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

[bgman]

Thank you Rob for all the time spent in giving us another year of entertainment on ANTB.

 

May I also wish you and your family + all the other followers and families a better and healthier New Year, all the very best

 

G

[3rd Rail Exile]

1 hour ago, toboldlygo said:

In case you were wondering what the wheels belonged too..

 

 

.. Early Production Tiger 1 - a big beasty even in 1/48th Scale..

 

 

I'd guessed it was something like that - but I can't work out what the thing that looks like a cocktail stick stuck to the front is...

[toboldlygo]

7 minutes ago, 3rd Rail Exile said:

but I can't work out what the thing that looks like a cocktail stick stuck to the front is...

 

It's actually cowering in fear of the Tiger..

[3rd Rail Exile]

4 minutes ago, toboldlygo said:

 

It's actually cowering in fear of the Tiger..

Ah, now I see it!  Cunningly lined up with the inside edge of the left "front track flap", it confused a viewer who is (possibly) trying to see out a nasty year in an alcohol-induced fog...  I've built similar "back in the day",  but nowhere near that well...

[Limpley Stoker]

Thank you Rob for the continuing enjoyable saga of Brent. I have bought a lot of models because they looked so good in your setting of Brent - wishing you a Happy and Prosperous 1947 again

[toboldlygo]

37 minutes ago, 3rd Rail Exile said:

Ah, now I see it!  Cunningly lined up with the inside edge of the left "front track flap", it confused a viewer who is (possibly) trying to see out a nasty year in an alcohol-induced fog...  I've built similar "back in the day",  but nowhere near that well...

 

Alcohol helps steady the hand  

 

Here's the other side and the offending cocktail stick still trying to escape..

 

 

[bgman]

47 minutes ago, toboldlygo said:

the offending cocktail stick still trying to escape

 

Bet there's one in the barrel waiting to escape ! 

[Ian Hargrave]

On 30/12/2020 at 17:15, gwrrob said:

A few more featuring 5391.

 

 

One for @Ian Hargrave as I know he remembers well the sepia prints that used to adorn coach compartments, in the good old days.

 

 

 

Thank you for the nod,Robin.It is much appreciated.GWR horsehair was what it was.But your photography raises the image of that now long forgotten era giving us an authentic flavour of post war England. Many thanks from us all and best for 2021

 

[toboldlygo]

40 minutes ago, bgman said:

 

Bet there's one in the barrel waiting to escape ! 

 

But what has the Tiger got in it's sights?

[bgman]

55 minutes ago, toboldlygo said:

 

But what has the Tiger got in it's sights?

 

[Jack P]

5 hours ago, toboldlygo said:

Nice coupling hook on the tender buffer beam of 5391 - I wonder who fitted that (certainly wasn't Dapol)?  

 

Any tips? Or was it as simple as drilling a hole and filling a hook? Lord knows why that was omitted..

[toboldlygo]

23 minutes ago, Jack P said:

 

Any tips? Or was it as simple as drilling a hole and filling a hook? Lord knows why that was omitted..

 

Just simply drilling a hole (in the right place) and fitting a Hornby Dummy Screwlink hook.

It was probably omitted because it blew the budget for the loco  

[toboldlygo]

43 minutes ago, bgman said:

 

 

 

 

[St Enodoc]

8 hours ago, gwrrob said:

That's shallot for 2020.

There's a man who knows his onions.

 

All the best for 2021, Rob (and all Brentnodders).

[brianusa]

Hopefully the airman will reach his destination in the new year.  He spent the old one on the Down platform, trying to get to RAF Mt. Batten.  Happy New Year all!

     Brian.

[Limpley Stoker]

And Mr Warburton on platform 2 never got to deliver his Giant Crumpet.

 

 

 

 

 

Edited January 1, 2021 by Limpley Stoker
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[Oldddudders]

25 minutes ago, Limpley Stoker said:

And Mr Warburton on platform 2 never got to deliver his Giant Crumpet.

I believe that some men would find the prospect of giant crumpet quite daunting..... 

[gwrrob]

5 minutes ago, Oldddudders said:

I believe that some men would find the prospect of giant crumpet quite daunting..... 

 

Mr Warburton , always a man to use his loaf.

 

[Captain Kernow]

And Happy New Year greetings to Robin and everyone from a bl**dy freezing South Brent. It's so cold, the Brass Monkey has refused to go outside.

 

[bgman]

6 minutes ago, Captain Kernow said:

the Brass Monkey has refused to go outside.

 

 

There has to be a little bit of Gibbon take I suppose ?

[Captain Kernow]

Don't see why Robin can't have one of these as well!

 

[Oldddudders]

21 minutes ago, Captain Kernow said:

 It's so cold, the Brass Monkey has refused to go outside.

Or "The witch's tits called in sick"!

[2ManySpams]

Happy New Year one and all from Spam Towers. 

 

Thanks to Rob for all the photos of nice trees over the last year.

 

Cheers

 

[gwrrob]

15 minutes ago, 2ManySpams said:

Happy New Year one and all from Spam Towers. 

 

Thanks to Rob for all the photos of nice trees over the last year.

 

Cheers

 

 

I thought you'd gone all 7mm chum.

[2ManySpams]

15 minutes ago, gwrrob said:

 

I thought you'd gone all 7mm chum.

 

Minor diversion to keep SheepBloke company...