Wright writes.....

[Ian Rathbone]

13 hours ago, gr.king said:

In view of the date today, I wasn't quite sure that a title quite as specific as a "mutton van", from Wales, would be a description of a genuine vehicle, or whether it might be akin to the "canary van" kit spoof from Wizard/51L circa 2019. No locker for wellies though...

Well, it’s nearly finished, just needs its Cambrian identity added (waiting for the transfers) then I can varnish it and screw it together. I commissioned roof and door transfers from Precision Labels.

 

Ian R

 

 

[john new]

On 31/03/2024 at 20:03, john new said:

From the York Show - A lost property update: late on this afternoon we had a pack of loco building fitments handed in. Despite announcing it they were unclaimed at the end of the day. If you think they may be yours PM me a description and we can arrange to post them on. 
 

Apologies for the cross post but given the specialist nature of the items the purchaser may well be a reader of this thread. 
 

Owner has claimed them. A good win.

[Tony Wright]

On 31/03/2024 at 17:56, 1471SirFrederickBanbury said:

It would also be nice to have a Raven A2, but I have some slight doubts about Tony having any.

Good evening,

 

I don't have any Raven A2s in my possession. However, I've made two and had another pass through my hands.

 

Seen before, but hundreds of pages back................

 

 

This example (DJH/builder unknown/painting possibly Goddard) came my way to sell from the collection of the late John Brown of Spalding MRC. 

 

I sold it to Jesse Sim. 

 

Then I built a DJH one (my second - the first was for a friend years ago. Sadly, his home was broken into and the scum responsible, rather than steal his models, hurled them against the walls, smashing everything to bits! They were never caught). 

 

Thus, Jesse, learning of my building another, said he'd like it; and would I resell the one I sold him? Of course. So he sent it back from Oz to Blighty. Naturally, whoever was responsible for the carriage of the model saw FRAGILE not as a fact but as a challenge!  

 

 

 

 

Meaning, the poor thing got rather dented!

 

However, there was a sort of happy ending...........

 

The couriers paid full compensation, and I put the loco back together again, patch-repainting as necessary.........

 

 

Then sold it again!

 

 

This is the one Jesse now has, painted by Geoff Haynes (he wanted it with the larger tender).

 

 

It was thoroughly tested before it went down-under (and arrived in one piece, thankfully). 

 

But, it was too clean.

 

 

So Jesse weathered it (very-naturally), and brought it back with him when he visited last year. 

 

Regards,

 

Tony. 

 

 

 

Edited April 4 by Tony Wright
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[Tony Wright]

What a fantastic event the York Show was over the Easter weekend. Brilliant, one of the best in the calendar. May I please thank the organisers, all the exhibitors, all those with whom I spoke and, most especially, those who donated to CRUK, either because of my fixing their models, direct donations or material donations? Mo and I made over £260.00 for the charity (who suggested Yorkshire folk were parsimonious? Whoever it was, they're dead wrong!).

 

Speaking of Mo...........

 

 

Here she is behind my display, checking all the monies (without her diligence, everything would be a muddle - as is always the case when she's not with me). My most-grateful thanks.

 

I had little chance to photograph anything...........

 

 

Though Andy Ross' incredible workshop in 7mm was a must.

 

 

Bob Dawson always has something new to show, and this year it was this OO9 micro layout.

 

His grandson, Scott Waterfield.............

 

 

Showed how a magazine cover free hut could be made into a lovely model. 

 

I put some of Peter Lawson's locos up for sale.........

 

 

This Gibson 'Austin Seven' sold, though for no more than the current price of the kit. 

 

 

This Little Engines O4/3, however, didn't.

 

 

Neither did this DJH Crab. Since Peter used prototype references, I must conclude that someone had cleaned the '3' on the cabside. 

 

I'll be putting pictures on here soon of many more of his locos I'm trying to sell. 

 

All run beautifully. 

 

 

[Tony Wright]

At York, Geoff Haynes delivered my latest B1 he's weathered............

 

 

What a cracking job! Thanks Geoff.

