RMweb Premium DLT Posted April 18, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 18, 2020 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! 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cornamuse Posted April 18, 2020 Author Share Posted April 18, 2020 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? 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cornamuse Posted April 20, 2020 Author Share Posted April 20, 2020 (edited) 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. Some extra bits ... crew and cab. Please don’t judge on accuracy, you can barely see inside! Edited April 21, 2020 by cornamuse 7 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cornamuse Posted April 25, 2020 Author Share Posted April 25, 2020 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! 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 8 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted April 26, 2020 Share Posted April 26, 2020 Excellent job. Do you get to design a fictional armorial fro a freelance line? I do like incurves on lining. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caley Jim Posted April 26, 2020 Share Posted April 26, 2020 (edited) 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!! Jim Edit to add that they did replace the motto 'Nemo Me Impune Lacessit' (wha daur meddle wi' me) with 'Caledonian Railway Company' Edited April 26, 2020 by Caley Jim 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cornamuse Posted April 26, 2020 Author Share Posted April 26, 2020 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” 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! 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caley Jim Posted April 26, 2020 Share Posted April 26, 2020 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! Jim 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cornamuse Posted April 26, 2020 Author Share Posted April 26, 2020 One fictional credt will have a go at one possibly, but my feeling is that fine detail will jar with the simple look so far... previous card loco using same size wheels 9 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted April 28, 2020 Share Posted April 28, 2020 Looks good to me 1 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cornamuse Posted May 4, 2020 Author Share Posted May 4, 2020 Just to prove there has been a little progress this week... Gunpowder wagon; Messrs Leggit & Hyde... 6 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cornamuse Posted May 4, 2020 Author Share Posted May 4, 2020 Finished... no idea what is next: brake vans, passenger brake, open trucks... none of the above? Feel I need to up the goods side of the stock 8 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockershovel Posted September 3, 2020 Share Posted September 3, 2020 I do like the card loco bodies, something of a lost art these days 2 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted September 3, 2020 Share Posted September 3, 2020 Sooo characterful. Briliant. 2 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cornamuse Posted September 20, 2020 Author Share Posted September 20, 2020 Good to hear from you, Jim- you got any pictures we can see? Things are at a halt here, doing some studying- but I could use some inspiration! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cornamuse Posted September 22, 2020 Author Share Posted September 22, 2020 Very fine work there as usual, Jim 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cornamuse Posted December 31, 2020 Author Share Posted December 31, 2020 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... 9 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cornamuse Posted December 31, 2020 Author Share Posted December 31, 2020 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! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hesperus Posted January 8, 2021 Share Posted January 8, 2021 (edited) They look ace, you don't happen to know if those cheap PS models chassis' are 2wd or 4wd do you? edit, a photo in the galley shows one from underneath and its 2wd Edited January 8, 2021 by Hesperus Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cornamuse Posted June 4, 2021 Author Share Posted June 4, 2021 (edited) Two wheel drive, but easy to add 4wd with delrin chain and gears Edited June 4, 2021 by cornamuse 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cornamuse Posted August 30, 2021 Author Share Posted August 30, 2021 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! railway to run along the left hand wall; 20ft isn’t much real estate in G scale, but I like adding detail, so… 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. 8 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cornamuse Posted August 30, 2021 Author Share Posted August 30, 2021 First try at laying out some track- about 6’ here. 00 gauge church and pub underneath for scale… 8 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted August 31, 2021 Share Posted August 31, 2021 Bravo! Time for a visit (I still have a box of your OO stuff to return!)? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted August 31, 2021 Share Posted August 31, 2021 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. 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cornamuse Posted August 31, 2021 Author Share Posted August 31, 2021 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… 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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