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chris p bacon

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  1. New Zealand bridge Sandy, a firm favourite in the locality. Somebody had the GNR 123 bridge plate from the Lattice bridge when it was demolished...........................
  2. The video won't play, says it private.......ooohhh that could be a "different" sort of video !
  3. I find this thread interesting in the way you are making it it up as you go along, I'm a bit of a planner and have to have a pretty solid plan before I start or I get into all sorts of problems.......mind you, I still get them with planning ! Look forward to more on this thread.
  4. Or, It's not the size but they way I operate it..... I'll get me coat...
  5. Yes, especially if they are followers of........The Great Western............witch..witch burn her...
  6. A couple of years ago I was in "The railway Room" when one of my wifes friends called round, they stood in the living room talking to me through a pair of french doors that access the room and after a few mins her friend turned to her and said. "How do you put up with this" and gestured to the layout. My wife replied "It's his and it helps him relax and unwind" Her friend said " well I wouldn't let him have it, no way" So I then asked "How often does Richard go fishing ?" "Too bloody often" came the reply.........I don't think she sees the link...
  7. And she was never gonna give him up, let him down, run around or desert him................... Coat...
  8. But then asking her "can you help with my tripod" does have a certain connotation about it. Oooooh matron Fnarr Fnarr
  9. I'm probably being a bit picky but the station is Sandy, not Sandy North, it's the GN not LNWR (closed and last service 30/12/67 ) and it's £36 for a postcard which is readily available for £2 or a picture print for a fiver. Just seemed a bit steep to me.
  10. Ok so not a model but something I keep an eye on. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Sandy-North-Station-L-N-W-Railways-Closed-1968-1910-RP-/390490538852?pt=UK_Collectables_Postcards_MJ&hash=item5aeb0cc364 So the postcard is from a picture readily available in large format for a fiver, it is also of the GN not the LNWR and it closed in 67, £35.99 anyone ?
  11. If the garage has enough room for you to make something in then the main factors I can think of are; Access - If you intend to put a door through to the house this must be a fire rated door in a correct frame. Insulation - can't have enough, the more you put in the less heat you have to provide, the more heat you put in the room the more condensation you have to deal with. If the walls are single skin brick you can put a battens on the wall and infill with board insulation (kingspan and celotex rigid foam are better but you can use polystyrene) andthen cover with a board such as plasterboard. Garage door, if this is the only way in the best bet is to construct a stud wall across the garage and divide it, you can then seal the railway room and have some storage. Floor - Concrete floors are awful to spend a long time standing on, you need to either cover it with some layers or better still an insulated false floor. Ceiling - as much insulation as you can get up there and boarded, in winter places such as B & Q have subsidised rolls of quilt for as little a £3-5 for 100mm thick (I'd put 200mm) Ventilation - although you need to seal up any unwanted gaps you do need some controlled ventilation for the room, could be something as simple as a couple of sliding vents. Only got a few minutes and that is all I can think of at the moment.
  12. Funny that, that is what I think of this and the Peterboro North thread, but then some of us have ......work......that gets in the way
  13. Out of interest are you working in a parrallel universe where the hours are made up of more minutes ? Amazing what a deadline can do.
  14. Eerrrr that looks like sheathing ply, or is it just the board you are working on that is. Sheathing ply is poor quality and can (and does) de-laminate. just thought I'd mention it.
  15. I'd be more than happy to give you a fiver :mosking: To be honest it's like anything else, if there are a couple of bidders then it depends what they are prepared to pay, I have seen the same kit (not yours though) go for £15, 25 &40 over a period of a year (not in that order), I personally don't bid much more than they cost new, sometimes the auction ends with me paying less.
  16. As an infrequent buyer (but not of HD), it says everything when an experienced seller does not include a photo, but will send them to you if you give him your email address.
  17. Bit of an easy one on the steam front, has to be a B1. . .no wait make that a V2. . . . . but then you can't leave out the A4 or 1 or 2 or 3...... I know lets look at diesels Easy again it's a Deltic. . . . . . . . .Hang on I meant 52, yep 52 but then what about the Hymek. I give up.
  18. GWR-Fanatic I realise this is going to perhaps be somewhat a little controversial, especially after reading several comments through out this thread, but I am going to say it any way and that is the fact that I quite like a model of the Fell, and I'd like to see an N Gauge version of it. I actually think it's a rather nice looking diesel. I would also love to see a Leader Class model in the same scale (yes, and that's coming from a GWR enthusiast, considering the Leader was designed by Bulleid, of the Southern). I do have at least one prototype diesel in my collection of N gauge, which was at the time, a special commision I believe for the NRM in York. I can't begin to say how ecstatic I was to actually get one for my collection. But did Churchwood design these ?
  19. Yes probably is, but at that temp pretty much everything else is toast. Not thought about metal mesh before, would think it a bit to rigid to sculpt.
  20. A Rep explained that part of the smell came from the fireproofing of the foam, whether that is true or not ??, I do know that it is supposed to be safe for a domestic/ habitable rooms, mind you my wife moans about the smell of the Gripfill I stick it down with ! (the railway room is off the living room).
  21. Same here, I have been using offcuts of Celotex/Kingspan which can be carved with a breadknife or plasterboard saw and then covered with plaster bandage, or the white expanded polystyrene that comes as packaging, again covered with bandage. I do have a cheapo Wickes £30 vacuum that I have running when cutting it to avoid the inevitable "snowstorm" I probably shouldn't have started reading this and the Peterboro North thread as before, I was quite happy with my Peco code 75 (which was better than anything else I have done) but find that as I add to the layout my eye is drawn back to the Pway and the thoughts of ..........what if............ Oh lord what do I do.
  22. I'm sure I've seen some plans, but it was very very thick crayon.......and I may of been at infant school...
  23. So in theory if plans were found for the Fell.................is 18 months too long to wait........
  24. Yes it's too thin, to be honest any ply/chipboard without bracing is going to flex too much, even if you only lift it and lean it against a wall as soon as you pick up one edge the board will curve/flex and track can "pop" off. For ease try the insulation board approach that Gordon s suggested or make some braced boards, it really is easy.
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