PGC Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 LOL.... Glad to still see and read of BBC.....and of possible extension? https://www.flickr.com/search/?text=Blackwell%20Brewery&sort=relevance&user_id=26359504%40N08&view_all=1 Did anyone convert a Model Rail Sentinel to run on it? I would have thought J15 pushing it on the size front? Regards to all at MEMRC. Steven. Sorry to take this thread off topic, I trust it will be tolerated, after all, we're talking another GER layout! Don't know of a Sentinel, but if someone was building it, they may have left the club before I joined. I'm building stock (it's what I enjoy doing most) and if you look at my blog you can see some of the locos I've built running on BBC at the recent East Anglian show at St Neots. Because of this one show we've got five further invites and, as I said earlier, the layout has gained a new puff of wind. Those pictures are great - I didn't know Dave Zelly used to have hair! :-) I'll pass on your greetings. Phil 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pwr Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 It's your fault Paul! Went looking at the Hornby site and now I've gone and done it! On order, be here in a few days. ☺ sorry! Perhaps the D16 for your birthday? Paul R 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pwr Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 I wonder how long it will be before an RTR J17 appears. That is a big gap in my O Gauge kit collection along with the J19. Both available from Ace Models though! Paul R Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadow Posted May 3, 2015 Author Share Posted May 3, 2015 Well the J15 finally got it's day out 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pwr Posted May 4, 2015 Share Posted May 4, 2015 Very nice work Shaddow! I assume the crew have gone to the box to telephone the breakdown and re-railing crew! Paul R Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SDuhig Posted May 4, 2015 Share Posted May 4, 2015 Lovely. Great job! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CourthsVeil Posted January 1, 2016 Share Posted January 1, 2016 Hi Shadow, just looking if there is any update on this nice little layout. Have been looking out for news for a while. Hope everything is still going OK. Regards Armin Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pwr Posted January 1, 2016 Share Posted January 1, 2016 Yes Shaddow -did you invest in a Claude Paul R Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SDuhig Posted January 1, 2016 Share Posted January 1, 2016 Yes I would like an update too. Must have made more progress thanI have! I bought two Clauds to join my primitive Jaycraft one and my three J15s, one of which is a Stephen Poole kit. Cant wait for the new B12 too.. and yes I am lucky! Happy New Year to you all! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pwr Posted January 1, 2016 Share Posted January 1, 2016 I need a B12 also for Black Notley but it's 7mm so I will have to get a Connoisseur kit! Paul R Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bike2steam Posted January 2, 2016 Share Posted January 2, 2016 Just caught up with this thread, haven't visited for a while. Seems as good progress has been made, what caught my eye of course is the name, an area I know quite well. Little Dunmow/Felsted, an old work colleague, in my old days at Marconi, lived in LD, an ex girl friend lived in Felsted, she worked at the old sugar beet factory, and I'd been to the old Ridley's brewery at Hartford End a few times - enough looking back from me. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadow Posted January 3, 2016 Author Share Posted January 3, 2016 Thanks for the interest everyone. Unfortunately not a lot of progress. (If any!) Work, home life, and a lack of 'get up and go' got in the way. However, hopefully getting some time soon to progress things. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bike2steam Posted January 4, 2016 Share Posted January 4, 2016 Thanks for the interest everyone. Unfortunately not a lot of progress. (If any!) Work, home life, and a lack of 'get up and go' got in the way. However, hopefully getting some time soon to progress things. Your not the only one, but throw in the occasional bad dose of sciatica on my part as well. :-( Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold JCL Posted March 12, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 12, 2016 Hi Shadow, thanks for your contribution to my thread. I've had a read through yours and I love how realistic your trees look. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted March 21, 2016 Share Posted March 21, 2016 A pleasure to catch up on this thread. What an attractive, compact and clever little layout. Those trees are very good and very effectively placed - one of the best tree-effects I have seen - and I was very interested in the technique; clever and it worked a treat. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadow Posted May 11, 2016 Author Share Posted May 11, 2016 I was not fully satisified with the composition of the centre/right side of the layout so have played with it a bit. Removed the Water Tank and embankment behind it and placed a Goods building there instead. (Centre) And on the right will make up some more trees to give a better composition It's all becoming clearer in my head anyway. (I hope!) 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted May 11, 2016 Share Posted May 11, 2016 Beautiful, that new goods building, and a clever composition. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadow Posted May 11, 2016 Author Share Posted May 11, 2016 Unfortunately not able to accept any credit for the Goods building. It's one of Bachmanns Scenecraft models. Got it very cheap off Flea-Bay. http://www.Bachmann.co.uk/image_box.php?image=images1/scraft/44-238.jpg&cat_no=44-238&info=0&width=650&height=357 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted May 12, 2016 Share Posted May 12, 2016 I am surprised. Fooled, in fact, and impressed. I thought "that looks Great Eastern" and I also took it to be scratch-built because the way you have finished the masonry matches your scratch-built models. To use a 'plant and go building' in such a way as to blend with the scratch-built models is a minor art in itself. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pwr Posted May 13, 2016 Share Posted May 13, 2016 It gives you a great feeling of a long slow summer day with not much happening. You can almost hear the grasshoppers in the long grass and the occasional ringing of the block bells through the open signalbox windows, the silence disturbed for a few moments by a J15 on a two coach local. Banging doors as a couple of people alight, guards whistle and off we go, the silence returning to the yard. Paul R Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadow Posted May 19, 2016 Author Share Posted May 19, 2016 Well a bit of progress. Added a rough landscape/layout to the left. Trying to get the proportions right. Getting there. Dave 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted May 20, 2016 Share Posted May 20, 2016 Very effective trees. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadow Posted May 24, 2016 Author Share Posted May 24, 2016 Progress on the bridge this weekend. Basic shell, Started to cover in brick paper 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted May 24, 2016 Share Posted May 24, 2016 Very neat job and looking good Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cklammer Posted May 26, 2016 Share Posted May 26, 2016 Just read the complete thread until now and enjoyed it very much - sorry though for the flurry of 'likes' ... Your scenery work is very effective and convincing. The buildings are outstanding. The track work is outstanding. i am really looking forward to future updates! Best Regards, Christian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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