RMweb Gold Ramblin Rich Posted June 25, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 25, 2022 Good to catch up today Nick. You had the advantage of knowing my picture but I didn't know who to call to! Moors View really is excellent, I said as much to the owner but it is so atmospheric and positively chilly looking at it! A good idea to make it a single unit so there's no join in the scenery. 15 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcredfer Posted June 25, 2022 Share Posted June 25, 2022 What a wonderful combination of great modelling skills and the eye of a photographic artist. Thanks to both of you for a delightful experience. Cold, whites and greys, in open countryside, understated, but totally felt! Been there, like most of us and the brain says - shudder!! Thanks to both of you for a reminder of colder times... Brrr!!!. Julian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cowley 47521 Posted June 26, 2022 Author Share Posted June 26, 2022 10 hours ago, Ramblin Rich said: Good to catch up today Nick. You had the advantage of knowing my picture but I didn't know who to call to! Moors View really is excellent, I said as much to the owner but it is so atmospheric and positively chilly looking at it! A good idea to make it a single unit so there's no join in the scenery. Morning Rich, great to meet you too and it definitely was an advantage knowing what you looked like already! I just passed that on to Paul and he said “Wow, can you thank him from me please Nick for his kind words & excellent photography on rmweb.” 10 hours ago, jcredfer said: What a wonderful combination of great modelling skills and the eye of a photographic artist. Thanks to both of you for a delightful experience. Cold, whites and greys, in open countryside, understated, but totally felt! Been there, like most of us and the brain says - shudder!! Thanks to both of you for a reminder of colder times... Brrr!!!. Julian Again thanks Julian. He really appreciated that. The punters seemed to really like it and once we got into the rhythm of putting on some entertainment (for the first time in two and half years!) everything went really well I must say. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TT100 Diesels Posted July 11, 2023 Share Posted July 11, 2023 Hi Cowley 47521, Thanks for the link to your other thread on RF, I have ploughed through it all, the first 20 ish pages were a great how I built Lapford. I love your attitude to modelling, hmmm, I need an "xyz", hmmm, so I will build one then. Superb. Also, your observational modelling is spot on. Loved all the back story as well, justification of traction used and train formations etc. Really brought it to life. Really top notch stuff. Take a bow. Cheers TT100 Diesels Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cowley 47521 Posted July 13, 2023 Author Share Posted July 13, 2023 On 11/07/2023 at 21:52, TT100 Diesels said: Hi Cowley 47521, Thanks for the link to your other thread on RF, I have ploughed through it all, the first 20 ish pages were a great how I built Lapford. I love your attitude to modelling, hmmm, I need an "xyz", hmmm, so I will build one then. Superb. Also, your observational modelling is spot on. Loved all the back story as well, justification of traction used and train formations etc. Really brought it to life. Really top notch stuff. Take a bow. Cheers TT100 Diesels Well that’s very nice of you and much appreciated. I’d really like to replace the photos that are missing in this thread but it feels like a mammoth amount of work to do, I’m not even sure what ones they are as it was a while ago that I posted them. I do need to give the layout a tidy up and repair a few things at some point so I’ll add a few photos then. Nick 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cowley 47521 Posted November 5, 2023 Author Share Posted November 5, 2023 Update time. Well I have pulled my finger out and repaired a few things on the railway over the last couple of months. Honestly you really do have to keep on top of the maintenance because it starts to get a bit overwhelming if you’re not careful! I snapped a load of wires on my telegraph poles a while ago and trying to repair them got me wondering how I found the patience to do them in the first place..? The loco fleet has been steadily expanding over the last few months and the most recent addition has been a GF class 25 which I think looks very at home on the layout. In other news Lapford is hopefully going to be attending the Exeter model railway show in June next year for a one time only appearance and I’m slightly cr@pping myself at the thought of it but the Moors View team have all operated it and we should be able to do it justice. 😉 I made a couple of YouTube videos over the weekend, so if you like that kind of they’re here: Over and out (for now). Nick 16 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gloucester Road Posted November 5, 2023 Share Posted November 5, 2023 I enjoyed watching those. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Ramblin Rich Posted November 6, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 6, 2023 1 hour ago, Cowley 47521 said: Update time. ..... In other news Lapford is hopefully going to be attending the Exeter model railway show in June next year for a one time only appearance and I’m slightly cr@pping myself at the thought of it but the Moors View team have all operated it and we should be able to do it justice. 😉 ...... Over and out (for now). Nick That's great news if it goes ahead! I'll book a space by the barrier straight away 😉 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cowley 47521 Posted November 6, 2023 Author Share Posted November 6, 2023 10 hours ago, Ramblin Rich said: That's great news if it goes ahead! I'll book a space by the barrier straight away 😉 I must admit that I am slightly cacking it… 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cowley 47521 Posted November 19, 2023 Author Share Posted November 19, 2023 This week I have been mostly messing around with parcels stock… I keep hitting eBay after a couple of glasses of wine and buying Big Four vans to add to my late 1960s era rake of vans. It’s something I can run on Moors View and Lapford (well that’s how I’m justifying it anyway). Here’s a couple of post weathering photos: There’s all sorts in there, although I could really do with a Siphon and something LNER for the full variety. 