RMweb Gold Stubby47 Posted May 10, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 10, 2012 He was scratchbuilt? No, but he scratch built everything, from wagon wheels to the section switches to the Automatic Crispin ! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Colin_McLeod Posted May 10, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 10, 2012 I believe he even had a part in making the original Crispin. 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckjumper Posted May 11, 2012 Share Posted May 11, 2012 (edited) Entering (and winning) the scratchbuilt loco competition with your effort produced from etchings drawn by yourself, a CNC milled gearbox and wheel centres (again, by yourself) and rapid prototyped boiler fittings and buffer castings (designed in TurboCad....again by yourself). Of course, the entry which should have won (because it was hewn from brass sheet with a piercing saw) utilised bought-in wheels, gearbox, buffer castings and boiler fittings. Oh, sorry...'how to get lynched at a model railway show' - I thought it said 'how to get lynched on certain threads on RMweb'... Edited May 11, 2012 by Buckjumper 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Posted May 11, 2012 Share Posted May 11, 2012 Even better, 'finescale Brio' My little boy has just made sure the signal was green before the wooden engine proceeded - that's more finescale thinking than many supposedly finescale layouts I've seen at shows. 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted May 11, 2012 Share Posted May 11, 2012 My little boy has just made sure the signal was green before the wooden engine proceeded - that's more finescale thinking than many supposedly finescale layouts I've seen at shows. By next week, he'll have created his own interlocking. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Grafarman Posted May 11, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 11, 2012 (edited) No, but he scratch built everything, from wagon wheels to the section switches to the Automatic Crispin ! I guess the Wagon Wheels would need crispin' before he put the chocolate coating on... Edited May 11, 2012 by Grafarman 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunbeam.20 Posted May 25, 2012 Share Posted May 25, 2012 Do you think would do the job? I have to admit to having a somewhat whimsical sense of humour at times, and as I had the decals and an unsed Atlas mech it was crying out to be done. Matthew 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xerces Fobe2 Posted May 25, 2012 Share Posted May 25, 2012 Have am American layout with DCC sound with crossings sounds and horns - guaranteed to annoy everyone – especially good at a 2 day Show! XF 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-UnitMad Posted May 25, 2012 Share Posted May 25, 2012 (edited) Do you think would do the job? Well the trucks arecorrect for the Santa Fe..... :D Re American layouts with DCC/bells/horns.... at the TVNAM Show in June there'll be a whole hall full of 'em... and no-body will be lynched...... Edited May 25, 2012 by F-UnitMad Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Natalie Graham Posted May 25, 2012 Share Posted May 25, 2012 Have am American layout with DCC sound with crossings sounds and horns - guaranteed to annoy everyone – especially good at a 2 day Show! I don't think one person is enough to form a lynch mob but I bet the chap with the little N Gauge layout sited next to the blacksmith's forge with 'hammer striking anvil' sound effects on the corner of the adjacent O gauge layout at the recent Kyle MRC show was about ready to give it a go by Sunday evening. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted May 25, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 25, 2012 We actually did have a lynching at Wakefield some years ago. At that time Fox Transfers were still going to shows and always had their little Fox on the stand (A soft toy I hasten to add). One Friday afternoon when we were setting up there was a bit of a commotion and when i went to look the Fox had been hung above another stand using one of the gymnastic ropes that hang from the ceiling in the hall. One trader who is still on the circuit had to make a hasty exit. The fox was eventually returned to Jenny and the culprit had a forfeit to pay in due course. On a similar theme one of our members (Charles Shearn) does a lovely job of making trees out of wire, car filler and various other things. He had his stall going one Friday evening and as was usual left a miniature forest of samples on his table when he left. When he arrived on the Saturday morning some unkind person had done a lovely job of replacing the forest with a set of beautifully modelled stumps surrounded by sawdust. Charles' face was a picture. Jamie 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cromptonnut Posted May 25, 2012 Share Posted May 25, 2012 ... visit the Dapol stand and ask when the catalogue is coming out? 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium kevinlms Posted May 25, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 25, 2012 Do you think would do the job? I have to admit to having a somewhat whimsical sense of humour at times, and as I had the decals and an unsed Atlas mech it was crying out to be done. Matthew The GWR has become the GWWWWR, with a couple of minor expansions? Kevin Martin Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GWR-Fanatic Posted June 10, 2012 Share Posted June 10, 2012 Do you think would do the job? I have to admit to having a somewhat whimsical sense of humour at times, and as I had the decals and an unsed Atlas mech it was crying out to be done. Matthew I have to say that I actually quite like this conversion, it's very well executed in my opinion and would not look at all out of place on an American layout. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted June 10, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 10, 2012 The GWR has become the GWWWWR, with a couple of minor expansions? Kevin Martin Would that be the Great Western Railroad of Colorado.. It's not the first Hymek conversion. There is another conversion on the circuit, to broad gauge that runs on a beautifully modelled Broad Gauge layout to annoy rivet counters. The drive is via rubber belts on the outside of the bogies and it looks like a sno cat. Jamie 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Titan Posted June 10, 2012 Share Posted June 10, 2012 Surely it ought to have the buffers removed and knuckles fitted or it would not be much use? (but it does look good!!!) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-UnitMad Posted June 12, 2012 Share Posted June 12, 2012 Staying with the American theme; go to this Saturday's Trent Valley North American Modellers Show, and ask where the 'Thomas' layout is...??!!?? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunbeam.20 Posted June 12, 2012 Share Posted June 12, 2012 How can you have a serious train show with no Thomas? Shame I can't go along and ask, and why there is British Rail! Matthew Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium kevinlms Posted June 12, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 12, 2012 Would that be the Great Western Railroad of Colorado.. It's not the first Hymek conversion. There is another conversion on the circuit, to broad gauge that runs on a beautifully modelled Broad Gauge layout to annoy rivet counters. The drive is via rubber belts on the outside of the bogies and it looks like a sno cat. Jamie I actually meant the Great Western, Western, Western & Western Railway, as it spread its influence ever further westwards, through various take overs. Just as it did the South Wales railways. Would be great to see a photo of the Broad Gauge model. It might satisfy those that think the BG was a Good Thingâ„¢ Kevin Martin Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardEyre Posted July 2, 2012 Share Posted July 2, 2012 I just remembered one... I was at an exhibition (I think it was Wakefield) and someone had left a mug on an overbridge. I asked the operator if it was to scale. He wasn't impressed. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium newbryford Posted July 2, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 2, 2012 (edited) I just remembered one... I was at an exhibition (I think it was Wakefield) and someone had left a mug on an overbridge. I asked the operator if it was to scale. He wasn't impressed. I've seen plenty of mugs behind layouts.................. (including ours!) (coat on and leaving.....) Cheers, Mick Edited July 2, 2012 by newbryford 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted July 2, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 2, 2012 If in doubt try this one at Members Day - Ask the 2FS folk what time the bar opens? 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Colin_McLeod Posted July 2, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 2, 2012 How to get lynched; Try selling a live steam locomotive for £1,500 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjs.finescale Posted November 5, 2013 Share Posted November 5, 2013 Someone's got a layout with the "rivet counter detector van" in the style of a TV licensing detector van. Was at the Pontefract show recently I think. Yeap the rivet counter detector van exists along with some other interesting stock, they were on show at the Wolverhampton show this weekend in their new 'sports hall' venue. Watch this space, pics and article will be uploaded very shortly. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Evil Bus Driver Posted November 10, 2013 Share Posted November 10, 2013 After all, I have to put my clean undies somewhere.........(.I could always wear them on my head with two pencils up me nose couldn't I ?) That's your operating uniform for next year sorted then. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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