RMweb Gold queensquare Posted August 5, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 5, 2013 Oi! Look what's on my 'work table' this morning. It must have been 'beamed in' overnight. Groan. Looks like you've been stitched up ! Jerry Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bagpipes331 Posted August 5, 2013 Share Posted August 5, 2013 One of my pet hates is when there is a layout where the rolling stock is in perfect scale/period/company but any old road vehicle seems to do whether or not it is the correct scale/period/company. With companies such as Oxford now producing excellent models at a reasonable price there is really no excuse. Not so in 7mm I'm afraid. I have recently paid +£50.00 for a limited edition lorry to grace my coal yard, can't get busses, lorries, unless you model in the pre Nationalisation era. So, even though my stock is perfect scale/period and company (BR) I have to resort to 1:50 scale commercial vehicles lurking at the back of the layout, and pretend I am perspective modelling!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kev Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 Wiring up the layout kev Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium MJI Posted August 9, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 9, 2013 I also have a problem with weathering, which I am happy to see on buildings and scenery, less so on trains, which were painted at vast expense by their original owners, and however "realistic" the weathering, it just looks dreary by comparison. The worst feature of all, which is just plain wrong, is the filthy windscreen. No driver ever sets off with a dirty windscreen, because if he can't see where he is, he may be the first casualty if he runs by a signal. My last weathering involved the chasis only, bodies were normally clean, roofs being grey, difficult to tell. Chassis. grubby Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest CLARENCE Posted August 9, 2013 Share Posted August 9, 2013 Wiring up the layout kev And trying, unsuccessfully, to remember, a year later, where all the multicoloured wires started and ended! David. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poggy1165 Posted August 9, 2013 Share Posted August 9, 2013 My other pet hate is poor shunting, i.e not stopping when running up to a single wagon but just ploughing on as if was never there . If you run into a real wagon at a 20mph then that wagon will shoot off down the track like a scalded cat or leap into the air and probably derail. . It spoils the illusion for me Please buffer up gently Andy Agree absolutely - and can I also mention the common sight of loco and wagon(s) being pushed and pulled back and forth half a dozen times in rapid succession. This is something associated with model 'automatic' couplings, usually at exhibitions and looks awfully unrealistic - the much derided 'hand of God' is as nothing by comparison. Please, if you can't get your automatic couplings to work properly, either fix them so they do or avoid shunting movements. Real engines never, ever, ever did this sort of thing. Not least because (certainly on a steam engine) changing direction is not something you can do several times in a minute. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jongudmund Posted September 1, 2013 Share Posted September 1, 2013 It was ever so, unless our steam era railways really did transport more large gear wheels, cable drums, and ship's propellors than anything else. A study of what the weekly loadings of a typical goods yard really were would be instructive to many modellers. Most people though would probably rather buy four different wagons than four of the same type. On that note, does anyone know why RTR companies don't supply wagons un-numbered and a sheet of transfers so you can buy 10, say, and number them up yourself instead of having to remove a number and then source a replacement and apply it. Add 50p on the RRP to cover the cost of the transfers and most people would pay that without too many complaints. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Sheep Posted September 1, 2013 Share Posted September 1, 2013 current pet hate is modeling magazines doing an inspiration plan, such as a motive power depot and how to build it in 6 easy steps with the track entirely as Hornby parts and written as though no one would ever contemplate doing it in anything but 00. And it's not Hornby magazine that do it! (I could forgive Hornby mag for doing it as they aim to that readership) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium John M Upton Posted September 2, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 2, 2013 Soldering... Hate it, hate it, hate it... Guess what I have to do next!!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
C&WR Posted September 2, 2013 Share Posted September 2, 2013 current pet hate is modeling magazines doing an inspiration plan, such as a motive power depot and how to build it in 6 easy steps with the track entirely as Hornby parts and written as though no one would ever contemplate doing it in anything but 00. And it's not Hornby magazine that do it! (I could forgive Hornby mag for doing it as they aim to that readership) There are other scales? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rovex Posted September 2, 2013 Share Posted September 2, 2013 Branch lines (its mainly branch lines) with sheer cliff faces or long runs of retaining wall or lots of shop fronts looking onto a road along the back of the layout. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
C&WR Posted September 2, 2013 Share Posted September 2, 2013 Blast. My city walls made a good scenic break, I thought. Can I have some credit for them being by the mainline, though? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
