Bath Queen Square

[richard i]

10 hours ago, St Enodoc said:

I read that as skin dipping.

Brave man at this time of year.

[MarshLane]

11 hours ago, St Enodoc said:

I read that as skin dipping.

 

If I have nightmares and struggle to sleep now, I'm blaming you :)

 

Nice progress on the extension track work Jerry, very envious both of the space and the progress you're making!!! ;) Keep going...

 

Rich

 

[queensquare]

My mood was greatly lifted today with a visit from friends and the first official run of a proper train over the new Windsor Hill extension - Simon Grands superb Jubilee, ‘Hawkins’ on an excursion made up of Southern stock.

 

John ,‘Doncaster Green’ also brought along a green 25 and his bashed Farish austerity which now has a coat of satin black and ran very well on the DC test track.

Will, Tapdieuk, also brought his EFE austerity along which has 2FS wheel rims fitted to the original wheels which also performed really well but I neglected to point my camera at it.

 

A cracking day, just what I needed, many thanks gents.

 

jerry

 

[Doncaster Green]

Hi Jerry

I think I speak for all of us when I say that the pleasure was our’s.  Many thanks to you and Kim for the hospitality.  As you say, Simon’s Jubilee is superb and your camera has caught it beautifully.  I only wish your camera was a little more forgiving; it hasn’t half shown up all the fettling and touching up I still need to do to the J94!

 

Regards

John

[queensquare]

Will sent me this snap of ‘Robert’ in the exchange sidings at Foxcote. The wheels are the originals, turned down and fitted with 2mm Association rims. The coupling rods are just blanks which still need filing to shape but it ran very well.

 

Jerry

 

[Compound2632]

I hope I may be excused for asking here as well as in the S&DJR sub-forum, if there are any known / published photos of ex-S&DJR carriages in Southern days - i.e. post-1930 (though 1920s would be interesting too) - especially odd vehicles such as the 4-wheel inspection saloon No. 32A / SR 440S that lasted to 1947?

Edited November 12, 2023 by Compound2632

[mac1960]

I really like your work on this, it captuers the feel really well. There are 4 lines I have a soft spot other than yours, these being the GC, and the  Waverly and SC.

I would like too do models of them all, but probably left it too late.

Cheers
Mr Mac

 

Edited November 13, 2023 by mac1960

[queensquare]

I meant to post this snap some while ago but for various reasons didn’t get around to it.

At RailWells this year Neil Kirby introduced himself to me and showed me some of his superb 4mm SDJR 3D prints - better still he very kindly offered to have a go at printing them in 2mm to see how they came out. A few weeks later I came home to find a little parcel containing a selection of his prints which have come out beautifully. On the wagons the body and chassis are thankfully separate as, beautiful as it is, I’m not sure how much handling the incredibly fine brake gear would take in 2mm . Thankfully the Association is very well catered for regarding etched underframes so this won’t be a problem.

The little Sentinel is exquisite. Again I’m not sure how robust fine details like the lamp irons would be but , again, easily replace with metal substitutes. 
 

Neil kindly gave me a couple of spares of the Sentinels so the plan is to build one as a free rolling model which can be included in an occasional freight. I have pictures of them at both Bath and Barrow road (admittedly not in my period) where they were towed for maintenance and repairs. I would like to motorise the other aided by a permanently attached model of the low Radstock brake van. I reckon there’s just enough room to shoehorn everything in!!

They've all been added to the not insubstantial ‘round toit’ list!!

 

Jerry

 

[2mmMark]

Denys Brownlee made a super little model of the Sentinel with one of his handbuilt motors in it.  Not sure where it's ended up but it was, I think, his smallest loco, smaller even than his Midland 0-4-0 saddle tank.

[queensquare]

49 minutes ago, 2mmMark said:

Denys Brownlee made a super little model of the Sentinel with one of his handbuilt motors in it.  Not sure where it's ended up but it was, I think, his smallest loco, smaller even than his Midland 0-4-0 saddle tank.

I think it’s one that went to the family but not sure - Tim will know. It was indeed a lovely little model.

 

Jerry

[queensquare]

Well what do you do on a wet, miserable Sunday in November - you go to the workshop and make a mess - and carving Celotex landscapes certainly does that!!

 

The track has been down a few weeks and the scenics roughed out thanks to some suitable offcuts from a successful skip dipping trip. 
Celotex, a hot glue gun and an old rip saw make for rapid progress but boy does it make a mess! Once the mess was cleaned up I roughly masked the track and flashed a coat of red oxide primer over it followed by some sleeper grime.

