CCGWR Posted May 31, 2020 Share Posted May 31, 2020 16 hours ago, checkrail said: Has it worked, after delving into the labyrinthine recesses of YouTube? Perhaps! John C. Very Nice John. Can I ask how you constructed the Water Tower? Connor 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Dragonboy Posted May 31, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 31, 2020 Lovely video John. There’s nothing to beat a pre nationalisation 8 coupled engine on a train of private owner wagons. The BR equivalent of 16 ton mineral wagons with only differing rust patterns to give any individuality is just not the same. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold checkrail Posted May 31, 2020 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted May 31, 2020 (edited) And here's another video. The signalman was pretty nifty in returning the branch home to danger, considering how fast that prairie was going! I now remember Andy York telling me that models need to be driven more slowly for videoing or they'll seem unrealistically fast. You'll have to wait a few seconds for the third train to appear. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Poasub0bP2o A bit to learn re video editing, not to mention the juggling and running around trying to harmonise locos, camera shutter, all at once! John C. Edited June 19, 2020 by checkrail Restore link 9 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
richbrummitt Posted May 31, 2020 Share Posted May 31, 2020 7 minutes ago, checkrail said: And here's another video. The signalman was pretty nifty in returning the branch home to danger, considering how fast that prairie was going! I now remember Andy York telling me that models need to be driven more slowly for videoing or they'll seem unrealistically fast. You'll have to wait a few seconds for the third train to appear. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Poasub0bP2o A bit to learn re video editing, not to mention the juggling and running around trying to harmonise locos, camera shutter, all at once! John C. "This video is private" Maybe best that I couldn't view it then. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold checkrail Posted May 31, 2020 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted May 31, 2020 3 minutes ago, richbrummitt said: "This video is private" Sorry about that! Had changed on YouTube from 'private' to 'unlisted' but hadn't clicked on 'DONE'. Just finding my way round YouTube. Link works now. John. 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold checkrail Posted May 31, 2020 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted May 31, 2020 2 hours ago, CCGWR said: Can I ask how you constructed the Water Tower? Thanks Connor. Water tower is a Bachmann Scenecraft special commission for Kernow Model Railways, based on the one at St Ives, though there are plenty of pics of near identical ones across the GW system. From what I remember it's a sort of CKD kit in that you have to add the latticed girders and ladder (both supplied). I repainted it in Railmatch GW dark & light stone to tone with my other buildings. I also found I had to discreetly cut through the diagonal braces in one or two places to get it standing level with all 6 legs vertical. But it was just what I wanted for Stoke C. 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 5BarVT Posted May 31, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 31, 2020 1 hour ago, checkrail said: The signalman was pretty nifty in returning the branch home to danger Very nifty - he’s supposed to wait until the train has passed over *points in the route so that if he has an aberration, the signal off stops him moving the points. * Deliberately vague over ‘all points’ or ‘facing points’ as I can’t remember! Very nice seeing moving pictures. Paul. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bgman Posted May 31, 2020 Share Posted May 31, 2020 1 hour ago, checkrail said: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Poasub0bP2o Does this help John ? 11 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold gwrrob Posted May 31, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 31, 2020 Nice videos John, can I ask about the coal wagon in your rake, OCEAN please. Is it a POWsides job perhaps ? I'm looking for some Welsh based wagons myself. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold checkrail Posted May 31, 2020 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted May 31, 2020 3 hours ago, bgman said: Does this help John ? Yeah - thanks! Looking forward to more trying more simultaneous multi-tasking railway operation, movie making and choreographics! 1 3 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post checkrail Posted May 31, 2020 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted May 31, 2020 Symmetry, geometry, harmony. Coach brown and cream, light and dark stone, hazy green, blue and grey elsewhere. Just what I had in my mind's eye as I started building. (Oh, and some green engines as well.) John C. 29 4 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold checkrail Posted June 1, 2020 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted June 1, 2020 20 hours ago, gwrrob said: can I ask about the coal wagon in your rake, OCEAN please. There are three Ocean wagons in that train. One is indeed from POWsides - transfer only which I applied to a Bachmann 7-planker (but didn't get absolutely straight!). The others have bodies from old Trix/Lilliput wagons, with 9ft wb wooden chassis from Cambrian Kits. I had one of these Trix wagons 50 years ago and was impressed with the printing for that time, so I looked for some on eBay and eventually got four (but not cheaply). Trix models were made to a strange hybrid scale - something like 3.8mm to the foot IIRC. But lengthwise they're spot on for a 4mm scale 9ft u/f. (The u/f they came with was an anachronistic monstrosity.) And I have read in the past of coal being delivered to West Country towns in Ocean wagons. Have a look at the vid again and you might spot all three. The POWsides version is the second to appear. It made me smile to get a S. Welsh coal wagon marked 'Return to Treorchy' in a swish plastic box stamped 'Made in Austria'. Saga's not over - I've also acquired a 00 Graham Farish Ocean wagon. Don't know quite what I'm going to do with it yet. Once again the u/f is totally incorrect, but it's the free-est running model I've ever known - a quick flip with a finger and it glides round the whole layout. 