 

I'd built it mainly from a Pro-Scale kit (with a fair bit of modification).

 

Coincidentally.............

 

 

There's a Pro-Scale B1 in the Peter Lawson collection. 

 

I know comparisons are odious, but............. This afternoon, I set them to work on Bytham.............

 

 

Mine.

 

 

Peter's. Since it has a scale coupling on the tender, a converter wagon had to be employed.

 

 

Mine.

 

 

 

 

Peter's.

 

 

Mine.

 

 

Peter's.

 

The differences will ne noted..................

 

 

[sjp23480]

Hi Tony, 

Can you update us on what is left of Peter's collection?

Thanks

Steve

[Andy R]

7 hours ago, Tony Wright said:

What a fantastic event the York Show was over the Easter weekend. Brilliant, one of the best in the calendar. May I please thank the organisers, all the exhibitors, all those with whom I spoke and, most especially, those who donated to CRUK, either because of my fixing their models, direct donations or material donations? Mo and I made over £260.00 for the charity (who suggested Yorkshire folk were parsimonious? Whoever it was, they're dead wrong!).

 

Speaking of Mo...........

 

 

Here she is behind my display, checking all the monies (without her diligence, everything would be a muddle - as is always the case when she's not with me). My most-grateful thanks.

 

I had little chance to photograph anything...........

 

 

Though Andy Ross' incredible workshop in 7mm was a must.

 

 

Bob Dawson always has something new to show, and this year it was this OO9 micro layout.

 

His grandson, Scott Waterfield.............

 

 

Showed how a magazine cover free hut could be made into a lovely model. 

 

I put some of Peter Lawson's locos up for sale.........

 

 

This Gibson 'Austin Seven' sold, though for no more than the current price of the kit. 

 

 

This Little Engines O4/3, however, didn't.

 

 

Neither did this DJH Crab. Since Peter used prototype references, I must conclude that someone had cleaned the '3' on the cabside. 

 

I'll be putting pictures on here soon of many more of his locos I'm trying to sell. 

 

All run beautifully. 

 

 

Tony- your Mo is a wonderful lady. Regards from ‘downunder’ 

Andy -NZ

[Tony Wright]

8 hours ago, sjp23480 said:

Hi Tony, 

Can you update us on what is left of Peter's collection?

Thanks

Steve

Good morning Steve,

 

Of course - it is my intention, but I only got the remaining locos at the weekend. 

 

Anything ex-GWR has gone off elsewhere (I was amazed how difficult it was to sell the residue, though perhaps Doncaster, Preston and York are not the best locations to try).

 

What I've got now is a collection of ex-LMS and BR Standard locos in the main. I'll photograph each one, and post them on here.

 

Regards,

 

Tony. 

[Captain Kernow]

I've now finished working on the second of the two whitemetal panniers that I bought from Tony, which were from the Peter Lawson collection.

 

As I mentioned previously, I have renumbered them and added just one or two additional details. The second one has also now received some weathering and both locos now have a second member of footplate crew on each, courtesy of the ModelU Staff Agency...

 

Here they are, when they first arrived, posing on 'Bethesda Sidings':

 

And here they are as they are now, in approximately the same position on the layout:

 

 

The work on the second pannier (now 9741, formerly 9681) took a bit longer that I anticipated, for reasons outlined in my Workbench thread - 

 

 

Finally, here's a short video of 9741 shunting:

 

 

[Not Jeremy]

51 minutes ago, Captain Kernow said:

I've now finished working on the second of the two whitemetal panniers that I bought from Tony, which were from the Peter Lawson collection.

 

As I mentioned previously, I have renumbered them and added just one or two additional details. The second one has also now received some weathering and both locos now have a second member of footplate crew on each, courtesy of the ModelU Staff Agency...

 

Here they are, when they first arrived, posing on 'Bethesda Sidings':

 

And here they are as they are now, in approximately the same position on the layout:

 

 

The work on the second pannier (now 9741, formerly 9681) took a bit longer that I anticipated, for reasons outlined in my Workbench thread - 

 

 

Finally, here's a short video of 9741 shunting:

 

 

 

That's really lovely, and yours must be the only goods yard with a resident pianist - pure class.

