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The GC wagons look great.
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I suppose I should check if anyone has advice on the steps needed to resurrect a railway stored for 4 years. I have hoovered it and will work through the damage.
what of the track though. Needs a decent clean? What is recommended? Turpentine on a cloth, just a track rubber, pencil lead?
any and all advice welcome.thanks
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The uk side.
the silence has been due to work and house build taking up almost all my time, plus not having space to model as most of the downstairs were stored in the one room we had to live out of.
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After 3 1/2 years the layout which this thread takes its name from is back up. Thank you Andy for the help.
Damage report from a crossing of the Atlantic and movement and storage in 2 garages in the uk is: one tree knocked out. (lying on the track) Several others have lost their foliage. One bike, A car, a wagon, a milk cart have fallen off and need some repair.
I will tackle repairs and then need to plan the board construction to complete the layout as intended in the round.
Big decision has been made that if it ever leaves home it will only be in its current format. Therefore for home it will be turned around and have the curves so that the Scenic side faces inwards. This means the control panel needs to be rigged on the front rather than rear of the main boards.
let’s see if we can make this all work.richard
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To deflect from these Christmas debates, can I advise people to buckle up. We are about to enter the three worst days of television for TW so he will be avoiding it by producing several locos at a speed the rest of us can not comprehend. Sit back and let the step by step build photos entertain you. I for one will find it more interesting than the TV options.
merry Christmas to all.
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7 hours ago, CF MRC said:
I think I need a longer setting up jig for this Skittle Alley.
Tim
Is there a 4mm version available?
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11 hours ago, Barry Ten said:
That doesn't sound like a good "work/life balance" to me, Richard. I imagine we all have to balance modelling time against work and domestic pressures, but just one evening a week sounds a bit extreme. Is that a full evening?
To be fair the job is the thing which gets in the way rather than the home jobs, as shown by the fact I have not built the shelving and shoe rack my wife wants. I am one of those lazy teachers who only work 9-3 and only for 2/3 of the year as many tell me when the summer hols come round.
not seeking pity, just a fact of life with the profession at the moment.it means I really enjoy Monday evenings.
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Try warm water and then books to unwarp them. Not too hot or they will just melt the plastic. Worth a try the worst that happens is they still have to be discarded.
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5 hours ago, Iain.d said:
The intention is to wash and primer them today, spray them maroon tomorrow, line and transfer them on Monday, varnish them on Tuesday……
Do you not sleep?
how do you find the time with everything else which impinges on modeling time? I manage one evening a week. I count myself lucky if I can get a second, even when on holiday. The management has lists which have to be ticked off of jobs that need doing around the house and garden.
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I'm told that some folk buy extremely rare wines, yet never drink them...............
or are waiting for enough people to come around to drink it as once opened they need to be drunk quickly.
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1 hour ago, Tim Dubya said:
I caught him on Only Flans the other day too 😜
That is the site for the upper crust of society.
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It looks great. I will have to find an excuse to make it to your side of the country.
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Perhaps cut a slot in the floor for the coupling to go through when you lift the body off. If you do a sub floor you can measure and build off the model but it also gives a little wriggle room to move it to get the compartments to line up in the right place.
just ideas
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Have the carriage separate at the solebars rather than the roof and fit the interior to the floor. Easier to hide that join as well.
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8 hours ago, Michael Edge said:
There are dozens of these "might have beens" but not much saw the light of day apart possibly from some frame material for the Fowler 4-6-2.
About as far as Gresley’s 2-8-2 tank got.
though many have got further in model form. There is definitely an appetite for them. I wonder whether there is enough for it to be commercially viable. Perhaps for some of the more famous ones eg the standard 2-8-2.thanks for showing he picture
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I was watching some video of Herculaneum dock. Was I right in thinking the loco I saw coming off the loco depot was a model of the Fowler proposed pacific? It seemed painted in a fictitious br black livery. I might have got this horribly wrong. The price of watching on a small screen.
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I spy fury and a Jersey Lilly. You have my attention. I know it is em but could look to convert To a less accurate gauge as a challenge.
he looks to have made some great models. Interestingly seems to have picked wartime black for some of the Pacifics, unless I have missed the post war lining. I did for a moment think I saw a model of the Fowler proposed pacific.
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A good generic gcr clearstory. Looking forward to its completion.
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10 hours ago, billbedford said:
The quad sets were transferred ECS to Leicester, Nottingham, Sheffield and Leeds on summer Friday evenings for use on excursions from these places over the weekends. They were returned to London on Sunday evenings, or Monday if it was a bank holiday. I'm not sure when this practice started, but I haves seen a photo of a GNR set at Leeds.
There is also a photo of a set in Nottingham Victoria in lner days, as we are mid house build I can not access my books to find out which. I assume it came up the gn and then across as the gn had a Nottingham connection.
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Easter provides the fronts of Easter egg boxes. Better than the chocolate within. As it provides my annual supply of glazing.
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About every 7 years for a repaint normally. But on that logic the last French grey stock would still be around in 1911!
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18 hours ago, lezz01 said:
All I will say is that it really is a small world and leave it at that.
Don’t tell me that this is the same loco you sold off all those years ago.
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12 hours ago, The Johnster said:
Not asking for much, am I?
Had you thought of asking for a miracle?
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You don’t realise how big a project this is until shots like this.
fantastic.
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I assume they will eventually end up on the site you are part of the development of?
A 4mm modeler asking.
richard