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Not so, it was done 1910, very late cut off for me, but just has ordinary 3’1” open spoke type. There was a lot of earlier wagons running around with 3’7” wheels, the GNSR book says these could be with 8, 9, or 10 spokes.

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1 minute ago, Northroader said:

Isn’t it the Rollright Stones that all go for a drink at midsummer or something like that? Makes sense.

 

I think you may be confusing them with the Rolling Stones.

 

Mind you, last time I went to the Rollright Stones, they were anything but dry. 

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Glad you enjoyed the build. Nice to see one of my standard gauge kits built up, apart from the test builds before I release them. Must admit I bottle out of trying to supply wheels with my kits, mainly due to the number of different standards used by the modelling fraternity.

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It would make a nice setting, wouldn’t it? No, I was just trying to convey what the layout would be looking like if it was full-size, due to the inactivity. On the new line, there isn’t really room for any foliage, there should be, but I had this 4’ x 2’ piece of ply, and I wanted two boards, so it got cut down the middle, not the way you should do your planning, really. It’s intended for more sunnier climes....

I’m sure what I should be doing is watching a string of coarse scale wagons trundle round, which looks far more relaxing, and it’s actually running. 

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“Sylvan glade with added siding”, I feel a “pop-up” coming on.

 

 

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actually, senior granddaughter had a fit at one time when she was visiting us, of doing something to embellish the Railway. She’s dropped the habit now, but I felt I should encourage her, and bought some Woodlands Scenics gear, and the model shop recommended some glue, which was a mistake, you never seen such a pickle she got into, very runny goo. It was  intended for OO/HO, but I’ve since found by splicing and joining you can get the plastic armatures to represent O scale, and with care, they do come up quite well.

 

 

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Tried to work out what these are, then I remembered your wide-ranging interests, so I gave up :). Any clues?

 

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25 minutes ago, Mikkel said:

Tried to work out what these are, then I remembered your wide-ranging interests, so I gave up :). Any clues?

 

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They look like something being made for a proper railway.

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Very evocative pop-up.

 

Trees are beginning to head for those colours now, and I'm hoping to grab some photos tomorrow, if the sun shows its face, for use as reference/inspiration when painting the back-drop for my photo-plank layout. The footy fields that my son's team now use as their home ground have a dense belt of medium-height mixed deciduous trees on three sides, which is just what I need.

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I was trying to do autumn colours on those, so I started with one packet, then some bits on top out of another, perhaps a bit more mixing should have been done. Hope it stays dry, and you get some sun to bring out the colours.

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3 hours ago, Mikkel said:

Tried to work out what these are, then I remembered your wide-ranging interests, so I gave up :). Any clues?

 

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The grey-and-black one in the middle is an old Kodak film container.

 

Hope that helps.

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I took some photo's earlier this evening which may(or may not) help whilst taking evening views from my lounge window.

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There are others on my Flickr site under the album "useful scenic info" which you can probably access by clicking on this picture.

There is even a railway station, the glass canopy just above the large grey roof is over Porthmadog station platform on the Cambrian Coast line to Pwllheli.  

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10 hours ago, St Enodoc said:

The grey-and-black one in the middle is an old Kodak film container.

 

Hope that helps.

 

I use them for small useful bits, in this case the brass top hat bearings for wagons.

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Well, earlier today conditions were ideal for taking reference pictures of the edges of fields, which was good. This is just the sort of thing I needed.

 

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I did cycle through plenty of very pleasant “rolling scenery with vistas“ too, but we don’t have a single mountain in north bucks, so I’m unable to equal the view from Phil’s place.

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Nice and subtle, it’s great the way foliage changes to golden bronze shades right now. I drove over to Malmesbury this morning, another non mountainous route, and admiring similar changes, but I’m afraid it was ........ down for my trip.

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I've just spent a couple of hours clearing leaves from our driveway and garden.  Our only tree is one small acer in a half barrel, but our neighbour to the west has a mini woodland of several 60ft+ high specimens of several species.   Guess from where the prevailing wind comes?   :(

 

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8 hours ago, Nearholmer said:

 


I did cycle through plenty of very pleasant “rolling scenery with vistas“ too, but we don’t have a single mountain in north bucks, so I’m unable to equal the view from Phil’s place.

I'm the first to acknowledge that I am so very lucky to have been able to move to, and live in, such a glorious spot.

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16 hours ago, Caley Jim said:

I've just spent a couple of hours clearing leaves from our driveway and garden.  Our only tree is one small acer in a half barrel, but our neighbour to the west has a mini woodland of several 60ft+ high specimens of several species.   Guess from where the prevailing wind comes?   :(

 

Jim

 

Bag the leaves up in a black plstic bag put in an odd corner for a while until you have a bag of compost. 

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