 

But then we'd expect nothing less from a person as esteemed as yourself.

 

It's still raining on my train set....

[Chas Levin]

15 hours ago, Tony Wright said:

What a fantastic event the York Show was over the Easter weekend. Brilliant, one of the best in the calendar. May I please thank the organisers, all the exhibitors, all those with whom I spoke and, most especially, those who donated to CRUK, either because of my fixing their models, direct donations or material donations? Mo and I made over £260.00 for the charity (who suggested Yorkshire folk were parsimonious? Whoever it was, they're dead wrong!).

 

Speaking of Mo...........

 

 

Here she is behind my display, checking all the monies (without her diligence, everything would be a muddle - as is always the case when she's not with me). My most-grateful thanks.

 

 

Good morning Tony, I was at York too, for the first time, and stopped by your table a few times to say hello in person, but you were deep in a very long conversation with two gents and we had to leave before you'd finished, though to be fair, we didn't find your spot until we'd already been round the upper floors, having started at the top!

It was a very busy show (this was the Saturday morning) and with a greater sense of bustle and excitement than the recent Ally Pally one, we thought. It also seemed to have stands - trade, demo, trader, Society and whatever else) crammed into every available spot in the building, again in some contrast to Ally Pally, where we thought there were fewer stands than last year.

 

It was quite heartening, especially in view of recent conversations about the state of the hobby. Was it unusually busy for this venue? Is it by any chance a bit of a North/South thing? I've no view or agenda in asking that (I live in London), just that it occurred to me and I wondered what others thought...

 

Nice Restaurant Car there - is that your ex-GCR resin one?

Edited April 3 by Chas Levin

[Mike 84C]

I was there on Sunday and as is often the case Tony was very busy!! Good to see him promoting our hobby. The morning was busy but by early afternoon  people seemed to be drifting away which made looking at layouts much easier.

  As always a good show and one I try to attend.

  The organizers deserve congratulations!

[60027Merlin]

It was quite heartening, especially in view of recent conversations about the state of the hobby. Was it unusually busy for this venue? Is it by any chance a bit of a North/South thing? I've no view or agenda in asking that (I live in London), just that it occurred to me and I wondered what others thought.

 

Chas,

 

It could be, as modelling locos etc. for the North, especially Scotland is pretty barren in r-t-r so building kits is the only option! 

 

Eric

 

 

 

Edited April 3 by 60027Merlin

[Mark Laidlay]

I've been working on a bit of track for a new exhibition layout.  I call it a "double compound" which is what my prototype called them.  Most seem to call them "double slips" but the Victorian Railways must have got double compound from somewhere, why would they just make it up?

So did any early British railways use double compound as the name?

[john new]

2 hours ago, Mike 84C said:

I was there on Sunday and as is often the case Tony was very busy!! Good to see him promoting our hobby. The morning was busy but by early afternoon  people seemed to be drifting away which made looking at layouts much easier.

  As always a good show and one I try to attend.

  The organizers deserve congratulations!

Pretty much the typical attendance spread. It always surprises me at any show that more of the people who only spend their half-day at the show don't come in the afternoon. Family attendance also typically higher on the Monday - as a finger in the air gauge of that we had a max of eleven step stools out on hire at a peak on Monday and no more than six at a time on the other two days,

Edited April 3 by john new

[Tony Wright]

4 hours ago, Captain Kernow said:

I've now finished working on the second of the two whitemetal panniers that I bought from Tony, which were from the Peter Lawson collection.

 

As I mentioned previously, I have renumbered them and added just one or two additional details. The second one has also now received some weathering and both locos now have a second member of footplate crew on each, courtesy of the ModelU Staff Agency...

