allan downes Posted March 12, 2013 Share Posted March 12, 2013 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. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold westerhamstation Posted March 12, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 12, 2013 Amazing!!! Thats what modelling is all about. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
amdaley Posted March 13, 2013 Share Posted March 13, 2013 Fantastic. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Campaman Posted March 13, 2013 Share Posted March 13, 2013 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. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodshaw Posted March 13, 2013 Share Posted March 13, 2013 Making your wife happy by doing railway modelling? No, I don't believe it! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
coachmann Posted March 13, 2013 Share Posted March 13, 2013 I thought I had patience but blimey. Those Tudor style buildings are awesome. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted March 13, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 13, 2013 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. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwealleans Posted March 13, 2013 Share Posted March 13, 2013 Takes me back to Railway Modeller in the seventies and being open mouthed as a ten year old at what some people could achieve. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Grafarman Posted March 13, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 13, 2013 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 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RhBBob Posted March 13, 2013 Share Posted March 13, 2013 And right on my doorstep - well almost - is Monks Bay- see http://www.monksbaymodelrailway.co.uk/ - with some gorgeous buildings. Shame about being the Greasy, Wet and Rusty but never mind, you provide a standard for the rest of us to aim for Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted March 13, 2013 Author Share Posted March 13, 2013 Hi BOB. Next time you're out that way, can you pop in and give Mike McDonald, the owner, my best regards. Thanks. Allan. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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alant Posted March 13, 2013 Share Posted March 13, 2013 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. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted March 13, 2013 Author Share Posted March 13, 2013 Thanks for the welcome Alan...er being a guitarist (Strat) myself - Shads - what guiter do you use and what kind of music do you play? Allan. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alant Posted March 14, 2013 Share Posted March 14, 2013 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. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Campaman Posted March 14, 2013 Share Posted March 14, 2013 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.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted March 14, 2013 Author Share Posted March 14, 2013 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 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack P Posted March 14, 2013 Share Posted March 14, 2013 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. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Campaman Posted March 14, 2013 Share Posted March 14, 2013 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 But useful all the same... :-) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted March 14, 2013 Author Share Posted March 14, 2013 A few very early models - Pipers Mead, 1975 - and really, my first serious attempt at scratchbuilding. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alant Posted March 14, 2013 Share Posted March 14, 2013 I defintely remember building a copy of the blacksmith's cottage and forge as shown in the top left of this photo. I think you published drawings etc in the RM: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted March 14, 2013 Author Share Posted March 14, 2013 Was it this plan,this pic? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RhBBob Posted March 14, 2013 Share Posted March 14, 2013 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 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 Happy days ! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted March 14, 2013 Author Share Posted March 14, 2013 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. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alant Posted March 14, 2013 Share Posted March 14, 2013 Was it this plan,this pic? IMG_0117.jpgIMG_0112.jpg That's the one Allan. I seem to remember using strands of wool and flock for the thatch ! Alan. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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