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Mikkel

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  1. Yes, they are all from the Shire scenes range. Although number three has been cut up and rebuilt for a different pose. Yes, the HMRS transfers are pressifx, I just colored them with a yellow marker after applying them. Only tried it that one time though.
  2. I would never have believed that was a Hornby 0-4-0 chassis! This hobby will never run out of fun.
  3. It's a bit of a problem, as there isn't really anything ready-made, to my knowledge. This is white lettering from the HMRS goods wagon sheet, coloured yellow with a marker: This is HMRS Hawksworth coach lettering (!): This is the only dedicated transfer for GWR horsedrawn wagons that I know of, included with an old Pendon dray kit: No, sorry, just paper. Seems I've saved the Pendon transfer for another project. This one isn't so good, but quick. It's just printed paper glued on:
  4. Very Midland, already. Clerestory six-wheelers combine all the things I like about stock of this period, aestethically. Something about the balance.
  5. That's a nice spring announcement, it actually made me look out the window. Time for a walk I think, thank you!
  6. I never know what's next on your blog Mike, except that it's always fascinating and informative. The prints looks good, I wouldn't have relished creating those domes by hand! I like the door too, looks the part even without painting.
  7. They look good Tim, proper workhorses. They also illustrate how elderly kitbuilt locos can still compete with all the shiny new superdetail RTR locos. I like your approach to improving them, it reminds me of the Repair Shop where the approach is to retain as much of the original soul and patina as possible (unless the customer wants otherwise). That seems to me a very sound philoshopy.
  8. It's such an interesting van, horseboxes tend to be elegant but restrained affairs, this one has a lot going on - a whole little town in itself! The bowing and brittle nature is frustrating but, I hope, just the usual teething problems of a new technology that seems to be progressing fast. I've been carving away at my Bulldog body this week - made (not by me!) from Siraya Tech 'Build' resin - and it doesn't feel brittle at all.
  9. Thanks Nick, I had the same thought but Tony Atkins also says it's the same vehicle - and he knew his GWR cartage. The GWR seem to have been quite free in rebuilding their motor vehicles - some of them extensively and several times - right since the earliest examples. So the notion of rebuilding road vehicles wasn't foreign to them. That said, the cost/benefit ratio of rebuilding a horsedrawn vehicle isn't necessarily the same as that of a motor vehicle, and Atkins may be wrong of course. His GWR Goods cartage book vol 2 has the fleet list for motor vehicles, but unfortunately not for horse-drawn ones. Edit: I've just had a look in Kelley's Great Western Road Vehicles, and found on page 255 a 1926 drawing of No. 2079, which has an outline that looks identical/very close to the original outline of 583 above (with upper body panels stepped out above the wheels). So either the original 583 was renumbered 2079 and the number 583 reallocated to another vehicle (but why?); or there was at least one other GWR horsedrawn pantechnicon to that original design, which seemingly survived at least into the 1920s.
  10. I do have some EZ line, but thought it would not have weight enough to drop naturally. Still, worth a try though - thank you!
  11. Very evocative. And you must have friendly neighbours 🙂
  12. This is a later shot of the same vehicle, taken in 1920. Smaller wheels with thicker spokes have been fitted, and the sides are now straight. There are a couple of drawings in Janet Russell's "Great Western Horsepower". She implies that the GWR made different types of these, but it is also possible that the drawings show the same van in different configurations. The best drawing says 8 ft high (and a bit, not quite legible). Tony Atkins GWR Goods cartage Vol 1 also has one of the drawings, although quite small.
  13. I hadn't heard of the self adhesive foil, thanks Rich. Another disadvantage of using transfers that I found is that they can be difficult to weather properly. This is thin foil laminated to a printed paper sheet, which is a tad thick but does have the advantage that it's easy to shape.
  14. Thank you. Looks like it focuses on creating gaming environments, you've made nice creative use of it.
  15. Perhaps it is not so much the details that people focus on, but the time period?
  16. The cynical view would be that the "wow" effect of interior detail is a way of drawing attention to your products. A more romantic view - which with Rapido is perhaps not entirely unlikely - is the George Mallory thing: -Why did you want to climb Mount Everest? -Because it's there.
  17. We all know that one! 🙂 Another excellent build, Nick. It looks so crisp in that photo with the primer! The trick with the former is a nice one, I had not considered that it could be used for down-sloping sheets like that. And that rope must be the tightest I have seen, very impressive. I always feel compelled to paint the whole thing, whether sheeted or not, but from a rational point of view it is pointless of course.
  18. That must have been painstaking work. Impressive stuff.
  19. I like the presentation with drawings in the background. Can I ask what software you use?
  20. Here is the response, with the measured time and precision of someone who has been a long time in the business 🙂 Apologies for leading the thread a little astray.
  21. But try as they might, they can't fit us in there. So the next logical step is VR goggles. (only half kidding)
  22. Mikkel

    About time too!

    This is the problem with the LB&SCR, it's always there in the wings, waiting for the next opportunity to lure innoncent men away from their chosen company. A family saloon is a nice excuse though. Must give that some thought, thank you.
  23. A lovely assembly of stock. And the Devensian Ice Sheet in the background, proper historical modelling 😜 Edit: But wait, it never reached your location. Tut tut.
  24. Excellent idea! The only disadvantage is that you'll only sell one per customer 🙂
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