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Hey, Jacky, I see your S2 has made the O Scale Resource. Looks really good, well done! https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Foscaleresource.com%2F&h=ATMomZMoMYWUuz2brRowZS-822CduTFjfO2xWrz3kKZXLyvBdDr4hWmrOeUOvXmIJPvDm1bkCA2APtaKlwFLtiDtnO9orvquvI1e2wfoMeHMwBCCD4An3jqm4pOz6Wpx4w&enc=AZPMZ65xwfs2M1tGnMLtx3R2GOEtpTM9qVtHT_gt3A4wQlubOp2lr_YP8yapI6lBGXb7xKVsYmC8NACyEreN9cyOHQ8Ddc1ajqHsCBN53wkDhiXpYUi5BuR_AcLGzGAshWCq0n63j1n_m1xy5_PNUOoFoPWAD649EI92hk2fYvCfzXjrUQuwoD8ExFve_nrqk3M&s=1

Alright, then, before we get to Tintin and Poirot, what about Paul Delvaux? Who? Google and go to images, (please do, just make sure there's no one around to say "perving again, eh, grandad?") Artist, who painted trains and nudes, i.e. a proper artist. He has featured on RMweb in the proper place:http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/76860-a-discussion-on-railway-art/page-3#ipboard_body

I'll raise you an Egide Walschaerts and an Alfred Belpaire

Ooohh! Goody, looks promising, loads of luck and best wishes with the outcome! Where's the pyramid/s?

The track gang are still busy, including the double slip. I'm finding adding shims as needed is working. The critical area is the short length between the end of the crossing and the start of the point blades. By gauging I'm working out exactly where the flangeway goes, and if there's a gap between the edge of this space and the rail it gets filled with a shim. Pretty basic, Nigel Molesworth would remark "Any fule kno that". Was I in too much of a hurry when I made it? The crossings are made by gauging off the outer rails same as an ordinary point, but from there it becomes more virtual with shorter lengths dependant on other bits for their placing. Anybody looking at it closely would go "Eurggh!", but it works, and a lot of it will be tucked under an over-bridge. More work is being done on the right hand board at the back where the fiddle yard area will go. Some time back I've posted a picture of the snug little station at the front of the board, and at present the scenic background support has been removed to give me unrestricted access for trackwork.

That is a really good set of models working on very nice track.

That Alida Valli was there, as well.http://ilarge.lisimg.com/image/6995063/1118full-alida-valli.jpg

Your model looks like the "Mark 2" version. The sides look very similar in proportion, giving it a body length around 9'8", although the upper half was louvred in the mark 1. On yours the wheels jut out beyond the end, giving it a wheelbase of around 10', so they'd obviously found out a problem existed, and it should help running on your line. With the splashers, the wheels are also the normal 4' size, the mark 1 had 3' wheels. Another difference is the ends on yours are sheet metal, the original had wood. I'm quoting from a Colin Thorne drawing, taken from a drawing in MacDermot.

Long time ago, going round Brush in Loughborough looking at what became type 47s under construction. In the rank was one with a dirty big headlamp and the control cabinet in Spanish, everybody was a bit coy about it, but it turned out it was one of the Cuban batch. A few years later I was talking with a Sulzer rep who had gone out with the locos when new to see them through the guarantee period. He said that on one occasion there was a power plant failure and he suggested that they did a unit change with the spare one that had been shipped out with them. All manner of reasons were trotted out as to why this couldn't be done, and eventually he found out their friends the Russians had "borrowed' it, and it was being carefully examined in the USSR.

Splitting hairs, Bucknell's in Shropshire.

What about this on the bridge?(what I missed when I moved down)http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-euvKAGgDQzo/UOMR2RIHczI/AAAAAAAAAQI/OFyQTlX5jGg/s1600/April+1990+The+Vaux+Dray+Cart%252C+Sunderland.jpg

I'll be pushing it, then.

