RMweb Premium Kris Posted October 14, 2010 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 14, 2010 Thanks for the info on the trees. I shall give that a go when I come to make more trees. I think you are right on the waves front. Static waves just don't look right, much like the still running person or stationary cars on an empty duel carriageway. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 2ManySpams Posted October 14, 2010 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 14, 2010 DCC waves anyone??? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Gwiwer Posted October 14, 2010 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 14, 2010 DCC waves anyone??? Do we need a coding wave for our DCC surfers and bathers? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 2ManySpams Posted October 14, 2010 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 14, 2010 Do we need a coding wave for our DCC surfers and bathers? Groan! I'll pass you your hat and coat!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
winterbournecm Posted October 15, 2010 Author Share Posted October 15, 2010 Modelling does funny things to your brain. I had a drink in the Sloop (for real) last Saturday. Spent so long studying it in OO form - it was surreal walking into the place! Bit like D it D Par Inn I guess. I've had people asking me where Tregrehan harbour is in Cornwall (via Facebook) - er it's a MODEL, made up! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Gwiwer Posted October 15, 2010 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 15, 2010 I've had people asking me where Tregrehan harbour is in Cornwall (via Facebook) - er it's a MODEL, made up! I've had the same with Penhayle Bay B) . The lucky few can see it in person but it's still just a model sitting outside the house and nowhere near Cornwall. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 2ManySpams Posted October 15, 2010 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 15, 2010 Well some folk have been to Treneglos station.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
winterbournecm Posted October 16, 2010 Author Share Posted October 16, 2010 Friday night was a running night - what the layout was meant for. Nice to see it in action after doing water & trees for the last month or so. The scenery was almost forgotten as the layout was infested with mainly visiting Brush Type 4's and a new 66068, which whipped up 10 Tilcon hoppers with no hassle at all (just like it's 12"/1 foot big brother. Visiting locos were (Whoppits) 47079 in GW150 Green (my god 25 years ago...), 47581 in original NSE livery, 47361 Wilton Endeavor in grey, 56045 in weathered grey (Johns) 47212 in Petroleum livery (Yogi) 66068 47079 on a ballast working: 66068 on the bullets in the yard: Sequential spoons on the Oxford: 47581 & 582 47079 & 484 on the Postal - back to OOC and 591 on the Paddington relief 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted October 16, 2010 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 16, 2010 Well some folk have been to Treneglos station.... Can't claim that, but did see the sign for Treneglos the other week, as a lady whisked me back from Port Isaac! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
winterbournecm Posted November 5, 2010 Author Share Posted November 5, 2010 I collected my Heljan d1023 Western Fusilier from Kernow Models and am delighted with it. I have added some of them attachements, and this is the only disappointment really. The ridiculous shiny metal lamp irons are essential to fit, and are not pre-drilled or painted. I had to faf about drilling a small hole above the vertical grab rail and carefully trim them are they are too long. The brake block attachments don’t fit the holes in the bogie, and will hinder corners so I’ve omitted those. But when done, and lined up with fellow Bachmann 812 & Heljan D7035 I’m back in the 70’s. I’m toying with giving D1023 Precision number blinds as she wears G39 spots from 1977, but I’ll forgive myself that little indiscretion! The last line up like this I did, was Trix, Lima and Triang hydraulics – so this is light years from those days. How times have changed. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 2ManySpams Posted November 5, 2010 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 5, 2010 Craig I think I'd prefer a Bulleid line up (Merchant Navy, WC/BoB & Q1) Strangely though i do find myself being drawn to the Hydraulics but pre corporate BR blue. On the whole I've managed to resist so far with the only slip being a Silver Fox Class 22 (Oh and a Dapol one on pre-order....) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Gwiwer Posted November 5, 2010 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 5, 2010 Good to see the layout in action Craig - as you say that is what it is really there for. I have to admit to a passion for the major hydraulic classes myself so I like the line up you have presented. The livery isn't so important to me though two-tone green Hymeks and maroon Westerns / Warships would be my favourite. I might have to present something similar myself as I have (an attempt at) a running day planned in what promises to be challenging weather on Sunday and with the layout currently in dire need of a good clean. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted November 5, 2010 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 5, 2010 Another vote for the hydraulics here. Whatever the reality of their performance and availability, they had rather more charisma than the diesel-electrics, that's certain. As a 12-year old, standing on Plymouth North Road platform, the place awash with Warships - "Hey there's Zulu, the last one built!" - they captured my imagination rather more than Deltics at KX, or EE Type 4s at Euston. Impressions from an impressionable age! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Gwiwer Posted November 5, 2010 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 5, 2010 Going to sleep in Paddington behind a maroon "Western Princess" and being woken at Par to find a green "Ark Royal" had taken over ..... Taking the morning bus into Penzance before school and hoping that the overnight trains would produce something not previously seen ..... Just relishing the fact that Western Region locomotives (mostly) had cast name and number plates (even on their Brush 4's) while mostly the rest didn't ..... And contemplating that if Swindon hadn't run out of "Grange" or "Hall" place names what they might have used for Hymek names ..... Impressions and fond memories. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
