HonestTom Posted October 25, 2018 Author Share Posted October 25, 2018 Hello! Thank you for your kind comments. Angst-Lesspork is my layout. Still going strong - we were at Hartlepool last weekend. I did get Sir Terry Pratchett's permission to exhibit the layout; bit difficult to do now, but his agent could put you on to those who look after his intellectual property. Here is a video of the layout I took at the Fareham show earlier this month https://youtu.be/X6NB3GrDgho More on the layout here: http://hnorwood.co.uk/files/angst.htm Great to hear from you! As I say, I'm a big fan of your layout and I did read up on it before starting mine - standing on the shoulders of giants, etc. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hnorwood Posted October 25, 2018 Share Posted October 25, 2018 Good to hear from you. I think I saw it at York, IIRC, but the gentleman operating it, although perfectly friendly, was not the builder and could not say much about it. The photographs I posted were taken in 2017. I took a lot! I guessed from the date stamp on your photos it was York. That would have been one of my co-pilots! 009er but not, alas, a discworlder! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hnorwood Posted October 25, 2018 Share Posted October 25, 2018 Great to hear from you! As I say, I'm a big fan of your layout and I did read up on it before starting mine - standing on the shoulders of giants, etc. Oh <blush> that's very kind. I'll have to drop by here more often to see how you are progressing. {I'm usually to be found in the real world rather than online, and if online then on ngrm-online.com, the 009 society forum or even (whisper it) faceborg} Have fun! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRman Posted October 25, 2018 Share Posted October 25, 2018 One of the things I initially thought when starting out was that I didn't want to overpopulate the layout with specific characters. That being said, I think I have to have Dibbler, because he shows up everywhere - and if you can't find CMOT, you can find one of his many distant cousins. I forget whether it was Raising Steam or Mrs Bradshaw's Guidebook that said he'd got into property speculation with the rise of the railway, so I definitely have an excuse to bring him in. It also means that I have an excuse for any wonky buildings on the layout. I did consider giving him a private owner wagon on the railway - I found an old Hornby Palethorpe's Pork Sausages van in storage, and thought it might be neat to turn it into a Dibbler's "Pork" Sausages van. However, I don't think Dibbler sells enough sausages-inna-bun to justify such a wagon, so I'm planning on turning it into a pork futures wagon. I wonder if any of the dwarf tunnels from Thud! run under the Pork Futures warehouse? Maybe I could have the Discworld equivalent of London's Smithfield meat trains. They're pretty lightweight because the meat doesn't exist yet. What about rat-onna-stick wagons? 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium BR60103 Posted October 26, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 26, 2018 Ooook! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
HonestTom Posted October 27, 2018 Author Share Posted October 27, 2018 Well, a package arrived from China this morning. It’s meant to be a wind pump, but I think it could make a decent clacks tower with some alteration. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted October 27, 2018 Share Posted October 27, 2018 Well, a package arrived from China this morning. It’s meant to be a wind pump, but I think it could make a decent clacks tower with some alteration. DF6B4BCE-85EA-49CA-B39F-79F6B31B8CBE.jpeg That's an interesting find. I can see it sitting on a masonry or wooden tower, which would give extra height and provide an office and accommodation for the crew. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nile_Griffith Posted October 27, 2018 Share Posted October 27, 2018 What about rat-onna-stick wagons? Just so long as it contains all four main food groups. Grease, starch, Fat and burnt crunchy bits. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRman Posted October 28, 2018 Share Posted October 28, 2018 I wonder what sort of wagon would be required to transport Dwarf bread. Possibly something armoured ... not to protect the contents, but to protect the wagon from the contents! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium BR60103 Posted October 28, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 28, 2018 Just so long as it contains all four main food groups. Grease, starch, Fat and burnt crunchy bits. I've been tryin to find which book this comes up in. Dwarf bread will require at least a bogie well wagon but probably a Trestrol. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbenson Posted October 28, 2018 Share Posted October 28, 2018 I've been tryin to find which book this comes up in. Dwarf bread will require at least a bogie well wagon but probably a Trestrol. I Think that it is from “Men At Arms” Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRman Posted October 28, 2018 Share Posted October 28, 2018 https://wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/Dwarf_Bread Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
