Little Muddle

[KNP]

An unusual shot prompted by my grandson last night when he said why don't I put the camera in the field with the red cows?

So with the camera set up in Cathcott's field here is a shot looking looking away from the station.

 

 

 

Due to the closeness of the camera to the telegraph pole and for some reason the gas lamp there is a bit of ghosting which I have tried to remove, not totally successfully I might add.

I will try this again with other shots in the future but with the lens further away.

Edited March 19 by KNP

[gwrrob]

Nice article on making hedges in this month's BRM Kev.  

[MikeOxon]

An unusual shot prompted by my grandson last night when he said why don't I put the camera in the field with the red cows?

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Your grandson has a very good eye for a picture.  More of his suggestions, please

[stevejjjexcov]

Slower than prairies, slower than panniers,

Bridges and houses, Chuchwards and Stanniers;

And ambling along like steeds on a ranch,

All through the meadows the train on the branch.

All the sights of the hill and the plain,

Pass by softly like misty rain.

And ever again, in 40 winks,

Lineside pubs are serving drinks.

 

Here is the Colonel, fishing for sharks,

All by himself, casting in arcs.

Here is a salt, long left the sea,

Tales to tell those who pass by the quay.

There's Kev & Doug, chatting away

Watching the spuds as they gently sway

And here is a mill and there is a river,

Captured perfectly and preserved for ever.

 

Brilliant Stubby just brilliant.

A respectful ode to Little Muddle.

 

Was the original by Auden?

 

Steve

[Stubby47]

Brilliant Stubby just brilliant.

A respectful ode to Little Muddle.

Was the original by Auden?

Steve

Robert Louis Stevenson - From a Railway Carriage Edited May 26, 2018 by Stubby47

[MikeOxon]

Brilliant Stubby just brilliant.

A respectful ode to Little Muddle.

 

Was the original by Auden?

 

Steve

Auden (in Night Mail) adopted the rhythm that Stevenson had used much earlier

[KNP]

Nice article on making hedges in this month's BRM Kev.

 

Thanks

More on the way........!

Are you still planning to go to Railex tomorrow, hope to be there when doors open.

[KNP]

Another one of my odd shots, this time of the crane in the harbour.

It is a repainted Corgi Ruston Bucyrus 19 from their Trackside range with new lifting wires in a more representative position..

 

 

 

The wires are Egyptian thread and were fine until I decided to paint them and then they went a bit stringy, sorted most out but a few areas of concern.

The wooden support for the boom is bits of timber left over from the harbour wall construction

Edited March 19 by KNP

[Limpley Stoker]

Thanks

More on the way........!

Are you still planning to go to Railex tomorrow, hope to be there when doors open.

Don’t forget the B windows and some no smoking/smoking signs!

[lightengine]

No smoking signs required, yet the fireman can't shovel coal because he is glued down. C'mon guys, Kevs modelling is already exceptional!

[stevejjjexcov]

Auden (in Night Mail) adopted the rhythm that Stevenson had used much earlier

Thanks mike that's where the confusion occurred, rhythm versus poet

 

Steve

[BWsTrains]

Auden (in Night Mail) adopted the rhythm that Stevenson had used much earlier

Thanks Mike,

 

A quick search turned up this gem that I'd never seen

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmciuKsBOi0

 

and then if you have grandchildren this is even better for them, I'll show my visitors today

 

 

Colin

[KNP]

Had an great time at Railex.

Some very good layouts and trade stands there, credit to the organisers.

 

Met GWRRob at Eileen's Emporium where we where both buying items, had a good chat with him other than over this medium.

He tried to get me to buy some lamps for my trains from Modelu, one day, one day - no rush......!

 

Got what I was after for the B set

 

 

 

Then brought some wood strip for my next project...

 

 

 

More on that later.......when I finish the design work!

 

Then I brought a cardboard box from Gramodels

 

 

 

The contents I saw at the last York show.

Had to check it would fit and it did so her it is.

 

A Clyde Puffer

 

 

 

Always planned to have two ships for the harbour that would alternate but the company the made 'Misty' don't appear to do the Puffer anymore.

Until I came across this, so we are back on track!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited March 19 by KNP

[The Johnster]

Thanks Mike,

 

A quick search turned up this gem that I'd never seen

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmciuKsBOi0

 

and then if you have grandchildren this is even better for them, I'll show my visitors today

 

 

Colin

 

Night Mail is a classic, and some beautiful camerawork that must have been pushing the envelope of what was technically possible in low light with trains at speed at the time.  The internals shots of the TPO sorting and the pickup/dropoff of mail were done in the studio, with the actual postal staff from the train, and are absolutely convincing.  The poem is as good as anything ever written about trains. and the line 'in a farm near Beattock, no one wakes, but a jug in the bedroom gently shakes' still raises the hairs on the back of my neck; just did it now as I typed it!

