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    Barry Ten

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    On 30/06/2021 at 00:13, Iain.d said:

    They look great Barry, I'm following with interest as I have two S&D milk vans to do.  I will use Vallejo Prussian blue as dedicated railway colour model paints are unavailable in Perth.

     

    Kind regards,

     

    Iain

     

    They are looking fabulous Barry.

     

    If car colours are available in Perth, Rover Midnight Blue is a good match. That said, what with fading in sunlight and darkening due to exposure to Sulphur the colour would have varied considerably.

     

    Jerry

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    MarshLane

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    Hi Rich, very flattered that my Bath project has provided some inspiration. I too am a big fan of Mikkle and the Farthing layouts. Your project sounds excellent, particularly as you are plumping for pre-group Midland.

     

    I selected my modelling period precisely for the reasons Stephen mentions above. I wanted pre-group and always loved the post war pictures of goods yards with wagons from all over the country so initially settled on 1922. Since then I have become a bit more flexible as favourites such as large boilered 7Fs, 2Ps and Jinties (Bagnalls) fall outside that date so have now gone with a rather fluid decade or so after WW1 - essentially till the end of the S&D blue period in 1930 although the vast majority of my Midland stuff remains pre 1923 with just a couple of 4Fs in the first LMS livery with the small panel on the cab side.

     

    Regarding your comments about locos, the Farish 4F is a very straightforward conversion to 2FS. Association bearings and wheels can be dropped in with replacement rods - I think Izzy has done a detailed series of posts on his thread in the 2mm area. The Farish model is a beautiful runner if a little light in terms of haulage though this can be significantly improved with a weighted tender.

    The beautiful 800 2-4-0 above was built for me by John Greenwood in exchange for doing a number of the buildings on Wadebridge, I really must get round to painting it this spring along with a few other locos that have spent far too long in bare metal!

     

    Below is a crop from an Airofims picture of Bath showing the shed. The date is bang in my period at 1920 although I will again be using a bit of modellers license to expand the Stothert works across the road and onto the sports field behind the sidings full of wagons on the north side of the line as the real thing did in the early thirties - it makes a much better backdrop to the layout as I only have about three inches to play with here!

     

    I shall follow your project with interest.

     

    Jerry  

     

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    wenlock

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    2 minutes ago, wenlock said:

    Great pictures Jerry!  That camera of yours got everywhere, The view of the horses with the abbey in the background is one I’ve never seen before:)
     

    Dave

     

    If you remember I used the highly sophisticated technique of plonk, press and hope for the best! :rolleyes:

     

    I have to make a trip to the post office at some point next week so I will post you a stick with them all on.

     

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    wenlock

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    48 minutes ago, Barry Ten said:

    An extra board in the same format as the rest of the layout definitely wouldn't fit in the standard transit Dave's been hiring, alas, as it's already getting fairly tight by the time stock boxes and overnight bags are in. It might be possible to squeeze in a smaller one, though.

     

    That's a shame, I do like a small shed scene.
     

    Jerry

    wenlock

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    If you are going to the trouble of making an extra board that can only be used at shows I'd be tempted to go the whole hog and do another full size baseboard with that engine shed scene you talked about. Would an extra board fit in your normal transport?

     

    Few of the pictures we didn't use in the MRJ article,

     

    Jerry

     

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    wenlock

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    Glorious stuff Dave, I don't know if the posts above are correct or not but the notion that you can have too many S&D wagons is clearly nonsense:-)

     

    Christmas plus early arrival of new grandson has put me out of circulation for the last few weeks but starting to catch up now.

     

    jerry 

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    Maurice Hopper

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    On 12/11/2019 at 08:27, Maurice Hopper said:

    Dave and David,

     

    It was with a degree of trepidation that I opened my blog this morning, wondering how this post would have gone down, especially so after the rejection of the original, robust text by the MRJ.   One suspects even the MRJ has to look over it shoulder to see what the advertisers opinion of such a piece would be, let alone the assumed opinions of it readers.  (Rather amusing that the reply panel I am typing in has below it an advert for 30% off Hornby locos ... while stocks last.  Do they know something we don't?)

     

     

    Kind regards     Maurice

     

     

     

    As the editor of the MRJ which published Maurice's excellent article I would like to pick up on a couple of points.

     

    Firstly, the original text was not rejected, it was edited. As I said to Maurice I wanted readers to read it and in its original form it was too long and attempted to cover too much ground. It was an editorial decision to do this and whether it was the right one or not is for others to decide but I was keen that Maurice's article was included alongside the piece by Richard Ellis on Midland in Bristol and the editorial I penned.

     

    Secondly, the notion that  MRJ was looking over its shoulders at what its advertisers might think, (or readers come to that) is just nonsense. A quick glance at any of the 270 odd MRJs to date will show that the RTR manufacturers have never advertised in its pages. If anything, an article championing self reliance and making things would be welcomed by those that do advertise.

     

    Thirdly, and most importantly, I rejected the basic premise of much of the argument. The notion that the use of plastics or other petrol based products is bad is simply wrong, its their single use that is the problem. If anything we should be encouraging modellers to make things from plasticard as its carbon footprint in terms of manufacturing it is many times smaller than that of card, paper or MDF which consume enormous amounts of energy in their production. Equating a single use plastic bag which ends up shredded and polluting our oceans with a plastic model which will hopefully last decades is a false comparison.

     

    For those interested, have a look at this article 

    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2010/mar/31/plastics-cardboard

     

    regards Jerry

     

     

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    D869

    Posted

    There is about 2' of the GWR mainline on Bath where it goes under the S&D just south of Bath Junction. It ends in a mirror and I originally intend to just have two or three coaches sat there but I would now like to put together a full rake.

     

    Jerry

    D869

    Posted

    Hi Andy,

     

    Blacksmith Models were sold by Cove Models near Farnborough did these years ago. As you say, the original Mallard etches were 4mm and they simply halved everything. My clerestories are the same source and I remember buying up as many as I could at the time. I should have looked beyond the GWR and picked up one of these as, like you, I have predeliction for BGs and the like. Looks like a really neat job.

     

    Lovely stuff Andy, I too rather like NPCS although most of mine are 4 and 6 wheelers.

     

    Interesting Nigel, I never came across the complete range although I do have a couple of the Mallard etches in my gloat box - a GWR full brake (K?) and a LMS period 1 example. The GWR clerestories are very nice, Im after a couple to add to my growing 1920 GWR rake to add some variety to the Masterclass toplights. So, if anyone has a couple to spare.......

     

    Jerry 

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