allan downes Posted December 7, 2015 Author Share Posted December 7, 2015 .Fishing village number two. The finished job. Well almost... Cheers. Allan 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweven Posted December 7, 2015 Share Posted December 7, 2015 Excellent work as usual Allan. Particularly like the window boxes and planters and the grass growing in the paving, the grain and colour of the timber in the sea wall, the colour and shape of the steps, .... Cheers John Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted December 10, 2015 Author Share Posted December 10, 2015 We're back on the old Black & White theme again. Started this lot today. Could be another seaside thing ... Cheers. Allan 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adams442T Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 I love it! Started this today he says, and he's done more in a day than most humans can manage in a fortnight! Is he really just another regeneration of the Doctor? Does he time-hop in the Tardis back to get the original plans, and then linger on Gallifrey until he's completed the model? We should be told! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
freebs Posted December 11, 2015 Share Posted December 11, 2015 I love it! Started this today he says, and he's done more in a day than most humans can manage in a fortnight! Is he really just another regeneration of the Doctor? Does he time-hop in the Tardis back to get the original plans, and then linger on Gallifrey until he's completed the model? We should be told! I was just thinking that - he puts a whole glazed shell of a building in the time it takes me to make a single window! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted December 11, 2015 Author Share Posted December 11, 2015 Freebs me ol' mate, you been on walkabout again ! Ah, but your one window knocks my ten into a cocked hat any time ! Time we saw some more of your work mate. Give the thread a bit of a boost. Cheers. Allan Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mullie Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 Allan seems to build a village in a day! This model is based on the station building at Cressing in Essex and it has taken me since September to get this far. Built from Slaters and Wills parts, I hope to build the canopy and finish it early in the new year. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted December 13, 2015 Author Share Posted December 13, 2015 Finished this today, now got to build something along the same theme to go with it. Plan to land it on a dockside. Cheers. Allan. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted December 20, 2015 Author Share Posted December 20, 2015 (edited) It was asked on Your Model Railway Club forum - "What made you interested in model railways ?" and being a member I responded with this, the second post of two. Thought you might like it. " "The Wren 2-8-0 and chewed trouser bottoms continued.Not too long after the purchase of the Wren 2-8-0 and running out of plasticene in particular, I discovered something else that came with all accessories included and moved under it's own steam - girls !- so the former was swiftly abandoned for the latter after discovering that they had more interesting parts than I had and it was this biological arrangement that deviated from what I thought for 16 years was standard issuel across the genders that suggested if I wished to investigate further I should marry one which I did and much to the delight of my mother though not nescessarily to the delight of hers.However, before that World changing event and the everlasting regret on her part, some of my relations and all of hers, this semi- lecherous fascination with legs that were better than mine and parts that nobody up till then had tried to explain what they were for and what I was supposed to do with them for many years were updated yearly as each new model became available. Some were an improvement on the earlier model, most were just last years model recycled - then, as I said, I married one, played at being a husband for a while then went fishing thus leaving my wife an angler's widow but who was deleriously happy with this God approved arrangement and willingly embraced her new found life when she discovered that it didn't include a full time husband, smelly socks and tobacco stains - well in slight moderation anyway.One frosty morning however, iced into the bank of a large flooded gravel pit, a massive pike leapt out of the water, the only Pike I had ever seen in three years, in fact the only pike I had ever seen period, beached itself then bit me when I went to stroke it. Well of all the gratitude I thought after feeding it's entire species for nothing with only the best maggots and the left overs from the sunday joint a fine example of the wifes cooking that probably had something to do with not catching as much as even one tiddler in three years in fact it had everything to do with not catching as much as one tiddler in three years.So, at this insult to my generosity, I packed up my gear, wrapped Henry up in cling film ( my faithful and unscathed worm that I was so fond of after three years of submerging him into every pond, lake and river North of the Watford gap and just as many South of it where I could be seen frantically throwing rocks at any fish that even approached him with evil intent ) then went home early."Oh dear " exclaimed an obviously disappointed wife "You're home early, did you actually catch a fish ?""Not actually catch in the strictest sense of the word, or even in the remotest sense of it come to that, but