allan downes Posted January 5, 2015 Author Share Posted January 5, 2015 Coaler framework. This is a squashed up version of the coaler that stood at Durango, though the framework was mostly guess work - but it'll do. Cheers. Allan 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mullie Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 Coaler framework. This is a squashed up version of the coaler that stood at Durango, though the framework was mostly guess work - but it'll do. Cheers. Allan NG COALER FRAMEWORK 001.JPGNG COALER FRAMEWORK 002.JPGNG COALER FRAMEWORK 003.JPGNG COALER FRAMEWORK 004.JPG NG COALER FRAMEWORK 005.JPG Does it get Channel five? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted January 5, 2015 Author Share Posted January 5, 2015 Does it get Channel five? No, just Family Bathrooms. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mullie Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 Just to show I do actually do some modelling as well as taking the p*** here is a retaining wall I'm currently building for a new micro layout I'm working on. Not finished but it gives you some idea. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted January 6, 2015 Author Share Posted January 6, 2015 Stick to takin' the pxxx Mullie ! Just joking mate, nice job as usual. Cheers. Allan. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted January 6, 2015 Author Share Posted January 6, 2015 "Durango" coaler finished. Better pics later on top of the garden hedge ! Cheers. Allan 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJS1977 Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 A month or so ago I posted this: (Though I now realise he said it was "built by some famous bloke.." not that he'd bought it off him). One of my club colleagues turned up with a Colron-stained O gauge watermill this evening which he said he'd "bought off some famous bloke I've never heard of..." It looked not dissimilar to the water mill on page 110 except that the main building had a different extension on it and a flight of steps going up the outside of the gable end. I did photograph it, but still haven't found my camera lead.... Allan, however said he had never built an O gauge watermill..... Having found my camera lead, here's the building in question. It certainly looks like Allan's style, so has Robinson started turning out Downes lookalikes? 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SGTBILKO Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 There could be a serious damp problem with the way that the roof of the right hand part of the building abutts onto the gable end. Would the Master have made such a grave error? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted January 7, 2015 Author Share Posted January 7, 2015 Hmm, now that's very interesting. Is it a damn good forgery or did I really build it ? Over to you Robinson. Cheers. Allan 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted January 7, 2015 Author Share Posted January 7, 2015 Here's the original. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluebottle Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 Hmm, now that's very interesting. Is it a damn good forgery or did I really build it ? Over to you Robinson. Cheers. Allan Perhaps you were sleep-modelling? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted January 7, 2015 Author Share Posted January 7, 2015 Timber frame construction. First a sub base is cut out of thin card which will ensure that all timbers ase perfectly true in both the horizontal and vertical planes Then the timbers are pre coloured and glued down to the sub base And end up looking like this. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Stubby47 Posted January 7, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 7, 2015 it's a water mill !! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted January 13, 2015 Author Share Posted January 13, 2015 Bin down with the flu' - again so not much has bin happening constructional wisw but here's how far I've got to date. Cheers. Allan 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted January 13, 2015 Author Share Posted January 13, 2015 And some decent pics of that coaler taken, as where the above, by Mike Abel on his Apple I pod. Cheers Allan. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweven Posted January 13, 2015 Share Posted January 13, 2015 Great pictures Allan - its always good to see your buildings together in a diorama. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted January 15, 2015 Author Share Posted January 15, 2015 The latest show stopper from "Family Bathrooms" She wants a barn so she can hold knitting circles in it, he wants a garage so he can "knock up bits of furniture" - and a veggie plot. Natch. I need a sick bag. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJS1977 Posted January 15, 2015 Share Posted January 15, 2015 The latest show stopper from "Family Bathrooms" She wants a barn so she can hold knitting circles in it, he wants a garage so he can "knock up bits of furniture" - and a veggie plot. Natch. I need a sick bag. Remembering your attempts at "knocking up bits of furniture" in (I think) the Civic Splendour article (the attempt to build a kitchen unit that used about the same amount of wood as a decent layout would,and somewhere things went wrong...), or another article where you said you'd finally discovered that a saw cuts straighter than an axe(!), I'm not surprised! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted January 16, 2015 Author Share Posted January 16, 2015 Remembering your attempts at "knocking up bits of furniture" in (I think) the Civic Splendour article (the attempt to build a kitchen unit that used about the same amount of wood as a decent layout would,and somewhere things went wrong...), or another article where you said you'd finally discovered that a saw cuts straighter than an axe(!), I'm not surprised! Well things have moved on a bit since then, Now it's all Flat-Pack ( ignoring instructions of course ) Cheers. Allan Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaz Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 And a very merry Christmas to you too Jaz and thank you for your kind and supportive comments. It's people like you that have made this thread the success that it is. Thank you again. Allan So, back to Colorado and the finished second mine building (christ knows how many of these I've got to build ! ) MINE BUILDING FINISHED 001.JPGMINE BUILDING FINISHED 002.JPGMINE BUILDING FINISHED 003.JPGMINE BUILDING FINISHED 005.JPGMINE BUILDING FINISHED 007.JPGMINE BUILDING FINISHED 009.JPGMINE BUILDING FINISHED 010.JPG J.H.C. (sorry for blaspheming) I though that WAS the real thing for a second!!!!!!!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mullie Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 Yes it is all flat pack but that is still no guarantee it will fit together, reusing the wood to make a baseboard could still be the best option. Reading the instructions upside down can help! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gravy Train Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 Hi Alan,stunning workmanship there and all done in a flash :-) Is the bridge 7mm, its a size for sure. cheers Peter Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted January 16, 2015 Author Share Posted January 16, 2015 Hi Alan, stunning workmanship there and all done in a flash :-) Is the bridge 7mm, its a size for sure. cheers Peter Hi Peter. Yes, the bridge is 7mm and took a forest of stripwood to build it ! Cheers. Allan Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted February 2, 2015 Author Share Posted February 2, 2015 Though y'all got shot of me didn't ya !! Well I took a break for a while - guitar playing was sounding real crap, so I've been giving it some heavy duty practice and now up there with Peter Leyland - almost. Anyway, mine building complex for you to laugh at ! Cheers. Allan 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
HAL 'O THE WYND Posted February 2, 2015 Share Posted February 2, 2015 Hi Allan' I'm just playing catch up after *rejoining your list. The building is exquisite - of course. I wish I could find an excuse to use balsa as a building method, other than a garden hut. I've often felt a US "tug" - even have a few wagons and a loco. I suppose a shunting plank would be an option, but there's far too much in demand on The layout and side-tracking is something I've not been successful with; I tend to be obsessed with whatever I'm doing. That's where your professionalism triumphs; you're used to changing tempos. Guitar-wise, my sparring partner Arthur's right hits (groan) has b#ggered my playing (An excuse, I was crap, anyway) I did buy a very smart uke a while back. With f-holes and electricity it looks like a miniature dance-band thing. Trouble is, I don't like the sound, so I'm thinking of changing the bottom string for a low G and trying simple blues stuff. The neck is so easy to travel on. * I left a load of lists to try and concentrate on actual modelling. It kind of worked. Tony aka Hal aka Brass0four Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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