Castle Aching

[Nearholmer]

Thanks chaps.

 

Someone gave my daughter a set of the below, which seem to contain acrylic ink/paint. The tip is actually a brush, and is very controllable, with the finest line about 1mm. Andy, they are re-fillable.

 

they aren’t really suitable for lettering, but I think they’d work for figure-painting over a pale undercoat, and they certainly work for card/paper modelling.

 

they are (inevitably) Chinese, and I think they originated as script brushes for Chinese lettering.

 

Kevin

[corneliuslundie]

This one:

https://www.cultpens.com/i/q/UN04093/uni-paint-marker-pen-extra-fine-px-203

Unfortunately not in black.

Jonathan

[NeilHB]

Kevin, 

 

Fortunate timing as home for lunch to let the dogs out. Grabbed a couple of photos of the Posca Paint Pens that I have. There are two types of nibs, bullet and pin type:

 

 

The pin type is quite fine (0.7mm):

 

 

I’ve used the 0.7 for lining out some of my 7mm standard gauge locos - most recently the one below:

 

 

Well worth investing in a couple, though the red they offer is a bit too pink for my liking, so would advise against that one. 

[Martin S-C]

I have the 0.7mm bullet shape head. Water based but too thick for 4mm work. I bought it to make up chalked wagon destination notes but went back to my ordinary acylic paints (thinned) and a fine brush. I think the paint pen would be okay for 7mm scale and up.

I don't know that they make a finer tip.

 

I also have these Staedtlers which are superb and go as small as 0.1mm. I have only found them in black so far.

 

 

 

The tip isn't brush or felt, or fibres, it seems to be a plastic nozzle with hairline cuts in the shape of a flower petal style or " * " pattern and the ink probably flows by a combination of capillary and pressure. This super close up should show the structure.

 

 

 

 

Edited April 9, 2019 by Martin S-C

[Hroth]

A quick trawl on the bay of e showed Stadtler Pigment liners with 0.3 and 0.5mm tips in a variety of colours.

eg:  https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Staedtler-308-Coloured-Pigment-Liner-6-Colours-Available-0-3mm-or-0-5mm-Tips/223175321084?hash=item33f64925fc:m:mmIkd8S9UbUjKessPjOtfkQ

 

 

[corneliuslundie]

They look interesting, but not in black or white unfortunately.

Jonathan

[Annie]

Just to throw the ball in from off side here's a Dutch rebuild of one of their old Sharp Stewart single driver tender engines.  A Dutch friend over on NGRM was kind enough to show it to me.  Note how the tender sides  have been used to make the new side tanks.

 

[Hroth]

Going back to bowler-hatted villains and their propensity to tie damsels in distress to railway tracks, I came across the complete opposite this morning on the BBC website

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-47870837

 

A (normally) bowler-hatted hero attempts to free a distressed damsel from a railway track.

 

(Notice how the villains have circumvented the assymetric chopping problem by choosing to use a narrow gauge railway for their nefarious deed!)

[Martin S-C]

Steed is going to have to be very quick at untying knots if he's to save Emma in time - assuming that engine is even moving of course.

Looks like this may have been shot at Chessington?
 

[Martin S-C]

15 hours ago, corneliuslundie said:

They look interesting, but not in black or white unfortunately.

Jonathan

Black ones, yes.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/STAEDTLER-PIGMENT-LINER-Graphic-drawing-pen-in-9-different-line-widths/130932589495?hash=item1e7c30c3b7:m:mJwjxD56bXpLi8gZp3pY4Og&var=430159832512

White - don't think so, irritating as this is the colour I need.

 

Fantastic tank engine Annie. Must.. make.. model... of... it....

Edited April 10, 2019 by Martin S-C

[Denbridge]

1 hour ago, Martin S-C said:

Black ones, yes.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/STAEDTLER-PIGMENT-LINER-Graphic-drawing-pen-in-9-different-line-widths/130932589495?hash=item1e7c30c3b7:m:mJwjxD56bXpLi8gZp3pY4Og&var=430159832512

White - don't think so, irritating as this is the colour I need.