3 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold gwrrob Posted June 1, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 1, 2020 54 minutes ago, checkrail said: The POWsides version is the second to appear. This is it John. 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MonsalDan Posted June 1, 2020 Share Posted June 1, 2020 Very nice, loving the videos especially 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post checkrail Posted June 6, 2020 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted June 6, 2020 Think I've found another new angle - with the camera on the road just in front of the overbridge, angled upwards with a track rubber. Here are a pair of Castles - Launceston on the Wolverhampton - Penzance express and Tiverton on a Plymouth- Paddington train. John C. 29 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post checkrail Posted June 6, 2020 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted June 6, 2020 Here are a couple of cropped versions. Not sure which I like best. Edging towards the cropped ones. Think they give those superb Hornby Castles a bit more 'presence'. John C. 23 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post checkrail Posted June 6, 2020 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted June 6, 2020 … and two of them together. To me the Castles were the most handsome of engines - especially when not defaced by double chimneys, flat sided tenders, smokebox number plates, cycling lions etc. John C. 27 5 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KNP Posted June 6, 2020 Share Posted June 6, 2020 Like the up shots. It's what I would call train spotter views. 5 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted June 6, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 6, 2020 7 hours ago, checkrail said: Edging towards the cropped ones. John, I'm going to be contrary and say that I prefer the uncropped versions. I like the way they show the embankment clearly and make you think you are standing at the bottom looking up. The cropped ones don't give me the same frame of reference. 3 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Regularity Posted June 6, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 6, 2020 31 minutes ago, St Enodoc said: John, I'm going to be contrary and say that I prefer the uncropped versions. I like the way they show the embankment clearly and make you think you are standing at the bottom looking up. The cropped ones don't give me the same frame of reference. You obviously never climbed over the fence to get a closer look... 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluemonkey presents.... Posted June 7, 2020 Share Posted June 7, 2020 (edited) Morning John, As always lovely pictures of a splendid layout. I find myself in a bit of a tizz, as it seems, you were a few years back. I am referring to the saga of tank locos and the lettering colour. Did you ever get the them bottom of the yellow v gold lettering for tank locomotives please? I am trying to finish a lined 39xx around the early 1920s period. I have read your discussion and have come to similar conclusions although I have two pictures of the class (black and white), one appears to have gold lettering albeit in factory grey livery whilst the other appears to be yellow 1909. Both are from Russell's Great Western Locomotive book Vol2 pp71 and 73. It might be that the later of the two pictures is appearing yellow but is truly gold. Hopefully you have the answer please!!!! Thank you for your time and any light you can throw on this one. Definitely has a garter between 'Great Western' that is something rock solid. Edited June 7, 2020 by Bluemonkey presents.... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post checkrail Posted June 7, 2020 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted June 7, 2020 Thanks for nice comments about the videos. Here's another. Got my choreography together a bit more now, but it's like an obstacle course, with two sets of tripod legs in the way (one for a photo lamp), trains running all over the place, and me trying to manipulate the Prodigy handheld and the video control on the camera at the same time! Good fun though. Wait for it …. there's a third train to appear before the end (and it's not the pannier you can see shunting the yard). John C. 21 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KNP Posted June 7, 2020 Share Posted June 7, 2020 Great video. Well worth the effort and managing the obstacle course safely. 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold A Murphy Posted June 7, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 7, 2020 Fabulous! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold checkrail Posted June 7, 2020 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted June 7, 2020 2 hours ago, Bluemonkey presents.... said: I find myself in a bit of a tizz, as it seems, you were a few years back. I am referring to the saga of tank locos and the lettering colour. Did you ever get the them bottom of the yellow v gold lettering for tank locomotives please? I'm afraid I didn't, so it remains a mystery to me too. Nothing in my old edition of 'Great Western Way'. Perhaps Miss Prism of this parish might be able to help? Thanks for kind comments, and if you do find out more please let us know. These things are fast receding into history, and it's notoriously hard to interpret colour from old b & w photos. Regards, John. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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