Indomitable026

Ive found a few shots of DitD under construction. Nothing ground breaking but hope they are of interest.......

The back scene was created as follows; 'Owd Gringo' very kindly painted the MDF back boards with a faily neutral sky using waterbased paints. The sky was then cut off a Gaugemaster back scene with the remaining 'hills' then carefully stuck on to the pre-painted sky on the MDF. Credit to Jayne (Owd Gringo's partner) for showing more patience than the 3 omigo's put together, and making an excellent job of this.

Pictures from Wadebridge show, by 'Tigger'

ooopps. im not crediting everyone involved in working out the roundhouse dimensions. sorry Chris.

'The Newquay Branch and it's Branches' by John Vaughan (OPC 1991), has a picture of D600 in Green SYP in St Blazey yard alongside the wagon works building in 1963. Also, J V's 'Branches and Byways, Cornwall' shows D600 passing through Fowey on a St Blazey to Carne Point clay working, again in 1963. Damian, could you PM me please regarding my earlier message please. Clive. Boscarne, Ok, i'll stick that on the growing list of books to buy! Thanks for that. Btw, being a new boy to RMweb, what does PM me mean?

D820, that's brill - the famine is over, i now believe that they were seen at St Blazey and what a great shot. thanks for your help on that.

Its interesting to read your comment on the curved roads in to the roundhouse, the reason for it had not occured to me and, if i'm honest, has puzzled me. if you were building from scratch you would make sure everything lined up. but of course if the size of the turntable changed! that explains it! I have drawings of the original turntable and how it was extended. I also have the drawings for the roundhouse although i cannot find them currently - errrhhhh! scruffy! the drawings i have are not dimensioned tho. John (old gringo) spent a good few hours working all the geometry out from the drawings, google and brick counting on photos, resulting in the footprint being drawn on the base board. i think we got it pretty close. Just bought the following books; Heyday of the Westerns BR Diesels in the 1960's & 1970's Diesels in Depth - Westerns Awaiting Heyday of the Hydraulics & Warships. think there is a lot of good material on Westerns and the Warships, however the D600's are harder to research. i have a dozen photos from various books and magazines but none at St Blazey. Does anyone have pictures of D600's at St Blazey????

Oh no - two more books to buy. thanks for that.

Hmmm interesting. It may have to be the late sixties then. Make sure all those 'kettles' have gone. Out of interest then why were the Hymeks never used down there? axle load?

St Blazey - 'Diesels in the Duchy' We are looking into the possibilty of modelling the early sixties as an alternative period for the layout. As I understand it we would be looking at; Westerns, Warships, D600s, NBL type 2s and early Derby Sulzers? Request for information. My request is a simple one, can anyone help with photo's/ info from this period in around the Duchy, but in particular BZ? Your help would be much appreciated......

Wow. I've only just worked out how to get on to this RMweb thingy, and that was with Chris's help. By way of an introduction I'm the 'Damian' refered to - the owner of 'Diesels in the Duchy'. I am absoluley stunned at the kind comments that have been posted about our little version of BZ. Thank you all very much, it certainly makes it all worth while.