winterbournecm Posted November 5, 2010 Author Share Posted November 5, 2010 Goodness, the 70's have certainly hit others "spot" too. They were wondeful days, I was only 8 when the last 1000's left the scene in Cornwall, but dads cine more than keeps them alive for me. The cast number & nameplates on our 57604 are a lovely touch, and she looks grand in green too. The other 57's have cast number plated too from memory - the "Western" lives on. To see Champion growling around the County in the last few years has been remarkable. She has pulled heavy trains (some with a dead loco on the rear) like a tiger and never lost he footing once. Just paint her blue & Yellow now please! Rick, you've helped inspire this era on the layout. I've loved seeing your hydraulics skirting your coastal run and been impressed how you encompass over 50 years of traction. I'm going to stay blue & yellow for now, but a faded maroon Foxhound or Cockade with full yellow ends may be too much to resist! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Gwiwer Posted November 5, 2010 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 5, 2010 Rick, you've helped inspire this era on the layout. I've loved seeing your hydraulics skirting your coastal run and been impressed how you encompass over 50 years of traction. Glad to have been any help at all. Must try to drop in next May when we're back over. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
owentherail Posted November 5, 2010 Share Posted November 5, 2010 Hello, Has 1023 got the dots ready fitted in headcode? and are they removable? liking the 3 hydolic pics, i would like 1023 to fade if dots removable, cheers owen Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
winterbournecm Posted November 5, 2010 Author Share Posted November 5, 2010 Rick - pop over by all means. Owen, I havent taken the body off yet. I think it may be a permanent fixture. You could get replacement numbers from Precision labels and make up lenses quite easily... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
owentherail Posted November 5, 2010 Share Posted November 5, 2010 Cheers craig. sure ill sort something when i get hold of it. owen. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Gwiwer Posted November 5, 2010 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 5, 2010 Most Heljan locos come with a slip of printed headcodes which can be cut and inserted as alternatives. Perhaps they don't bother if the loco has a "domino" factory-fitted. But for anyone wishing to fit a 4-digit version I'm sure there would be modellers out there with spare headcode panels lying unused. The latest Hymek has the factory-fitted headcode on what seems to be a sticky film rather than paper but this is easily lifted away and replaced with one of the cut-out ones. Would 1023 perhaps have the same film in use to display the dots? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
br-nse-fan Posted November 5, 2010 Share Posted November 5, 2010 47079 on a ballast working: What is this working made up of, specifically, the first wagon in the train? I believe it's a bogied wagon of some sort? Thanks! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
winterbournecm Posted November 5, 2010 Author Share Posted November 5, 2010 What is this working made up of, specifically, the first wagon in the train? I believe it's a bogied wagon of some sort? Thanks! Hi This is an engineering service composed of cambrian kits turbot wagons painted in dutch livery.They are loaded with 10 commandments sleeper loads. I can do some close ups if you like. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
br-nse-fan Posted November 5, 2010 Share Posted November 5, 2010 Hi This is an engineering service composed of cambrian kits turbot wagons painted in dutch livery.They are loaded with 10 commandments sleeper loads. I can do some close ups if you like. Sure! Would love that... I'm in the process of debating what I want in terms of engineering wagons, so anything you have would be appreciated! Derek Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
winterbournecm Posted November 6, 2010 Author Share Posted November 6, 2010 I went mad a year or two ago building Cambrian & Parkside kits of Engineers wagons, only for manufacturers to produce them later on . Never mind they are unique I suppose. I constructed Dogfish, limpets, a shark, grampus,and Turbots. I'll upload some pictures later on Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
winterbournecm Posted November 21, 2010 Author Share Posted November 21, 2010 I'm afraid I couldn't help myself. The hydraulics were just too clean... Heres 812 & 7035 having received some liberal weathering at Sandy Hill shops. D1023 is fast morphing into D1021 Western Cavalier, the indicator boxes proudly display 1021 as opposed to double spots. Got to get the nameplates and weather her as well... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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