HonestTom Posted October 29, 2018 Author Share Posted October 29, 2018 That's an interesting find. I can see it sitting on a masonry or wooden tower, which would give extra height and provide an office and accommodation for the crew. My thoughts exactly. I was thinking of a flat-roofed building of one or two storeys, the idea being that the main machinery is down there by (or above) the office. If I can find a suitable figure, it would be fun to have a goblin up the tower performing maintenance. A fellow Discworld fan said that she thinks I'm taking all this way more seriously than I should be, but meh, Rule 1. I also considered a concept, which I haven't entirely abandoned, of having a phone box with a set of semaphore shutters on top. I don't think any such thing appears in the books, but with semaphore modems showing up in the Science of Discworld and mobile semaphores being described as fashionable in the Thieves' Guild Yearbook, I don't think it would be too out of place. Ooook! I did think about that, but last time the neighbours complained, and of course then there's the smell. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bridgiesimon Posted October 29, 2018 Share Posted October 29, 2018 Not sure that phone box clacks were mentioned but am sure i read something about mobile clacks carried by trolls working for the city watch. best wishes Simon Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaisyDots Posted October 31, 2018 Share Posted October 31, 2018 My thoughts exactly. I was thinking of a flat-roofed building of one or two storeys, the idea being that the main machinery is down there by (or above) the office. If I can find a suitable figure, it would be fun to have a goblin up the tower performing maintenance. A fellow Discworld fan said that she thinks I'm taking all this way more seriously than I should be, but meh, Rule 1. I also considered a concept, which I haven't entirely abandoned, of having a phone box with a set of semaphore shutters on top. I don't think any such thing appears in the books, but with semaphore modems showing up in the Science of Discworld and mobile semaphores being described as fashionable in the Thieves' Guild Yearbook, I don't think it would be too out of place. I did think about that, but last time the neighbours complained, and of course then there's the smell. For Possible buildings, check out www.davesgames.net Regards, Daisy. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevejjjexcov Posted November 4, 2018 Share Posted November 4, 2018 Please tell me you will have foul old Ron in there cos if you don't I will find you and mumble and mutter till you pay me go and watch another layout lol Steve 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRman Posted November 5, 2018 Share Posted November 5, 2018 Please tell me you will have foul old Ron in there cos if you don't I will find you and mumble and mutter till you pay me go and watch another layout lol Steve Let's be thankful we don't reproduce smells and aromas on our models, Steve. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
HonestTom Posted November 5, 2018 Author Share Posted November 5, 2018 I think Aidan Campbell does a suitable beggar, complete with little dog... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
HonestTom Posted November 7, 2018 Author Share Posted November 7, 2018 Progress is a little slow at present due to another commitment (I’ve been asked to make a fat suit, long story). I’ve been chopping Superquick kits up to fill my street out a bit. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
HonestTom Posted November 8, 2018 Author Share Posted November 8, 2018 (edited) Okay, I got more done this evening than I thought I would. One Superquick kit supplied three buildings in the foreground and an awful lot of the backscene. Not bad for a fiver. Actually, this whole city scene was pretty cheap. The brick-built shop was a free gift with (I think) Railway Modeller and the buildings on the backscene that weren't taken from the Superquick kit were built using bits of the cottage kit that came with BRM recently and a Bilt-Eezi warehouse that I had in my bits box. I bought a second Superquick kit when I thought I'd need more structures, so that'll fill out the remainder of the backscene and give me the bits I need for my clacks building. That being said, it's the Tolworth show this weekend, and I strongly suspect I'm going to wind up spending a small fortune on appropriate street furniture and figures. There are a few details that need fairly obviously adding to the buildings - chimney pots, weathering and colouring in the edges of the card. One downside is that I don't have space for the station I originally planned, but to be honest that's not a horrendous loss. It was a choice between the street scene and the station, and the street scene is more fun. We'll just assume the station is slightly offstage. Edited November 8, 2018 by HonestTom 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jongudmund Posted November 9, 2018 Share Posted November 9, 2018 This is great. I love Discworld and I think you've got New Ankh sorted. Being New Ankh of course it will have a few 'newer' buildings. But they would get grotty quickly. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted November 11, 2018 Share Posted November 11, 2018 Excellent composition. These days, very underrated and underused compared with the ubiquitous Metcalf kits, I like the Superquick kits. They can make wonderful models and you have used them very effectively here. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Gremlin99 Posted November 12, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 12, 2018 I must admit to being somewhat of a lurker rather than a participant in the forum in general but I felt the need to comment on this. Put simply, it's marvellous. I'm an avowed Discworld nut and miss Sir Terry's wit and craft immensely. Raising Steam was the last of the books I have read (I can't bring myself to read Shepherd's Crown; it's sitting on my shelf but it would finally signal the end for me and that's not something I want to feel) This ticks all the right boxes for tone and atmosphere. Kudos to you good man/woman/troll/dwarf/wizard/creature of hitherto unknown type/Nobby Nobbs of Ankh! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Dagworth Posted November 13, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 13, 2018 Please tell me you will have foul old Ron in there cos if you don't I will find you and mumble and mutter till you pay me go and watch another layout lol Steve What duck? 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
HonestTom Posted November 26, 2018 Author Share Posted November 26, 2018 Well, progress has been slow lately, due to working on a show. That’s over now, and I finally got around to fitting chimney pots to the houses. I thought these hexagonal pots from Smart Models looked the part. They’ll need weathering, of course. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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