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phil_sutters

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  1. I really think that you should try to enjoy more activities as a couple. My grandfather took this snapshot to show how important it was to maintain a steady hand and stiff upper lip at all times, in front of the lower ranks and the locals.
  2. Later than your chosen era and with two numbers transposed but I don't expect much had changed in ten years or so.
  3. I regret to say that I have never visited the SVR, despite having two of the early volunteers - Brian & Paul Williams - as cousins. Equally I have never made it to the West Somerset line, although I have a sister living in the area. Sad init!
  4. Unless you are modelling railways in T scale!
  5. Hope you like 'em! David. PS Actually I didn't make the horses! Lovely models. Did you have to do the lettering yourself?
  6. I vote for Northiam on the Kent & East Sussex Railway. http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/gallery/image/80913-kesr-northiam-station-looking-west-7-8-2014/
  7. That's great - my friend and her family will be thrilled. Many thanks.
  8. You are very welcome - I also see Ganges coal office in the background.
  9. The only one of Dad's photos to show any of Cowes is this one, but it is train not town! http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/gallery/image/77664-sr-iow-0-4-4t-30-shorwell-cowes-18-5-1963/
  10. Their website (link above) shows that the locos are discontinued, but the coach and wagon pages have been updated in the last few months. However -- Latest UpdateDue to the difficulty in maintaining production and stocks with present work and family commitments, I have decided to move to selling kits in short runs when they are available via Ebay. Kits will be identified as 5and9 model kits or search for seller: tiffa*71 This web-site is now being used as a gallery of models that have been available. Please email 5 and 9 models for the latest price list and availability
  11. Sorry it's effectively a day late, but here is a photo of Clun Castle in action
  12. My railway grandchildren suffered that indignity at the aforementioned Lewes Castle. Edit Clearly the good folk of West Norfolk are dumb-struck by the cruelty of us southerners and yet I haven't had a dawn raid by the NSPCC, that's the beadle to you lot!
  13. Thanks for the kind words. I use many of my photos on fund-raising greetings cards and although modern railway scenes aren't that popular with the general public some of my 'creativity?' crept into my railway photos for a time. Although I like to caption photos on the image, to make it easier for viewers to know what they are seeing, currently my style is simpler. Your query about the boarded sleepers has been answered already and I commented on platform 8's canopy in my response to that. This shows the 'add-on' canopy that is further down the platform. Sorry there's no emu in it folks!
  14. Thanks for that explanation. I hadn't noticed the boarded sleepers, but the wooden platform is a few inches lower than the usual platform height and my wife, for one, finds it difficult to get on and off trains there. I like the way that the canopy over part of platform 8 has been very elegantly tacked on to the outside of the overall roof. I am not sure how it relates to platform 8, but the excellent Brighton Toy and Model Museum is under the front of the station. http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/gallery/album/4193-brighton-toy-and-model-museum/ Edit - I hadn't realized that the ground falls away in the way you describe, because, as you can see in the other photo of platform 8, that I posted afterwards, there is a car park alongside the station and I have seen buses turning there.
  15. Just doodling - now really must do some gardening
  16. Looking at the arms above, I am slightly concerned that having the devices on a shield has reduced their size, more than if they were just on a quartered background within the garter. In this online supersize they look OK, but I wonder if they will be visible when scaled down for carriage, tank or tender sides. It would be easy to do a simplified version for 4mm. Just a thought before people get into making transfers. Like this - he says after 20 mins on the PC!
  17. Sometimes it depends what other uses terms have, whether or not something irks me. I find 'classmates' makes me think of groups of teenage school children, but I can see there are few other suitable descriptions of locos of the same class.
  18. I am glad it matches your vision, James. I decided that the lettering would only look good, if it was initially laid out in a straight line and each letter cut and pasted onto the garter 'manually'. I am of two minds as to the bevelling on the shield. It might look better flat, possibly with a small dropped shadow. The font is Wide Latin, but it has been squeezed and pulled about. Working in Photoshop that is easy to do. Once the basic shape had been formed and before chopping the text into single letters, I made a copy, underneath the yellow layer, with bevelled edges that stuck out slightly and then moved that down and right a couple of pixels to get the shading and finished it with a 'stroke' one pixel wide, around the shading layer. The devices were all grabbed from the net and simplified. The trickiest bit, for me was the bottom of the garter. I shall have to see if there is a ready made one on the net. I don't know what a 4mm version will look like, but it is yours to do what you like with. I can send a jpeg - or two if I play around with the shield edge. Best wishes Phil
  19. Thanks for the kind comment. I doodled the 'arms' at the dead of night, without bothering to get my heraldry books out, so there are no pretensions to accuracy in the colour department. I have a feeling that the wording on the garter should be continuous, rather than in two halves, with the lettering on both being more or less the right (normal) way up. Unfortunately my software only does upper and lower arcs not complete circles of lettering. I could have played around with the lower one, using an upper arc then swinging it round through 180 degrees. It's all a bit academic as 4mm scale crests are little more than neat arrangements of spots of colour. I know - hand-painted a number of SDJR crests on my coaches 50 years ago!
  20. Vague memories are often under-estimated! Thanks for yet another interesting and unexpected nugget of 133 history.
  21. I am well known for jumping in with helpful information that is only part of the story. For all one knows, the others with the additional info might not have been around and Columbine might have led to uncovering its stand-in by another route. So thanks for your input. RMweb members are a helpful and informative lot.
  22. I think you might find that railway companies tend to put their names in the garter rather than a company motto - like this or more tastefully
  23. Many thanks, Eddie. I have now given my friend the link to this thread so she should be able to pick up any further developments. Family photos do turn up some interesting stories that may not have surfaced from railway archives, or they prompt interesting trips down historical byways.
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