MrWolf Posted February 18, 2022 Author Share Posted February 18, 2022 It's not actually mine unfortunately, I had promised to help a friend go and fetch it from Burton on Trent. It was one of those things where the asking price means you have to go and get it before someone else does. I did acquire a Norton frame that needs a bit of work before I can move it on which was also a bargain. It has been modified to take one of the Harley Pan Head engines that came with the FLHF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post MrWolf Posted February 19, 2022 Author Popular Post Share Posted February 19, 2022 (edited) Yikes! 150 pages! Much of it being dedicated to.... er,..... I suppose I could put in the odd bit about the layout? Such as, I have found and fitted the other running in board: Naturally, because I am basically like everyone else on here, it was NOT in the same box as the first one. Why? Ask me an easy one! I also got around to installing the horse trough before that too ended up in a parallel dimension. Look at that!. I didn't know that my phone camera has a filter setting for Model Railway Constructor, January 1979! Edited April 16, 2022 by MrWolf 18 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Gedward Posted February 19, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 19, 2022 7 hours ago, MrWolf said: It's a lot of boxes of bits at the moment. There's the makings of at least two engines and all the rare tinwork is present. I don't know much about postwar Harleys and not much more about the earlier models It should look like this in a year or so. It's allegedly an FLHF Super Sport with foot change gears. Harleys and roadsters and Deltics on platforms, Seagulls and seaside and the nineteen seventies These are a few of my favourite sounds. 6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted February 19, 2022 Author Share Posted February 19, 2022 I often hear people complaining about the seagulls. The answer to that is don't come and live on the coast! 4 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium John Besley Posted February 19, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 19, 2022 4 hours ago, MrWolf said: I often hear people complaining about the seagulls. The answer to that is don't come and live on the coast! If anyone want any feel free to collect the pair looking at nesting yet again on my neighbours roof like they have for the last 20 years.. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluemonkey presents.... Posted February 19, 2022 Share Posted February 19, 2022 (edited) 4 hours ago, MrWolf said: I often hear people complaining about the seagulls. The answer to that is don't come and live on the coast! Sadly I dont live on the coast, landlocked in fact. There are so many gulls here that when we do go to the coast it seems quiet, even during lunch when there is plenty of fish and chips on offer! Although when they nest near us there is a red kite that seems to think large chicks are fresh kfc. One of the best sights during lockdown2. Edited February 19, 2022 by Bluemonkey presents.... extra 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted February 19, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 19, 2022 Plenty of gulls in our village, only about 15 miles from Kingsbridge as the gull flies, but the big fat pigeons generally have the monopoly of our bird table. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Nick C Posted February 19, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 19, 2022 25 minutes ago, Bluemonkey presents.... said: Sadly I dont live on the coast, landlocked in fact. There are so many gulls here that when we do go to the coast it seems quiet, even during lunch when there is plenty of fish and chips on offer! Although when they nest near us there is a red kite that seems to think large chicks are fresh kfc. One of the best sights during lockdown2. We've been seeing a lot of Red Kites over the last couple of years. A very pleasant sight! Fewer seagulls too, though still quite a few, seeing as we're about 30 miles from the sea... 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benbow Posted February 19, 2022 Share Posted February 19, 2022 49 minutes ago, Captain Kernow said: Plenty of gulls in our village, only about 15 miles from Kingsbridge as the gull flies, but the big fat pigeons generally have the monopoly of our bird table. Don't know why they call them Wood pigeons most of them live in our garden! 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted February 19, 2022 Author Share Posted February 19, 2022 Gulls aren't daft. They've been around a lot longer than us for a start. Generations back they found they could scavenge from the returning fishing fleets. Now there's no more fishing fleets, they scavenge coastal towns in summer whilst breeding and head inland during the bad weather. Landfills and town centres are a favorite, there's often little difference between the two. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted February 19, 2022 Author Share Posted February 19, 2022 2 minutes ago, Benbow said: Don't know why they call them Wood pigeons most of them live in our garden! Some people I know call Wood Pigeons the Orming Pigeon, (rather than homing pigeon) from the Midlands term "Orming about", to wander dolefully and purposelessly. Good in a game pie or cooked over a bonfire though! