MrWolf
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Nice bit of carcass failure. Is it just me, or would anyone else like to stick something sharp into those bubbles?
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It looks like it's been off the edge of the layout and another nose panel bodged on. Might also explain the dodgy chassis?
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I do enjoy the regular postings from Dewchurch, it's good to know that the Beeching axe hasn't fallen yet, even though I don't often get time to comment, keep them coming, they're always inspiring and entertaining. Rob
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I'm suffering from the after effects of that at present. I have two motorcycles of the same make and model, manufactured only two years apart which were dismantled forty five years ago by someone who started to "restore" them. Naturally, there's bits everywhere... I've spent hours measuring, trial fitting, reading old manuals, parts books and factory bulletins as well as trawling the internet and bothering those in the know whilst untangling everything. It's been emotional!
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For me the black and white picture looks like some real place back in the 1930s and the colour one is like being able to time travel.
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The DVLA seems to have not been all that concerned in the past with Isle of Man registered cars that had been sold off to the mainland. My school metalwork teacher had an ancient Triumph Herald 1200 estate on an IOM plate, displaying a K registration when the last sold here were on a J. (IIRC the island began the letter series a year before us.) It still wore its MAN plate in the late 1980s.
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The Cumbrian Railways Association has some very good books available, I'd certainly recommend The Pilling Pig to anyone interested in light railways, especially as it became part of the big four and eventually British Railways. I also have a copy of Lancaster's Line To The Sea. "BOOKS" https://cumbrianrailways.org.uk/books.php
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Airfix 14xx - A Family Favourite
MrWolf replied to westernviscount's topic in Modifying & Detailing RTR stock
Quite the transformation I would say! Note to self: Must not start another project before getting the others finished..... -
I suspect that is more to do with the current style of registration number being rather non memorable rather than your memory breaking down. I remember the registration number of the old bangers my father owned, (Hillman Minx 9080RE, Vauxhall Viva JJV205F, Hillman Avenger NJF750M, Vauxhall Cavalier YVS692S, but once they started putting letters at the front, I was lost.
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You've made a great job of some more of those ordinary items that are seldom if ever modelled. The stink pipes were generally painted mid green or a bluish green to blend in with their surroundings.
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Today Little Muddle, tomorrow - the world!
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It's interesting to see the large oil lamp on the corner of the building too. In the later photo it has disappeared and there's a row of gas lamps beneath the canopy.
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That looks suspiciously like a wash house, the washer itself being built into that odd corner. I do like to see models of things that were once very ordinary but now all but extinct. A very nice job you made of it too.
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It occurred to me that the shepherd may have been awake all night worrying sheep. 😜
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Anaglypta wallpaper, 1887 though!
