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  1. CKPR

    Waiting at Wooferton for a B1 on an excursion heading to Shrewsbury on the old LNWR/GWR joint - Wooferton is no longer a junction or even a station, but there's still a signal box, refuge siding and (G)WR signalling.

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    2. Hroth

      Hroth

      There's the former BBC shortwave transmitters there too.

       

    3. CKPR

      CKPR

      The Wooferton masts are visible from our front windows .

       

    4. Methuselah

      Methuselah

      It's 'Woofferton'  (Sp.).

       

  2. CKPR

    CKPR has taken the first steps into 7mm modelling...more details to follow on the pre-grouping forum.

    1. Dava

      Dava

      Good move!

    2. Regularity

      Regularity

      Start of a slippery slope!

  3. CKPR

    I've just bought my first 7mm kit...well, second if you count the 3H open wagon I bought in 1976.

    1. Hroth

      Hroth

      My first 7mm kit was a 3H van.  I've still got the chassis, the superstructure fell to bits years ago...

       

      I re-dipped my toe into 7mm modelling a few years ago, with some O-16.5 resin kits from Smallbrook Studio. I've not had the urge yet to try anything bigger!

  4. CKPR

    Friday night liquid poly disaster - only one wagon a complete write off but will have to dig into my precious stocks of MAJ wagon parts to make good the damage to the others.

    1. Pacific231G

      Pacific231G

      You have my sympathy. Being naturally somewhat clumsy I've found those foam  bottle and paint tin holders an absolute godsend. Just a block of dense foam with suitabley sized holes in them but they've saved me from disaster on more than one occasion.

    2. CKPR

      CKPR

      Now that sounds like a good idea ! I used to keep an old fashioned square 'Britfix 70' bottle and decant new solvent into that but it seems to have disappeared into the recycling bin.

       

  5. CKPR

    Two Tri-ang clerestories just bought off Ebay and waiting to be cut up to make a C22 all third...

    1. DCB

      DCB

      Thinking about forming a Triang Clerestory preservation society while there are still some which haven't been cut up

    2. CKPR

      CKPR

      I'm amazed that they are still to be found in reasonable numbers - we'll miss them when they're gone !

  6. CKPR

    The move back into active modelling is increasingly taking the form of a reversion to my original 1970's interest in the GWR...that's a 1970s take on modelling the GWR, all Prototype kits buildings, Ratio signalling, ABS wagons, Mallard etched brass engines and Dart Castings / Pendon fittings, all washed down with J.H.Russell's OPC books.

    1. Mikkel

      Mikkel

      Sounds good to me. Never change a winning team!

    2. CKPR

      CKPR

      1970s modelling of the 1900s...

  7. CKPR

    Slowly getting back into railway modelling - two scratch-builds of M&CR engines are back on the temporary workbench on the kitchen table and I've started on a Mallard '517' kit to be built 'straight back and Swindon style' a la Iain Rice.

  8. CKPR

    Listening to Hawkwind and assembling IKEA shelving- no railway modelling this evening then.

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    2. CKPR

      CKPR

      Oh yes !

       

    3. Mad McCann

      Mad McCann

      You'll feel greater when you're through with it.

       

    4. CKPR

      CKPR

      Just resisting the temptation to type out the lyrics from memory 'cos I can - 'Space Ritual' is probably my favourite album !

  9. CKPR

    60 feet of LMC coarse scale three-rail O gauge track purchased at a local exhibition for £35. That should fit in with my EM and HO activities...

    1. Metr0Land

      Metr0Land

      It's always difficult to pass a bargain

    2. CKPR

      CKPR

      As I know all too well !

       

  10. CKPR

    Lovey day at ExpoEM North and particularly impressed with 'Hungerford' (aka the portable Pendon ?), 'Seahouses' and Broom Jct, [ SMJR].

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