RMweb Gold westerhamstation Posted January 3, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 3, 2020 Hi Lash, Joe looks like a lean mean grilling machine. does he do a latte and a croissant purchance. All the best Adrian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium lash Posted January 3, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted January 3, 2020 Good point Adrian . He’s a bit fit isn’t he . Not too surprising ,he played centre half for Pompey in the 50s . Pay was less than the £20 a week salary cap as he was never a first team regular . The caravan was bought with the proceeds of a testimonial and it looks like he got hold of some paint from the Fratton Park stores as well . 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeithMacdonald Posted January 3, 2020 Share Posted January 3, 2020 4 minutes ago, lash said: it looks like he got hold of some paint from the Fratton Park stores as well . Allegedly surely? To my eyes that paint colour looks more like HM Royal Navy Blue - perhaps liberated from HMNB Portsmouth? 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium lash Posted January 3, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted January 3, 2020 47 minutes ago, KeithMacdonald said: Allegedly surely? To my eyes that paint colour looks more like HM Royal Navy Blue - perhaps liberated from HMNB Portsmouth? Obviously nicking from RN stores was a sport in 50s and 60s Pompey so that has to be a possibility but the shade here is a tadge light. Joe was never in the Navy but would I suspect have fitted in well at Whale Island as a gunnery instructor . 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium lash Posted January 16, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted January 16, 2020 Been working on the Dogfish, oh goodness it’s a tricky fiddly build . Fun though even if I hadn’t twigged that Heljan make a Dogfish model . Why does that happen ? I’ve got a Ratio Van B kit and a DC kits 2H stashed both overtaken by wonderful ready to run models . 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium lash Posted March 26, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted March 26, 2020 (edited) Milton Quay is in store for the duration so final bits and bobs will have to wait. I've decided to put a hold on the Portsea Town revamp for the moment. It will be part of a gig railway room tail chaser one day but not yet. My next project will be Melville Street, a very grubby urban third rail terminus probably something like Iain Futers Haymarket in a cutting with late green and early blue emus in mind. Like MQ it will be micro-ish but probably slightly on the large side so I’ll start the thread in layout topics. Keep your distance and keep well modelling chums everywhere. Edited March 30, 2020 by lash 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sb67 Posted March 27, 2020 Share Posted March 27, 2020 I'll look forward to your next project lash, sounds very interesting 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeithMacdonald Posted September 3, 2020 Share Posted September 3, 2020 On 26/10/2019 at 19:29, lash said: Keith glad you enjoyed the reference and love your embellishments. I think I could get into a few cameos with the characters from 60s and 70s radio comedy on the layout ) Maybe Binky Beaumont and Dame Celia Molestrangler and their take on Brief Encounter ( no refreshment room at MQ but maybe a stolen pot of tea and a rock cake at the local Black Cat Cafe ) or Jules and Sandy escaping the drudgery of the Balls Pond Road for a bona day out at the seaside. If there are any young people out there who don’t understand a word of this ......welcome to my world!! Lash, I might have found where they were "resting" in 1999. It was at Chuffer's Restaurant in Fowey. Most people innocently assumed Chuffer's was named because of the proximity to the old (long-gone) Fowey Railway Station. That was the cover story. Actually I'm told it was, allegedly, the last known hiding place of Chuffer Dandridge, the well-known and permanent-resting Shakespearean Actor Manager. Our luvvies loved the excuse they were researching parts for a film of a Daphne du Maurier novel. They could look across the river and see Daphne du Maurier's house "Ferryside" at Bodinnick. Which is about as close as they ever got to a paid part. Chuffer made a brief appearance on Terry Wogan's radio show in 2007. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium lash Posted April 2, 2022 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted April 2, 2022 It’s been a quiet two years at Milton Quay and the layout is in its new home. There are a few things to sort and fix but the engineers are in evidence and possibly wondering where the locals have stashed the canopy and signal, presumably before delivery to the local scrap merchants. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeithMacdonald Posted April 2, 2022 Share Posted April 2, 2022 1 hour ago, lash said: the engineers are in evidence and possibly wondering where the locals have stashed the canopy and signal, presumably before delivery to the local scrap merchants. Err, has CPO Pertwee been seen in the vicinity again? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium lash Posted April 2, 2022 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted April 2, 2022 20 minutes ago, KeithMacdonald said: Err, has CPO Pertwee been seen in the vicinity again? You got it. One signal surplus scrap for the use of. Cash sale of course ten bob a hundredweight in old money. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium lash Posted April 6, 2022 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted April 6, 2022 Scrap items found under a pile of tarpaulins adjacent to the berth of a disreputable tug owned by Nunky Pertwee’s sometime uncle. Pertwee AWOL with matelot fuzz in persuit but no doubt he will end up smelling of roses without a stain on his character. All back in place now and tried some running with a pre tops western feel. All fine on half the layout but two of four sections dead so some investigations to be done. Electrics on MQ so what could possibly go wrong…always something. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium lash Posted April 10, 2022 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted April 10, 2022 I can’t let this pass by. Did anyone read about the £250k fuel theft in Devonport from HMS Bulwark. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-61020685 You really couldn’t make it up and it seems the spirit of CPO Pertwee is alive and well and living in Plymouth. 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeithMacdonald Posted April 10, 2022 Share Posted April 10, 2022 (edited) 1 hour ago, lash said: it seems the spirit of CPO Pertwee is alive and well and living in Plymouth. From a modelling point of view, this is excellent news 🙂 The modelling of the railway quayside at HMS Hades will certainly feature his exploits. That's the ultra-top secret base in Plymouth, underneath the Mount Wise cricket pitch. Turn left at Stonehouse Bridge. We may have to recruit some more matelots. Edited April 10, 2022 by KeithMacdonald typo 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeithMacdonald Posted April 12, 2022 Share Posted April 12, 2022 Talk of the devil ... no sooner spoken than proven. I've just spotted some matelots on the loose at HMS Hades quayside station. The lovely little resident shunter has just arrived with something for "Senior Naval Stores Officer (SNSO)". But with rumours of CPO Pertwee and Fatso Johnston in the vicinity, we have serious doubts whether the OIC will ever receive that, or whether it really is "purified water only". More likely to be Uisce beatha. And, what's left inside that Arkell's Brewery van remains to be seen. Those matelots scarpering before the officer notices them just adds to the general impression of mischief on the move. What's the phone number for MoD Plod? 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium lash Posted July 21, 2022 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted July 21, 2022 Another modelling hiatus but electrics sorted thanks to my new multimeter toy. Played trains with and engineers train coming and going and a parcels arriving and being shunted. All early 70s stock. There are derailment issues with the slidey cassettes to be sorted but fun had. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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