A Nod To Brent - a friendly thread, filled with frivolity, cream teas and pasties. Longing for the happy days in the South Hams 1947.

[KNP]

 

Nice buddleia........

 

 

[Mallard60022]

Quick question chaps and chapesses etc. Verdict on the Hornby Large Prairie, BR version if you would?

Many thanks and hope you all be OK?

P 

[gwrrob]

A few more large prairie/pannier shots.

 

[KNP]

15 minutes ago, gwrrob said:

A few more large prairie/pannier shots.

 

Nice pictures.
 

At this point I feel I should play safe!

Nice trees

Nice shrubs

Nice bushes

Nice buddleia 

Nice potato plants

Nice flowers

Nice weeds

Nice grass

Nice fence

Nice buildings

 

I think that covers most things but I do apologise if I have missed anything

[Nick Gough]

7 hours ago, 2ManySpams said:

 

I always thought Duck was green and had a face.

Correct:

[37Oban]

1 hour ago, KNP said:

Nice pictures.
 

At this point I feel I should play safe!

Nice trees

Nice shrubs

Nice bushes

Nice buddleia 

Nice potato plants

Nice flowers

Nice weeds

Nice grass

Nice fence

Nice buildings

 

I think that covers most things but I do apologise if I have missed anything

 

You missed the brambles at th end of the barn!

 

Roja

[Captain Kernow]

Local views near Brent, taken early one morning this week:

 

 

 

[Mallard60022]

10 minutes ago, Captain Kernow said:

Local views near Brent, taken early one morning this week:

 

 

 

That's your drive to your house that is.

[gwrrob]

More action which might or might not be nice.

 

[KNP]

25 minutes ago, gwrrob said:

More action which might or might not be nice.

 

Nice

[gwrrob]

I wish all rtr tank engines were as easy to install a crew as the Bachmann 8750 class pannier. Here's a shot of the motor used whilst the body was removed.

 

[bgman]

On 29/07/2020 at 23:17, 2ManySpams said:

That's 2 things I've won today...

 

https://www.world-of-railways.co.uk/news/see-it-make-it-challenge-round-five-winner

 

Hmmmm Hogywarty in wolfs clothes eh ?

 

Cast a spell in a Potter stylee ......   Specialis Revelio ..... it may reveal its true self once again young man and then you can revel once more in all that is Great Western !

 

Lucius Malfoy

[gwrrob]

A black pannier heads west with its coal train.

 

[mattingleycustom]

Rob,

 

The plain black with GWR sits well on the Pannier; put some etched numberplates on it and it will look just about perfect.

 

Glenn

[Captain Kernow]

4 hours ago, Mallard60022 said:

That's your drive to your house that is.

No, that's the servants entrance, that is.

 

You may enter this way:

Edited July 31, 2020 by Captain Kernow

[gwrrob]

19 minutes ago, mattingleycustom said:

Rob,

 

The plain black with GWR sits well on the Pannier; put some etched numberplates on it and it will look just about perfect.

 

Glenn

 

Agreed and nice to see you posting again old friend.

[brianusa]

6 hours ago, Mallard60022 said:

That's your drive to your house that is.

 

Devon is a lovely spot, God wot!  What does God wot mean anyway? Fringed pool?

      Brian

[2ManySpams]

12 hours ago, gwrrob said:

 

No one's mentioned the buddleia, I don't know why I bother....

 

Nice grass

[2ManySpams]

12 hours ago, KNP said:

 

Nice buddleia........

 

 

 

Creep! 

[St Enodoc]

14 hours ago, KNP said:

Nice pictures.
 

At this point I feel I should play safe!

Nice trees

Nice shrubs

Nice bushes

Nice buddleia 

Nice potato plants

Nice flowers

Nice weeds

Nice grass

Nice fence

Nice buildings

 

I think that covers most things but I do apologise if I have missed anything

Nice ballast.

[St Enodoc]

15 hours ago, Mallard60022 said:

Quick question chaps and chapesses etc. Verdict on the Hornby Large Prairie, BR version if you would?

Many thanks and hope you all be OK?

P 

All well here, Phil, and I hope it's the same with you.

 

I've got a black Prairie and I'm quite pleased with it. There are more notes over on my MCL topic but, in brief, apart from a bit of a wobble which doesn't seem so bad on the track as it seemed to be on the rolling road, it runs nicely. and looks good. As others have reported, the front pony truck has very little vertical movement so I fitted a slightly longer M2 screw and a washer. I had some decoder challenges but that's nothing to do with Hornby.

 

Overall, let's say 8 out of 10.

 

Hope that helps.

[gwrrob]

August already.

 

[Oldddudders]

As one who is by no means convinced about weathering of locos and stock - although I do like it on buildings - the shiny Prairie offers different degrees of realism in different shots. The slightest hint of flatting the shine on the boiler and smokebox would be quite sufficient, I think. 

[gwrrob]

19 minutes ago, Oldddudders said:

The slightest hint of flatting the shine on the boiler and smokebox would be quite sufficient, I think. 

 

Not at all because if it survives my testing and the motor lasts I'm hoping to turn her into 4133, in wartime ,unlettered black. As seen at Totnes in The Prairie Papers.

[2ManySpams]

18 minutes ago, gwrrob said:

 

Not at all because if it survives my testing and the motor lasts I'm hoping to turn her into 4133, in wartime ,unlettered black. As seen at Totnes in The Prairie Papers.

 

Sounds like you're going through a black period Rob.