RMweb Premium Northroader Posted February 24, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted February 24, 2020 (edited) https://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/151902-where-has-everyone-gone/&tab=comments#comment-3849561 Well, the professor says it’s alright, so get the hacksaw out! (Mind, looking at the picture, I’ll have to revisit that letter-board) An Atlas 28foot stockcar. Edited October 11, 2023 by Northroader 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted February 24, 2020 Share Posted February 24, 2020 Looks ideal for the sort of fat cattle they used to breed around the turn of the C18th/C19th. 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Northroader Posted April 4, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted April 4, 2020 (edited) And now, Mesdames et Messieurs, Englefield House of Fashion, the leading centre for Haute Couture, welcomes you to the show you’ve been eagerly awaiting, the Grand Easter Parade. Please take your specially reserved front row seats to see this seasons exciting palette of colours. First, to transform the drab olive look, sooo “twenty tens”, our atelier has given a happy making transformation of our model to a far more zeitgeist yellow, paired subtly with grey and set off with a chichi red ribbon band. Next, tick all the boxes with this glorious combination of vivid orange and warm green, nothing more unboundaried to improve your mood. Love that cheeky little goat! Then to a legend for a reason, the little black number which always serves you sooo well. This classic style needs some je ne sais quoi, a dashing dawn grey lightning stripe set off with white pinstripes. Don’t you just love the glorious dazzle apron revealed as the model turns? Please enjoy your champagne and slim line canapés, and on the way out collect our lavish brochure, “Beeps and Shortys “, to take home and amaze your friends. Edited October 11, 2023 by Northroader 4 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-UnitMad Posted April 9, 2020 Share Posted April 9, 2020 Dear M'sewer le Frog, Englefield House of Fashion, As the leading centre of Naughty Culture, your recent Paradè a-la Beeps was most enjoyable. As per your promotional Brochure, when can we expect to be invited to the Paradè Concours d'la Shortys.? Messy Bucket Les Ros-Beefs, renowned manglers of the French language. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Northroader Posted April 9, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted April 9, 2020 (edited) Mercky, mon Cher Jourdain, it ees sumzing we are Works on, and for now ze paysants must eat hot cross buns, nest se pas? Harpy Pacques to you all. Routier du Nord. (apologies in advance to Jacky!) Edited April 9, 2020 by Northroader 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JAMO Posted April 11, 2020 Share Posted April 11, 2020 On 09/04/2020 at 20:34, Northroader said: Mercky, mon Cher Jourdain, it ees sumzing we are Works on, and for now ze paysants must eat hot cross buns, nest se pas? Harpy Pacques to you all. Routier du Nord. (apologies in advance to Jacky!) I find Zis Zery good and Ze way oV writing is funny! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Northroader Posted November 12, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted November 12, 2020 (edited) Sorry, it’s been quiet on this thread for far too long, I haven’t fallen down the plug hole, it’s just that I’ve been busy on modelling bits covered by some of my other threads. Anyhow, here’s a job on the shorty front, getting two 28’ gons from a 50’ Atlas gondola. After all, who wants freight cars fifty foot long? All you do is separate the body from the underframe and cut, as exactly as you can, square across the middle of both pieces. Then take half a top, half a bottom, turn one round so that it’s facing the other way, and cement them back together, but with the truck bolster on the underframe lining up with the cut middle stanchion on the body. Then a new bolster for the other end is made up from plastikard. Fortunately, I have a few spare Atlas trucks form earlier conversions, so these made up the shortfall. Then I filled the gap in the body at the open end with new sides, and a new end which I trimmed off a spare resin casting of a boxcar dreadnought end I had made some time ago. Filler and detail such as short ladders, and repeat for the other two halves. Looking at photos of gondolas (try http://www.rr-fallenflags.org) the thing that strikes you is the very beaten up appearance they have, definitely they’re the ones in the freight fleet that get the roughest usage, so I’ve tried to reflect this with the paint jobs. I need to make up some loads for them too. Edited October 11, 2023 by Northroader 5 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-UnitMad Posted November 12, 2020 Share Posted November 12, 2020 20 minutes ago, Northroader said: After all, who wants freight cars fifty foot long? Me me me me!!!! 1 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JAMO Posted November 12, 2020 Share Posted November 12, 2020 These gondolas are really nice! I like the weathering! