RMweb Gold adb968008 Posted July 21, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 21, 2018 I feel like i've made it as a modeller, when after hours of messing with something repeatedly and having gotten it wrong several times, had urgent panics to recover some big mistake but finally can sit and look at it running sweetly. Usually followed by instant grounding back to earth by something going clatter down stairs followed by family grasping at my ineptitude to fix what ever just broke in the house. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ejstubbs Posted July 21, 2018 Share Posted July 21, 2018 If you didn't buy it, you must have made it. (Unless you stole it.) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gibbo675 Posted July 21, 2018 Share Posted July 21, 2018 I'm content with what I do which is good enough for me. That others may like my work is a pleasant bonus that while welcome is not sought. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steamport Southport Posted July 21, 2018 Share Posted July 21, 2018 I'll let you know if I ever finish anything. I've loads of half finished projects, most of which probably aren't worth sharing even if I had the technology to do so. I might buy a digital camera soon though just to give everyone a laugh.... Currently the only cameras I have are film and the phone is attached to the wall. Jason 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruston Posted July 21, 2018 Share Posted July 21, 2018 I'll let you know if I ever finish anything. I've loads of half finished projects, most of which probably aren't worth sharing even if I had the technology to do so. I might buy a digital camera soon though just to give everyone a laugh.... Currently the only cameras I have are film and the phone is attached to the wall. Jason I expect that they are worth sharing. The fact that you have even made a start is worth sharing - you have done something, which is more than a lot of people on this forum do. If we took away all the hot air topics, where people blather on about what the next RTR item will be (or what they want it to be), or Hornby's business model, the future of manufacturing in China, the price of fish etc then I'm sure we'd find a lot of people with a zero post count. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cypherman Posted July 21, 2018 Share Posted July 21, 2018 (edited) Hi all. Well I had my tuppence worth earlier in this thread. I have to admit I am a model railway'er with out a model railway to play with at the moment. Mine has been boxed away for several years waiting for the move to a house that has room enough for it. And yes my house is up for sale as I type. She who must be obayed has agreed that the 2nd biggest bedroom in our new house will be the room for my new railway. So I have to content myself with painting, modifying and generally building stuff that goes into boxes for future use. That and as some of you have seen in some of my earlier posts helping my friends build their own railways. The 1930's tinplate and the 16mm narrow gauge garden railway for instance. Which I am pleased to say we finished building last week. The final siding into it's canal dock basin was laid. Edited July 24, 2018 by cypherman Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gibbo675 Posted July 22, 2018 Share Posted July 22, 2018 Hear Hear Gibbo675. I know I have made it when others (who cannot show anything they have made, usually only what they have purchased) come up and take the mickey out of and sneer at what I have designed and built. I think it is time for those who must judge to judge against the criteria of how much pleasure and satisfaction the item that has been built has given to the builder. Never mind "exhibition standards" this is a hobby and should be pleasurable and should be measured on those grounds. I am just about to put on my tin hat, flak jacket and take cover to await the incoming. regards Ian Ha! Ha! I was somewhat bemused to be criticised for my APT-E not being up to the standards of ready to run by what may be termed an "out of the box" modeller. It would seem that the Pendelino was so much better. It's not the end of the world though ! Gibbo. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pacific231G Posted July 22, 2018 Share Posted July 22, 2018 (edited) Ha! Ha! I was somewhat bemused to be criticised for my APT-E not being up to the standards of ready to run by what may be termed an "out of the box" modeller. It would seem that the Pendelino was so much better. DSCF0239.JPG It's not the end of the world though ! Gibbo. Hi Gibbo Did you ask him if he'd always been a total prat or if it was just a phase he was going through? FWIW your APT-E looks pretty darn good to me and certainly stands comparison with the Pendolino but that's really not the point. The satisfaction from creating anything is that it's you that's made it. It's a totally different relationship from something you've simply bought. They might as well ask people playing cricket on the village green why they're bothering when they can watch far better play at the Oval; the response could be interesting. Edited July 22, 2018 by Pacific231G 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold tomparryharry Posted July 22, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 22, 2018 Anyone who can run full-length trains is doing better than me. Spot-on I say. As for the cricket match... "Please remain in the crouched position, whilst I insert the bat...." Ian. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted July 22, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 22, 2018 Ha! Ha! I was somewhat bemused to be criticised for my APT-E not being up to the standards of ready to run by what may be termed an "out of the box" modeller. It would seem that the Pendelino was so much better. DSCF0239.JPG It's not the end of the world though ! Gibbo. No, presumably that's the World's End layout... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gibbo675 Posted July 22, 2018 Share Posted July 22, 2018 No, presumably that's the World's End layout... The layout is David Forshaw's Burshaw North Western, the APT-E was built ny me as an experiment in N gauge, as I'm a OO man, and as a gift to David. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Finsbury Posted July 22, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 22, 2018 (edited) OK. Some excellent discourse has occurred here, a jolly good thing I haven't said anything.. Can I refer to the opening post? Why would a respected (certainly by me), and obviously talented scratchbuilder decide to light the blue touch paper, when his own superb efforts fall down at the basic level of gauge? By no means am I attempting a gauge wars type diversion (I play at P4 and 00, and may yet switch over to EM and 00 after seeing Hornsey Broadway), but the premise strikes me as glass houses. Still, horses for courses. If your talent subscribes, do the modelling. If your talent doesn't, do the modelling. Many happy suprises may lay in wait. As the old saying goes, 'If you think can or you think you cannot, you're probably right.' Well that was hardly worth sobering up for, sorry. Still a bit pissed, Bern Edited July 22, 2018 by Finsbury Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
