Iain C Robinson Posted May 4, 2013 Share Posted May 4, 2013 Cowers in level B, Cwt-y-Bugail slate mine....can he see me from here...?? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
freebs Posted May 5, 2013 Share Posted May 5, 2013 Quick, while you're there, make a model of it! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iain C Robinson Posted May 5, 2013 Share Posted May 5, 2013 Quick, while you're there, make a model of it! Now that is an excellent idea! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted May 5, 2013 Author Share Posted May 5, 2013 So for starters, The Pantiles, Tundridge Wells - sort off... 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted May 5, 2013 Author Share Posted May 5, 2013 My latest scratchbuilt loco - YEAH, RIGHT DOWNES ! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted May 5, 2013 Author Share Posted May 5, 2013 Allan, Lovely roof detail there on the shed roof. You have captured the atmosphere well...... Pleased you noticed, I coppied the Robinson method - take photo's of the real thing, and tell everyone it's a model ! Cheers. Allan. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted May 5, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 5, 2013 Allan, Lovely roof detail there on the shed roof. You have captured the atmosphere well...... He has indeed - but if you produced a model looking like that, with the contrasting colours in the cladding, everyone would say it was wrong! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted May 5, 2013 Author Share Posted May 5, 2013 Her's something else I built while I had the soldering iron out, and, again, employing the Robinson method. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted May 5, 2013 Author Share Posted May 5, 2013 (edited) He has indeed - but if you produced a model looking like that, with the contrasting colours in the cladding, everyone would say it was wrong! Not if Robinson built it, he's been getting away with it for longer than I have ! Edited May 5, 2013 by allan downes 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iain C Robinson Posted May 5, 2013 Share Posted May 5, 2013 My latest scratchbuilt loco - YEAH, RIGHT DOWNES ! 186.JPG Allan, you've gone wrong! I told you not to paint that prairie in Malachite green...and those P4 wheels will never accept that Triang super 4 track of yours! I have to say that I do like those etched brass roof supports, though... . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iain C Robinson Posted May 5, 2013 Share Posted May 5, 2013 OK Allan, here's an update of a model I am actually building for myself for a change, in between other projects. I have still got loads more work to do on it, but after these scratchbuilt locos of yours I thought I had better do something! ...I'll be putting up the constructional notes so far on my blog later today. I think I will have a lower structure to the left here...or finish the wall in peeling plasterwork, so for the moment, it is bare Das. The rear yard area. A pattern store will be placed against the wall to the right. A view of the long wall enclosing the foundry yard. Hope you like them, cheers, Iain 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted May 5, 2013 Author Share Posted May 5, 2013 It's sunday Robinson, why aren't you down a hole somewhere instead of giving me a hard time with models like that ?! Anyway, s'pose I'll have to say it, even if it chokes me - brilliant ! - there, I've said it.... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted May 5, 2013 Author Share Posted May 5, 2013 I've just been looking through my picture files again Iain and I'm fast running out of ideas, so if you don't want me to hit you with that cathedral again, ease back bro, you have been warned ! Jeeze, why did I ever start this Thread....bxxxxy Tetford.... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluebottle Posted May 5, 2013 Share Posted May 5, 2013 (edited) Just couldn't resist this one Iain, just don't let Petra see it, it might give you ideas ! 172.JPG I like the underpinnings on those jettied upperworks...beautiful, Allan! I do like a good hanging buttress. PS: pray tell me, what is a "Hanging Buttress" ?! The hanging buttress...in my excitement at glimpsing this new direction that your modelling had taken I mixed up "flying buttress" with hanging something or other. I can only blame my subconscious. I know that you are a master of the flying type, witness your ....bl@@dy cathedral.... In OED: hanging buttress n. 'a buttress supported upon a corbel, and not standing solid on the foundation' (Webster 1864). They are generally regarded as a decorative feature. I note that it is not included in the Wikipedia article on buttresses, and am minded to add it, with links to Iain's use of the term and the picture of Allan's model. Plus, of course an internal link to the Wikipedia page on Innuendo. Edited May 5, 2013 by bluebottle 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iain C Robinson Posted May 5, 2013 Share Posted May 5, 2013 It's sunday Robinson, why aren't you down a hole somewhere instead of giving me a hard time with models like that ?! Anyway, s'pose I'll have to say it, even if it chokes me - brilliant ! - there, I've said it.... We were planning to go down a mine but my partner in crime has to work this weekend...and she's not too happy about it. Your post about the loco made her laugh, though! