Chalfytich

P&D Marsh make two nice GWR Mogul kits.

Yes, but it requires the old Farish Prairie chassis. I've got one but it isn't up to the modern appearance and running characteristics is it.

Dave

I don't think Kings look right in blue personally so it would be 6000 for me. But I still really want the mogul.

Dave

You've probably covered this before, but how have you made the decorative pointy canopy thingies? (I really should know the word for this, but it's left my brain and won't come back)

In the GWR painting instructions they are just called fascia, or in one case I saw elsewhere, planking

http://www.stationcolours.info/index.php?p=1_5_GWR

Dave

More photos of the latest decorated samples borrowed from the half-yearly announcements thread. Looks pretty good to me. How do people who were concerned about shape issues on the earlier EP samples feel about these shots?

 

If you compare it with the picture of Nunney Castle don't you think the corners on the firebox are a bit sharp? I still want one though and the sound version is making me seriously consider DCC

Dave

 

You and me both, I am just starting to convert to N Gauge from OO due to space (only got the Night mail set and a Graham Farish open wagon from the Bachmann Collectors CLub so far) but having seen the level of detail in these pics I am totally amazed by what can be done in such a small scale. Is this the first N Gauge model with a cab as detailed as that?

No. The 4F, Duchess, Schools and Merchant Navy have detailed cabs. Not sure about any others though

Dave

Marketing leaflet  from Road Cones 'R' Us. Expect one through your mailbox soon.

 

We are pleased to announce our new user friendly road cone.

 

No more worries about expensive storage anymore. We will provide you with cone rights on any road in the UK, whether it needs repairing or not.

 

We now have girlie cones finished in transparent pink with soft frilly overtones. 

 

Our standard 'curse and cuss' model will still be available to people with no hair and now at reduced M1 Motorway prices but due to great and unforseen problems with local councils and well and truly uninformed planning dickheads, our  special Continetal Truck Driver Proof M25 cone will remain the same at £ 100 per cone or £10,000,000 per mile. It's all the immigrants you see. None of them can drive in a straight line. It's their culture not to if they can help it apart from which the idea is unheard of in Poland  and even more unheard in Romania and never heard of at all in the Sudan ( But not our chairman's wife - or when she's sober anyway... )

 

We are also doubling up on our well received Pot Hole Cone production so that all local councils can now spend more  of your money on non-productive meetings and even less productive lunches instead of repairing pot holes and the odd meteor crater or two.

 

The gas and water board, our longest standing clients, will continue to enjoy our special offer budget cone in return for a little water and electricity every now and then  and specially during the World Cup Final  and for when gran wants the toilet in the middle of the night.

 

And finally, would the MP who claimed 40,000 cones on his expense returns to cone off his Private Estate return them incognito  before the next government audit and, for a quick back hander all round, our members of staff will keep shtum - excepting the office cleaner who, after 40 years in service, still doesn't know what we make and even wears one as a hat on halloween - but she has good legs so nobody says anything especially our MD who is trying to get her interested in the opera - or, failing that, round the back of it during the interval with between the intervals as a final intention and long term investment. That's when he  is let out on parole of course  where he's currently doing a twenty stretch for doing something to a pig behind the gasworks  that's never been done to a pig before - well according to the Farmers Weekly it hasn't anyway -  and out of office hours.

 

Thank you.

I believed all of that until you said the office cleaner had good legs after 40 years service.

Dave

Presumably the odd shaped flat area was a lead lined parapet gutter. I assume the rainwater pipes are at the rear with lead lined boxes passing through the building as there are no outlets on the front wall. I've seen plenty like that on full size roofs and they always cause trouble eventually, which is why I get called in to clear them out.

Dave

Ron

 

Where the girders meet the wall, you have "stones" set into the wall, to spread the load into the brickwork - does the girder need some further parts in the web to support the upper flange - it seems somehow "incomplete" to my eye?

