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    Inappropriate - and appropriate - stripper

    in Weathering, Painting & Transfers

    Posted

    Hi Phil

     

    As Andi lives near you he can look after my 1/3rd, that will save you posting it to me. I trust he will not damage it. :imsohappy:

     

    Amongst the things I was thinking about was “who would scrap a Bachy Peak". That priming job must have been something.

     

    Wot ya done with the under gubbins?

    OK Clive will pass on your share to Andi

     

    Was a really thick gloop job - the bodyside grilles were full of it

     

    Chassis sat there waiting for a body shell to become available - afraid we still haven't got enough peaks to run the timetable...

     

    D125 is next on the hit list I think...

     

    Phil

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    Neil's Hydraulic pics

    in Diesel Hydraulic Group

    Posted

    Sorry some more! maybe boring some with D1065 and her condition late in life, but they're not too many photos of her 1975/6 on the web so I've been on the look out for them. I was especially interested in the M-shaped horn cowl at the B-end.

     

    First D1065 at Newquay, September 1975

    attachicon.gifD1065 Newquay 0975 low.jpg

     

    Same month at Reading- the shot following the previous post with D1065 departing.

    attachicon.gifD1065 Reading 0975 02.jpg

     

    A favourite Western turn of mine- good summer holiday memories of the Clayliner

    D1027 6V53 Stoke-St Blazey China clay empties September 1975

    attachicon.gifD1027 NA 0975 Low.jpg

     

    Finally at Merehead quarry in that hot dusty summer of 1976, a shot which captured the Western's last summer for me.

    D1041 Western Prince at Merehead, 23rd August 1976

    attachicon.gifD1041 Merehead 230876 .jpg

     

    Neil

    Like the way the Allegro is hiding in the bushes ..... best place for it !!!

     

    Hee hee

     

    Cracking shots again Neil....

     

    Phil

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    Neil's Hydraulic pics

    in Diesel Hydraulic Group

    Posted · Edited by Phil Bullock

    Tewkesbury in the south??? From where I am sat it is that far west are you sure it isn't called Wales???

     

    Was at a high powered professional meeting yesterday re 3 new regional networks defined by those in high places - Downendian will know what its about!!!!

     

    Two regions - Kent, Sussex and Surrey, together with Yorkshire and Humberside, had well defined geographically based descriptions of their locations

     

    The third was described as "The area surrounding the cities of Bristol and Bath". Its almost like those in Ivory towers have no idea of what is past Swindon on the M4!

     

    Here be Dragons.... Kingdom of Mercia or Wessex anyone?

     

    Phil

    Neil's Hydraulic pics

    in Diesel Hydraulic Group

    Posted

    Having tested Worcester out today, the bucolic south doesn't scare me any more, with so many hydraulics I could well be tempted.

     

    Mike.

    'CIVITAS IN BELLO ET PACE FIDELIS'

     

    What were you up to on my home turf Mike?

     

    It still counts as the Midlands you know...the South doesn't start till Tewkesbury....

     

    Phil

     

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    Abbotswood junction - Original layout - thread now closed please see Abbotswood and Norton Junctions

    in Layout topics

    Posted

    Layout damage assessment yesterday....

     

    Now everything is thoroughly dry initial assessment is that the track bed is no worse than it ever was....

     

    So leaving it alone pending next complete set up so its on with other jobs.

     

    Baseboard reinforcement, 6 years of ups and downs is taking its toll on the biggest scenic board with the bridge on so additional internal bracing added

     

    Started redoing the road, following Andy Y's method in latest BRM, foam looks good, just needs painting and verges relaying

     

    And solving problem with the rail overbridge railings which keep popping off due to expansion/contraction...so mounting on tiny split pins mounted in holes on bridge girders

     

    Phil

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    Project 43 - The North British B-B Warships

    in Bachmann

    Posted

    Thanks Ian! Given the amount of work that has gone in to this model via this forum and also directly to Bachmann it would be somewhat disappointing if it doesn't hit the mark

     

    All the magazine reviews to date have been unfailingly positive and the only miniscule negatives I have picked up thus far are:

     

    Over size printed nameplates on blue version

    Cumbersome centre lamp bracket

    Difficult access in to cabs

     

    All of which should be easily dealt with by serious modellers if they cause offence

     

    Positive and optimistic ? Yes I have to be! I am a fisherman and you don't subject yourself to such tortures as wandering around the Welsh Countryside in the pitch dark of a summer night in the somewhat bizarre hope that a silver monster is going to take a fancy to those few bits of feather you have lovingly crafted in to a fly unless blind optimism rules

     

    But from the railway perspective for me these are THE locos - they are the ones that back in the late 60s really caught my imagination with their wonderful names and varied liveries. They are the missing piece of the motive power jigsaw as far as our layout is concerned and there will I am sure be many many more class 43 workings up to Brum in the Abbotswood parallel universe than ever really occurred.

     

    I also know that our blind optimism has stimulated a few others to build a railway having seen what we have done and if the 43s stimulate us further and drag a few more along with us then that has to be good for the hobby too

     

    Kind regards

     

    Phil

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