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iain C Robinson Posted May 5, 2013 Share Posted May 5, 2013 Gordon, thank you...glad to see that I am not going completely senile and that my maunderings were underpinned by at least a tenuous foundation. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted May 5, 2013 Author Share Posted May 5, 2013 We were planning to go down a mine but my partner in crime has to work this weekend...and she's not too happy about it. Your post about the loco made her laugh, though! Strange you should say that Iain, my partner's always laughing at not so much what you say, but at your models! Seriously though, it's becoming a bit worrying because she asked me if I had ever met you and I told her that I've spent the last 40 years trying not to, and when she asked me if you were handsome I had to lie and say yes. No, she loves you really Iain, we all do! Cheers. Allan. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iain C Robinson Posted May 5, 2013 Share Posted May 5, 2013 Strange you should say that Iain, my partner's always laughing at not so much what you say, but at your models! Seriously though, it's becoming a bit worrying because she asked me if I had ever met you and I told her that I've spent the last 40 years trying not to, and when she asked me if you were handsome I had to lie and say yes. No, she loves you really Iain, we all do! Cheers. Allan. Cues music.."We've been together for forty years...." let's see, I saw your first article in 1977, was it? So it's coming up to that soon. When are you going to tell her that the all-year tan you boast of is actually Colron Jacobean oak?? Thanks for lying anyway, I have an image to keep up. Thats's why we spend so much time underground, where Petra doesn't have to see my face cheers, Iain Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iain C Robinson Posted May 5, 2013 Share Posted May 5, 2013 Yes, structure building can get fraught at times, especially when trying to outdo that Downes. I don't think I have put Darvill's yard up here, have I? Here it is... And here's a wheelwright's workshop built at around the same time, 1979/80/ 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
freebs Posted May 5, 2013 Share Posted May 5, 2013 OK Allan, here's an update of a model I am actually building for myself for a change, in between other projects. I have still got loads more work to do on it, but after these scratchbuilt locos of yours I thought I had better do something! ...I'll be putting up the constructional notes so far on my blog later today. Weylands 1.jpg I think I will have a lower structure to the left here...or finish the wall in peeling plasterwork, so for the moment, it is bare Das. Weylands 3.jpg The rear yard area. A pattern store will be placed against the wall to the right. Weylands 6.jpg A view of the long wall enclosing the foundry yard. Hope you like them, cheers, Iain I think i'm going to have kittens. This must be the sexiest model I've ever seen 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gravy Train Posted May 5, 2013 Share Posted May 5, 2013 Hi Ian, wonderful dioramas, superbe models. alan, i love the loco, very tidy soldering :-) cheers Peter 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iain C Robinson Posted May 5, 2013 Share Posted May 5, 2013 I think i'm going to have kittens. This must be the sexiest model I've ever seen Thank you Lee! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iain C Robinson Posted May 5, 2013 Share Posted May 5, 2013 Hi Ian, wonderful dioramas, superbe models. alan, i love the loco, very tidy soldering :-) cheers Peter Thanks, Peter, glad you liked the photos. cheers, Iain Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted May 5, 2013 Author Share Posted May 5, 2013 (edited) Talking of handsome Iain, Lionel was the whole nine yards, every womans dream ( even my late wife's ! ) - six foot plus, muscular, a profile to die for, but wanted to cut cardboard into little bits for the rest of his life when he could have ended up in Hollywood - with us! Cheeres Allan. BTW, brill B&W models, such atmosphere, you learnt well, too damn well !! Edited May 5, 2013 by allan downes Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted May 5, 2013 Author Share Posted May 5, 2013 Hi Ian, wonderful dioramas, superbe models. alan, i love the loco, very tidy soldering :-) cheers Peter Actually I used double sided tape Peter ! Cheers. Allan. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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