A Nod To Brent - a friendly thread, filled with frivolity, cream teas and pasties. Longing for the happy days in the South Hams 1947.

[cary hill]

Shame you can't see the livery on the tender.

 

No good in this one either?

 

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4535633

Edited June 21, 2018 by cary hill

[toboldlygo]

Shame you can't see the livery on the tender.

 

GWR Lined Green with G CofA W in the photo's in my two books

[mdvle]

And register for the site, seemingly

 

No registration is required.  As other said you can't follow the links, but instead you note which year / month / day the shed info was posted, and then you go to the Blog Archive section on the right hand side of the page and navigate to the appropriate date.

[gwrrob]

GWR Lined Green with G CofA W in the photo's in my two books

 

Any lining on the dynamometer car.    

[Ian Hargrave]

Is there a photo of 6018 King Henry VI anywhere on the Kings Cross - Leeds service.

The man of the cloth to the rescue as ever.Bishop ( then Canon ) Treacy....being a local Leeds lad at the time ( Wakefield actually ) snapped 6018 at Beeston Junction on the 7:50 pm Leeds - KX. G #W clearly on tender.No actual date. My copy of his "Steam Up" is open at page 53.....

[toboldlygo]

Any lining on the dynamometer car.    

 

Not much of the Dynamometer car showing in the shot in the Power of the Kings, but it looks lined. The other shot in the Great Western Kings you can't tell :/

[Ian Hargrave]

Any lining on the dynamometer car.    

You don't want to go there Robin.......Rumour has it Putin's FSB has a mole in ( under ) the thread.

[The Stationmaster]

Talking of info and I've come across the workings of the exchange trials of 1948.

 

 

LE1948.jpg

 

So according to that list this didn't happen or an engine swop took place for the actual test run (which I believe is what did happen after No.22 broke)?  

 

[The Stationmaster]

Is there a photo of 6018 King Henry VI anywhere on the Kings Cross - Leeds service.

 

You rang sir?

 

[gwrrob]

Anyway I've repainted the Hornby Anderson shelter using Lifecolor acrylics , the corrugated texture made it easier to dry brush,and placed where I think it looks best. I also have a shed for this scene.

 

 

 

 

[KNP]

Anyway I've repainted the Hornby Anderson shelter using Lifecolor acrylics , the corrugated texture made it easier to dry brush,and placed where I think it looks best. I also have a shed for this scene.

 

 

DSCN3706 (2).JPG

 

 

DSCN3705 (2).JPG

 

Very nice.

How many are you going to do because I believe every garden would have had one!

[gwrrob]

Very nice.

How many are you going to do because I believe every garden would have had one!

Now you tell me !

[2ManySpams]

Anyway I've repainted the Hornby Anderson shelter using Lifecolor acrylics , the corrugated texture made it easier to dry brush,and placed where I think it looks best. I also have a shed for this scene.

 

 

DSCN3706 (2).JPG

 

 

DSCN3705 (2).JPG

Nice vans, no trees required.

[toboldlygo]

Now you tell me !

 

I found the remains of an Anderson Shelter when I was digging the pond many, many years ago (they were usually much closer to the house than you've positioned your's).

 

There was a Brick built Shelter at the bottom of the garden as well dating from WW1

[NHY 581]

Nice vans, no trees required.

 

A Southern Utility van is a very nice thing to have. I shall be weathering one of mine in due course.

 

 

Rob

[2ManySpams]

A Southern Utility van is a very nice thing to have. I shall be weathering one of mine in due course.

Rob

They are a good tree substitute IMO, green and do a reasonable job of hiding other lesser objects behind them. ;-p

[toboldlygo]

Anyway I've repainted the Hornby Anderson shelter using Lifecolor acrylics , the corrugated texture made it easier to dry brush,and placed where I think it looks best. I also have a shed for this scene.

 

 

DSCN3706 (2).JPG

 

 

DSCN3705 (2).JPG

 

The only thing missing from that photo, is Spitfire's nemesis - the Messerschmitt BF109   

 

 

Attacks by friendly fire did happen, in the case of this particular 109

[NHY 581]

They are a good tree substitute IMO, green and do a reasonable job of hiding other lesser objects behind them. ;-p

 

Have to agree on that. Even came in different lengths. They also popped up all over the country so did a good job of hiding lots of different things. In a bid to be seen a certain company fitted their locos with copper tops to their engines chimneys. More of a cry for help really.......

[gwrrob]

They are a good tree substitute IMO, green and do a reasonable job of hiding other lesser objects behind them. ;-p

 

 

 

[The Fatadder]

The only thing missing from that photo, is Spitfire's nemesis - the Messerschmitt BF109

 

ME109E-3_22.jpg

 

Attacks by friendly fire did happen, in the case of this particular 109

Absolutely love that model, very different! It has made me think of a question, when the RAF were testing these captured enemy aircraft, were the armed?

[gwrrob]

I found the remains of an Anderson Shelter when I was digging the pond many, many years ago (they were usually much closer to the house than you've positioned your's).

 

 

 

I would expect quite a few got used as sheds in the post war period and beyond and perhaps my house owner has moved his since the end of WW2.

[Ian Hargrave]

I found the remains of an Anderson Shelter when I was digging the pond many, many years ago (they were usually much closer to the house than you've positioned your's).

 

There was a Brick built Shelter at the bottom of the garden as well dating from WW1

Luxury.All I had to protect me was something my mother called a "Moses basket" ( Contrary to popular belief I am no prophet...Heljan 47 XX excepted ) into which I was unceremoniously thrust when the air raid siren sounded and placed in the cupboard under the stairs.Teflon safe of course......

[Danemouth]

A Southern Utility van is a very nice thing to have. I shall be weathering one of mine in due course.

 

 

Rob

 

Danemouth has two, so there!  :)

 

Cheers,

 

Dave

[toboldlygo]

Absolutely love that model, very different! It has made me think of a question, when the RAF were testing these captured enemy aircraft, were the armed?

 

I think they did test the armament as part of the evaluation process.

[gwrrob]

A Southern Utility van is a very nice thing to have. I shall be weathering one of mine in due course.

 

 

Rob

 

A beautiful model.