RMweb Gold Mick Bonwick Posted November 11, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 11, 2019 3 hours ago, Oldddudders said: I’m told old people often do. I can vouch for that. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Siberian Snooper Posted November 11, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 11, 2019 6 hours ago, NHY 581 said: How nice. Will there be flowers? We like flowers..... Flowers was the Stratford upon Avon brewery and used an outline of Bill Shakespeare as their logo. Bought up by Whitbread's and ruined, the site was sold off and is an industrial estate and retail park. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted November 12, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted November 12, 2019 I have now started to go green. Not very impressed by the new small Peco static grass applicator, my old Noch puffer bottle is more effective for small spaces. But then I got the Mk 2 Grassmaster out and that did a proper job. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bgman Posted November 12, 2019 Share Posted November 12, 2019 44 minutes ago, Captain Kernow said: Not very impressed by the new small Peco static grass applicator, my old Noch puffer bottle is more effective for small spaces. Now that's interesting, I had a glancing look at one a week or so ago, rather pricy in my opinion although it does come with its own power source therefore I suppose its the main reason for its price. That said I have adapted my own WWS unit in the past by adding a temporary plasticard cone to reduce the end and was successful in administering smaller quantities of static grass where I wanted them. Pleased to hear you did get a proper job ! G 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted November 13, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted November 13, 2019 Just done a base covering of 2mm fibres only to certain areas at the moment, more to follow. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted November 17, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted November 17, 2019 Experimental covering of a couple of areas with an initial, base application of 2mm fibres. Longer fibres will be added, although at the moment I am experimenting with other hues on a 'swatch' basis. 10 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post Captain Kernow Posted December 1, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted December 1, 2019 (edited) Some different photos to those shown in the 'Layouts' section just now - There is still some scenic work to be done, including some post and wire fences along the back of the grassy bank and some trees behind and around the road over bridge. A couple of years after Dick Wolsley visited and took the photos showing 1458, Hugh Valentine was passing through the area and observed a D63XX in the yard on the then twice-weekly goods working, no doubt waiting for traffic off the light railway: Edited December 1, 2019 by Captain Kernow 21 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bgman Posted December 1, 2019 Share Posted December 1, 2019 Very nice work so far matey. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold NHY 581 Posted December 1, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 1, 2019 Utterly splendid. I think it's time to go back to one's drawing board. Rob. 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted December 1, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 1, 2019 17 minutes ago, NHY 581 said: Utterly splendid. I think it's time to go back to one's drawing board. Rob. It's a forum. We learn from each other - or, at least, I learn from you all! 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted December 1, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted December 1, 2019 17 minutes ago, NHY 581 said: Utterly splendid. I think it's time to go back to one's drawing board. That's very kind, Rob, but ewe do know that Sheep Lane was a major source of inspiration in the first place? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold chuffinghell Posted December 1, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 1, 2019 Very inspirational stuff Captain, absolutely flawless Chris 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold NHY 581 Posted December 1, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 1, 2019 18 minutes ago, Captain Kernow said: That's very kind, Rob, but ewe do know that Sheep Lane was a major source of inspiration in the first place? And thank you but the standard of Bethesda is such that one cannot fail but to re-evaluate one's own efforts. This is a very nice layout indeed. Rob. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Re6/6 Posted December 1, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 1, 2019 One is highly impressed! 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted December 1, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 1, 2019 1 minute ago, Re6/6 said: One is highly impressed! Suitably regal, John! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Siberian Snooper Posted December 1, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 1, 2019 Great modelling, CK. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Brinkly Posted December 1, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 1, 2019 Very nice Tim. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sb67 Posted December 3, 2019 Share Posted December 3, 2019 Great photo's Captain, your layout really looks good. I like the diesel sitting in the yard waiting for something to do and everything blends together giving the layout a nice spacious feel. All very inspirational 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted December 7, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted December 7, 2019 If you were loitering in the yard at Capel Bethesda in the 1950s and early 1960s, you would probably see two types of goods workings. The first would be the normal BR goods services, worked as far as Bethesda Sidings from Leominster Yard, via Kington and New Radnor. Such workings usually included the Presteign services as well. Apart from a relatively small amount of local goods traffic by the early 1960s, most of the traffic to and from Bethesda Sidings was that which was exchanged with the Vale of Radnor Light Railway, which ran from Capel Bethesda up to Llanddewi, where a military depot was to be found. The Vale of Radnor Light Railway was still nominally independent, but was heavily reliant on the military traffic for it's survival. It was also a member of the Association of Independent Light Railways. Membership of this body resulted in the various railway organisations that belonged to it, being able to help each other out in the event of a motive power shortage. Whilst the VoRLR had it's own resident motive power, in addition to a couple of resident military locos, it did from time to time, resort to borrowing locos from other concerns. Here we see an 'Austerity' tank waiting in the yard at Engine Wood, in Somerset, for a path northwards to Leominster, via Bristol, Gloucester and Hereford. This loco was actually owned by the South Polden Light Railway on the Somerset Levels, but ended up being a bit of a nomad, being hired out to the local NCB collieries for much of it's life: 13 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Re6/6 Posted December 7, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 7, 2019 Now there's a history! Excellent reading! 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted December 7, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 7, 2019 Just now, Re6/6 said: Now there's a history! Excellent reading! And nary a mention of Prussian forests! 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted December 8, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted December 8, 2019 The Austerity tank did arrive at Capel Bethesda yard a few days later, having travelled under it's own steam via Bristol TM, Gloucester, Ross-on-Wye, Hereford and Leominster: As there were no further workings up the Vale of Radnor Light Railway that day, it was still in the yard the following day, when 2291 arrived, light engine from Leominster, to await some traffic from the military depot at Llanddewi, at the top end of the VoRLR: 14 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post Captain Kernow Posted December 29, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted December 29, 2019 I've been doing a bit of scenic work at the back of the layout, for which I have removed the backscene and it's supporting boards. Once this work is done, I shall replace the backscene, hopefully with the intention of then being able to leave it it place. The temporary absence of the backscene does allow some photographs from that side of the layout: 11 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted January 1, 2020 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted January 1, 2020 I've now replaced the backscene, so the layout is once again viewed from the normal viewing side. A little bit more scenic work was done yesterday as well: Farmer Thomas's Landrover wheezes up the lane leading to the overbridge. Further scenic development will take place here, with trees at the rear of the bridge parapets and down the bank at the rear, further masking the 'join' between the scenery and the backscene. 12 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold NHY 581 Posted January 1, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 1, 2020 That's just simply splendid. Rob. 8 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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