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

[St Enodoc]

6 hours ago, colin penfold said:

Why is it that some people's worst fear in this whole crisis is the prospect of running out of bog roll?

They're obviously making the landscape for their layouts. Individual sheets, with the plies separated, soaked in plaster of Paris and Bob's your uncle.

 

Edit: or weathering wagons the Ian Futers way - slop a load of Humbrol matt black on, then wipe it off with bog roll before it dries.

Edited March 21, 2020 by St Enodoc

[chrisf]

3 hours ago, St Enodoc said:

 

Edit: or weathering wagons the Ian Futers way - slop a load of Humbrol matt black on, then wipe it off with bog roll before it dries.

 

That would explain some of the panic buying ...

 

Chris

[Mulgabill]

Blimy is there a shortage of black paint?!

 

 

[Mallard60022]

18 hours ago, mattingleycustom said:

 

HMS Victory is probably the most significant bit of kit from an era when Britain truly rules the waves, just mind your head when you go around as sailors were short in those days (Nelson certainly was). Oddly enough I think we're short of sailors now!

The two carriers both live at the 'historic' end of the Naval Base, so you'd be unlucky not to see one at least on a visit.

 

Next time you come down please visit the Spinnaker Tower and the Gunwharf and spend some cash, it helps keep my Council Tax down. If any of us are ever allowed out again!

 

Glenn

Did you lot know that that piece of kit is being 'regenerated' and modified to patrol the coastal waters as HMS Fishy Protectivethingy?

P 

[Mallard60022]

The least offensive Grange was 6869...…….very good in Conflict Resolution situations in the Roundhouses it visited.

A.N. Amen.

[Mallard60022]

6872 was always a little  unsettling.

A. R. Swipe

[gwrrob]

With the passing overnight of country legend Kenny Rogers , I would be a coward not to shew a County.

 

[Ian Hargrave]

51 minutes ago, Mallard60022 said:

The least offensive Grange was 6869...…….very good in Conflict Resolution situations in the Roundhouses it visited.

A.N. Amen.

  
They did in fact visit nearby,occasionally on passenger but regularly on freight.Colliery village on Vale of Neath line of my long lost youf.  My last sight of one on the line was 6859 (88A...then Canton btw) in Sept.1961

Edited March 21, 2020 by Ian Hargrave
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[5BarVT]

1 hour ago, Mallard60022 said:

6872 was always a little  unsettling.

A. R. Swipe

Bit Creepy eh?

Paul.

[Mallard60022]

6834....the most political Grange?

I will shut up eventually, when the Poly fumes wear off.

P

[gwrrob]

An oil burner on an oil train, whatever next. We see 2884 class 4855 on a down oil train destined for Devonport.

 

[colin penfold]

So Robin. How would isolation work in your case when you are already in Coventry?

 

[Tallpaul69]

34 minutes ago, gwrrob said:

An oil burner on an oil train, whatever next. We see 2884 class 4855 on a down oil train destined for Devonport.

 

Oops! I've got tankers with that version of the Mobil Logo scheduled to run on my 1960/2 Lower Thames Yard"!!

[gwrrob]

1 hour ago, colin penfold said:

So Robin. How would isolation work in your case when you are already in Coventry?

 

 

Thanks, things are pretty bad here. I've had to raid my stash to build a 1960's Vintage Classics Airfix kit just to tie me over.

[gwrrob]

49 minutes ago, Tallpaul69 said:

Oops! I've got tankers with that version of the Mobil Logo scheduled to run on my 1960/2 Lower Thames Yard"!!

 

You're probably right with them Paul and it's me who has them wrong.

[bgman]

1 hour ago, gwrrob said:

 

Thanks, things are pretty bad here. I've had to raid my stash to build a 1960's Vintage Classics Airfix kit just to tie me over.

 

Ah! But does that squidgy glue ( remember them ?) still work ?

[gwrrob]

[toboldlygo]

Looks like Brent needs some Naval protection...

 

 

Almost ready for launch  

[mdvle]

On 20/03/2020 at 16:36, colin penfold said:

Perhaps you can help me with a philosophical question. Why is it that some people's worst fear in this whole crisis is the prospect of running out of bog roll?

 

It isn't rational, and seems to be a panic reaction to the footage that went through social media sites a couple of weeks ago of shoppers at a Costco in Washington State going crazy and climbing up the industrial shelving to get at stocks of it normally access using a forklift.

 

As to why those initial people started it, perhaps fear of the unknown and not stopping to think that Covid-19 is a respiratory illness unlike some other viruses that go around.

[45568]

19 hours ago, gwrrob said:

With the passing overnight of country legend Kenny Rogers , I would be a coward not to shew a County.

 

 

And here he/she is again, circa 1957...now with a double chimney, but still the early crest.

Cheers from Fortress Oz,

Peter C.

[Clive Mortimore]

15 hours ago, gwrrob said:

Hi Robin

 

Yesterday you questioned the livery of the Mobil tank wagons. Well while I was sitting on the naughty step I had a read of R Tourret's "Petroleum Rail Tank Wagons of Britain" and I am sorry to say the Mobil emblem on the wagons wasn't introduced until the 1950s. Before the war they traded as Vacuum Oil Company Limited, they then added a emblem each end of the tank side with a large pegasus above the name Mobilgas but still had Vacuum Oil Company Limited between the emblems. The emblem with Mobil above a small pegasus wasn't adopted until some time in the 50s. I did look in Larkin's "Non-Pool" wagon books, his only Mobil tank wagons are later 45ton GLW ones.

[gwrrob]

Thanks Clive, after posting the photos I did have that nagging doubt they were incorrect for my period, perhaps I should move them on or use them in my '57 time period instead. Luckily I only have three of them.

[Ashley Bridge]

Such splendid use of time on the naughty step!  I have to admit having to check such a book actually exists, the Author’s name gave me pause for thought 

We are so blessed with this wealth of knowledge in our hobby.

 

Rich

[Clive Mortimore]

16 minutes ago, gwrrob said:

Thanks Clive, after posting the photos I did have that nagging doubt they were incorrect for my period, perhaps I should move them on or use them in my '57 time period instead. Luckily I only have three of them.

Later today I will un-earth my other tank wagon books and see what they say. My library is upside down at the moment due to me decorating what will become my workshop (pillar drill and lathe already acquired)  and resource repository. 

[gwrrob]

Meanwhile 4855 seems to have lost a few wagons since yesterday.