[The Johnster]

Had an great time at Railex.

Some very good layouts and trade stands there, credit to the organisers.

 

Met GWRRob at Eileen's Emporium where we where both buying items, had a good chat with him other than over this medium.

He tried to get me to buy some lamps for my trains from Modelu, one day, one day - no rush......!

 

Got what I was after for the B set

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Then brought some wood strip for my next project...

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More on that later.......when I finish the design work!

 

Then I brought a cardboard box from Gramodels

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The contents I saw at the last York show.

Had to check it would fit and it did so her it is.

 

A Clyde Puffer

IMG_0152.JPG

 

Always planned to have two ships for the harbour that would alternate but the company the made 'Misty' don't appear to do the Puffer anymore.

Until I came across this, so we are back on track!!!

I don't want to rain on your parade, KNP, though there may be a silver lining...

 

A Clyde Puffer, full of character and very popular as a model, is a very specialised type of coastal vessel, designed for working the Firth of Clyde downstream from Glasgow and to fit the canal connection that cut out the long and exposed voyage around the Mull of Kintyre at Tarbert.  They served the villages of the Argyll coast and inner islands, which had very poor if any road connection in those days, and were not suitable for open sea passages, even short ones.  They are suitable for sheltered inshore work.

 

Your layout is GW based, and, while you have not specifically stated where it is located, it seems to be somewhere on the Bristol Channel or Severn Estuary.  Puffers were almost unknown here; inshore work was performed by 'barges', which were actually engined versions of the previous 'Trows' that had done the work in the days of sail.  They traded upstream via the Gloucester Ship Canal as far as Stourport on Severn, and were built to suit the canal and river locks they would encounter; they also went up the Avon to Bristol,, and the larger ones down as far as Swansea for oil or it's refined products.  

 

But Puffers were only almost unknown.  Back in the pre war years one worked coal from Penarth or Cardiff to Ilfracombe for the town's gas works, and would load farm produce from Ilfracombe for the up Channel run.  She was called 'Snowflake', a very unsuitable name for a vessel that spent half it's life begrimed with coal dust, and was famous among the Bristol Channell's seafaring community for always being in trouble and having to be towed out of it.  As I say, a Puffer was not ideal for the exposed Bristol Channel or capable of steaming fast enough to cope with the fast tidal currents, but she might be a suitable prototype for you. Snowflake and Misty are both lovely names!

 

Looks a nice little kit.  Of course, you need two identical ones at different water lines, one to represent loaded and one unloaded...

Edited May 28, 2018 by The Johnster

[KNP]

I don't want to rain on your parade, KNP, though there may be a silver lining...

 

A Clyde Puffer, full of character and very popular as a model, is a very specialised type of coastal vessel, designed for working the Firth of Clyde downstream from Glasgow and to fit the canal connection that cut out the long and exposed voyage around the Mull of Kintyre at Tarbert.  They served the villages of the Argyll coast and inner islands, which had very poor if any road connection in those days, and were not suitable for open sea passages, even short ones.  They are suitable for sheltered inshore work.

 

Your layout is GW based, and, while you have not specifically stated where it is located, it seems to be somewhere on the Bristol Channel or Severn Estuary.  Puffers were almost unknown here; inshore work was performed by 'barges', which were actually engined versions of the previous 'Trows' that had done the work in the days of sail.  They traded upstream via the Gloucester Ship Canal as far as Stourport on Severn, and were built to suit the canal and river locks they would encounter; they also went up the Avon to Bristol,, and the larger ones down as far as Swansea for oil or it's refined products.  

 

But Puffers were only almost unknown.  Back in the pre war years one worked coal from Penarth or Cardiff to Ilfracombe for the town's gas works, and would load farm produce from Ilfracombe for the up Channel run.  She was called 'Snowflake', a very unsuitable name for a vessel that spent half it's life begrimed with coal dust, and was famous among the Bristol Channell's seafaring community for always being in trouble and having to be towed out of it.  As I say, a Puffer was not ideal for the exposed Bristol Channel or capable of steaming fast enough to cope with the fast tidal currents, but she might be a suitable prototype for you. Snowflake and Misty are both lovely names!

 

Looks a nice little kit.  Of course, you need two identical ones at different water lines, one to represent loaded and one unloaded...

 

I was aware of this vessel as I had found reference to her a while ago in a site dedicated to Hele Bay and in a section called Coal Boats 1905 - 1962.

I must confess that Snowflake was slightly different to what I have purchased, but who was to say another type didn't make an appearance...!!!

 

Thanks for the heads up and yes, Snowflake, is what I propose to name her.

 

This was found in the above article.

