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On 15/04/2020 at 20:04, cornamuse said:

decided that cowardly actions were appropriate and left the livery simple.

 

Livery looks great to me, not what I would describe as simple!

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2 hours ago, DLT said:

 

Livery looks great to me, not what I would describe as simple!

 

Much appreciated, but the original is very ornate. But then, it’s not that accurate a model so maybe I can get away with it?

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Tender done, although it looks a little bare without the full livery and number (as yes unnumbered) - also a name plate, if I’m feeling brave. might add brake gubbins, but seems pointless as I am trying to draw people’s eyes away from the chassis! Crew made, so no excuse to avoid making the inside of the cab. However, not much is visible past the rather slim crewmen. 
 

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Some extra bits ... crew and cab. Please don’t judge on accuracy, you can barely see inside! 
 

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Finally finished, bar the controls... although the power is greatly improved by 4wd in the tender! 

 

I’m aware the name plates are in the wrong place, but overall very pleased. need to do a building to relax, I think! 
 

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just noticed... needs a number on the front buffer beam. Haven’t decided about crests and monogram yet - Print, transfer or hand-painted. I suspect the latter, will keep it all in the same style 

 

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48 minutes ago, Edwardian said:

Do you get to design a fictional armorial fro a freelance line?

Well, if the Caledonian managed to get away with appropriating the Royal Arms of Scotland without incurring the wrath of the Lord Lyon King of Arms, it's worth a try!!

 

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Jim

 

Edit to add that they did replace the motto 'Nemo Me Impune Lacessit' (wha daur meddle wi' me) with 'Caledonian Railway Company'

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42 minutes ago, Edwardian said:

Excellent job.

 

Do you get to design a fictional armorial fro a freelance line?

 

I do like incurves on lining.

 

Thank you! 

 

Fictional credts sound good; designed one for my son’s stock, with his own creation of a heraldic “Labradox” :D 

 

I was thinking just a fleur-de-lys - Ivor the engine style... 

 

the Ffestiniog lining is lovely but too complicated for me - glad I’m not working in 4mmscale! 

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2 hours ago, cornamuse said:

Fictional credts sound good;...... 

Glad to see I'm not the only one who hits the key next to the one intended without noticing the error! :mellow:

 

Jim 

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A few updates, with the Ffestiniog 1 plank wagon to follow soon... 

 

I have been building kits, unusually, but have found the range by Phil Sharples to be excellent: a modified version of a hunslet, some slate wagons with knobs on and a bodge-up of a lister rail truck... 

 

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It certainly makes it cheap and easy. The kits are robust, and the scale means it doesn’t derail... much! They are all controlled by my phone using Bluetooth and some clever gubbins I don’t understand. So no issues with dirty track, either. Hard to make a micro layout in this scale, but not impossible with the tiny locos. They are surprisingly controllable, too. I have sound too in the larger ones, which is fun. They can really crawl along, too, as they don’t find dead spots on my rubbish track! 
 

 

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Recent developments… 

a move has resulted in a new home for the railways.. and instruments.. and books.. not sure I will fit In as well! 
 

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railway to run along the left hand wall; 20ft isn’t much real estate in G scale, but I like adding detail, so… 

 

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inside of a Ffestiniog guards van. Mostly invisible with roof on… 

 

Vertical boiler loco, excellent and cheap chassis by Phil Sharples, who seems to be supplying more and more of my stuff. Jolly good it is too. The pistons don’t work, but otherwise the loco looks happy with a few skips or slate wagons. 
 

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  • cornamuse changed the title to pre-grouping and never-grouped narrow gauge

Ah, I remember those blokes! 

 

My grandad a professional gardener, and keen golfer, who always had spade, fork, and two golf clubs strapped along the crossbar, and an old burlap sack over the handlebars. He and my gran had bought their bikes when they married in the early 1930s, classic ‘sit-up-and-beg’ Raleighs, as heavy as anvils, and they were their sole transport until my gran couldn’t see any more, and in grandad’s case until the evening before he passed away in his sleep, so about sixty years, during which they never lived less than about three miles from a village shop.
 

There was another professional gardener living very near us, so

old-fashioned that he still wore polished leather gaiters up to the knee. We lived at the bottom of a steep hill, and he would cycle up it at about ‘one tread a fortnight’ in first gear, sitting bolt upright like a statue. I could never fathom how he didn’t simply stop and fall over!

 

I don’t think anyone cycles like that any more.

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2 hours ago, JimRead said:

Hello Andy,

 

Superb stuff, I really like that brake van and the vertical boiler loco.

Those figures are superb typical blokes, them as used to ride bikes to and from work, with a striped leather bag over the handlebars and moving so slowly one feared they would fall off.

 

Cheers - Jim


mum going to have to have an allotment and a few bikes, aren’t I? Actually, in this scale, that would make a great model. Maybe with a pigeon loft… 

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