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

[Siberian Snooper]

As the late, great Cyril Freezer might have said, a pink with yellow spots prairie is better than no prairie at all.

Have you got a prairie in pink with yellow spots?

[Tim Dubya]

Have you got a prairie in pink with yellow spots?

I have an Airfix one, a totally sh@gged Airfix one but one all the same... it's black and green (where the factory applied black paint has come off).

 

Do I win a prize?

 

 

 

 

 

Please

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Edited December 13, 2017 by Tim Dubya

[Siberian Snooper]

I have an Airfix one, a totally sh@gged Airfix one but one all the same... it's black and green (where the factory applied black paint has come off).

Do I win a prize?

Please

.

Doesn't seem to meet the criteria of pink with yellow spots, but if it's that far gone, a bit of a paint jobby won't hurt.

[Tim Dubya]

Doesn't seem to meet the criteria of pink with yellow spots, but if it's that far gone, a bit of a paint jobby won't hurt.

It's not the paynt that's the problem... the wheels and connecting rod thingies have fallen off.

 

[Clearwater]

Have you got a prairie in pink with yellow spots?

Covered in enough weathering grot, you mightn’t be able to tell the livery!

[St Enodoc]

Castle 7001 Sir James Milne.jpg

 

Castle class No. 7001 Sir James Milne racing at dusk through the London suburbs on the 7.10pm London to Birmingham, March 1950.

Looks like IKB on the right.

[St Enodoc]

As the late, great Cyril Freezer might have said, a pink with yellow spots prairie is better than no prairie at all.

Quite right. CJF's original comment was in response to those who were complaining that BR had repainted the Vale of Rheidol locos in rail blue with white double arrows.

[Oldddudders]

Quite right. CJF's original comment was in response to those who were complaining that BR had repainted the Vale of Rheidol locos in rail blue with white double arrows.

 

Probably the same lot who were incensed that the loco the Festiniog had obtained from the Irish Peat Board was called Irish Pete. 

[Waraqah]

As the late, great Cyril Freezer might have said, a pink with yellow spots prairie is better than no prairie at all.

Have to disagree with you there, Rob!

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr_Blobby#/media/File:Mr_Blobby,_2009.jpg

 

Blobby, blobby, blobby

[The Stationmaster]

I have an Airfix one, a totally sh@gged Airfix one but one all the same... it's black and green (where the factory applied black paint has come off).

 

Do I win a prize?

 

 

 

 

 

Please

.

 

Airfix prairie kits - how many would you like Guv?  I do believe I have several - unbuilt in original boxes of course - lurking in my Airfix kit strategic reserve hidden away in ???  Now where have I hidden it away?

[Tim Dubya]

Airfix prairie kits - how many would you like Guv? I do believe I have several - unbuilt in original boxes of course - lurking in my Airfix kit strategic reserve hidden away in ??? Now where have I hidden it away?

It wasn't a kit when I bought it but it is now...

[ian]

It wasn't a kit when I bought it but it is now...

 

I can think of a few 'preserved' locos that have suffered similar fates!

[Fat Controller]

A mica and unusual to see one with a dmu.

I'd say it was an Insulfish; the doors appear to be recessed. 

[Metropolitan H]

Probably the same lot who were incensed that the loco the Festiniog had obtained from the Irish Peat Board was called Irish Pete. 

????? - Not sure who will be more offended the Ffestiniog lot or the Talyllyn Railway - it was the latter that bought and rebuilt "Irish Pete". Trouble is that despite the democratic selection of the "Irish Pete" name, somebody got all strait-laced when the loco finally was ready for naming - it is now known as "Tom Rolt".

 

Regards

 

Chris H (An "Irish Pete" voter).

[Oldddudders]

????? - Not sure who will be more offended the Ffestiniog lot or the Talyllyn Railway - it was the latter that bought and rebuilt "Irish Pete". Trouble is that despite the democratic selection of the "Irish Pete" name, somebody got all strait-laced when the loco finally was ready for naming - it is now known as "Tom Rolt".

 

Regards

 

Chris H (An "Irish Pete" voter).

Thanks! I got the story rather more than 40 years ago, so it has clearly got a little twisted!

[Northroader]

They could have called it “Pete O’Peatyface”?

[gwrrob]

I'd say it was an Insulfish; the doors appear to be recessed. 

 

Something like this Brian ?

 

[colin penfold]

I am having insulfish in a curry tonight. Goan. Oh, alright - if you insist....

 

Mrs Doyle

[gwrrob]

My mate Sid has has his id stolen, we now know him as S.

[Fat Controller]

Something like this Brian ?

 

insulated fish van.jpg

That's the sort I mean- the (G)WR built some six-wheel ones as well, most of which spent their working lives in Scotland.

[Welchester]

That's the sort I mean- the (G)WR built some six-wheel ones as well, most of which spent their working lives in Scotland.

 

Insixfish?

[St Enodoc]

Insixfish?

Has anyone built a 4 mm scale Insixfish, or perhaps generated a 3D-printed model?

[The Stationmaster]

Has anyone built a 4 mm scale Insixfish, or perhaps generated a 3D-printed model?

 

Oddly as far as I can the various available models (all kits), including a 3-D printed body, are not in 4mm scale.  Which is a bit odd when you consider the popularity of certain parts of the Western where these would have run among 4mm scale, various gauges, modellers.

[46444]

Great news from Dapol......

[Clearwater]

http://www.kernowmodelrailcentre.com/p/43642/R3331-WSL-Hornby-King-Class-Steam-Locomotive-number-6011

 

Wow -£70 for a new King via Kernow.