RMweb Gold Mikkel Posted May 23, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 23, 2015 Pre-grouping fans, feast your eyes on this Flickr album (not mine): https://www.flickr.com/photos/robmcrorie/sets/72157643782545415 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium TheQ Posted May 23, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 23, 2015 Hands up whoever has 'sealskins' represented on their model railway Mike No but I will have opens containing a representation of horse droppings, and barrels which would have contained the similar substance from dogs. In my efforts for historical accuracy smelly vision will Not occur for these substances ( not for the gents Loos either) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BG John Posted May 23, 2015 Share Posted May 23, 2015 Pre-grouping fans, feast your eyes on this Flickr album (not mine): https://www.flickr.com/photos/robmcrorie/sets/72157643782545415 Rather a lot saying "Southern", "LMS" and "LNER" on the tender. I thought this was a modern image free zone . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeOxon Posted May 23, 2015 Share Posted May 23, 2015 Hands up whoever has 'sealskins' represented on their model railway Mike No but I will have opens containing a representation of horse droppings, and barrels which would have contained the similar substance from dogs. In my efforts for historical accuracy smelly vision will Not occur for these substances ( not for the gents Loos either) That's a relief Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold ChrisN Posted May 23, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 23, 2015 Pre-grouping fans, feast your eyes on this Flickr album (not mine): https://www.flickr.com/photos/robmcrorie/sets/72157643782545415 They are just beautiful machines. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Mikkel Posted May 24, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 24, 2015 (edited) Rather a lot saying "Southern", "LMS" and "LNER" on the tender. I thought this was a modern image free zone . You're just being grumpy because there is no broad gauge This photo is interesting for the LNWR and GWR joint appearance (and those wonderful LNWR 6-wheelers): https://www.flickr.com/photos/robmcrorie/16020748955/in/album-72157643782545415/ Edited May 24, 2015 by Mikkel 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Londontram Posted May 24, 2015 Share Posted May 24, 2015 Nice to see the G&SWR get a look in too 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allegheny1600 Posted August 1, 2015 Share Posted August 1, 2015 Hi Folks, During my research for my own 'Pre-Grouping' interests, I came across this selection of Bowler and Top Hats on Shapeways website! http://www.shapeways.com/product/596TDEZEY/bowler-and-top-hats-large-assortment-ho-scale-1-87?li=search-results-1&optionId=41278322 They are in H0 scale which suits me fine but it looks like the owner of this design did respond to a request to scale up to US 0 scale (1/48th) so maybe you 4mm ers stand a chance? Or, if you're already using the likes of Preiser H0 models anyway, they would make an easy modification to back date more generic figures. Cheers, John E. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold ChrisN Posted August 1, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 1, 2015 Hi Folks, During my research for my own 'Pre-Grouping' interests, I came across this selection of Bowler and Top Hats on Shapeways website! http://www.shapeways.com/product/596TDEZEY/bowler-and-top-hats-large-assortment-ho-scale-1-87?li=search-results-1&optionId=41278322 They are in H0 scale which suits me fine but it looks like the owner of this design did respond to a request to scale up to US 0 scale (1/48th) so maybe you 4mm ers stand a chance? Or, if you're already using the likes of Preiser H0 models anyway, they would make an easy modification to back date more generic figures. Cheers, John E. They are amazing. One of my big problems is hats for models that do not have them, or the wrong type of hat. These would answer that problem, except of course for ladies but straw boaters and a round hat with a brim would do it. Umm. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted August 1, 2015 Share Posted August 1, 2015 Brilliant find, John E. What a splendid thing to have done. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium TheQ Posted August 13, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 13, 2015 I know from a photograph 1917 royal visit to the station I'm modeling, that the equerry, took off his top hat and placed on the ground. Not where I would of put it but by the corner of a door entrance. I just hope the station staff had washed the ground before hand, You know what station dogs are like... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
John_Miles Posted August 13, 2015 Share Posted August 13, 2015 No but I will have opens containing a representation of horse droppings, and barrels which would have contained the similar substance from dog Dog crap. I had a grandfather, who was a cooper and for a while worked in a tannery making barrels which were used for dog crap - apparently an essential thing for making leather or at least it was 100 years ago. Another interesting substance of a similar nature which was in use at that time was "lant" - i.e. urine, which was used for softening woolen blankets. And they talk about the good old days. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold ChrisN Posted August 13, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 13, 2015 Dog crap. I had a grandfather, who was a cooper and for a while worked in a tannery making barrels which were used for dog crap - apparently an essential thing for making leather or at least it was 100 years ago. Another interesting substance of a similar nature which was in use at that time was "lant" - i.e. urine, which was used for softening woolen blankets. And they talk about the good old days. I believe the other name for it was 'pure'. Some of the poorest and oldest people in London would collect it and sell it to tanneries. