RMweb Premium Sidecar Racer Posted July 29, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 29, 2012 our great leader clearly wishes Mr Brunel had placed the rails even further apart in order to get engine footplates closer to the platform edge. (Others might offer a more suitable caption of course.) Will someone move that platform over please !!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Sidecar Racer Posted July 29, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 29, 2012 Ha ha It looks as though I was being somewhat timid about the jump but I recall trying not to land on the Italian family we acquired for parts of the tour. I wondered how we gained them too . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Castle Posted July 29, 2012 Share Posted July 29, 2012 Hi All, I am glad that everyone enjoyed having a look round 81E - I really enjoyed showing the site and collection to you all. It is one thing for us to have the things in the collection that we do but it is REALLY great to then be able to share it with fellow enthusiasts such as yourselves. It is also brilliant to get to put faces to names as well and be able to meet you all. Thanks to Andy for organising it all at his end and I hope I will catch up with you all in person again. Thanks for a really enjoyable afternoon everyone. All the best, Castle Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Graham_Muz Posted July 29, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 29, 2012 After a good lunch in the Plough twenty-odd of us head to Didcot; one of the covert "wrong shade of green" attendees had slunk off by this point just in case the paparazzi captured him inside the home of all things copper-capped. Too right...I do have a reputation to keep...although note I didn't say it was a good one.. Serioulsy though, I add my thanks to Andy for oganising the visit and Mike for the lunchtime arrangements. Even though Pendon is of course the wong railway and the engines are the wrong shade of green, good and inspirational modelling is still good and inspirational modelling and is somthing I have written about on my blog here this morning. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Y Posted July 29, 2012 Author Share Posted July 29, 2012 I will chuck in a shameless plug for those interested and make sure you know some photos of the Vale Scene appear in the next print MI within BRM out on the 9th August. One shot from Thursday which sums up the Vale's impressive landscape modelling for me is one that features no trains at all; just an expectation that one day I might be lucky enough to catch something on the MSW. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted July 29, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 29, 2012 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAKp8jMd5bE&feature=channel&list=UL Nice bit of footage there, Nick, but someone must have been on the footplate of that second freight distracting the driver and fireman, judging by the blatent SPAD in the final few seconds of the clip! Glad you all had a great day, I'd have loved to have joined you but it just wasn't possible, I had to content myself with an unplanned viewing of 'Tornado' and 'Duke of Gloucester' racing through the village on their way back from Plymouth in the afternoon. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Y Posted July 29, 2012 Author Share Posted July 29, 2012 judging by the blatent SPAD in the final few seconds of the clip! To be fair the signalling system on Dartmoor is not operating at the moment. I did have to photoshop a couple of obvious situations in MI4 to protect the innocent. Dartmoor may not have been operating at all yesterday if the trust's president hadn't made a trip up from Brighton on Thursday to fix an errant point so he has my thanks for that. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Brinkly Posted July 29, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 29, 2012 Right first lot of videos of the Dartmoor Scene - Pen Tor Road. For me this was a real treat and, perhaps for the first time, I could really see Horrabridge in model form. (More on that later!) Apologies for some of the dart bits in the photo, very little I could do, although my new £29.99 camera stand has been one of the best buys this month. But before I start Brian Harrap really does get about! Videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEGDBBBxxt4&feature=youtu.be http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRF4ZWiTUtk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IzHtbVJYf0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trjLdAnjhSc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FTjk4rPUq0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGNRbQVCLL8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyZ4VN36Fzs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfeWdSq2UHk Regards, Nick Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
richbrummitt Posted July 29, 2012 Share Posted July 29, 2012 I will chuck in a shameless plug for those interested and make sure you know some photos of the Vale Scene appear in the next print MI within BRM out on the 9th August. One shot from Thursday which sums up the Vale's impressive landscape modelling for me is one that features no trains at all; just an expectation that one day I might be lucky enough to catch something on the MSW. I was just about to post a very similar picture from the bunch I took. I haven't any from Didcot that are worth sharing: most of them are obscure bits of S&T equipment near the transfer shed and parts of locomotives for my ongoing projects, particularly the motion on the SRM. There is one in particular here for Graham. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Brinkly Posted July 29, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 29, 2012 It makes one really think how much the collection at Pendon is worth. Take the coal train on the Dartmoor scene as is an easy train to replicate in kit form, using the best products: Locomotive 28xx - (Finney kit, Ultrascale wheels & Highlevel motor + Gearbox) £300 as near as makes no difference Wagons £27.60 x 86 = £2373.60 Parkside ex PO Wagon £9.00 Craig W Underframe & Levers £7.50 Wheels Ultrascale £3.80 per axle, £7.60 MJT Bufferheads £1.50 Lettering £2.00 The mind boggles! Fair enough using Hornby and Bachmann products it would be a lot less. But is is simply wonderful! Regards, Nick Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold TomE Posted July 29, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 29, 2012 one day I might be lucky enough to catch something on the MSW. Sorry Andy, beat you too it Tom. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Brinkly Posted July 29, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 29, 2012 Tom, It needs to be the Heart of the Wessexs line version! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
