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It was about 1972, I hadn't caught a fish all year so I hung up my rod, put my worm back where I found it, and that was when my late wife said "Right, I'm not having you under my feet all day, here's a copy of a trainset magzine ( The RM ) outside is a shed ( Old Pig Stye ) here's an empty Cornflakes packet, go and build your son a trainset - but whatever you do, do something!"

 

So a few months later, here's  what I came up,  and my son never even looked at it - he had found something far more interesting - a bottle of my after shave and the girl next door! - I had found a whole new way of life oh, and a happy wife!

 

Allan.

 

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Love the broken roof on that barn, it makes laying individual tiles worthwhile for that result.

 

What I see in these pictures is what I have recently realised, we often just build a single building and plonk it on a layout in isolation, its the grouping of several buildings into a believable scene that makes a layout really stand out.

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I thought I had patience but blimey. Those Tudor style buildings are awesome.

Actually, Larry, for some of us you and Allan were among the standard-setters of our late-youth. Allan will enrich this forum just as you do.

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Oh yes, this is fantastic!  It must have been only a few years after '72 that I picked up RM for the first time and saw your build of a local pub; the backstory and description was so funny I spent most of the time in hysterics never mind trying to follow the modelling - nothing's changed I see...!

 

More please!

 

David

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Hi Allan,

 

Welcome to the fold and thanks for all the inspiration you gave me all those years ago! I still enjoy scratch building model buildings as my favourite aspect of our hobby.

 

Alan.

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Another guitarist, eh, there's quite a few of us lurking about on here!

 

I play bass guitar (Fender Jazz) in a middle-aged rock and blues covers band mostly around the pubs of Oxford and thereabouts.

 

Cheers,

 

Alan.

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Love the broken roof on that barn, it makes laying individual tiles worthwhile for that result.

 

What I see in these pictures is what I have recently realised, we often just build a single building and plonk it on a layout in isolation, its the grouping of several buildings into a believable scene that makes a layout really stand out.

 

Further to my own post, I was going through some old magazines yesterday evening as I am having a clear out, and keeping all articles and plans of interest but binning (re-cycling) the adverts, and in the January 1979 RM there is the article by Allan on making the Barn that I refer to above.

 

Talk about coincidence....

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Further to my own post, I was going through some old magazines yesterday evening as I am having a clear out, and keeping all articles and plans of interest but binning (re-cycling) the adverts, and in the January 1979 RM there is the article by Allan on making the Barn that I refer to above.

 

Talk about coincidence....

Hi Campaman.

 

I suppose it was my usual drivel - everything but how the model was built!

 

Regards. Allan

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Takes me back to Railway Modeller in the seventies and being open mouthed as a ten year old at what some people could achieve.

 

It must still be as good, because it's 2013 and i am sitting here open mouthed. 

 

 

 

I'm not 10 though.

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Hi Campaman.

 

I suppose it was my usual drivel - everything but how the model was built!

 

Regards. Allan

 

Actually there is a nice drawing of the basic frame structure of the barn with a cutaway of how the outer layers are then applied, so it has been filed away for future reference, not sure if thats what you call your usual drivel :no:

 

But useful all the same... :-)

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Hi BOB.

 

Next time you're out that way, can you pop in and give Mike McDonald, the owner, my best regards.

 

Thanks.

 

Allan.

With the greatest of pleasure, Allan !    I spoke to him at great length last Summer and got the impression that the rest of the layout had to come up to the standard of the buildings  :whistle:

 

I'm about 24 miles SSW just below Spilsby although my Mate, Steve, lives in Mablethorpe and he assisted with the SM3s, using the actual contacts thereon; you know, the ones we are supposed not to trust......

 

Mine's a 1990 Strat XII, modded with an HSS setup - luckily we live in a detached bungalow .  Shads fan of course, must be my age  :jester:

 

Happy days !

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Hi Bob.

 

Sunburst Strat, Boss mixer amp combined - p-h-e-n-o-m-i-n-a-l - ALESIS QUADERVERB TWO -every echo unit ever manufactured PROGRAMMED IN plus EVERY STUDIO sound setting for EVERY Shads number recorded -(Apache, absolutely unbelievable!!!) and the late Jet Harris' Nobels peddle board - I don't just sound like Hank, I'm even starting to kook like him!!!!

 

Hallan.

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