This kind of thing:

I'm sure the spark will soon come back. It all takes time, and having children of school age all factors in with the need to earn a crust. You've got the core of a good village, some coaches shaping nicely, so why shouldn't you go on manoeuvres if the fancy takes you? Don't fight it! This, by the way, is an enactment entitled "The relief of Aching by the Birlstone Highly Irregulars"

The magnets I'm using are little block ones, not the special kadees job, so their attraction crosswise is limited anyway. I just put them on their side. Cutting them in half? North poles bits, south poles bits, you know what you're doing, well in front of me. Uncoupling is accompanied by a lot of jiggling, and the layouts that small, if a train divided, you could claim you meant it. By the bye, Jason, I do come and have a look at the Facebook page you set up, and I'm enjoying it, it's just when I do a like or a reply it never comes up, more in the way of knowing what you're doing, and pressing the right keys. (Edit: looking at this, I thought, "coupling is accompanied by a lot of giggling", best not go there, eh?) Ray, we've got this peculiar sect round here, they dress in high vis jackets and shorts and go round pushing rubbish paper through your door, but the interesting thing is they mark their territory by leaving rubber bands lying on the pavement. I find these are most useful for holding the roof down while the glue sets, so I won't be calling up a jolly green giant thingy.

David, (isambarduk), followed your links this evening and had a very pleasant time looking at all the twists and turns in your modelling work, both finescale and tinplate. Highly impressive stuff!

Here's some progress with the feed mill, which I'm beginning to like:

Whoops, looking at Digbys drawing I've got the push rods ar** backwards, silly boy!

3H, or THREE AITCH MODELS, as it's got underneath. Very good looking wagons, too, David. I have to confess when they came out I hadn't yet got into O scale, but I would imagine a great shout of "At last!" came from O guage practitioners. They're a simple kit which makes up well, the only thing I don't like are the plastic buffers, but very relevant to the discussion we've been having on cost of wagon kits. Pity they've gone the way of all good things. As you probably know, you can still find second hand ones on GOG dos, at the bring and buy, or the exec. & trustee, just needing a bit of TLC. Here's a few from my mineral wagon fleet: Another job has just appeared out of the wagon shop, although this was only needing paint. Mikkel's workbench thread has recently had a good debate on the GWR 'iron mink' van, and detailing the same. I dug mine out, which I've had for some time. Question is, did I make it, or buy it second hand. Whose kit is it anyway, 43to1, perhaps? Memory failure on this one. I posted a picture, and decided it really ought to be backdated to have the red paint scheme, another thorny item of colour, on the lines of Stroudley Green / Yellow. My view is that Victorian paint pigments didn't come out of a test tube the same way as modern paints do, and the cost of pigments varied greatly. The vermilion, aka signal red, or post office red, was an expensive pigment, and wouldn't have gone on the whole of the wagon fleet without the directors having total meltdown. A lot of private owner wagons had red oxide, which was a dark red brown, and more economical. My dad worked in an engineering works making large girders, and used to bring what they used to paint everything before it went out, for jobs outside at home. This was called red lead, in reality a bright orange, and my fancy is this formed a base for the GWR colour. Mr. Nigel Digby did a series on the colours of the old pregroup companies, and I put my wagon against his artwork, in the British Railway Modelling for Jan 2003. This is quite a light red, with a tendency to orange, I think of it as terracotta, same as a flowerpot, although there's absolutely no real grounds for this. I've put some chalk dust weathering on it as well. The last job I showed was the van, GER, but could just as well be a GWR woodbodied built previous to the minks, so I put the pair together for comparison.

The original horseboxes for the broad guage had bodies 9'8" long, 10' wide. Guage of course 7', wheelbase 6'! These were put on passenger trains with poor old horsey inside. Bet his head was spinning when he was taken out.

Saw your previous line in this months C.M. as advertised. Looks really well presented, deservedly so.

Like the rest of us?

The l.h. Part doesn't do anything, it's just fixed to the underside of the wagon. I was just trying out a really silly idea, bg trains on a minimum radius, which the link allowed me to do. I don't have a bg line right now, and I'll put the couplings back to something rather more conventional when and if I get round to doing something simple later on. No, I agree with Miss Prism, loads of fodder do make a really good item on a goods train. I think mine has started to moult, though!

Agreed, a load of fodder makes a very useful thing to have around. A bit earlier than 1910, and the wagon might be a bit wide.. (sorry about thecouplers, a bright idea due for a change)