10800 Posted July 29, 2012 Share Posted July 29, 2012 A few of my snaps of the Vale scene, not competing with anyone else (as if) but focussing mostly on the stands of trees (of which Balcombe viaduct will need a few). And I quite agree that John (Re6/6)'s trees are right up there. That robin is still sitting on the fork left in the garden The main line off the Dartmoor scene was out of action, but a train was 'frozen' on the Teignmouth sea wall Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
aberdare Posted July 29, 2012 Share Posted July 29, 2012 Just got back to Yorkshire from our week-end away and I can only echo what has already been said. I first wanted to visit Pendon back in the early 80s so it was great to get there at last, I was not disappointed, the overall effect is just amazing. My wife (LInda) has told me I have got some work to do to match those standards once I get started properly. Didcot was equally enjoyable and though I couldn't join the group for the full tour whilst looking after Linda it did not spoil the experience at all, what a collection for us GWR fans. Our thanks to Andy for organising it and also to all those who made our day so enjoyable. It was good to meet some other RMweb members at long last and put faces to the names. We were both impressed by the kindness and consideration shown to us by modellers and enthusiasts throughout the day - not always the case at other non rail events. No need for me to post any pictures either as it would only replicate what is there. It will now be a few days before I get back to my modelling, so I will leave you to return to yours. Thanks again, Jim & Linda Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
10800 Posted July 29, 2012 Share Posted July 29, 2012 Some shots of a Siphon G for anyone modelling details An American bogie on one of the other NPCS vehicles in the carriage shed I wasn't a fan of the BR experimental blue livery on WR locos, but 6023 did look very smart Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Re6/6 Posted July 29, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 29, 2012 Thank you Andy and Mike for all the arrangements which made for a splendid day out. Also Nick 'Brinkly' for doing the driving from Swagonia and to 'Castle' for showing us all the nooks and crannies of the Didcot site. Iconic setting. Just exquisite. The work of Guy Williams, the classic loco builder ..and one to irritate fans of a certain shade of green! I love it and will probably repaint mine into this beautiful colour! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
10800 Posted July 29, 2012 Share Posted July 29, 2012 One shot from Thursday which sums up the Vale's impressive landscape modelling for me is one that features no trains at all; just an expectation that one day I might be lucky enough to catch something on the MSW. Andy there seems to be a residual mirror image strip down the right hand side of this photo (I first noticed something funny with the track bottom right). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mod5 Posted July 29, 2012 Share Posted July 29, 2012 Andy there seems to be a residual mirror image strip down the right hand side of this photo (I first noticed something funny with the track bottom right). Either that or it is a very sharp left turn. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Y Posted July 29, 2012 Author Share Posted July 29, 2012 Now sorted. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
travelintrev Posted July 29, 2012 Share Posted July 29, 2012 Thanks all for the photo's, The only time I went ( with a Brambleton MRC outing) was in the mid '60's ........now it it just a bit far! Seems to have come on quite a bit. Once again, big thankyou. Trev. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 2ManySpams Posted July 29, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 29, 2012 I feel a game of eye-spy /where's Wally coming on....I saw Old Gringo (John) in six of the shots posted so far. Can you find them all? 3 are easy... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Re6/6 Posted July 29, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 29, 2012 But before I start Brian Harrap really does get about! ...nah!.. that's a real Baron...Robert Alexander Baron Schutzmann von Schutzmansdorff...! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Re6/6 Posted July 29, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 29, 2012 A few more of those lovely buildings.. The junction station A bit of the main line that wasn't being operated on the Dartmoor scene. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Brinkly Posted July 30, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 30, 2012 Hopefully my photos wont duplicate what others have uploaded. Pen Tor Road Set Vale Scene Set Few more to follow. I do love my new camera! Regards, Nick Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Brinkly Posted July 30, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 30, 2012 Vale Scene: And this is where it all happens. Amazing to think that the track in the fiddle yard is hand built copper clad. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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