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A few detailed shots of the Cathedral, which, BTW, took six months to build most of it of which was spent how to build it, what went where, why and wherefore!

 

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Oh for crying out loud - talk about setting the bar ridiculously high! How are we going to vault over this modelling spire?

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And my favourite water mill model.

 

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I particularly like this one Allan. There are ruins of two, more basic, Highland corn mills in our village, which I would like recreate in 00 scale sometime. The last miller at Gruids Mill was a close friend and we have spent many happy days, out and about, exploring the sites of old mills.

 

Marlyn

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Allan - there is so much inspiration in your models. I had memories of your steelworks from years ago, and now I am finishing off my own 'processing plant' you have closed the loop for me with your post of the pictures. Thank you so much for all the ideas.

 

Was the steelworks a commission for an individual modeller or maybe a display for a museum? I can't imagine many people being allowed to have something like this in their living room.

 

- Richard.

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Allan - there is so much inspiration in your models. I had memories of your steelworks from years ago, and now I am finishing off my own 'processing plant' you have closed the loop for me with your post of the pictures. Thank you so much for all the ideas.

 

Was the steelworks a commission for an individual modeller or maybe a display for a museum? I can't imagine many people being allowed to have something like this in their living room.

 

- Richard.

 

Every day when I drove past Scunthorpe steelworks I used to promise the four queens (blast furnaces) that one day I would model them even if they didn't look anything like them at all (which of course, they never did).

 

For the most part it appeared that I followed the principle of the original builders which in effect was to stick anything anywhere and hoped that it would produce steel but all this in a 20ft garage as opposed to half of Scunthorpe!

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Is that the original height of the chimney or was it cut down at some point?  It seems to be a large diameter for such a short structure.  i wonder what the factory/industry was?

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My first visit here for a few months, and the standard is, as always, exquisite. And everything from steel works, to cathedrals, to chippers. Does Mr Dolphin apply an ethical fishing policy? I hope he never got caught in his own net.

 

I particularly liked the way you took Dougall, gave him a haircut, and turned him into a thatched cottage.

 

Alan

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