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I do like Elf Isambard! Not so sure about sprouts. Merry christmas Will :-)

Hi Ray, you may want to give Andy a head's up about this. I have the same problem and couldn't find other examples - but since you have the same problem with Flickr photos it seems to have to do with photos that are hosted outside the blogs (including elsewhere on RMweb). PS: Those Flickr photos aren't boring!

Hi Jules, really nice work on the area by the level crossing. It just looks real, somehow. Those bubbles in the backscene must be a real pain! I suppose the question is whether you notice it yourself or not.

Thanks for that Miss P. I haven't noticed such an arrangement of apertures before. I wonder what the advantage would have been. To keep out rain and wind? Some interesting goods too. I'm hoping to replicate a bit of the diversity of packing crates etc, but it will need to be scratchbuilt as much of what is currently available in terms of crates etc is rather unimaginative and does not reflect the diversity seen in photos like these. And this is even quite late in the period, earlier on the diversity was extraordinary. It will be fiddly work though!

I was wondering about that. Maybe they meant that it's realistic outside frame motion.

Oooh nice! Very appealling coaches. The short wheel base one has real character, and the other one could easily pass for a standard GWR coach. Good stuff.

The way things are going you'll have to rename this layout to WC Blues.

Hi Will, always something interesting going on in your modelling. The way you present it, I can't help but be fascinated by the T stuff. I see you've also printed a huge white fountain! :-)

Thanks for the continued updates on this. Looking good so far. Agree that the riding position is very stately - a figure hunched forward wishing he'd just stayed in bed this morning would be a nice addition. But that's up to us to develop then :-)

You thought that was a joke, right?

Extraordinary what you are doing with this loco!

Just found this. Clearly a new favourite thread :-) I really like the way you work with textures and materials. Getting real stuff like soil and wood to actually blend in and look right is rarely easy, but you've made it work so well. Everything already has a very distinctive character. Very inspiring, thanks!

Those setts look like they were actually put down individually by hand. I look forward to seeing the bits showing through the tarmac. That should be a nice little job with very rewarding results, methinks.

Interesting ideas, not least the card game. I like the notion of chance cards! :-)

Great stuff and many thanks for showing the installation in detail. I assume the system can be made to go in both directions?

That's an interesting concept. I have also thought that one of the key problems in having a secondary or mainline on a short layout is the constant fiddling that would be needed at each end. But as you say - with the automatic traverses that would help a lot. I hope the small spur is turntable operated?! :-) Working point rodding would be fantastic. Are you sure this is a small interim project though? :-)

Hi Frank, nice to see a couple of these built up - and demolished! The earlier fire damaged one comes across really well too, great modelling. What really fascinates me is the vegetation though. Bl**dy brilliant!

Yeah I know, forum topics can drop like a stone sometimes - as can blog entries. Always feels a bit frustrating. But maybe it's an indication that the topic is emptied out for now?

Jon, with all due respect - I think it might work better with fewer but more extensive blog posts, where people can get a good read and where you have something substantial to say? As I see it, the blogs are not really intended as "status updates" or for posts like this one. I think the idea is more to make progress reports where people occasionally put up a description of their work and preferably illustrated with some reasonable quality photos. Personally I can be equally captured by a simple roundy-roundy or an elaborate P4 creation, but what does matter (as I see it) is that there is at least some effort to explain things and illustrate it nicely.

It does look well designed. Thanks for the tip about the rubber feet, exactly what I need.

What a fantastic gift. And not just a railway, but something you actually made for him. You are right those Superquick kits do the job pretty well.

This sounds like the future but maybe it's not so far away. I wonder about those "E-motion figures", do they add to realism or detract from it? I liked the builders who look more like they're playing golf :-) A problem with any mechanical solution is, I think, to get smoothly flowing movements. Optical/holographic systems would solve that problem, and could potentially be programmed as you please on the computer...?

Those close-ups are superb. It looks real, simple as that!

I've also been wondering whether he is still modelling. I've seen someone by that name posting on a Danish forum recently, but not sure it's him. I think I'll ask around.

For it's small size Denmark has historically had quite a nice variety of goods rolling stock, I think. But until maybe 10-15 years ago most railway modellers were just running whatever was available from the German RTR market. That's changing now, and we