RMweb Premium Siberian Snooper Posted July 29, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 29, 2021 13 minutes ago, Graham T said: Would somebody mind messaging this unwary modeller with the name? I have a sneaking suspicion that I know anyway, but would like to avoid falling foul. Thanks. 2 minutes ago, Miss Prism said: Very unlike Peco to drop a clanger like that, although I do not know what exactly has been said. It would be useful to know. Cooper-Craft. The article refers to "Rolling stock for Kingsferry", the stock referred to are Mallard/Blacksmiths coach kits from the above. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlfaZagato Posted July 29, 2021 Share Posted July 29, 2021 I would hate to see Stoke Courtenay shuttered over yet another discussion of CooperCraft. We should stop now. @checkrail Do you have any more scenic plans? 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted July 29, 2021 Share Posted July 29, 2021 Good point, the old chestnut that a model railway is never truly finished springs to mind. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kandc_au Posted July 29, 2021 Share Posted July 29, 2021 17 hours ago, Graham T said: Or you could drill a couple in the roof, so that the fumes can rise and disperse naturally. Or just drill out the end vents! Khris 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bgman Posted July 30, 2021 Share Posted July 30, 2021 This is all very well but during the hot spell did any Micas come through Stoke Courtney with supplies of Pendletons Twicers for the good folk of Devon or even a supply of Jubblies ? 2 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold checkrail Posted July 30, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted July 30, 2021 I'm too young to remember Pendleton's Twicers, honest! 3 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted July 30, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 30, 2021 10 minutes ago, checkrail said: I'm too young to remember Pendleton's Twicers, honest! Never heard of 'em myself - a quick Google suggests that they were a Northern thing. The equivalents in North London when I was growing up were Wall's Splits or Lyons Maid Mivvis, which I most certainly do remember. 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silas Posted July 30, 2021 Share Posted July 30, 2021 Ooo, a Strawberry Mivvy - now you're talking! 1 7 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted July 30, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 30, 2021 2 minutes ago, Silus said: Ooo, a Strawberry Mivvy - now you're talking! I agree but I think my favourite Lyons Maid lolly was the FAB. 2 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 5BarVT Posted July 30, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 30, 2021 (edited) 14 minutes ago, Silus said: Ooo, a Strawberry Mivvy - now you're talking! 11 minutes ago, St Enodoc said: I agree but I think my favourite Lyons Maid lolly was the FAB. Both good, but my favourite at the time was an Orange Maid. Paul. P.S. Have FABs got smaller or is it rose tinted memory? Edited July 30, 2021 by 5BarVT Question 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold checkrail Posted July 30, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted July 30, 2021 15 hours ago, AlfaZagato said: We should stop now. @checkrail Do you have any more scenic plans? Thank you AlfaZagato (and all you ice cream fans) for deftly changing the subject. There's nothing I aspire to on the scenic side which I could dignify with the word 'plan', but I do have some E-Z line in stock with which I intend to add some wire to the signal wire posts. (I'm not even going to think about the telegraph wires - that way madness lies! And I might add a few more reeds to the field with the little pond. And one of these fine days I might renew the post-and-wire fencing at the front of the layout at the goods yard end. It's suffered a bit of battering now and then due to its position, and is a long way from being as neat as Kevin's @KNP I quite enjoyed doing the scenics (especially the groundwork, with the hot glue gun and cardboard lattice work), but was glad when I'd finished. For me any non-railway scenics are intended to be just a foil or backdrop to the trains. 9 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Graham T Posted July 30, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 30, 2021 I really enjoyed doing the ground work with a hot glue gun as well. Fun toys! 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium TrevorP1 Posted July 30, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 30, 2021 I bought a new hot glue gun earlier this year, at least I think that’s what it is… 1 18 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post checkrail Posted July 30, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted July 30, 2021 On 27/07/2021 at 18:50, AlfaZagato said: Any new coaches of late? Did you finish your toplights? Almost. The last toplight addition was this all-third which runs in the North to West train along with a couple of "'ell of a mess" coaches. (I see from the pics that a grab handle needs straightening.) Built in the same batch were another third and a brake third, which have found a home in a Paddington - Plymouth formation, pictured below heading west behind Laira's King Henry V. The coach behind the toplight van third is an E73 toplight compo. I say "almost" because I still have in my small stash a body-only version of a Slater's toplight third, bought on eBay, which was marketed by that firm we aren't going to mention. My plan for this is for it to become one third of an E set alongside a D33 clerestory brake third (I have the sides, and a Hornby donor coach) and another toplight brake compo. (I'll order sides for the latter from Worsley Works.) I think I have enough PC kit bits & bobs to do this, but it won't be very soon. John C. 12 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss Prism Posted July 30, 2021 Share Posted July 30, 2021 I like the different browns. 