 

Here they are, when they first arrived, posing on 'Bethesda Sidings':

 

And here they are as they are now, in approximately the same position on the layout:

 

 

The work on the second pannier (now 9741, formerly 9681) took a bit longer that I anticipated, for reasons outlined in my Workbench thread - 

 

 

Finally, here's a short video of 9741 shunting:

 

 

Good afternoon Captain,

 

Thanks for that; it's gratifying to see that Peter's locos are being used, and cherished. 

 

What your short video also shows is how nicely his locos run. Every one I've tested so far runs very well. 

 

Regards,

 

Tony. 

[Tony Wright]

1 hour ago, Chas Levin said:

 

Good morning Tony, I was at York too, for the first time, and stopped by your table a few times to say hello in person, but you were deep in a very long conversation with two gents and we had to leave before you'd finished, though to be fair, we didn't find your spot until we'd already been round the upper floors, having started at the top!

It was a very busy show (this was the Saturday morning) and with a greater sense of bustle and excitement than the recent Ally Pally one, we thought. It also seemed to have stands - trade, demo, trader, Society and whatever else) crammed into every available spot in the building, again in some contrast to Ally Pally, where we thought there were fewer stands than last year.

 

It was quite heartening, especially in view of recent conversations about the state of the hobby. Was it unusually busy for this venue? Is it by any chance a bit of a North/South thing? I've no view or agenda in asking that (I live in London), just that it occurred to me and I wondered what others thought...

 

Nice Restaurant Car there - is that your ex-GCR resin one?

Good afternoon Chas,

 

When you next see me, and I appear to be in deep conversation, please make your presence known. Mo is always telling me that I should look around more, and see those who might be patiently waiting. Then (tactfully?) say to those with whom I'm in conversation for some time that there are others. It is difficult, though I need to be more aware.

 

This year, it's my perception that York was busier than ever; quite rightly so. To me, it's a 'far superior' show to Ally Pally. By that I mean it's much more of a modellers' show, particularly with regard to the trade support. If I'm wrong, please put me right, but was any trader at Ally Pally selling wheels, gearboxes, motors, loco kits, carriage kits, fittings and all the necessary bits and pieces to complete models? York doesn't really have 'box-shifters' as well. Granted, the layouts at Ally Pally will be as good as anywhere and it's wonderfully well-organised. However, parking is no longer free, I believe.

 

To me, York is still one of the best shows in the calendar; it really caters for those who actually 'make things', and need all the bits to do so (similar ones are the likes of Aylesbury and Wells, as well as the Society shows; there are others). 

 

Yes, the ex-GC RU I had on display was the 3D-printed one . Nobody has told me yet that it's wrong!

 

Regards,

 

Tony. 

[Chas Levin]

22 minutes ago, Tony Wright said:

Good afternoon Chas,

 

When you next see me, and I appear to be in deep conversation, please make your presence known. Mo is always telling me that I should look around more, and see those who might be patiently waiting. Then (tactfully?) say to those with whom I'm in conversation for some time that there are others. It is difficult, though I need to be more aware.

 

This year, it's my perception that York was busier than ever; quite rightly so. To me, it's a 'far superior' show to Ally Pally. By that I mean it's much more of a modellers' show, particularly with regard to the trade support. If I'm wrong, please put me right, but was any trader at Ally Pally selling wheels, gearboxes, motors, loco kits, carriage kits, fittings and all the necessary bits and pieces to complete models? York doesn't really have 'box-shifters' as well. Granted, the layouts at Ally Pally will be as good as anywhere and it's wonderfully well-organised. However, parking is no longer free, I believe.

 

To me, York is still one of the best shows in the calendar; it really caters for those who actually 'make things', and need all the bits to do so (similar ones are the likes of Aylesbury and Wells, as well as the Society shows; there are others). 

 

Yes, the ex-GC RU I had on display was the 3D-printed one . Nobody has told me yet that it's wrong!

 

Regards,

 

Tony. 

 

Similarly Tony, my wife is always telling me I'm too backward in coming forward: noted for next time and thank you!

 

Yes, it was definitely more of a modellers' show, more kits and demos, fewer box-shifters - no disrespect intended, the only item I actually bought was RTR...

