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

[Oldddudders]

Putting a smorgasbord of structures on a Swedish baseboard would seem reasonable. 

[teaky]

18 minutes ago, NHY 581 said:

Yes, I know it says L&NER on the notice board but things can change........and I think the building does look the part here. 

No, that bits fine, it's the locomotive that needs changing.

[phil_sutters]

3 hours ago, Captain Kernow said:

Now that's an interesting notion. I know even less about wine than I know about Art, but perhaps I should have a go at taking the pisse there too!

 

The best way to enjoy modern art galleries is to take a twelve-year-old grand-daughter, with outspoken views on most things. Here we are enjoying one of the few exhibits that was actually good fun. Most of the rest we made fun of.

http://www.ipernity.com/doc/philsutters/46588476/in/album/1058646

There's plenty of stuff in the album to illustrate the point. I had as much fun out of photographing the architecture and visitors.

[Captain Kernow]

I think that the presence of a pannier tank is significant and very pleasing.

 

[teaky]

1 minute ago, Captain Kernow said:

I think that the presence of a pannier tank is significant and very pleasing.

 

Well, I found it became more pleasing as our host gradually added more buildings to block it from view.

[phil_sutters]

1 minute ago, Captain Kernow said:

I think that the presence of a pannier tank is significant and very pleasing.

 

My first model loco was a pannier tank - 5708. It was a Gaiety diecast body on a Triang chassis that had been converted for Hornby 3-rail track. Eventually I defected to the S&D.

[NHY 581]

Just now, Captain Kernow said:

I think that the presence of a pannier tank is significant and very pleasing.

 

 

The little chap does look at home..........nothing else looks the part and certainly not quite the small Southern shunty goods yard I had in mind. 

 

I lay the blame in a number of directions.....

 

Panniers. 

 

Recent acquisition of what is very much a Great Western goods shed, despite my best efforts to think otherwise. 

 

Panniers

 

Bethesda Sidings. 

 

Panniers. 

 

 

[Metropolitan H]

21 minutes ago, teaky said:

No, that bits fine, it's the locomotive that needs changing.

Oh "No" it doesn't! - The Pannier looks just right!

 

Regards

Chris H

[Metropolitan H]

18 minutes ago, phil_sutters said:

My first model loco was a pannier tank - 5708. It was a Gaiety diecast body on a Triang chassis that had been converted for Hornby 3-rail track. Eventually I defected to the S&D.

Snap - except that I also developed a liking for things LNER (GNR) / Metropolitan / SBB-CFF!

Try finding a home to suit all that lot?

 

Regards

Chris H

 

P.S. - I also have a liking for S&DJR / M&GNR / SNCF, but you have to draw a line somewhere!

 

CH

[1965Paul]

59 minutes ago, phil_sutters said:

The best way to enjoy modern art galleries is to take a twelve-year-old grand-daughter, with outspoken views on most things. Here we are enjoying one of the few exhibits that was actually good fun. Most of the rest we made fun of.

http://www.ipernity.com/doc/philsutters/46588476/in/album/1058646

There's plenty of stuff in the album to illustrate the point. I had as much fun out of photographing the architecture and visitors.

Taking an engineering student to the Tate Modern on her 21st birthday after a bottomless Presseco lunch is probably a similar experience, we weren’t left wondering  about her opinions on modern art.

[bgman]

1 hour ago, NHY 581 said:

 

The little chap does look at home..........nothing else looks the part and certainly not quite the small Southern shunty goods yard I had in mind. 

 

I lay the blame in a number of directions.....

 

Panniers. 

 

Recent acquisition of what is very much a Great Western goods shed, despite my best efforts to think otherwise. 

 

Panniers

 

Bethesda Sidings. 

 

Panniers. 

 

 

 

I'm in total agreement.....but then I am ever so slightly biased !

[Andrew P]

Saw this and thought of Ewe.

[St Enodoc]

13 hours ago, Penlan said:

"She's an artist drawn by Gaelic Melodic Superautomism* …… perhaps a figure from a spirit world, conjured from Aladdin’s lamp, condensed, materialised and 'ectoplasmic’, as if from a half conscious experience of the interdependence of the animal, vegetable and mineral kingdoms of the earth and their vitalization by the sun".

Tut, tut. Surely that should be "as though", not "as if"?

[NHY 581]

Morning all. 

