chrisf Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 Has anyone else noticed the complete absence of RMweb screen names? Chris Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Y Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 Has anyone else noticed the complete absence of RMweb screen names? Chris They do appear in the 'Owner Factfile' boxes at the end of the layout articles where applicable. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Barry O Posted February 12, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 12, 2014 We need to persuade one of the big ECML layout's owners to go pre-TOPS diesel for a cracking article. AndyI have been trying..with no success yet..... Barry o Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Y Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 Interesting to see BRM are inviting a team to take over an N gauge layout and build it up a la BCB...is that going to appear on here somewhere (or indeed have I already missed the announcement?!) Personally I'd love to see someone who'd on RMweb take it on with a club or fellow modellers so we can follow its progress. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Downer Posted February 12, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 12, 2014 The ad for this issue in the last promised something on Lineside Industries. As there's no mention of this above I'm wondering if it's been held over. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
-missy- Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 You could of course always build a N Gauge version of the Black Country Blues layout? Just a thought. Missy Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Grafarman Posted February 12, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 12, 2014 Personally I'd love to see someone who'd on RMweb take it on with a club or fellow modellers so we can follow its progress. Any chance of you providing us with some detail in another thread ie size/history/trackplan etc for perusal by interested parties or do we have to go back through the magazine address? It's unlikely I'd be volunteering to do any actual modelling but I do have a lot of stock which might be helpful if others took it on... Thanks David Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Woodcock Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 Hello Thanks to all concerned for featuring my little layout of Brixworth Station. After it's final appearance at Glasgow next week it will be retiring to Buckinghamshire. Paul Bason's photographs are, as ever, magnificent and though the sky has been shopped it is probably an improvement on my original back-scene. The only error is in the Owner Factfile where my RM Web name has been altered to Martin Wales, my apologies to him. I have been, and and still am, Bedlam George. Cheers George Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve1 Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 I have no problem with 'amended' backdrops to layouts, as they finish the scene off nicely and hide any detritus that would have been in shot otherwise. The thing I do think detracts from layout pics is "smoke"" added to steam locos. To me it makes the whole thing scream, model, without adding anything approaching realism. steve Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gr.king Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 It's only a thought but those who want to see '60s diesels on a top notch ECML layout could always build such a layout and stock it with green diesels according to their own tastes. I've a feeling I know roughly what response would come from John Houlden if he were asked to run paraffin burners on Gamston Bank. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted February 14, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 14, 2014 It's only a thought but those who want to see '60s diesels on a top notch ECML layout could always build such a layout and stock it with green diesels according to their own tastes. I've a feeling I know roughly what response would come from John Houlden if he were asked to run paraffin burners on Gamston Bank. Gee thanks, very friendly. So therefore we keep our noses out of other peoples business and just run our own layouts, and the owners of such layouts wouldn't be amenable to a bit of cross fertilisation? Mike. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold beejack Posted February 14, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 14, 2014 Still waiting for my copy to arrive. Anyone else still waiting for their copy to drop through the door? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gr.king Posted February 14, 2014 Share Posted February 14, 2014 Gee thanks, very friendly. Based on the attitudes to steam of many diesel modellers I've met, I'd say my words were glowingly friendly. At best, I think diesel locos ought to be welcome on leading traditional ECML layouts just as soon as all the diesel modellers in Britain remove the mesh fencing, scrap yards and graffiti from their layouts, replace the track with chaired bullhead rail on scale sleepers, and fit pre-nationalisation semaphore signals throughout. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted February 15, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 15, 2014 Based on the attitudes to steam of many diesel modellers I've met, I'd say my words were glowingly friendly. At best, I think diesel locos ought to be welcome on leading traditional ECML layouts just as soon as all the diesel modellers in Britain remove the mesh fencing, scrap yards and graffiti from their layouts, replace the track with chaired bullhead rail on scale sleepers, and fit pre-nationalisation semaphore signals throughout. Keep digging. Mike. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators SteveCole Posted February 21, 2014 Author Administrators Share Posted February 21, 2014 Over a week since the issue is in the shops and my first (and last) subscription copy still hasn't arrived. I cancelled via a web form last weekend but did expect that I would receive a reply saying that my cancellation had been noted. But nothing. The subs department managed to quickly set up a direct debit but obviously cannot do anything else. So one lost reader due to bad customer service. Apologies for this. Would you mind sending me a PM with your details so I can check what's happened? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold griffgriff Posted February 21, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 21, 2014 IMHO there's not enough Photoshopping, some of those Gresley Pacifics should have been airbrushed out and replaced with some proper engines Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonC Posted February 24, 2014 Share Posted February 24, 2014 The photoshopped skies dont really bother me too much, although I can see how they get a bit repetitive when they generally look the same. On the cropped example above, I'd rather see more of a view of the layout than the cropped image shows Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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