well filled baps The Sheep Chronicles : These are the adventures of a Sheep, the Works Forecat and Naughty George,

[Gilbert]

7 minutes ago, NHY 581 said:

In fact, I'm hoping for some input from both Ted and Snowy when I start building Woolney. 

 

Rob. 

Probably more constructive than on here.....

[JustinDean]

1 hour ago, NHY 581 said:

In fact, I'm hoping for some input from both Ted and Snowy when I start building Woolney. 

 

Rob. 

just hope they’re not P4 modellers ;-)

 

 

*only joking P4 folks

Edited April 11, 2021 by JustinDean

[HillsideDepot]

Not so much P4 modellers as 4 paw modellers 

[woodenhead]

20 hours ago, Stubby47 said:

Would a 1st radius curve fit on the end of Sheep Dip, to extend the FY over the new workbench?

Or even a spiral

[NHY 581]

39 minutes ago, woodenhead said:

Or even a spiral

 

Steady on. 

[Gilbert]

1 hour ago, NHY 581 said:

 

Steady on. 

Do Ikea do a spiral board?

[Gilbert]

2 hours ago, woodenhead said:

Or even a spiral

[figworthy]

Whilst taking my morning constitutional, I came across these, I was wondering if there was anyone ewe knew ?

 

 

Adrian

Edited April 11, 2021 by figworthy

[Tim Chambers]

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah Bless! I think Snowy should emerge from the darkness, after all, two Teds are better than one!

Very best wishes, Tim.

[Oldddudders]

Can we help?

 

 

We are Pyjamas and Whispers. Our mummies rejected us. 

[DonB]

1 hour ago, Oldddudders said:

Can we help?

 

 

We are Pyjamas and Whispers. Our mummies rejected us. 

 

Goes to show that you can't be too careful in your choice of parents!

[NHY 581]

Morning all. 

 

I'm afraid I have nothing new to report.  However, here is an old Norman Lockhart image by way of a reminder. 

 

 

 

Rob. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited April 5, 2022 by NHY 581

[Stubby47]

I like the bricked up window on the van.

[Winslow Boy]

That's because there's a window tax and the currant owners of the railway are to skint to pay it so they bricked it up instead.

[keefr2]

4 hours ago, Winslow Boy said:

the currant owners 

 

They must have had trouble raisin the dough then....

[Gedward]

5 hours ago, Winslow Boy said:

That's because there's a window tax

 

Which is a pane in the arse.

[Benbow]

1 minute ago, Gedward said:

 

Which is a pane in the arse.

[Mike_Walker]

8 hours ago, NHY 581 said:

Morning all. 

 

I'm afraid I have nothing new to report.  However, here is an old Norman Lockhart image by way of a reminder. 

 

Rob. 

 

 

 

 

 

I wish I could weather mine half as good as that!

[NHY 581]

On 30/04/2021 at 16:47, Mike_Walker said:

I wish I could weather mine half as good as that!

 

Morning Mike. 

 

Thanks for the kind words. It just takes practice and continuing experimentation. Sometimes it goes well, sometimes it doesn't.  Either way, you learn something. 

 

Rob. 

[Mike_Walker]

8 minutes ago, NHY 581 said:

 

Morning Mike. 

 

Thanks for the kind words. It just takes practice and continuing experimentation. Sometimes it goes well, sometimes it doesn't.  Either way, you learn something. 

 

Rob. 

Hi Rob,

 

Yes, but it's plucking up the courage to dive in!

 

Mike

[MrWolf]

9 minutes ago, Mike_Walker said:

Hi Rob,

 

Yes, but it's plucking up the courage to dive in!

 

Mike

 

Have to agree with you there, mustering the necessary to attack something that looks perfect and that you just paid £100 for is a little nerve wracking. 

I am having the same problems. I am countering them by weathering parts of the layout as I build it, followed by wagons etc.

I have a few locos I have bought to modify or for spares and a couple of bodies only.

My intention is to practice on them, make notes on what I use where as I go along and of course crib heavily on what everyone else is doing.

That way the learning process should at least be a bit less sweary....

[Stubby47]

You don't even have to use an old model.  A piece of plasticard, scribed, with a couple of bits of angle strip and there is a van side to practice on.  Don't scribe it and it's a steel 16t wagon.
I'm sure Rob will agree, start very lightly and and more light passes until you're happy.  Also remember the 3ft rule...

 

[Alister_G]

1 hour ago, Stubby47 said:

remember the 3ft rule

 

And what do you use that for, scoring the planks?

 

Al.

Edited May 2, 2021 by Alister_G

[Stubby47]

13 minutes ago, Alister_G said:

 

And what do you use that for, scoring the planks?

 

Al.

No, I'd use a scribe for that...

 

Or if no scribe, then a monk.

[NHY 581]

It is nerve wracking. As you say, its simply the fear of making a horse's arse of it all.......says the sheep who weathered a loco only for all the colours to be lost when the varnish was applied.........

 

Try things on an old model first, or as Stubbers says, a bit of plasticard. Remember, I practised the wood stuff on a piece of Wills sheet. 

 

Rob