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Drawings galore. How far would you like to be stretched? The are simple, hard and oh my that’s complicated. Good luck with the trees.

3d printer and retired with time on your hands. I have a list of projects for you! richard

The A3 looks really good, though it is a good thing you are farming out the painting. Your attempt on the tender side is well below what you used to be able to do. all in jest richard

Leather fitted. Perhaps too thin on the filler to get maximum definition. shows enough promise to have a go at the other eight. Dow shows 10 but one blocks the door and is not in the photo of the interior so I am leaving it out. richard

Seating mark 2 the chairs first one built as a test for height etc. it still needs the clay put on to simulate the leather. I think an improvement will be to mark it with aphilips screwdriver as that will give the corner lines as well as the indent. that is an experiment for tomorrow. richard

Great pictures from the other side of this 7mm layout.……wait what! It is 2mm! looks superb. richard

That man must be mad to do that. Oh wait it is me. And to think I look at this thread to get inspiration. Flattered to think anything i do is good enough to show elsewhere. I just bumble along doing my thing. richard

Thanks Jim I have a couple of washers in so both bogies can move in both planes but will look at replacing them with sheet which allows movement only in one plane each. richard

The underframe had to change. Dow got it wrong. Thanks to a photo from Keith both sides can be worked out. So out with the battery boxes both sides. Move the one set sideways because my dyslexia had put them skewed on the wrong side. On the other a gas cylinder. Also took the opportunity to change to a correct gcr dynamo from the LMS one I had fitted first as I found my stock of gcr ones. I might need to balance the weight to get the carriage to not lean. We shall see. richard

It looks great. I do not think looking up will be as big an issue as might be thought. We read signs above shop fronts and street names high up on walls. Menus behind the counter at fast food restaurants. Us short people, we’ve got this. richard

It was a great day Tony. The kids really had fun and so did I. The layout behaved immaculately. the locos are aDJH A2/3 which is built from the parts in the box to represent straight deal as she was at the end of her life. the V2 is a crownline kit to represent one of the very few which had a single chimney and outside steam pipes. The best look in my mind. the dynamometer car is a 3d print of the body from recreation21 and bogies from isinglass. The rest is scratch built including all the interior down to the flooring and paper on the recording instrument. the directors saloon was Watkin’s own which he took Gladstone on trips in. It is also a 3d print from recreation21. The rest is scratch built. It is wrong though. I followed the Dow book and a recently found photo suggests a gas cylinder rather than battery boxes on one side. Am building the interior. Sofa built, now need to build the ten armchairs. Lastly the F2 which came from Green Howard’s as a L&Y 2-4-2 with SEF N5 sides and firebox. The rest of the conversion is scratch built. It awaits its number plates from Narrow Planet. The carriages are Parker London extension stock in brown and French grey. They are mousa models sides and ends. r&e bogies except one which is scratch built. The add on parts were kindly provided by Tony West fron D&S kits. Except the front full third which is a D&S side and ends kindly given to me by John Q. the journey to build them was a fun journey. richard

There was talk of fitting the individual buttons but I am drawing the line as it is all behind glazing. I know I am a spoil sport. armchairs to come. You have got me thinking to fit a person reading a modeling mag. A true arm chair modeler to inspect my railway. the usual suspects. I actually really value it as it stops me from slipping and accepting sloppy modeling. richard

Some great progress, it is fun sometimes when an accident gets a good result. Even better when others marvel and ask how to achieve it, and you have to explain. good progress, always enjoy seeing it coming along. richard

There was goading at the club that the interior really needed to be finished properly, including the seats with their distinctive button pulling down the seats and backs of all the leather furniture. some discussion of how that might be achieved. here is the sofa roughly done to test the principle. Does it pass muster? have yet to fit the hanging tassel at the end of the arm at the far end. only Ten chairs to do in a similar way now. Richard

Close to Several hundred for the quint if eBay prices are any thing to go by. split chassis locos go for 40-50 pds depending on condition or there abouts. All approximates. richard

This is from its days in Scotland in the 1960s. Hence Gresley bogies too. I like you have run out of ideas for what all the pipes might do. this was not fitted for motor train operation, nor do I know which system the lner used. I believe at least two types were in use at the same time at least. Westinghouse might also have been with the arrival of air braked stock. Later modelers when was that being rolled out? Having said that gcr fish vans were dual braked from the start so they could go on other systems (NER?) I am a member of the GCRS so can see all the digital archive but have yet to get up to immingham to see in person. It is a bit of a haul from here. Most of what is digitized is line diagrams like the one in the back of the Dow book. Ones with more detail seem to be of locos or tenders in the main, or at least that seems to be the case. many thanks for all the thoughts they have been helpful. richard

I thought that the tall one and the far right were the wrinkly ones but open to correction. richard

You think BR had a lot of change. As pregrouping modelers we are lumped together in one era 1805-1923. it is not as if much changed in that time period from a welsh bet to locos withdrawn in 1967, through broad gauge etc. it seems to allow me Rocket along side a Gresley A1. How many would spot the issues at an exhibition? How many would keep it to themselves? richard

I have always found modelers to be helpful bunch. It is part of the reason I stick around. glad you were successful. richard

Pipe question. this is from the end so I assume air baked too. I do not want air brakes, so how many of the other pipes do I need? I am thinking vac pipe and steam heat pipe, but which are they. clever pipe people help please many thanks richard

Thanks i had not seen anything on the roof so I will look again harder next time. it has got to the stage of being propped up on its bogies. holes drilled for hand rails so bogie pivots to make and the roof detail, then painting. richard

Too far? then fitted. tables and chairs to go. should probably focus on the outside a bit more. I am trying to work out how many pipes on the end there was vacuum, steam heat, but Westinghouse too? So it could run on other systems? richard

We all have to make compromises. richard

The insides have reached a stage where paint will need to be applied before fitting. perhaps a bit much, but if some can be seen then perhaps it is worth it. I still have to solve the issue of the chairs and sofa. After discussion at club with Jim I think I will build it with batteries to run as if it has electric lighting. Still to decide on livery though. richard

The overviews show just how well this is coming along. Just some grass on the front bank and we could convince ourselves it is almost finished, though we all know a layout is never done. great work. richard