[Barry Ten]

1 hour ago, Tony Wright said:

Good afternoon Chas,

 

When you next see me, and I appear to be in deep conversation, please make your presence known. Mo is always telling me that I should look around more, and see those who might be patiently waiting. Then (tactfully?) say to those with whom I'm in conversation for some time that there are others. It is difficult, though I need to be more aware.

 

This year, it's my perception that York was busier than ever; quite rightly so. To me, it's a 'far superior' show to Ally Pally. By that I mean it's much more of a modellers' show, particularly with regard to the trade support. If I'm wrong, please put me right, but was any trader at Ally Pally selling wheels, gearboxes, motors, loco kits, carriage kits, fittings and all the necessary bits and pieces to complete models? York doesn't really have 'box-shifters' as well. Granted, the layouts at Ally Pally will be as good as anywhere and it's wonderfully well-organised. However, parking is no longer free, I believe.

 

To me, York is still one of the best shows in the calendar; it really caters for those who actually 'make things', and need all the bits to do so (similar ones are the likes of Aylesbury and Wells, as well as the Society shows; there are others). 

 

Yes, the ex-GC RU I had on display was the 3D-printed one . Nobody has told me yet that it's wrong!

 

Regards,

 

Tony. 

 

I went to Ally Pally a couple of weekends ago (I just happened to be in London) and spent three days at York as an exhibitor. York was by far the more interesting exhibition, in my view. Granted, one can't always see as much when showing off a layout as when one is just a normal visitor, but I felt I'd "done" Ally Pally after two hours whereas there was plenty at York I still hadn't seen properly by the time we had to leave. And, the trade support was far superior.

[gr.king]

2 hours ago, Tony Wright said:

When you next see me, and I appear to be in deep conversation, please make your presence known. Mo is always telling me that I should look around more, and see those who might be patiently waiting. Then (tactfully?) say to those with whom I'm in conversation for some time that there are others. It is difficult, though I need to be more aware.

 You'd need to carefully avoid the opposite extreme Tony, as I experienced at Spalding.  Shortly after I'd waited patiently for an opportunity to sit down and start a conversation with you, somebody considerably less patient and polite appeared behind me and immediately started a loud, prolonged, forceful / enthusiastic exchange with you in total disregard of the conversation that I'd been attempting to conduct. As I wasn't 100% well at the time I couldn't be bothered to point out the extreme rudeness of the new arrival. I gave up and departed instead...

[grob1234]

Similar to parents evening, Sir just needs to allow 5 minutes per person. Once time is up (Mo would be an excellent time keeper) the person would be escorted away. Easy?!

[Compound2632]

51 minutes ago, grob1234 said:

Similar to parents evening, Sir just needs to allow 5 minutes per person. Once time is up (Mo would be an excellent time keeper) the person would be escorted away. Easy?!

 

A hand-bell would be effective.

[Tony Wright]

4 hours ago, gr.king said:

 You'd need to carefully avoid the opposite extreme Tony, as I experienced at Spalding.  Shortly after I'd waited patiently for an opportunity to sit down and start a conversation with you, somebody considerably less patient and polite appeared behind me and immediately started a loud, prolonged, forceful / enthusiastic exchange with you in total disregard of the conversation that I'd been attempting to conduct. As I wasn't 100% well at the time I couldn't be bothered to point out the extreme rudeness of the new arrival. I gave up and departed instead...

Good evening Graeme,

 

My apologies - I should have told the rude individual (I think I know to whom you are referring) to wait his turn!

 

Regards,

 

Tony. 

[Tony Wright]

3 hours ago, grob1234 said:

Similar to parents evening, Sir just needs to allow 5 minutes per person. Once time is up (Mo would be an excellent time keeper) the person would be escorted away. Easy?!

A good idea, Tom,

 

I'll have to try it!

 

Regards,

 

Tony. 

[Tony Wright]

Tomorrow, I'll post some shots of locos I should have said an emphatic NO to.

 

Why can't I take my own advice? 

 

Fear not, these are not from the current collection................

Edited April 3 by Tony Wright
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