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smiffy2 Posted August 13, 2015 Share Posted August 13, 2015 I believe the other name for it was 'pure'. Some of the poorest and oldest people in London would collect it and sell it to tanneries. As described in some detail in Mayhew's 'London Labour and London Poor'. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allegheny1600 Posted August 13, 2015 Share Posted August 13, 2015 Dog crap. I had a grandfather, who was a cooper and for a while worked in a tannery making barrels which were used for dog crap - apparently an essential thing for making leather or at least it was 100 years ago. Another interesting substance of a similar nature which was in use at that time was "lant" - i.e. urine, which was used for softening woolen blankets. And they talk about the good old days. I didn't know about dog doings but horse (& other) urine was very much in evidence when my parents and I visited Fes in Morocco some 35-40 years ago. I think it's Fes that's quite well known for leather goods, anyway the whole town/city STANK to high heaven, it was truly awful! I remember it running down little channels in the dirt streets, ugh! It's still enough to give me palpitations. Maybe I can claim to have smelt the middle ages!?! Cheers, John. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brian777999 Posted August 23, 2015 Share Posted August 23, 2015 I think that the Old Testament mentions that being married to a tanner was legitimate grounds for the woman to divorce him ! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
richard i Posted August 24, 2015 Share Posted August 24, 2015 I didn't know about dog doings but horse (& other) urine was very much in evidence when my parents and I visited Fes in Morocco some 35-40 years ago. I think it's Fes that's quite well known for leather goods, anyway the whole town/city STANK to high heaven, it was truly awful! I remember it running down little channels in the dirt streets, ugh! It's still enough to give me palpitations. Maybe I can claim to have smelt the middle ages!?! Cheers, John. My condolences Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 William the B*st*rd was touchier about being called William the Tanner. Which only goes to show.... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
billbedford Posted August 29, 2015 Share Posted August 29, 2015 Tanning was never seen as a good training for kingship, for some reason..... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium kevinlms Posted September 6, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 6, 2015 A friend in SSMRS told me a sad story about a friend of his, who he had brought along for a day operating East Lynn at an exhibition. Said gentleman was 70, and had accomplished quite a lot in EM over the previous quarter century, including some scratchbuilding. This time period is important, as one of the things which had pushed him down his chosen pre-grouping route of modelling (as it happens) the S&DJR was the availability of MR etched loos from Alan Gibson in 4mm scale. These had also been made available in S, but this was (at the time) only publicised via the SGMRS (as it was) Newsletter. He had heard of S, and almost certainly had seen it at shows, but had not spent any great amount of time studying it. He had the skills to take it on, but it was outside of his experience. He could have made the switch in his late 40s, but didn't. At 70, he was almost in tears on the way home because he had missed out on doing what he had done in EM, in S. It would have been no harder in S, given the kits which had appeared at times, due to his choice of prototype, but even had it required scratchbuilding, he would have made the change, had only his experience of the hobby been that much wider. This is not a story I tell in support of S as it could just as easily relate to someone developing an interest in the GSWR instead of the LMS in Scotland, but it is one that says, come your late 40s, you will have enough of your life ahead of you to make a serious start on a serious layout. Actually, I find that story quite sad! It must have been a shock to the system, that he'd WASTED 30 years modelling in EM. Perhaps he would have been better off, being in ignorance of S Scale? Sorry for picking up something nearly 2 years old! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
edcayton Posted September 6, 2015 Share Posted September 6, 2015 Hi guys. Thought I'd drop in and see what you were talking about. It would appear to be a load of sh1te! Will visit again soon Best wishes Ed Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lacathedrale Posted January 20, 2018 Share Posted January 20, 2018 I don't really have anywhere else to put this without a workbench thread, so I'm quite chuffed to show off my completed MR van: 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold ChrisN Posted January 20, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 20, 2018 I don't really have anywhere else to put this without a workbench thread, so I'm quite chuffed to show off my completed MR van: Is this a kit or scratchbuilt? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lacathedrale Posted January 20, 2018 Share Posted January 20, 2018 It's an O-gauge Slaters kit with S7 wheels - honestly nothing particularly unique but it has transfers, it has a pin wash, it has weathering and is functionally complete - which is a 'first' for railway modelling for me. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Andy Hayter Posted January 20, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 20, 2018 I don't really have anywhere else to put this without a workbench thread, so I'm quite chuffed to show off my completed MR van: and so I think you should be. That looks like some very good modelling - what scale are you using? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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