 

 

The tunnel mouths, road bridge and card road surface were then loosely put in place. The basic landform needs a bit more tweaking before it gets covered in plaster bandage but overall I’m happy with how it’s looking. The view of the colliery from the south, left hand side will be greatly improved by moving the backscene five feet away.

 

Time for a glass of something red I think!

 

Jerry

 

 

 

 

[Chuffer Davies]

Just fabulous Jerry!

[Andy Keane]

What is most impressive to me is its hard to work out what scale this is in - it could easily be P4 from the photos.

[Donw]

Very nice Jerry. It was good to have a chat yesterday and the chance to see the Kirtley.

 

Don

[lambiedg]

Very effective and you were certainly due the glass of Ribena!

[queensquare]

13 hours ago, Chuffer Davies said:

Just fabulous Jerry!

Thanks Frank. I’ve struggled to do anything much in the workshop since loosing Jazz and some simple , messy tasks with rapid results was just the the therapy  I needed. I shall be back at the bench this morning making a start on the backlog of things that haven’t been done over the last few weeks.

 

Jerry

[queensquare]

One of my main fireside projects this winter will be finishing the great barn that is the S&D wooden shed thanks to the arrival today of some quite exquisite etched windows from Jim Watt. They capture the very complex cast frames of the prototype beautifully - many thanks Jim.

Also in my little pack of etches was some signal parts - including LSWR style lattice posts for the area around the colliery and a ground signal for Downside quarry siding. I’ve never built any working signals before so these will be a steep learning curve for me but I’m looking forward to the challenge.

I probably won’t start on either of theses projects this side of Christmas as I’m way behind with work thanks to a fairly unproductive few weeks but the mojo is well and truly back.

 

On the Clifford livestock front, the new chickens, which have been busy freeloading since their arrival several weeks ago, have now starting laying- the Paxo threat has obviously paid off! 😊

 

Jerry

[yaxxbarl]

An actual documented case of Paxo being a 'Rooster Booster' !

[queensquare]

When Highbury became Foxcote I added a row of cottages loosely based on those at Camerton colliery, the rear wall of which was hard up against the back scene and therefore blank.

Opening up the southern end exposed this so over the last couple of evenings I've rebuilt them. There’s a little bit of work to do around the door and window headers then it will be painting and the fun of dressing the gardens with veg, outbuildings and maybe some chickens!

 

Jerry

 

[phil_sutters]

If anyone thinks that the garden walls look a bit chunky, take a look at this Google street view in Highbury. I used to live in Coleford and remember how thick our garden walls were.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.2428227,-2.4486132,3a,75y,52.53h,85.89t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sn3fsAO9V93XXSCpdryg3sw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en&entry=ttu

Edited December 13, 2023 by phil_sutters

[CF MRC]

1 hour ago, queensquare said:

 

 

Communal toilets for the block? Don’t forget the tin bath(s). 
 

Tim

[queensquare]

21 minutes ago, phil_sutters said:

If anyone thinks that the garden walls look a bit chunky, take a look at this Google street view in Highbury. I used to live in Coleford and remember how thick our garden walls were.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.2428227,-2.4486132,3a,75y,52.53h,85.89t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sn3fsAO9V93XXSCpdryg3sw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en&entry=ttu

The walls are laser cut foam from Osbornes and are surprisingly effective with the great advantage  of  easily following the slope of the garden - they will be dry brushed when I paint the cottage walls to further blend them in. I saw them in use on Nigel Ashton’s Drys y Nant.

16 minutes ago, CF MRC said:

Communal toilets for the block? Don’t forget the tin bath(s). 
 

Tim

Tin baths definitely Tim.

Still debating toilet provision. I may add another pair in the centre of the block and I do have a couple of little single stall wooden ‘thunder box’ earth closets which could go at the bottom of the garden although two toilets for a block of four cottages would not be unusual. I shall play around with various configurations and see what looks best. 
This is the sort of look I’m after - albeit a century earlier. The garden shed is too modern but the other little buildings look suitable.
 

Jerry

 

[Re6/6]

1 minute ago, queensquare said:

 

...... wooden ‘thunder box’ earth closets

 

 

Ah yes I remember those as my uncle's farm in Coverdale had no mains sewerage!

[queensquare]

….and here they are in situ. The aluminium angle to the left of them is where the old loaded/empty cassettes docked on the colliery. These will go but not sure what’s going in that space yet.

 

I have a good selection of small buildings to choose from. This batch includes a couple of plate layers huts but also sheds, thunder boxes, a pigeon coop and some beehives. A lot of miners kept a pig so that’s another possibility. I want it to be interesting without being twee!

 

Jerry

 

[Compound2632]

4 minutes ago, queensquare said:

 

No! That's like something out of a Russian fairy-tale (and not one of the nicer ones). I shall have nightmares tonight!