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I used to model S&DJR and GWR in the 1960s. I have all my father's railway photos, including his Beckerlegge collection of LNER & constituent company photos from around the grouping era, and many of his books. I photograph railways as and when I travel on them. So I am interested in railways, full-sized & models, but I am a fairly light-weight when it comes to technical details.
I have uploaded photo into albums here. https://www.rmweb.co.uk/profile/14351-phil_sutters/?tab=node_gallery_gallery Dad's and my photos can be seen in full (if I have scanned them!) at http://www.ipernity.com/doc/philsutters/album/538609
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You could try asking one of the 3D print figure manufacturers, like Scale3D, if they have thought about doing any. They do a huge range and seem to be rolling out new stuff all the time. They do a piper in their 28mm wargames range and 3D printers will often be able to rescale their products. https://www.scale3d.co.uk/products/allies-and-fiefs-clansman-hornblower?_pos=6&_sid=07d64f45e&_ss=r By the way have you thought about painting the tartans in 4mm? I have painted a fair few in 25/28mm wargames figures - 'an impression of tartan' would be the best I could acheive! To avoid any confusion, given the way this photo has magnified this figure massively, the wargaming 25/28mm is the figure height, nominally to the top of a bare head, not 25/28mm to the foot, as in model railway 4mm scale.
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This seems to be a current ad. https://www.hamodels.net/red-panda-4mm-wagon-kits.html
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Prototype for everything corner.
phil_sutters replied to jonny777's topic in UK Prototype Discussions (not questions!)
Back in the 13 era - 313 in 2013. Kate's not the only one to do dodgy Photoshop jobs. Yes, it was snapped at Lewes, but it was heading to Seaford. -
Cuckmere Haven - a very small slice of southern electric.
phil_sutters replied to Nearholmer's topic in Layout topics
The Cuckmere meanders and the Seven Sisters cliffs seem to have an almost mystical attraction to visitors from the far east. They come in all weathers and in all sorts of dress - some wind and weather-proof, some in totally inappropriate clobber. The last few hundred yards to the beach is a quagmire at times in the winter. -
Standard Cowans Sheldon 15T Crane (mk1 and mk2 Jib) announced!
phil_sutters replied to Garethp8873's topic in Oxford Rail
I would dearly like to recreate a scene illustrated in Chris Handley's Maritime Activities of the Somerset & Dorset Railway, where the boiler of the company's coaster Julia has been lifted out for transportation to Highbridge Works. The boiler looks like a significantly out of gauge load. The crane looks like one of this ilk. I guess it must have come round from Bath or Bristol to carry out this manoeuvre and presumably to repeat it in reverse after the boilermakers had done their repairs. Julia is already on scene, although its boiler must somewhere inside its solid wooden hull! -
If you are in BoS, yes I did back in the 60s & 70s*. I bought quite a few S&S resin models and white metal figures - but in the 80s - I think. I was in London by then. I didn't have room for a layout - before the days of planks and micro-layouts. So I did a mixture of 20mm modern and a lot of 25/28mm wargames figure painting - virtually any period. I did sub-contract work for Bill Brewer the well known painter and big cheese in the South London Warlords. *You may recognize my name as Dad was Vicar of Highbridge at that time.
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Cuckmere Haven - a very small slice of southern electric.
phil_sutters replied to Nearholmer's topic in Layout topics
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SDJR as delivered livery and marking details
phil_sutters replied to Ian M.'s topic in Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway Group
The photo appears to be an official Armstrong Whitworth image, as their company has put its name on the print. I assume from that it was taken at or near one of their works and I am sure someone here can identify the location, or at least the railway company involved, from the array of signals in the background. Later Bradley and Milton record that these five were built at the Scotswood Works at Newcastle-on-Tyne. The 4Fs do not appear to have the catchers fitted, just a small handrail at the location. Should we award a prize for the first person to make a scale model of that glorious cabin, hut, shack in the foreground? -
SDJR as delivered livery and marking details
phil_sutters replied to Ian M.'s topic in Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway Group
This shows a small boilered 7F in photo grey, with a tender cab, presumably at Derby. It does have the tablet catcher fitted. I would doubt that they would have sent 7Fs up to Highbridge even if they had arrived without catchers. Wouldn't Bath shed have had fitters that could fit them. I am trying to remember if 7Fs ever made it up the Central line. Dad said the Somerset Central was the original line and therefore should never be called a branch! -
Alternative Coal Wagon Loads
phil_sutters replied to brynnydd's topic in Modelling Questions, Help and Tips
Bear in mind that some commodities weigh more than others per cubic yard. Sand and shingle and some types of stone, for example, are denser loads than coal. So don't fill your coal wagons as full, with these types of loads. Dedicated sand and stone wagons are generally five or less planks high, as opposed to seven for coal. -
Cuckmere Haven - a very small slice of southern electric.
phil_sutters replied to Nearholmer's topic in Layout topics
In the past few weeks this scene has repeated itself - without the kite surfer as far as I have observed. The A259 at that point is basically a causeway. The pinch point for the river is the Exceat bridge. South of the bridge the meanders do flood but water can fairly easily drain away at low tide, although the ground remains very boggy. There is a concrete roadway along the eastern flank from the A259 to within a few hundred yards of the beach. -
I am fairly sure that there is another thread with similar content, to which I added some photos - about two or three years ago - could be more. This is one from my days working in London. It is not far from London Bridge station and has been used as a film location on a number of occasions.
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Cuckmere Haven - a very small slice of southern electric.
phil_sutters replied to Nearholmer's topic in Layout topics
The groynes on the beach are just skeletons, where they exist at all. As the river reaches the beach the banks are reinforced and, although somewhat degraded in places, the flow is contained. As far as I am aware there is now nowhere where the 'new cut' is shallow enough to ford, except as it fans out across the beach at low tide. At the southern end of the 'meanders', which are the famed 'oxbow' lakes, there is a stream that empties into the new cut. There is a ford across this stream and some of the meander waters. The Environment Agency at one point was talking about leaving the sea to work its way inland, when the reshaping of the shingle beach, which has happened a couple of times a year, as at Seaford, would be ceased. The current owners of the Coastguard Cottages - those that appear in the foreground of views of The Seven Sisters cliffs - have fought hard to get their homes protected by reinforcing the sea wall beneath them. I don't know where either of those scenarios has got to. -
If you want a Union view on horses per vehicle - from one of my wife's ancestors. I find the presence of angels around carmen an interesting touch.