm afraid I was much too young to remember the whole affair, apart from the odd recollection of being hospitalised for a couple of months or so. Still, there were no lasting effects apart from a significant scar across my abdomen which unfortunately grew with me and ruined my (other) modelling career! Still, the ladies I've met over the years have all considered me extremely brave to have fought off that rather large shark with massive teeth !!

 

Please continue to keep us apprised of any developments with this excellent topic, Mike, but only when you feel up to it, of course.

 

Best wishes,

 

Jonte

Many thanks for your very generous comments, Jonte.

 

As you're already aware, Kidney stones are a very painful business.  Bad enough for an adult to endure so it must have been a very traumatic experience for a child!  Back in those days, before the wonderful keyhole equipment they use nowadays, surgery would have been dramatic.  Thankfully, the stones I get are small enough to pass (but only just).  Much empathy and commiserations my friend and glad those pesky stones haven't had too much of an effect on both of your careers!!

 

The rivet effect was simply done using a Swivel Pounce Tool - it's like a small gear cog that rotates when you push it along.  Got mine from an online American company called Widget Supplies for a little over

Hi again, Mike, and good to hear from you ol' charmer!!!

 

Really, you're no that far away at all with modelling of that standard and detail, and when I made the MRJ comment, I had the similar 7mm scale project in mind that appears on the "How realistic......" thread. Okay, those locos are scratchbuilt jobs, but you must remember that it was the shed scene, as I recall, which was the subject of the magazine article.

 

Thanks for the heads up re the rivetting tool. Only thing is, I don't need that many and they're certainly not in long lengths so perhaps the commercial ones are a viable option in my case. Am I right in thinking they're available from Wills?

 

I'm still determined to finish Cheapside, however, since resuming modelling activities after a busy spell I've decided to have an interlude and produce a quickie using RTR stuff, just so I can play trains while Cheapside continues.

 

I'll start a layout thread a little further down the line, but just for now, I've opened a thread in 'Scenery, structures etc. which can be found here

http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/73088-rotunda-joint-thats-joint-lnwrgwr/

 

It's the beginnings of a station roof based on the joint LNWR & GWR terminus at Birkenhead Woodside although the station roof and building are based on its predecessor, Monks Ferry, of which there is little information on the 'net. Hope to finish it sooner rather than later, but you know how these things go.

 

Hope you like it.

 

All the best, Mike,

 

Jonte

nice work Mike, really looks the biz, Good to see you on Saturday as well.

 

Cheers

 

George