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The Fabulous Finching Sisters ! [FFS]

gwrrob

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Those of you who follow my layout thread will be familiar with these two ladies who reside in South Devon.However the majority of people on here won't have a clue so let me introduce them to the wider world.

 

I'm a big fan of Mikkels blog http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/user/738-mikkel/

 

He uses character names from Dickens usually and I thought I would do the same.So I chose Minnie and Flora Finching.Minnie is the one with the pearl necklace and is always on the left in photos.A bit like Ant & Dec !

 

As my model is set in 1947 and they are about 60 years old I reckon they were born in 1887.They have a few stories to tell and spend a lot of their time on the platforms of Brent.Both have never married but one was thought to have had a child with Augustus Snodgrass, the ganger on the branch after a wild night out at the Packhorse Inn.

 

Recently they both went missing for a while.It turned out they got charmed by some cad of the Eastern persuasion who drives an A4 or some weird looking engine for the LNER.They drive on the wrong side it was said and they soon returned to Devon.

 

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Here they are with Zach Plunkett on their return home from Grantham.Teary eyed but relieved to back on familiar ground.

 

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Mikkel
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Fantastic, the Finching sisters have a blog! Great idea Rob, I don't expect many 4mm figures have a blog. Especially not when they were born in the 1880s! 

 

I'm relieved to see them back in Devon, you can't trust those Easterners. Plus, an A4 wouldn't catch their fancy I expect, not quite their style? 

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Job's Modelling

Lovely. Like the way you paint your figures.

 

Our "granddaughter" had the following conversation to a fictive friend the other day:

' When I'm old you can look on the internet and see what I have done in life.'

 

For information about the Finching sisters we depend on your information. Thanks for sharing.

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I am also pleased that they appear to be reading the local village newsletter that reports that a new pasty shop is about to open opposite the station.

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