 

Fantastic tank engine Annie. Must.. make.. model... of... it....

It was shot at the Stapleford park miniature railway back in the Lord Gretton days. The railway still exists.

[Nearholmer]

Yes, it’s used for tests/trials in the IMechE annual ‘build a loco’ contest for engineering students and trainees.

[Northroader]

Annie, your tank engine is one of six built by Sharp Stewart for the Rhenish Railway in 1857, numbers 37-42. Four were rebuilt to tank engines as shown. The tenders were six wheeled, longer with a different profile top flange, so perhaps they weren’t used in the rebuild. The Rhenish were big Sharpie fans, try a 2-4-0T:

[Edwardian]

 

1 hour ago, Northroader said:

Annie, your tank engine is one of six built by Sharp Stewart for the Rhenish Railway in 1857, numbers 37-42. Four were rebuilt to tank engines as shown. The tenders were six wheeled, longer with a different profile top flange, so perhaps they weren’t used in the rebuild. The Rhenish were big Sharpie fans, try a 2-4-0T:

 

Lovely.  And ending up not unlike the outside cylinder Sharpie 2-4-0Ts built for the Knotty in 1874 ...

 

 

 

In the constant search for novelty track accessories, what will the manufacturers think of next?

 

 

It's Diana Rigg; be still my beating heart! 

[Regularity]

Let’s get back on track...

[Annie]

And speaking of vital statistics this webpage is absolute gold.

 

http://www.steamlocomotive.com/locobase.php?country=Great_Britain

[St Enodoc]

6 hours ago, Northroader said:

Annie, your tank engine is one of six built by Sharp Stewart for the Rhenish Railway in 1857, numbers 37-42. Four were rebuilt to tank engines as shown. The tenders were six wheeled, longer with a different profile top flange, so perhaps they weren’t used in the rebuild. The Rhenish were big Sharpie fans, try a 2-4-0T:

That's what the original Southwold Railway No 1 looked like when it grew up.

[St Enodoc]

13 hours ago, Denbridge said:

It was shot at the Stapleford park miniature railway back in the Lord Gretton days. The railway still exists.

...but not, sadly, the two model ocean liners.

 

http://www.fsmr.org.uk/

[Hroth]

9 hours ago, Edwardian said:

 

 

Lovely.  And ending up not unlike the outside cylinder Sharpie 2-4-0Ts built for the Knotty in 1874 ...

 

 

 

In the constant search for novelty track accessories, what will the manufacturers think of next?

 

 

It's Diana Rigg; be still my beating heart! 

 

Going by the fact that she's well padded by that tweed jacket over the rails beneath her, I'm worried that I misinterpreted what Steed was up to in the other photo.

 

Ahem....

 

[Northroader]

He might have been inspired by the name of the engine:

[corneliuslundie]

Thanks for that Annie. Some exploring needed there.

But I am disturbed by Mr HRoth's imputations about my favourite actress when I was young.

Back to serious matters, those cab roofs are not dissimilar to the roofs carried by some Manning Wardles.

Jonathan

[Denbridge]

10 hours ago, St Enodoc said:

...but not, sadly, the two model ocean liners.

 

http://www.fsmr.org.uk/

Strange how things so big can vanish with no ideas as to their fates. There is a suggestion one sank, but some think it unlikely.

[Hroth]

4 hours ago, corneliuslundie said:

Thanks for that Annie. Some exploring needed there.

But I am disturbed by Mr HRoth's imputations about my favourite actress when I was young.

Back to serious matters, those cab roofs are not dissimilar to the roofs carried by some Manning Wardles.

Jonathan

Imputations?  About Mrs Peel?

Perish the thort!

 

(What are your thought about the delectable Cathy Gale, btw?)

 

But given the characteristics of the Bowler-Hatees, I feel one might impugn Mr Steed with impunity.  Especially as he seems to have abandoned his bowler as a subterfuge...

[Edwardian]

2 hours ago, Hroth said:

 

But given the characteristics of the Bowler-Hatees .... 

 

Indeed, Top Hatees are best ...

 

[Compound2632]

In this style 10/6