Nether Madder and Green Soudley Rly

[Annie]

Australia? (pauses to raise an eyebrow).  Yes I am happy enough to call it an error of judgement and not take any offense.  When I was growing up New Zealand was like a little England in many ways.  Certainly it is a good thing that attitudes of colonial paternalism (with a lingering trace of the 'white man's burden') towards Maori have gone, but there are many things I still miss about that time.  Possibly that is where my interest in modelling English landscapes and railways of an earlier time has come from.

 

Yes we do get a good few movie making folk over here.  I think that might be that New Zealand is a small country with a variety of different kinds of landscapes that can be dressed up to be anywhere you like.

 

Australia? - we have a much better class of sheep than they do anyway. 

[Malcolm 0-6-0]

9 hours ago, Regularity said:

But being a New Zealander, she will treat it more as an error than a major insult.

Try it the other way round, though...

 

To be fair it is an easy mistake to make as most of them seem to have migrated to Australia (clearly the Kiwis have impeccable taste).

 

Which isn't a problem really, once we developed education programs that corrected the strange relations that some had with sheep ..... enough said.

 

     

[St Enodoc]

1 hour ago, Malcolm 0-6-0 said:

To be fair it is an easy mistake to make as most of them seem to have migrated to Australia (clearly the Kiwis have impeccable taste).

As the late Sir Robert Muldoon observed, that increases the IQ of both countries...

[Annie]

When I was much younger I thought about emigrating to Australia, but then I realised I didn't speak the Australian language so I didn't go.

[Martin S-C]

This might appeal to a few here.

Mersey Railway 2-6-2 condensing tank No.13 “Brunlees”.

[Martin S-C]

23 hours ago, Annie said:

Not available for viewing outside the Uk unfortunately.

Is this any good? I am not sure if this will open the post correctly or whether you'll have to scroll down the page quite a way. I also don't know if you'll need a Facebook account!

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1614960195255335/?multi_permalinks=2559159624168716%2C2558277820923563%2C2558268444257834%2C2558262510925094%2C2558258430925502&notif_id=1574355254113731&notif_t=group_activity

Its in a post by "Ronald Macdonald" on 18 November 2019 - Great Northern locos at Wood Green in 1898. Silent B/W.

In the following conversation Jamie Steve Pickering added a new link which should work.

 

[RedGemAlchemist]

26 minutes ago, Martin S-C said:

This might appeal to a few here.

Mersey Railway 2-6-2 condensing tank No.13 “Brunlees”.

 

[Regularity]

8 hours ago, Annie said:

When I was much younger I thought about emigrating to Australia, but then I realised I didn't speak the Australian language so I didn't go.

Fair dinkum.

[chuffinghell]

22 minutes ago, Martin S-C said:

Its in a post by "Ronald Macdonald" 

 

The post isn't there! it's been stolen by the hamburglar

[Martin S-C]

It is a long way down the page - 18th Nov. The group is quite busy ATM so a lot of stuff has appeared after it. Also try searching "Great Northern" or "Wood Green".

[James Harrison]

4 hours ago, Martin S-C said:

This might appeal to a few here.

Mersey Railway 2-6-2 condensing tank No.13 “Brunlees”.

 

Did somebody take a Met tank and plonk it on a new chassis? 

[Annie]

5 hours ago, Regularity said:

Fair dinkum.

Pardon?

[Martin S-C]

On 22/11/2019 at 15:23, James Harrison said:

 

Did somebody take a Met tank and plonk it on a new chassis? 

I had that thought as well. @BlueLightning - did you see this? I know you're a fan of Met tanks.

[BlueLightning]

I did, and thought the same, my thoughts immediately turned to the CDC Design 3d print, and wondering if it could be based and plonked on the wrong chassis! So many projects!!

 

Gary

[Martin S-C]

Norwich Central in 7mm O gauge, by Peter Thomson and David Smith, set around 1910-1914 and seen at Warley last weekend.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Mikkel]

I could look at this all day. Thanks for posting this Martin, well photographed too. 

[brylonscamel]

"Norwich Central in 7mm O gauge" ... did you stray from this layout or just soak it up all day?

[chuffinghell]

On 26/11/2019 at 17:46, Martin S-C said:

Norwich Central in 7mm O gauge, by Peter Thomson and David Smith, set around 1910-1914 and seen at Warley last weekend.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Myself and Sarah kept coming back to this layout on Sunday and each time we returned we noticed something else, superb attention to detail.

 

Sarah particularly liked the horses and carts

 

[Compound2632]

I complimented one of the team on their choice of Midland goods wagon grey - he understood my point!

[Regularity]

2 hours ago, brylonscamel said:

"Norwich Central in 7mm O gauge" ... did you stray from this layout or just soak it up all day?

From the photos, I would say that the latter would be an entirely understandable reaction!

(The goods yards reminds me a bit of that on Ferring in P4. That's a compliment, not a criticism.)

[Martin S-C]

I did swing past 3 or 4 times on the Saturday and took pics each time. Always something interesting going on, even if it was "shunting wars"!

Some of the fonts used for the lettering on the pub, shop and some horse drawn wagons are a bit dubiously modern looking, but that is a minor point. I only noticed them once I had the chance to relax in front of my PC screen and study things in detail and at leisure.

I didn't get to see every layout I'd marked on my floor plan but this was the nicest layout there for me. There was a freelance 7mm light railway set around the Kettering area as well which I like but that was not new to me, being an old favourite. Great Barford, I think?

[Annie]

2 hours ago, Martin S-C said:

Some of the fonts used for the lettering on the pub, shop and some horse drawn wagons are a bit dubiously modern looking, but that is a minor point. I only noticed them once I had the chance to relax in front of my PC screen and study things in detail and at leisure.

 

Once you can tell the difference between modern fonts and period correct lettering the modern stuff doesn't half stand out and scream loudly that it's wrong.  I learned this when I started making my digital pre-grouping wagon models for Trainz and now I pretty much hand draw all the lettering when I'm texturing up a wagon.  The Arial font 'G' just about makes my skin crawl whenever I see it used on a pre-grouping wagon.

[Martin S-C]

It seems crass in the extreme to be negatively critical of such a fine model, but sometimes the saying that the devil is in the details is applicable.

[St Enodoc]

3 hours ago, Martin S-C said:

Some of the fonts used for the lettering on the pub, shop and some horse drawn wagons are a bit dubiously modern looking, but that is a minor point.

Not to me it isn't. I find it intensely annoying to see an otherwise superb piece of modelling spoiled by the use of, in particular, lower-case lettering.

[Martin S-C]

In truth I agree with you. It does jar badly on my eye and sensibilities too. I was trying to be polite about it though! I have had a few recent problems with calling a spade a spade (not here but elsewhere on t'internet so I nowadays steer a more moderate course if I can). There is a very well known and much adored interwar layout in this community that is rightly held up as a superb example of modelling but the shop fronts shout out to me "1960s" instead of "1930s" due to the colours and fonts used which is such a great shame since the overall modelling is something I aspire to in every way.

At the risk of beginning to sound like a real old moaner the one other issue I had with Norwich Central was an over abundance of specialist freight stock. I do dislike it when so many weird and wonderful wheeled "things" get used instead of a much more reasonable sea of sheeted opens and a few vans. There's just so many wonderful shapes, sizes and liveries of open merchandise wagon, using a lot of them does not have to mean a goods yard looks boring.