RMweb Gold Tony Teague Posted April 13, 2020 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted April 13, 2020 Ho, Ho, Hoe... 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Mick Bonwick Posted April 17, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 17, 2020 'Ere! Some bloke's written an article about a brewery wot looks just like yours! BRM May 2020. I'd have words if I woz you. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony Teague Posted April 17, 2020 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted April 17, 2020 4 hours ago, Mick Bonwick said: 'Ere! Some bloke's written an article about a brewery wot looks just like yours! BRM May 2020. I'd have words if I woz you. Really! If I find out who dunnit...... 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony Teague Posted April 17, 2020 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted April 17, 2020 (edited) Actually.... Glad they corrected the spelling mistake that I spotted before it went to press! I'm really pleased with Andy York's images and actually there are a small number that didn't get used; at the risk of upsetting the Chief Mod, here is just one: I'll post some more if he doesn't get too cross! Tony Edited November 19, 2022 by Tony Teague 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Mick Bonwick Posted April 17, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 17, 2020 22 minutes ago, Tony Teague said: I'll post some more if he doesn't get too cross! Just do it! 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack P Posted April 18, 2020 Share Posted April 18, 2020 6 hours ago, Mick Bonwick said: Just do it! I agree with Mick, do it! 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony Teague Posted April 18, 2020 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted April 18, 2020 (edited) On 17/04/2020 at 22:40, Mick Bonwick said: Just do it! On 18/04/2020 at 06:18, Jack P said: I agree with Mick, do it! Talk about "incitement to civil disobedience! Well I did PM him for permission but he hasn't replied- hope he remains well. So I'll do this very quietly... The Churminster Shedmaster has used visiting Fowler 150hp No.400S to shunt the brewery siding. Seen here exiting along the road behind Churminster Goods Shed. (The previous shot taken from across the cobbled access road at the rear of the same building). Tony Edited November 19, 2022 by Tony Teague 11 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony Teague Posted April 20, 2020 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted April 20, 2020 Just received this from an American friend - and it 'kinda resonates': "My Self-Isolation Quarantine Diary Day 1 – I Can Do This!! Got enough food and wine to last a month! Day 2 – Opening my 8th bottle of Wine. I fear wine supplies might not last! Day 3 – Strawberries: Some have 210 seeds, some have 235 seeds. Who Knew?? Day 4 – 8:00 pm. Removed my Day Pajamas and put on my Night Pajamas. Day 5 – Today, I tried to make Hand Sanitizer. It came out as Jello Shots!! Day 6 – I get to take the Garbage out. I’m So excited, I can’t decide what to wear. Day 7 – Laughing way too much at my own jokes!! Day 8 – Went to a new restaurant called “The Kitchen”. You have to gather all the ingredients and make your own meal. I have No clue how this place is still in business. Day 9 – I put liquor bottles in every room. Tonight, I’m getting all dressed up and going Bar hopping. Day 10 – Struck up a conversation with a Spider today. Seems nice. He’s a Web Designer. Day 11 – Isolation is hard. I swear my fridge just said, “What the hell do you want now?” Day 12 – I realized why dogs get so excited about something moving outside, going for walks or car rides. I think I just barked at a squirrel. Day 13 – If you keep a glass of wine in each hand, you can’t accidently touch your face. Day 14 – Watched the birds fight over a worm. The Cardinals lead the Blue Jays 3–1. Day 15 – Anybody else feel like they’ve cooked dinner about 395 times this month?” Tony 5 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold westerhamstation Posted April 20, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 20, 2020 Hi Tony, thanks for posting that really made me laugh. All the Best Adrian. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KNP Posted April 20, 2020 Share Posted April 20, 2020 (edited) As they say... Many a true word spoken, or in this case printed, in jest. Edited April 20, 2020 by KNP 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post Tony Teague Posted April 27, 2020 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted April 27, 2020 (edited) Having "taken" Wadleys Brewery to RMWeb's virtual model railway show yesterday, I should perhaps post here the remaining pictures by Andy York that were taken for the BRM article but not used; they look pretty good to me: I think Wadleys has now had as much exposure as is reasonable, and so I hope within the next couple of days to post an update or two on other on-going projects. Tony Edited November 19, 2022 by Tony Teague 24 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KNP Posted April 27, 2020 Share Posted April 27, 2020 Very nice pictures, now all you have to do is shift the beer! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Mick Bonwick Posted April 27, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 27, 2020 13 minutes ago, KNP said: Very nice pictures, now all you have to do is shift the beer! It's a good job the beer isn't in crates! 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony Teague Posted April 27, 2020 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted April 27, 2020 1 hour ago, Mick Bonwick said: It's a good job the beer isn't in crates! 