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Hi Neil

 

Great photos mate... off with Peter to Hartlepool for a show on Saturday & Sunday with the full length of Glen Gillie, so if anyone is there come and say 'Hi'...

 

Had a great weekend to on the ELR on Sunday with my family...

 

Jamie

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Hi Neil

 

Great photos mate... off with Peter to Hartlepool for a show on Saturday & Sunday with the full length of Glen Gillie, so if anyone is there come and say 'Hi'...

 

Had a great weekend to on the ELR on Sunday with my family...

 

Jamie

Not been very well my mate,trying to get over chest/throat infection....

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I am not a fan of diesel layouts, especially when the words 'traction" and TMD are involved, because most of them are just sheds with lots of sound locos plonked in front in a "look what I have got" style.

 

But this is very very different.  Detail, depth and quality.  Well done, especially for modelling things which get missed like pylons.  And I am envious of the scenic'd fiddle yard - the finish on that alone is better than may layouts.

 

One comment - the 1940s "pill-box" needs to be rotated 180 degrees - the firing slits would have afforded at least a 100m uninterrupted vision.  Yours are 10 feet away from a 1930s house.  Spin it round and it could be covering down an unseen canal, or covering some once open wasteland now covered in Wimpey/Barratt/Persimmon boxes.

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I am not a fan of diesel layouts, especially when the words 'traction" and TMD are involved, because most of them are just sheds with lots of sound locos plonked in front in a "look what I have got" style.

 

But this is very very different.  Detail, depth and quality.  Well done, especially for modelling things which get missed like pylons.  And I am envious of the scenic'd fiddle yard - the finish on that alone is better than may layouts.

 

One comment - the 1940s "pill-box" needs to be rotated 180 degrees - the firing slits would have afforded at least a 100m uninterrupted vision.  Yours are 10 feet away from a 1930s house.  Spin it round and it could be covering down an unseen canal, or covering some once open wasteland now covered in Wimpey/Barratt/Persimmon boxes.

Cheers for the kind comments M.I.B :no:  ile have fiddle with the pillbox,on my nexted club night.... :locomotive:

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Hi Neil and to Stavros

 

Great photos dude, You never told me about the Diesel Gala you were having at Banks Road... Good turn out of 37's, funney I was with my dad the other day, and we were walking and he swore blind he could hear cl37's in the distance... I guess these were those on  the way to Banks Road... lol

 

Great work mate...

 

Jamie

PS Hartlepool was great mate...

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Hi Neil and to Stavros

 

Great photos dude, You never told me about the Diesel Gala you were having at Banks Road... Good turn out of 37's, funney I was with my dad the other day, and we were walking and he swore blind he could hear cl37's in the distance... I guess these were those on  the way to Banks Road... lol

 

Great work mate...

 

Jamie

PS Hartlepool was great mate...

Glad to here you had good model show!!

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Going on railtour upto skeggy tomorrow,behind to DRS 20s,cant wait :no: ........

 

Hi Neil

 

Did Stav go on the Trip to...?

 

Hope you had a good DRS day mate, and great photo updates to bud...

 

Jamie

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