actually saw what a fish looked like - then it bit me ""Ah well" she replied in fake sympathy and a hint of pleasure disguised as a frown "Never mind, we'll kiss it better then you can build your son a model railway, here's a book telling you how and there's a spare pig stye out side""A son ? " I asked as I tried to look delerious with excitement and appear as a mine of intelligence in equal measure but failed miserably on both counts "How and what's one of them and where did you get it from ?""Well it wasn't the milkman even though I wished it was at times - well all the time actually - which leaves you as the most likely candidate and the least likely choice " as she handed me a copy of the Railway modeller, directed me to the pig stye as she thrust a copy of Triang's catologue in my back packet along with a bag of nails, a saw and Cyril Freezers Plans for Layouts In Strange Places and, gentlemen, the rest is history." " All perfectly true ! Cheers. Allan Edited December 20, 2015 by allan downes 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted December 20, 2015 Author Share Posted December 20, 2015 Bin a bit slow lately what with clambering about in the loft looking for boxes of wifey's christmas decorations that are kept in the garage. Straightening out bent drawing pins only to bend them again. Absolutely refusing to wear the Father Christmas rig again just to frighten the grand kids and send the wife into hysterics. Telling ignorant foreigners to PO in Morrisons and join ther queue. Getting beat up by ignorant foreigner for telling them to join the queues. Getting really pissed of with the whole idea of Christmas altogether so built these instead. Cheers. Allan, and hope you have a better christmas than me ! 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
freebs Posted December 21, 2015 Share Posted December 21, 2015 Those are bl**dy marvellous Allan! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bri.s Posted December 21, 2015 Share Posted December 21, 2015 Words fail me with how good the modelling is in this thread ,well done to you both Brian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martyn T Posted December 21, 2015 Share Posted December 21, 2015 Love the way you've captured the flooding! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted December 21, 2015 Author Share Posted December 21, 2015 Love the way you've captured the flooding! All done with mirrors ! glass tables actually... Cheers. Allan Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted December 21, 2015 Author Share Posted December 21, 2015 Words fail me with how good the modelling is in this thread ,well done to you both Brian Thanks Brian, but has anybody seen the other half of both? Come out Robinson wherever you are and face me like a man ! Cheers. Allan, and missing a good mate...sniff, boo, blub. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raymond46 Posted December 24, 2015 Share Posted December 24, 2015 Well a merry Christmas to Alan, Robinson and all other posters to this thread, we are nearly up to a quarter of a million. Fantastic modellers all, especially Alan Ray Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted December 24, 2015 Author Share Posted December 24, 2015 I've had word from the greatest modeller who ever set foot on RMweb, the great man himself, Iain C Robinson, that he'll be putting up some new stuff later. So, once again, Robinson masterpieces on the way folks. Yay ! Cheers. Allan, and a very merry Christmas to you all. (ouch ) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alant Posted December 24, 2015 Share Posted December 24, 2015 Have a good one yourself Allan Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
trains12 Posted December 24, 2015 Share Posted December 24, 2015 Hi Alan Wishing you all a very merry Christmas and a happy new year. All the very best Peter Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mullie Posted December 24, 2015 Share Posted December 24, 2015 Hay Christmas Allan and may all your bathrooms be family ones! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted December 25, 2015 Author Share Posted December 25, 2015 (edited) For the attention of Iain C Robinson. And his reaction to it. Merry Christmas to all. Cheers. Allan Edited December 25, 2015 by allan downes 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeeleyBridge Posted December 25, 2015 Share Posted December 25, 2015 Got to give Mr R time to put the reindeer away Allan, he only does real work one day a year. All the best to you and yours. *Bah Humbug hat, reindeer jumper, grinch wellies - slamming door ... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted December 27, 2015 Author Share Posted December 27, 2015 Courtesey of Your Model Railway Club. My ego expressed ! http://yourmodelrailway.net/gallery_view_slides.php?user=1427 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeeleyBridge Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 Watching Miss Marple (Joan Hickson version) this week, the most often heard comment from both SWMBO and myself was "Allan Downes built that village". (Yes even our Gert has been an Allan fan since the early 1980s todeller articles - she even bought me a can of Colron for my birthday one year ...) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Branwell Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 Courtesey of Your Model Railway Club. My ego expressed ! http://yourmodelrailway.net/gallery_view_slides.php?user=1427 Wot, no windmills? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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