1 hour ago, KNP said: Very nice pictures, now all you have to do is shift the beer! Thanks - actually there are some crates, I remember painting them, but I can't for the life remember where I put them! Perhaps that's good, otherwise I might have to drink them! Tony 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mullie Posted April 27, 2020 Share Posted April 27, 2020 On 20/04/2020 at 11:41, Tony Teague said: Just received this from an American friend - and it 'kinda resonates': "My Self-Isolation Quarantine Diary Day 1 – I Can Do This!! Got enough food and wine to last a month! Day 2 – Opening my 8th bottle of Wine. I fear wine supplies might not last! Day 3 – Strawberries: Some have 210 seeds, some have 235 seeds. Who Knew?? Day 4 – 8:00 pm. Removed my Day Pajamas and put on my Night Pajamas. Day 5 – Today, I tried to make Hand Sanitizer. It came out as Jello Shots!! Day 6 – I get to take the Garbage out. I’m So excited, I can’t decide what to wear. Day 7 – Laughing way too much at my own jokes!! Day 8 – Went to a new restaurant called “The Kitchen”. You have to gather all the ingredients and make your own meal. I have No clue how this place is still in business. Day 9 – I put liquor bottles in every room. Tonight, I’m getting all dressed up and going Bar hopping. Day 10 – Struck up a conversation with a Spider today. Seems nice. He’s a Web Designer. Day 11 – Isolation is hard. I swear my fridge just said, “What the hell do you want now?” Day 12 – I realized why dogs get so excited about something moving outside, going for walks or car rides. I think I just barked at a squirrel. Day 13 – If you keep a glass of wine in each hand, you can’t accidently touch your face. Day 14 – Watched the birds fight over a worm. The Cardinals lead the Blue Jays 3–1. Day 15 – Anybody else feel like they’ve cooked dinner about 395 times this month?” Tony Love that, made my family laugh. Thanks for posting. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post Tony Teague Posted April 28, 2020 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted April 28, 2020 (edited) It was back in February when I last reported on progress with St Giles' Church at Stowe Magna; I think it must be that trying to get four things done at once just doesn't work! Anyway I am now on the home straight with all four tasks and St Giles' churchyard is starting to look a bit closer to completion: You may remember that the new church was replacing an old Superquick kit: The new building is substantially larger and as a result it has been necessary to extend the churchyard into the field beyond: There are a few more gravestones, some trees and a bit of shrubbery to go, but overall, I think it is an improvement! Tony Edited November 19, 2022 by Tony Teague 15 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Mick Bonwick Posted April 28, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 28, 2020 3 minutes ago, Tony Teague said: There are a few more gravestones, some trees and a bit of shrubbery to go, but overall, I think it is an improvement! Can't disagree with that. The trees make a big difference, and I like the stile in the wall. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post Tony Teague Posted April 30, 2020 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted April 30, 2020 (edited) Not sure how others are finding 'Lockdown' but whilst I have lots of jobs that I can do, they are all within a narrow group and it has been easy to lose motivation whilst hankering for the social side of things and those activities that can't currently happen - well that's how I feel anyway! With such a long "to do" list on the railway, it has been rather to easy to start multiple jobs and not finish anything, which can also be frustrating; I currently have four main tasks in hand and so for the last week I have been trying to knuckle down and get something completed by working on just one job only, with just one other in background for those times when I have to wait for the glue or paint to dry, etc. So having reported two days ago on the all but finished St Giles Church, Churminster, I am now also able to say that the rake of incomplete wagons that have been occupying my workbench for way too long are now also almost complete: Two of these (furthest from the camera) are complete, whilst the only thing that remains to be applied to the rest is a coating of Testor's Dullcote; normally I do this outside and today it has been raining pi$$istently! So when you look at the individual wagons there may be some signs of transfer carrier film which should vanish once they are sprayed. The first two are a pair of Peco / Parkside GWR prize cattle wagons, followed by an LNER fruit van - from the same manufacturer: One thing I really hate is having to number some these vehicles one digit at a time! - very slow and frustrating!! Next are a pair of SR 12T plywood sided vans - from Ratio kits: And these are followed by two of the very recent Hornby LSWR 24T brake vans; these are nice models but the factory applied livery was so wrong that like many others, I just had to re-paint them; this sounds simple but involves removing everything and later, putting it all back together: I took the opportunity to re-letter one of these in post-1936 livery. Finally there are two Slaters MR / LMS 10'6" covered goods vans, which are the only two that have already undergone the Testor's treatment - and I think it shows. All of which of course, excludes weathering, which I have deliberately set as a separate task, simply because I have so many vans and wagons to weather, but once I have my four current tasks completed, it looks to me like weathering a large batch of goods vehicles might just have to be one of the next jobs! (Mr Bonwick shoud be happier! ). So, weather permitting, this lot should be cleared into the operational fleet tomorrow, leaving me to get the last bits of shrubbery done in the churchyard - oh, and there are actually two last vans remaining.... One is the rather difficult SR Shark ballast plough & brake van that has been around for months - but I can't ignore it much longer - and the other is the equally difficult ex-SECR 6-wheel 20T brake van from a very rough Shapeways 3D print: I reached the point with it where any further addition of filler-primer and related rubbing down was becoming fruitless and so what we have is what I am going to choose to live with - actually at normal viewing distance, once weathered and on a (?fast?) moving train it should look reasonably presentable! So "all" I have to do to finish it is to build a chassis; the sharp-eyed may have noticed that it currently has no wheels! That then will be two of the four current jobs finished; the other two being completing the build of my first ever brass coach kit - started at Missenden but dumped immediately afterwards, when a few problems emerged, plus soldering and installing the last 19 LED's to the Control Panel, which again, I dropped out of sheer soldering boredom! Nevertheless, all in all a good few days work and much more gratifying when something gets finished (almost). Tony Edited November 19, 2022 by Tony Teague 14 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Mick Bonwick Posted April 30, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 30, 2020 Now that's what I call productive! Splendid achievement despite your frustrations and the weather. You're right about the weathering. I'm looking forward to the new churchyard completion. And seeing a complete control panel. And watching weathered trains go by. And . . . . . . . 