westerner Posted July 23, 2018 Share Posted July 23, 2018 OK. Some excellent discourse has occurred here, a jolly good thing I haven't said anything.. Can I refer to the opening post? Why would a respected (certainly by me), and obviously talented scratchbuilder decide to light the blue touch paper, when his own superb efforts fall down at the basic level of gauge? By no means am I attempting a gauge wars type diversion (I play at P4 and 00, and may yet switch over to EM and 00 after seeing Hornsey Broadway), but the premise strikes me as glass houses. Still, horses for courses. If your talent subscribes, do the modelling. If your talent doesn't, do the modelling. Many happy suprises may lay in wait. As the old saying goes, 'If you think can or you think you cannot, you're probably right.' Well that was hardly worth sobering up for, sorry. Still a bit pissed, Bern I'll say!!!!!!!!! Not sure l understood a word of that of what gauge you build in has to do with the original question. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pacific231G Posted July 23, 2018 Share Posted July 23, 2018 The layout is David Forshaw's Burshaw North Western, the APT-E was built ny me as an experiment in N gauge, as I'm a OO man, and as a gift to David. Now I know the APT-E is N gauge, I'm even more impressed and believe your critic to be even more of a prat than I'd already assumed. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharris Posted July 23, 2018 Share Posted July 23, 2018 the APT-E was built ny me as an experiment in N gauge, as I'm a OO man, and as a gift to David. I would never have guessed N gauge - definitely thought it was something larger! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold tomparryharry Posted July 23, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 23, 2018 Ha! Ha! I was somewhat bemused to be criticised for my APT-E not being up to the standards of ready to run by what may be termed an "out of the box" modeller. It would seem that the Pendelino was so much better. DSCF0239.JPG It's not the end of the world though ! Gibbo. I've just this minute cottoned on to this layout is N-Gauge. That is something else. Well done is a bit of an understatement..... Ian. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Dava Posted July 23, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 23, 2018 The layout is David Forshaw's Burshaw North Western, the APT-E was built ny me as an experiment in N gauge, as I'm a OO man, and as a gift to David. The prototype HST power car is also very nice, whoever built it, it doesnt look RTR. Dava Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Finsbury Posted July 23, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 23, 2018 Good grief, I did it again. What a load of cobblers. It was an essay of erudition last night. Sorry. Bern must not post, post imbibement. Dear oh dear. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
westerner Posted July 23, 2018 Share Posted July 23, 2018 I did it once on here many years ago after a particularly happy Christmas lunch and got into a spot of bother with Andy. Never again, if I feel like posting when I have had a few the rule is wait for the following day. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bike2steam Posted July 23, 2018 Share Posted July 23, 2018 I did it once on here many years ago after a particularly happy Christmas lunch and got into a spot of bother with Andy. Never again, if I feel like posting when I have had a few the rule is wait for the following day. Yeah I learnt that lesson a while ago, now if I go on the computer after an evening in the pub my wife gives me a right earful - I prefer a quiet life thanks!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Finsbury Posted July 24, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 24, 2018 I wouldn't mind if it was off the cuff, I waited weeks to spout bolleaux! I think I will keep to my non-expert attempts at modelling. I can only hope Clive doesn't park his Abbott SPG up my ......... Love you guys. B Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 96701 Posted July 24, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 24, 2018 I built some baseboards and laid track on it and added scenery. I was happy with the level of detail on the scenery front, my son built me a pc with touch screen and some MERG DCC stuff, so I wired it all up and got it working. I have modified a Hornby Type 2 to make it more realistic re the fuel and water tanks, fitted lights to it and spray painted from green to blue. I am a railway modeller, not as skilled or as good as others on this forum, but nonetheless, a railway modeller. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jol Wilkinson Posted July 25, 2018 Share Posted July 25, 2018 When you spent more time making models than following wish lists, polls and frothing topics on RTR stuff? 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
grahame Posted July 25, 2018 Share Posted July 25, 2018 I feel like I've made it as a modeller each time I make something for a model railway. G 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted July 25, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 25, 2018 I sort of felt like I'd made it a bit, or at any rate I felt a bit warm and fuzzy, the first time somebody on this forum thanked me for something I'd suggested. It's nice at my age to still be of some use... 5 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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