Guest oldlugger Posted December 5, 2011 Share Posted December 5, 2011 Alan, I think your diesel hydraulic shots are ace! I really like your model of the D600 Warship; what a fine looking beast this was. Which kit did you use to build it? All the best Simon Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
westerner Posted December 5, 2011 Author Share Posted December 5, 2011 (edited) Thanks for that Simon, It was a Silver Fox kit I managed to purchase second hand through an advert in Railway modeller some time ago. It has a Lima chasis very well weighted and runs well. Edited for typos Edited December 5, 2011 by westerner Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
westerner Posted December 8, 2011 Author Share Posted December 8, 2011 I managed to get into the railway room this morning and took a couple of pix of Lotherton Hall 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest oldlugger Posted December 8, 2011 Share Posted December 8, 2011 The way you've weathered the Hall makes it look very handsome! Excellent Alan. Cheers Simon Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest oldlugger Posted December 8, 2011 Share Posted December 8, 2011 Thanks for that Simon, It was a Silver Fox kit I managed to purchase second hand through an advert in Railway modeller some time ago. It has a Lima chasis very well weighted and runs well. Edited for typos It really looks splendid and has been weathered very nicely. All the best Simon Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
westerner Posted December 8, 2011 Author Share Posted December 8, 2011 (edited) The latest addition to the hydraulic fleet needs some weathering, but only a little. Edited December 8, 2011 by westerner 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve22 Posted December 8, 2011 Share Posted December 8, 2011 I've just spent a very happy half hour or so catching up on Wencombe for somewhere around Page 6. Alan, your work never fails to impress me, but mostly I simply gaze and smile. And to catch sight of a Western purring through as well as a Hall! Happy me. Steve. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
R.Langley Posted December 8, 2011 Share Posted December 8, 2011 I must admit Alan, your layout is an inspiration. So wonderfully set, and everything looks bang on! Seeing this progress has led me back to BR(W) modelling, and I'm on the road to creating something a bit further, and more pasty-ful than Wencombe. Without your layout I reckon I'd have kept with the hum-drum modern diesels (which I'll still run from time to time). So thank you! And as always, fantastic work! Richard Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
westerner Posted December 9, 2011 Author Share Posted December 9, 2011 Thank You Steve and Richard. I am always slightly gobsmacked at the positive reactions Wencombe gets. I don't regard myself as anything other than a journeyman modeller. I have never built a loco kit and as you have probably realised the bulk of the layout is RTR and RTP stuff. There are a few wagon and parcels kits (I can thourghly reccomend Parkside and Chivers kits, Chivers in particular are joy to put together). When I come to difficulties or things which look as they are going to take along time work tends to stop. eg my class 120 DMU when I discovered that all the windows needed trimming to fit and they appear to be a particularly hard plastic or perspex. That's been sitting on my shelf unfinished for over 18 months. The things I do like doing are the scenery, now needing detailing, and weathering and to be fair taking pictures of the layout. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
westerner Posted December 9, 2011 Author Share Posted December 9, 2011 After a few passes with the airbrush 6331 looks a trifle workstained 19 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest oldlugger Posted December 9, 2011 Share Posted December 9, 2011 Now that looks like a class 22! The best I've seen so far on RMweb. Cheers Simon Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
westerner Posted December 9, 2011 Author Share Posted December 9, 2011 OOOOOh Simon you make me blush. Thank you for your kind comment. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Downendian Posted December 9, 2011 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 9, 2011 Alan Seconded re the 22. Looks fantastic- by the way which headcode transfers did you use? They are very realistic indeed. Neil Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
westerner Posted December 9, 2011 Author Share Posted December 9, 2011 I used the 3.6 mm ones from Precision Lables aka Frizinghall models. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
westerner Posted December 14, 2011 Author Share Posted December 14, 2011 (edited) Its a hot sunny afternoon at Wencombe and 4679 is doing a little shunting Edited December 14, 2011 by westerner 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
devondynosoar118 Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 (edited) Shouldn't it be towing a failed Class 22? Or is that it in the background. Beautiful pictures as always. Edited December 18, 2011 by devondynosoar118 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
westerner Posted December 18, 2011 Author Share Posted December 18, 2011 Cruel but it did happen. I was thinking of demotorising my Silver Fox Class22 so that it could be either used as a pilot as many were in Devon or with mogul infront rescuing a failed class22. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
devondynosoar118 Posted December 19, 2011 Share Posted December 19, 2011 Would make a nice bit of unusual traffic, especially if the weathering is as good as on the new one. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
westerner Posted December 20, 2011 Author Share Posted December 20, 2011 (edited) Just for devondynostart118 The 22 is my Silver Fox one. I've also added headcodes to my 117 and taken a pic of my Grange Edited December 20, 2011 by westerner 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danemouth Posted December 20, 2011 Share Posted December 20, 2011 Definitely 10 out of 10. Just reeks atmosphere to me Regards, Dave Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
westerner Posted December 20, 2011 Author Share Posted December 20, 2011 Many thanks Dave! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
devondynosoar118 Posted December 21, 2011 Share Posted December 21, 2011 Now that's more like it! I suspect the 22 is having transmission trouble again! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
westerner Posted January 3, 2012 Author Share Posted January 3, 2012 7316 on the fish empties returning to Kingsbridge Approaching Wencombe Waiting for the token The freight arrives behind 3834 and the tokens can be exchanged With the token for Kingsbridge 7316 leaves Wencombe on the last stage of its journey 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
devondynosoar118 Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 Kingsbridge fish traffic was mainly crab, often in siphons (returns to pedantic armchair....) Beautiful pictures as always, full of atmosphere. Is that a traditionally filthy ROD 2-8-0 lurking on the left of the second frame? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
westerner Posted January 3, 2012 Author Share Posted January 3, 2012 Thanks for the kind comments Devon'. No it's a 38xx. weathered to pic of it. It was a Newton Abbot loco. As to the fish traffic I could have said it was the arrival of a full fish train asI gather that during the holiday season the local fisheries could not supply enough fish for the holiday makers fish and chips and fish was imported from the East Coast fisheries. But I'm assuming the locals produced enough to send the odd fish train up to Billingsgate. Thw wagons in the pics are kit built Parkside kits. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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