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KNP Posted May 1, 2020 Share Posted May 1, 2020 They all look splendid and when weathered will look even better. I look forward to seeing a video of weathered trains rattling past and the control panel in full operation with switches and lights glowing. Like you, I'm getting all those 'silly' little jobs done that I put off for a rainy day or just couldn't be bothered to do so got on with something else.... Keep smiling and keep safe. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony Teague Posted May 1, 2020 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted May 1, 2020 Thanks Mick, Kevin I'm sure its inevitable that motivation and enthusiasm go up and down a bit, but it certainly helps when you get some jobs finished! Tony 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony Teague Posted May 6, 2020 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted May 6, 2020 The nine wagons / vans that I showed the other day have duly been "dullcoated" and accepted into the operational fleet; I won't show them again until such time as they have been weathered - which could be several years! In the same post, I mentioned in passing the two incomplete brake vans that remained outstanding and it seems that I first referred to the incorrect livery of the SR Ballast Plough & Brake Van last June! - 11 months and 10 pages ago! At the time, I was urged to repaint it, as it should be in the Engineers Department livery with bauxite sides and vermillion ends - so in due course I set about this but soon found that the vermillion and bauxite paints that I had looked exactly the same! After life and various other tasks intervened, I eventually found a darker bauxite that in my view had sufficient contrast with "SR Vermillion" to go ahead, and so the job is now (almost) finally done: Here she is leaving the sidings adjacent to Churminster Station with a short Engineer's train: OMG !! No lamps! I said (almost) complete because there are two things left to do, and one problem to solve; the first, very simple, job will be to add a tail lamp and a guard, whilst the second is slightly more complex in that the model is missing a set of lower step boards that the prototype had, so these will need to be fabricated. I have posted the problem that needs solving on another thread as I have run out of ideas how to do it, but I shall repeat it here. The body of the van is held to the chassis by two 8BA bolts that screw into captive nuts soldered inside the floor within the end vestibules of the van; one of these nuts has come unsoldered and despite several attempts, involving cocktail sticks, immense heat and unsavoury language, and ultimately a piercing saw to remove a bolt that I had soldered to a nut although neither were fixed to the bodywork, I have not succeeded. The location of the fixing is shown above and below; the captive nut is almost completely inaccessible and I do not want to take the van to bits! I can of course run the van with only one screw holding it together, but ideally I'd like to find a solution - all ideas welcome! Nevertheless, despite this issue I think that on balance it has been worthwhile to re-livery the brake as it is an unusual prototype. Tony 12 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KNP Posted May 6, 2020 Share Posted May 6, 2020 Can you make a lip that the unscrewed end slides into then held in place with the screwed end? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Steve Hewitt Posted May 6, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 6, 2020 Hi Tony, Two suggestions for the elusive nut. 1. Clean the seating for the nut thoroughly, similarly the mating surface of a Brass 8BA nut. Tin the Brass nut and its seating. (If possible) Use a Steel 8BA bolt and blacken it with Gun Blue. Apply oil to the bolt thread and use it to lock the nut in place. Apply heat to the accessible surface adjacent to the bolt head, cross fingers and count to not very many. 2. Recreate a copy of the captive nut on a small piece of brass. Use epoxy glue to attach this where required, and use a bolt to hold it in place until the glue has cured. Good luck, Steve. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony Teague Posted May 6, 2020 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted May 6, 2020 1 hour ago, KNP said: Can you make a lip that the unscrewed end slides into then held in place with the screwed end? 1 hour ago, Steve Hewitt said: Hi Tony, Two suggestions for the elusive nut. 1. Clean the seating for the nut thoroughly, similarly the mating surface of a Brass 8BA nut. Tin the Brass nut and its seating. (If possible) Use a Steel 8BA bolt and blacken it with Gun Blue. Apply oil to the bolt thread and use it to lock the nut in place. Apply heat to the accessible surface adjacent to the bolt head, cross fingers and count to not very many. 2. Recreate a copy of the captive nut on a small piece of brass. Use epoxy glue to attach this where required, and use a bolt to hold it in place until the glue has cured. Good luck, Steve. Kevin, Steve Both helpful suggestions which I shall chew on, before having a go in the morning. Thanks! Tony 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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