C&WR Posted September 2, 2013 Share Posted September 2, 2013 My pet hate is so-called experts who use real railway terms all the time, although often getting them wrong - one tried to argue the point with my Father, a Railway Civil Engineer of forty years standing, and then also get their advice wrong as well. I have seen someone berated for having the wrong sized lettering on a kit, only to try and bluff out of it when shown a picture of the real locomotive, and was once myself told that a soil colour I was using didn't happen in real life as it was too red, plainly by someone who had never bee to Devon. Some of these experts are also very shy about showing their own work. I saw a couple of cases where work was discovered and found not to be quite to the standards the critics had been espousing, only for the critics to say that it was just work in progress, because of bad lighting etc... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rovex Posted September 2, 2013 Share Posted September 2, 2013 Blast. My city walls made a good scenic break, I thought. Can I have some credit for them being by the mainline, though? Actually I like your idea of medieval city walls, it shows a bit of ingenuity. Although a few crenelations and arrow slits along the top wouldn't go a miss :-) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
C&WR Posted September 2, 2013 Share Posted September 2, 2013 Actually I like your idea of medieval city walls, it shows a bit of ingenuity. Although a few crenelations and arrow slits along the top wouldn't go a miss :-) 'Elf 'n' Safety, mate, the parapets were all replaced Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 5944 Posted September 7, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 7, 2013 Wonderfully weathered locos with polished silver buffers, argh! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Dunsignalling Posted September 7, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 7, 2013 Three words sum up mine: Ship, Ha'porth and Tar. I remember seeing a very nice layout at an exhibition several years ago, set in the early to mid-1950s. I have long forgotten ALMOST everything about it but this one had something that put it in a class of its own and really got my goat. The layout was modelled to a good, uniform standard and well operated. In common with many others, its goods yard featured a grounded van body gleaned from the builder's scrap box. Unfortunately, this one had a Hornby Vanwide, as introduced by BR from 1962 and still carrying the 1970s markings it left Margate with. AAARRGGH !!!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve1 Posted September 7, 2013 Share Posted September 7, 2013 Poison green 'trees' and shubbery. They just ain't that colour. Sea water on UK layouts that is Mediterranean blue. If you actually look at the colour of the sea around our coasts, especially in Scotland, it is usually either (very) dark green or grey. steve Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jbqfc Posted September 7, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 7, 2013 Families at show trade stands mum dad and two kids spread themselves out in front of stand not letting any one else in while they take ages to make up there mind what to get happened to me twice today at TINGS Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium newbryford Posted September 7, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 7, 2013 Wonderfully weathered locos with polished silver buffers, argh! You mean like this? Cheers, Mick Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vanders Posted September 7, 2013 Share Posted September 7, 2013 You mean like this? Tidy grass right up the sleepers? Ungated level crossing? Birdhouse? Did someone fly an EWS 60 to North America for a run around and I missed it? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bike2steam Posted September 8, 2013 Share Posted September 8, 2013 Sea water on UK layouts that is Mediterranean blue. If you actually look at the colour of the sea around our coasts, especially in Scotland, it is usually either (very) dark green or grey. You haven't been to Dorset then !!!! Especially in the area covered by this article;- http://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/9931241.Reefs_off_Dorset_coast_set_to_become_protected_habitats/ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
C&WR Posted September 8, 2013 Share Posted September 8, 2013 Sea water on UK layouts that is Mediterranean blue. If you actually look at the colour of the sea around our coasts, especially in Scotland, it is usually either (very) dark green or grey. steve That's another I'm guilty of... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PatB Posted September 8, 2013 Share Posted September 8, 2013 I grew up next to the Bristol Channel and remember it as being brown . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catkins Posted September 14, 2013 Share Posted September 14, 2013 Having said which, road vehicles are more likely to be kept clean by their owners, especially private cars. . I'm a bit obsessive when it comes to cleaning my little wagon at work, but even though I put it through a washing plant on a daily basis, there are still areas that the washing misses, mainly the parts of the doors just by the wheel-arches, and the bottom quarter of the back doors. One thing I do though is rinse off the windows, and wipe the water off, so my wind-screen doesn't have the wiper tracks! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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