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Donw Posted November 12, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 12, 2020 Nice work. I thought 50ft was shortie on current US lines Don Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-UnitMad Posted November 13, 2020 Share Posted November 13, 2020 8 hours ago, Donw said: Nice work. I thought 50ft was shortie on current US lines Don It is, but Englefield isn't current Era. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Northroader Posted November 13, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted November 13, 2020 I think 28’ cars were fashionable around 1860, so I’m straying off the beaten track somewhere. Anybody watch “On the Town” last night? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Donw Posted November 13, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 13, 2020 Marion started to watch it but changed her mind so I was spared that. It is a bit like me looking for GWR diagram of short coaches. Not typical but very useful. Don 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Northroader Posted December 7, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted December 7, 2020 Wiltshire Constabulary have today issued a warning to all diesels. DO NOT STRAY DOWN DARK DESERTED ALLEYWAYS IN NORTH WILTSHIRE. A police spokesman said “We have reason to believe a crazed plastic surgeon is at large. The fact that the C-liner involved was painted in warbonnet livery is no justification at all for what has happened.” 1 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted December 7, 2020 Share Posted December 7, 2020 Intriguing. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Donw Posted December 7, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 7, 2020 Well at least the is some life still in Englefield and it hasn't disappeared in the changes chez Northroader. Don 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-UnitMad Posted December 7, 2020 Share Posted December 7, 2020 Well that's different, although I can't help thinking this fad for Shorty Things might be getting a touch out of hand!! I'm glad it wasn't an F-Unit, but it might even be seen as an improvement to a C-Liner... You missed a trick though - should've waited until it was done before posting it up on here - and see how long it would be before people noticed!! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Northroader Posted December 7, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted December 7, 2020 Funny you should mention F units........ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-UnitMad Posted December 7, 2020 Share Posted December 7, 2020 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alastairq Posted December 8, 2020 Share Posted December 8, 2020 The C-liner was obviously still moving when the saw started cutting.....I can see where the sawyer went for a tea break..... Anyway, at least it won't become a BL-2... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-UnitMad Posted December 10, 2020 Share Posted December 10, 2020 (edited) COMING NEXT WEEK....... Don't miss it....!!! Mr N. Roader takes three standard RMT Beeps... .....and in a reversal of his usual procedure, cut'n'shuts them all together to make a normal-sized locomotive, for the little-known "Santa Milwaukee Pacific Railroad". "A bit of weathering will hide the joins" said Mr Roader. Sprinting for exit......... Edited December 10, 2020 by F-UnitMad 2 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Northroader Posted December 11, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted December 11, 2020 I’m on the case, Jordan. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gerbil-Fritters Posted December 11, 2020 Share Posted December 11, 2020 On 12/11/2020 at 17:02, Northroader said: Ah, the Englefield House of Fashion has gone all grunge for Winter 20 season. Very appropriate. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alastairq Posted December 11, 2020 Share Posted December 11, 2020 Gosh, all this above reminds me of when I first got going in US HO.....Athearn SW1500, aka, SW7 or 9..in SP grey....such a wonderful runner [compared with what I was used to?] back in the early 1980s... Now in BN black & green,...for some reason? Maybe something to do with acquiring some BN green US paint, and a Microscale decal set? Too good to just sit in a drawer? Then there was the MDC gon..or rather, two of them, to make a Beth Steel mill gon, with baulks and securing points..Very long, but there was an article in, I think MR[?] about making one? That coincided with a bottle of US made orange, but no decals were available at the time, so a rotring pen, magnifying glass, and a steadier hand than I have nowadays, got it lettered. A bit too long for most modest shelf layouts.... Now, look at what we've got? Amazing! 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Northroader Posted December 20, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted December 20, 2020 Christmas is fast approaching, so I must thank all lurkers, reaction givers, and posters for following this thread, and giving vent to their feelings, and give them heartfelt wishes for a Happy Christmas, and hope that next year is good to all of us. May Santa leave a nice sharp little hacksaw in the bottom of your Xmas stocking. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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