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calnefoxile Posted November 20, 2023 Share Posted November 20, 2023 16 hours ago, Cowley 47521 said: This week I have been mostly messing around with parcels stock… I keep hitting eBay after a couple of glasses of wine and buying Big Four vans to add to my late 1960s era rake of vans. It’s something I can run on Moors View and Lapford (well that’s how I’m justifying it anyway). Here’s a couple of post weathering photThere’s all sorts in there, although I could really do with a Siphon and something LNER for the full variety. The Lima Syphon is actually a pretty good model although you'll need to change the Bogies for the Dapol B-Set ones, @grahame has done an article on this very subject a few times. I've done it on a few of mine and they look much better for it. Cheers Neal. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Steven B Posted November 21, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 21, 2023 22 hours ago, Calnefoxile said: The Lima Syphon is actually a pretty good model although you'll need to change the Bogies for the Dapol B-Set ones Using the Dapol Siphon chassis (2A-000-020) is an alternative - for around the same price as a pair of B-Set bogies you get a nicer underframe. Steven B. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cowley 47521 Posted November 21, 2023 Author Share Posted November 21, 2023 39 minutes ago, Steven B said: Using the Dapol Siphon chassis (2A-000-020) is an alternative - for around the same price as a pair of B-Set bogies you get a nicer underframe. Steven B. Interesting, thanks for that. I’ve seen these for sale and was wondering about getting one. There’s plenty of cheap Siphons on eBay and you can get them unpainted so I might try and tackle this as at some point because they also ran on the Barnstaple line in BR blue days. @Calnefoxile - I just tried searching that thread but no joy. Would you be able to give me a link possibly? Nick 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Steven B Posted November 22, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 22, 2023 Watch out for Siphons! The Dapol Siphon is the earlier outside framed version - non of these survived to received BR blue. The Lima model is the later inside frame vehicle which did. Steven B 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Ramblin Rich Posted November 22, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 22, 2023 (edited) Any ex-SR vans, BR GUV and CCT, outside frame Siphon G and 50ft LMS full brakes are suitable for 1970s and early 1980s. There were Siphon Gs with ETH fittings used for newspapers, usually ran down to Barnstaple on a train around 03.00 from Exeter. There was also a set of Fruit D vans specifically kept for Exeter to Barnstaple parcels traffic labelled as such, with TDB (ie engineers) numbers. Bit strange but a distinctive feature. Edit: I can see you have a Fruit D in the rake already 😁 Edited November 22, 2023 by Ramblin Rich 'cos yeah Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calnefoxile Posted November 23, 2023 Share Posted November 23, 2023 On 21/11/2023 at 13:34, Cowley 47521 said: Interesting, thanks for that. I’ve seen these for sale and was wondering about getting one. There’s plenty of cheap Siphons on eBay and you can get them unpainted so I might try and tackle this as at some point because they also ran on the Barnstaple line in BR blue days. @Calnefoxile - I just tried searching that thread but no joy. Would you be able to give me a link possibly? Nick Nick, I think it was either in an NGS Journal or one of @grahame latest tomes of wisdom, in fact I think it's in his latest one 🤔🤔 British N Gauge Railway Modelling (issue No.4) Cheers Neal. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PaulCheffus Posted November 23, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 23, 2023 (edited) Hi This is my conversion of the Lima Siphon to the version with the side vents. Bogies are from the 2mm SA and the side vents were from Etched Pixels. Cheers Paul Edited November 23, 2023 by PaulCheffus 6 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cowley 47521 Posted April 2 Author Share Posted April 2 Well folks. I have fired the starting gun this week and I’ve tentatively put Lapford on the market (the layout that is, not the actual village). We need the spare room emptying and finally the large shed in the garden that I had built about eight years ago is about to become available. Being 6 foot wide though means that there’s no way I could get the layout in there and still be able to walk down both sides which I’d need to be able to do. In actual fact, I’ve been wanting to start a couple of new railway projects for a while though now so I’m more than happy to see this go to a good home and me make a fresh start (I will obviously be keeping all of my rolling stock, vehicles etc). Hopefully I’ll be getting together with the lads on Monday for an operating session so I’ll post some photos. We’ve had to cancel me going to the Exeter show in June though unfortunately as we’ve made the mother of all cock-ups and ended up double booking myself to go to Ireland that weekend. Most embarrassing! Nick 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cowley 47521 Posted April 3 Author Share Posted April 3 Morning everyone. I’ve made what might be a final little video here: 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cowley 47521 Posted April 17 Author Share Posted April 17 Well we have achieved a sale (for an undisclosed amount that hopefully we’re all happy with) to a group from Okehampton called the Exeter Junction model railway club: Exeter junction model railway club 07703 310436 A couple of the guys came out last week and are really looking forward to taking it on. I’m obviously really pleased as they’re local to me and they’re planning on taking it out on the circuit at some point which was exactly what I was hoping to achieve. It also means that I can still see it now and again hopefully so it’s all worked out really well. I made a little video earlier explaining things: 5 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Flying Pig Posted 8 hours ago RMweb Premium Share Posted 8 hours ago The 'For Sale' video popped up on my Youtube feed this morning for some reason. I hadn't been paying attention to this thread and it's always a bit of an 'oh no' moment when a layout you like is put up for sale. Glad to hear it had a good outcome. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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