Show us yours - Realistic modelling

[Captain Kernow]

If they'd had cheap mass-produced drones in the early 1960s, I've no doubt that Ben Ashworth might have made use of one and produced a photo like this:

 

[Worsdell forever]

54 minutes ago, Captain Kernow said:

If they'd had cheap mass-produced drones in the early 1960s, I've no doubt that Ben Ashworth might have made use of one and produced a photo like this:

 

 

 

Or really long poles.

[Worsdell forever]

One from Felton Lane quite a few years ago. Probably discussing leeks or pigeons or something.

 

 

 

[AY Mod]

7 minutes ago, Worsdell forever said:

Probably discussing leeks or pigeons or something.

 

Where's m'hat?

[Boleyn Road]

Freshly weathered D16/3 62530 negotiates the point work before a return working to its home shed of Cambridge.

[Ruston]

[Rowsley17D]

1004 has been sent to Derwent by Derby after overhaul with an all stations running-in trip back to its home shed.

 

 

 

[Captain Kernow]

22 hours ago, AY Mod said:

 

Where's m'hat?

Is that your ferret down your trousers, Mr Postlethwaite?

 

[Captain Kernow]

A quiet interval on the Somerset Levels:

 

[Rowsley17D]

Shed Master's nightmare- locos all over the place.

 

[Graham T]

3725 shunts the yard at Chuffnell Regis.

 

[Barry Ten]

The nights are drawing in at King's Hintock as a prairie 6166 waits for the off with a goods train.

 

 

 

[peterm1]

On 31/07/2023 at 20:48, Worsdell forever said:

One from Felton Lane quite a few years ago. Probably discussing leeks or pigeons or something.

 

 

 

I do like this. There's something that's just... well, right. When working in a garage as a young bloke, I got my father an Austin 7 Ruby for 50 bob and it was a 'good runner.'

[NHY 581]

 

 

 

 

That Austin gets about a bit !!

 

Rob

[peterm1]

Those old things were nearly indestructible. I found another one for him: a soft top that did 45mph. He put a new stud in for the exhaust manifold, but stripped the thread, so instead of waiting for me he got a genius to drill and tap the hole bigger. Job's a goodun they thought, until they turned it over and realised the bolt had gone through the water jacket and cylinder. What a good job it didn't have a self starter. Anyway, said genius removed bolt, cut a bit off, put some sealant on the end and screwed it back in. I couldn't believe it work, but it did... and still did 45.

[GRUNFOS]

Scotland 1976. That brake van gets around.

 

[Right Away]

 

 

“Oi, look sharp, boy. That Packet’s about to move.“

 

[6990WitherslackHall]

GBRf Class 66 66783 The Flying Dustman awaits its driver at Draxbridge.

 

[46444]

Meanwhile at St. Oswalds Yard, Caley 812 Class 57566 is in charge of an Inspection Saloon. 

 

 

In this instance a modified Hornby 6 wheeler with lowered step boards and lightly weathered. 

 

Transfers from HMRS and Cambridge Custom Transfers. 

 

Cheers,

 

Mark 

 

 

[Boleyn Road]

Transition time at Boleyn Road circa 1960
 

[NHY 581]

Tired Toby. 

 

 

Rob

[Captain Kernow]

Exquisite weathering Rob.

 

[Dave_Bec]

Sorting out a few old unbuilt kits I had tucked away and found an old Airfix/Dapol 16 ton Mineral wagon kit, always seemed a little 'toy like' so it just got poked back in store - until the other day when I decided to build it. With a few minor mods it came out not half bad considering its age and mine !!! LOL.

[The Johnster]

Stuff is not necessarily rubbish because it's a bit long in the tooth, and the old Afx kit 16tonner is a perfectly cromulent model, shake the box easy, and was for many years the only available 4mm mineral on the correct 9' wheelbase, all others being either on a wrong generic 10' wb or were not quite the right scale (Trix).  Being to scale it scrubs up well and responds to a bit of working up, especially in regard to retrofit buffers.  The original Airfix plastic wheels were pretty dire, but the current Dapol/Kitmaster iteration of this old-timer has much better.  It is also TTBOMK the only 4mm mineral with working/opening side doors, useful for posing in coal yards being unloaded.  It benefits from as much ballast as you can hide in the chassis and the plastic moulded coal is pretty awful, but the basics are there for a decent model, as your photos show. 

 

IIRC Mainline 16ton and 7-plank minerals were on the correct wb chassis (even Afx, who already knew better, got this wrong in their RTR range), but did not have refinements such as separate brake levers or brake blocks in line with the wheels (though this is in itself a departure from scale as the wheels are to an incorrect 16mm gauge, let's not start all that again).  We had to wait for Bachmann, then Oxford, to produce RTR minerals as good as this old kit, and both Hornby and Dapol are still producing minerals on 10' wb chassis.  And the kit wins out on the Baccy or Ox RTR by having opening doors...

Edited August 3, 2023 by The Johnster

[NHY 581]

A cruel close up of another J70. A weathering work in progress.