1 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coach bogie Posted July 30, 2021 Share Posted July 30, 2021 (edited) Coaches looking good. I appreciate your point of view on the iron minks. Most of mine are Ratio and have been on the layout for many many years. What I like about the Ratio is the ease to convert to other versions. This one I did as a teenager (yes the kit has been around that long) and depicted as one with replacement wooden doors. I have just brought this one in for new buffers and brake lever. The mink that is often overlooked in my opinion, is the Kirk big mink with the original doors. It was one of the first 'basic' kits he did. I have lots of these and have converted them to other versions courtesy of the Railway Modeler articles by Brian Huxley in the 1970's. Mike Wiltshire Edited July 30, 2021 by Coach bogie 16 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted July 30, 2021 Share Posted July 30, 2021 Could that Kirk Mink be the same as this one? I'm trying to find out what the numbers should be. 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss Prism Posted July 30, 2021 Share Posted July 30, 2021 Mr Wolf - I think you have a Kirk 'V12/14/16'. In the following discussion (discursive in typical RMweb style), the conclusion seems to be the V12 had offset vees, and the V14 and V16 were central: https://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/60562-parkside-v12/ 1 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted July 30, 2021 Share Posted July 30, 2021 Thanks @Miss Prism, having read through the article, it would appear to be a Vi6. So now I have some clue about what diagram to search out the running numbers for. Sorry if I hogged the thread here, looking at the quality of your coach building compared to mine I might just stick with a freight only branch! 3 2 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandhole Posted July 30, 2021 Share Posted July 30, 2021 3 hours ago, Coach bogie said: Coaches looking good. I appreciate your point of view on the iron minks. Most of mine are Ratio and have been on the layout for many many years. What I like about the Ratio is the ease to convert to other versions. This one I did as a teenager (yes the kit has been around that long) and depicted as one with replacement wooden doors. I have just brought this one in for new buffers and brake lever. The mink that is often overlooked in my opinion, is the Kirk big mink with the original doors. It was one of the first 'basic' kits he did. I have lots of these and have converted them to other versions courtesy of the Railway Modeler articles by Brian Huxley in the 1970's. Mike Wiltshire I have inherited one of Mike's early Iron Mink conversions with the wooden doors. It has wooden doors, plastic wheels and runs beautifully. Mike put me on to the early Kirk big minks. I have twp of those running in my Western Region fitted freight. The early Kirk wagon kits are well worth finding and building. Proper modelling, add a bit of extra detail and they are Great. Chris. 3 1 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold checkrail Posted July 30, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted July 30, 2021 4 hours ago, Miss Prism said: I like the different browns. Wow! I find that quite reassuring! I've been cursing myself for a couple of years for using Railmatch coach brown instead of trying to match the shade Hornby use. The thought of repainting (and especially re-lettering) all the kit-built coaches has been haunting me. Henceforth, if challenged, I'm going to claim that Miss Prism's much deeper GWR prototype knowledge has let me off the hook! 9 1 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bulwell Hall Posted July 30, 2021 Share Posted July 30, 2021 2 hours ago, checkrail said: Wow! I find that quite reassuring! I've been cursing myself for a couple of years for using Railmatch coach brown instead of trying to match the shade Hornby use. The thought of repainting (and especially re-lettering) all the kit-built coaches has been haunting me. Henceforth, if challenged, I'm going to claim that Miss Prism's much deeper GWR prototype knowledge has let me off the hook! You only have to look at the few genuine pre-war colour views to see the differences in shades of brown - and cream - to be seen on GWR coaches. David Jenkinson's 'Big Four in Colour' has a number of views that shew the variations to be seen and this book has became almost a bible to me in my efforts to get an authentic appearance to trains. Gerry 6 4 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted July 31, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 31, 2021 12 hours ago, 5BarVT said: my favourite at the time was an Orange Maid. TMI 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted July 31, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 31, 2021 11 hours ago, checkrail said: I do have some E-Z line in stock with which I intend to add some wire to the signal wire posts. (I'm not even going to think about the telegraph wires - that way madness lies! Almost every application of E-Z Line that I have seen has the line stretched taut, which defeats the point to me. A late friend had a super model of Stafford station set in 1963. He'd modelled all the OHLE structures but none of the wires. The eye was deceived totally. 6 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted July 31, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 31, 2021 (edited) 14 hours ago, Sandhole said: I have inherited one of Mike's early Iron Mink conversions with the wooden doors. It has wooden doors, plastic wheels and runs beautifully. Mike put me on to the early Kirk big minks. I have twp of those running in my Western Region fitted freight. The early Kirk wagon kits are well worth finding and building. Proper modelling, add a bit of extra detail and they are Great. Chris. If it wasn't for @Ian Kirk I'd never have modelled a china-clay line in Cornwall. He's got a lot to answer for... Edited July 31, 2021 by St Enodoc 7 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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