 

A familiar sight along the coast between Combe Martin and Ilfracombe, was the Snowflake, a steam powered Clyde Puffer; a class of boat constructed with a vertical boiler, to save on length, for navigating the Scottish canals. She was built in Glasgow in 1893 as the Maid of Lorn and was registered as 73.3 tons with a length of 66' (the maximum that could fit into the locks). She was wrecked off Iona in 1896, repaired, and sold to flour merchants Hoskin, Trevithick and Polkinhorne in Hayle, Cornwall, who renamed her Snowflake after their brand of flour. She proved too small for their needs and was sold to the Irwin family of Combe Martin in 1897. For the next 50 years she carried coal, building materials and even fresh produce, i.e. Combe Martin strawberries, along and across the Bristol Channel. This picture is probably the Snowflake coming into Hele Bay in the 1920's. She went ashore at Lester Point in 1912 and it is said that after a visit to Hele in the 1920’s, when she was holed, she used Larkstone Beach for coal deliveries instead. She hit a rock off Little Hangman in 1936 and was beached in Watermouth Cove (below right). Her Captain then, James Irwin, is said to have remarked "I know every rock in the Bristol Channel; and that was one of them". She was sold by the Irwin’s in 1940 but remained in the area, working as a water supply boat for the Armed Forces, until she went to the Greek Islands in 1946. She was beached in 1953 in Piraeus but was still registered, in the former Yugoslavia, in the 1960's.

Edited May 28, 2018 by KNP

[Simond]

There was one that sailed from Porth Dinllaen, after Brunel completed his Irish Mails terminal there...

 

She was called “Olive”. You’ll find some pictures here

 

http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/79052-porth-dinllaen-in-0/?p=1248771

 

Best

Simon

Edited May 28, 2018 by Simond

[lightengine]

I think the Clyde Puffer will navigate to the Clyde starting at the Bridgewater canal and using inland waterways. It initially arrived in GWR country after it towed a barge containing a County back from Glasgee. The County had ended up there after the Great Highland Haggis Lift when wild Dartmoor Haggis had to be taken north because of the drought affected Scottish haggis. Dreckly Kernow had returned to the West Country without his engine because his father had suddenly passed. No Scots drivers knew the route, and anyway they were busy munching haggis after the long drought. There was also the worry that the highland heather might catch fire. After its unprecedented journey it was decided to keep the Puffer on the park lake in Minehead for several summer seasons it was later renamed "Poetic License".

[KNP]

Heavy rain this afternoon which appears to have effected Little Muddle as well.

Mist and rain, bet that driver was pleased he was in a covered and warm cab!

 

 

 

Started fixing glazing to B set, why did I pick a coach with 43 windows????

1 side of 1 coach done.....

 

Edited March 19 by KNP

[The Johnster]

I cheated on mine, and simply back glazed the lot. I was concerned that the near flush effect would be lost, which it was, but the windows in their original form looked too narrow because of the prism effect of the original Airfix glazing (my B set dates from the Silurian Era and was built by Trilobites).  I am, in the event, quite happy with the result, which looks much more like the Collett non-gangwayed stock I remember from my childhood.  

 

This is not a plea for you to adopt my inferior and less realistic modelling methods, just a recognition that glazing each one properly, possibly removing the droplight frames to model some open or part open windows, was something that I knew would drive me bonkers.  Ok, more bonkers....

[KNP]

A quick picture of the coach I have done.

Again, static seems to be my big problem and you don't seem to notice it until you take a picture....

 

 

 

Part of me says only do this side of the other coach and then leave them on the furthest track and no one will notice.

Well, I won't, so they will be done but not today as I'm child minding.....!

Edited March 19 by KNP

[Andrew P]

A quick picture of the coach I have done.

Again, static seems to be my big problem and you don't seem to notice it until you take a picture....

 

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Part of me says only do this side of the other coach and then leave them on the furthest track and no one will notice.

Well, I will, so they will be done but not today as I'm child minding.....!

Hi Kevin, Why not let the Child have a go at the other side?

 

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Looks excellent mate.

Edited May 30, 2018 by Andrew P

[The Johnster]

Well, your patience with the windows has paid off big time; that looks superb!

[KNP]

Well, your patience with the windows has paid off big time; that looks superb!

 

Thanks

Only three sides to go........!

[KNP]

Hi Kevin, Why not let the Child have a go at the other side?

 

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Looks excellent mate.

 

What a great idea Andy........  

Can you image where a 4yr and a 6yr old would end up placing the glue 'n glaze - I can .... everywhere except where it was needed!

Whilst they where watching Peppa Pig I have cleaned up around the edge of each window glazing by removing of any overspill of the rubberised glue with a cocktail stick

 

Thanks, you sit there and think three more sides to go!!!!!  and then remind oneself that it is after all a hobby which we enjoy......?

Edited May 30, 2018 by KNP