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post MrWolf Posted February 19, 2022 Author Popular Post Share Posted February 19, 2022 (edited) Minor layout progress today in between other weekend stuff. The two manual point levers are in but not finish painted yet: The FPL cover and foot crossing by the signal box are fitted: The grass isn't actually that green, this new phone makes it look like a subbuteo pitch.... The painted part of the board is yet to be ballasted. I'd better talk nicely to the ballasting department and not call her Miss Tampa again... Edited April 16, 2022 by MrWolf Picture no load! 21 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winslow Boy Posted February 19, 2022 Share Posted February 19, 2022 8 minutes ago, MrWolf said: Minor layout progress today in between other weekend stuff. The two manual point levers are in but not finish painted yet: The FPL cover and foot crossing by the signal box are fitted: The grass isn't actually that green, this new phone makes it look like a subbuteo pitch.... The painted part of the board is yet to be ballasted. I'd better talk nicely to the ballasting department and not call her Miss Tampa again... May I suggest that some mud be put on the grass as it's likely to have got muddy particularly if staff are consulting the signaller. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted February 19, 2022 Author Share Posted February 19, 2022 9 minutes ago, Winslow Boy said: May I suggest that some mud be put on the grass as it's likely to have got muddy particularly if staff are consulting the signaller. Definitely. The grass to the right of the crossing is mostly outside of the railway fence and makes up the verge for the road. There does need to be a muddy / gravel path from the board crossing, around the end of the buffer stop and into the goods yard though. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winslow Boy Posted February 19, 2022 Share Posted February 19, 2022 3 minutes ago, MrWolf said: Definitely. The grass to the right of the crossing is mostly outside of the railway fence and makes up the verge for the road. There does need to be a muddy / gravel path from the board crossing, around the end of the buffer stop and into the goods yard though. I'm trying to visualise the signal box's location in relation to other structures. Now a days the grass would be sprayed of beneath the fence line so I would imagine it would be much longer and more straggler then. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted February 19, 2022 Author Share Posted February 19, 2022 Once I've got the ballast, road and level crossing in, I can fit the fence and add some scruffy grass over the WWS 1mm Spring that I used for a base. I'll add some straggly bits at the edge of the ballast too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted February 19, 2022 Author Share Posted February 19, 2022 (edited) This should help make sense of where things sit. I've just propped up a couple of bits of fence to show the railway boundary. Edited April 17, 2022 by MrWolf 16 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold GWR57xx Posted February 19, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 19, 2022 I think there may be a flood of complaints about damaged suspension from drivers visiting the vicinity . 1 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winslow Boy Posted February 19, 2022 Share Posted February 19, 2022 2 minutes ago, MrWolf said: This should help make sense of where things sit. I've just propped up a couple of bits of fence to show the railway boundary. That's great. You can see the shadow cast by the box on the path and to a lesser extent the grass verge. Therefore there be more weed's. Just something extra to remember when you get to it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted February 19, 2022 Author Share Posted February 19, 2022 2 minutes ago, GWR57xx said: I think there may be a flood of complaints about damaged suspension from drivers visiting the vicinity . I'll forward them to MSE, I've got one of the crossing kits with the old handwritten instructions in what can only be described as heiroglyphs written by a doctor on a prescription pad. I have downloaded the typed version and need to get it printed out. 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winslow Boy Posted February 19, 2022 Share Posted February 19, 2022 1 minute ago, MrWolf said: I'll forward them to MSE, I've got one of the crossing kits with the old handwritten instructions in what can only be described as heiroglyphs written by a doctor on a prescription pad. I have downloaded the typed version and need to get it printed out. So that's what you're been reading is it. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted February 19, 2022 Author Share Posted February 19, 2022 (edited) There's already some of the longer grass down, hidden by the shadow of the fence in the previous shot, but I agree that a little more wouldn't hurt once everything else is in place. Edited April 19, 2022 by MrWolf 8 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted February 19, 2022 Author Share Posted February 19, 2022 4 minutes ago, Winslow Boy said: So that's what you're been reading is it. I read a lot. I find that it subdues the voices in my head... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted February 20, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 20, 2022 3 hours ago, MrWolf said: Good in a game pie A game pie needs a bit of peasant (sic) in it. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy WD Posted February 20, 2022 Share Posted February 20, 2022 2 minutes ago, St Enodoc said: A game pie needs a bit of peasant (sic) in it. But who's the pheasant plucker, or his mate? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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