 

A few more thoughts this morning. Popping a slight tweak in the running lines adds a little something in my humble opinion. 

 

 

In addition, thanks to some very welcome intervention, I am moving away from my usual small radius points and gravitating to medium radius.........

 

 

 

Ongoing...

 

Rob. 

 

 

[Mulgabill]

15 hours ago, NHY 581 said:

 

Thanks Al. 

 

Yes, have to agree.  I do like locos emerging from between  or around buildings. 

 

 

There will be a buffer stop between the end of the 16 tonner  and the wooden lean to.  Perhaps a cobbled/ hard standing to the front and side of the 'garage'. The vehicle  entry to the yard will be between the barn to the left and small hut, parallel to the Pannier. 

 

Green area to the front of the barn.........

 

I can see it now...

 

 

 

 

 

Or you couldleave out the buffer stop, and set up a barbers in the, repurposed,

wooden shack.

 

(With due acknoledgements to a previous member or GMRC).

 

TONY

[Stubby47]

28 minutes ago, Mulgabill said:

 

Or you couldleave out the buffer stop, and set up a barbers in the, repurposed,

wooden shack.

 

(With due acknoledgements to a previous member or GMRC).

 

TONY

[Stubby47]

32 minutes ago, NHY 581 said:

Morning all. 

 

A few more thoughts this morning. Popping a slight tweak in the running lines adds a little something in my humble opinion. 

 

 

In addition, thanks to some very welcome intervention, I am moving away from my usual small radius points and gravitating to medium radius.........

 

 

 

Ongoing...

 

Rob. 

 

 

Have you considered putting the two loop lines diagonally across the board, and the goods shed front left ?

Edited July 10, 2021 by Stubby47

[Gilbert]

What are the shelf dimensions Rob?

[Captain Kernow]

I see that the pannier is still there.

 

Mind you, a small goods yard might demand a small pannier - http://www.modelrailoffers.co.uk/c/1694/16XX

 

Just saying.

 

[Stubby47]

2 minutes ago, Captain Kernow said:

I see that the pannier is still there.

 

Mind you, a small goods yard might demand a small pannier - http://www.modelrailoffers.co.uk/c/1694/16XX

 

Just saying.

 

At £150 each ??

[NHY 581]

23 minutes ago, Stubby47 said:

Have you considered putting the two loop lines diagonally across the board, and the goods shed front left ?

 

Morning Stu. 

 

I did as it happens but decided against it for two reasons...

 

The shed is big.....very big. It would dominate proceedings. 

 

 

By putting it to the front, you lose the open look and potentially  create a void behind it. Better to have space to the front and look across, towards the shed. 

[NHY 581]

21 minutes ago, Gilbert said:

What are the shelf dimensions Rob?

 

 

Morning Chris, 

 

120cm x 40cm x 5cm. 

 

The usual, as per  Dip, Mutton and Bleat.......

 

{ Well know firm of solicitors } 

 

Rob. 

[Gilbert]

4 minutes ago, NHY 581 said:

 

 

Morning Chris, 

 

120cm x 40cm x 5cm. 

 

The usual, as per  Dip, Mutton and Bleat.......

 

{ Well know firm of solicitors } 

 

Rob. 

Cheers Rob - I'm about to use a SMS (77L RUB) board for a small rural branch but its only 110cm which makes a big difference. I do want a two coach long loop which rather dictates the design. It will have 55cm fiddle yard at each end.

Edited July 10, 2021 by Gilbert

[NHY 581]

 

36 minutes ago, Captain Kernow said:

I see that the pannier is still there.

 

Mind you, a small goods yard might demand a small pannier - http://www.modelrailoffers.co.uk/c/1694/16XX

 

Just saying.

 

 

 

Oh dear........

 

 

33 minutes ago, Stubby47 said:

At £150 each ??

 

 

I know.....but....the Bachmann 94xx is £129 ish.....

[Captain Kernow]

3 hours ago, Stubby47 said:

At £150 each ??

Unfortunately if you want a RTR 16XX, it's the only game in town.

 

3 hours ago, NHY 581 said:

I know.....but....the Bachmann 94xx is £129 ish.....

This is true and in terms of quality of model, it's every bit as good as the Rapido one, if not perhaps a bit better, in my opinion, but they are big hulking brutes of locos and possibly not quite 'the thing' for a discerning, quality gentleman's goods yard.