 

Best

Simon

The supports under the steel are called padstones and we still have to fit them either cast in situ or precast, maybe a short pre-stressed lintel for instance. I've never had experience of steel which enters the wall in two places like those trusses so I don't know whether there would normally be padstones under both levels

Dave

Lovely work as ever Allan ... and the gravestones look a treat - just lacking in inscriptions. Sure you could think of a few names to put on them

 

Just one small point if I may - how about slightly longer grass round the bases of the gravestones? Mowers and/or sheep never get the grass right up close plus it'd help disguise the bases of the stones.

 

Regards,

 

David V.

Here are some suggestions. Taken at Hualapai Ranch near the Grand Canyon last week

Derelict factory.

 

Basing, the first stages.

 

Cheers.

Allan

 

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Just one minor thing. Shouldn't the slates that are exposed by ones missing from above be full size rather than half size?

What amazes me Iain is while the rest of us are busy guessing what he's going to come up with next he's already halfway through the build! I'm beginning to suspect he's got a basement full of gnomes beavering away somewhere!

 

Regards

 

Bill

Well I think Allan stockpiled all these buildings over the last 20 years and keeps posting photos of a new building every day just to impress us with his speed.

Dave

 Lovely cottage Monkeysarefun you've really caught that "Downes" cottage character.Brilliant stuff.

 

 However I must ask how the cottage became embedded in your fathers ceiling? I hope you didn't throw your model at it in disgust. If you ask me it's every bit as good as the stuff Allan was turning out in the early seventies.He inspired me too, I even built one of his windmills although in my case I rather regret now throwing it at the ceiling.

 Gravity caused it to embed itself in the ceiling because he's Australian

Nothing posted since 14th September? Allan must have built a whole railway system

by now

Dave

A few ( iffy ) indoor shots of the two buildings all tiled out and brought together.

 

However, there's much to do yet before I send Robinson pictures !!

 

Cheers.

Allan.

 

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Yes, that sea looks a bit close to the front door and much too calm.

Dave

And what about the Milligans legs asking the author for a better part ?

 

Classic Milligan.

I read it when it was first printed and apart from "Caw "said the crow, "Balls" said Milligan, I can't remember a lot. I'll have to read it again

Dave

Unfortunately this tale is all too common. I've worked with some fantastic musicians over the years and whilst this story relates to Jet and a particular comeback gig many musicians struggle to make a living, promote gigs etc and things at the moment are as hard as they have ever been especially in more rural areas.

 

 

In the 70s and 80s we rented an old stable block from the Co-op in Gloucester. Jet Harris worked as a labourer for their building department, carrying out maintenance on their shops, at some time in that period

Dave

Today was barn day and this is progress seven hours in. Tonight I'll have it tiled but I ain't looking forward to it ! ( Hmmm, might corrugate the damn thing...)

 

Cheers.

Allan

 

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Those doors have jaggedy teeth.

I don't know how you do it, but every time I miss a couple of days you've built another village and posted it all on here. Do you post with one hand and build with the other?

Interesting sub-thread about health.  I too have suffered migraines since the age of 12.  Tried a few  things, nothing conclusive.  Went to the GP, who is a stick like female of age 14.  

 

 I've suffered from migraines for about 40 years. I used to try to work through it and ended up being sick and having to go home. About 30 years ago my doctor prescribed Codydramol which helps to stop the pain and sickness and they worked pretty well.  Over the last 10 years or so the migraine has become less vicious. Nowadays they normally start at about 4.30am, so I take two tablets, go to the kitchen and eat a banana, back to bed and hopefully get some sleep and I'm usually ready for work by 8.

Dave 

Having now posted a few comments I thought I'd better show you something I had made.

 

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 Before you get the wrong idea, I model in N gauge and this is about 150 times as big. We built the extension on the left looking from the front.  I have a mind to make a 2mm version when I get that far, but work still gets in the way so progress is glacial.

Dave

Having now posted a few comments I thought I'd better show you something I had made.

OK Guys, all sorted, found out how on youtube, they just punch a hole in them with a spiked hammer - of course, I knew that already ....

 

Cheers.

Allan

I doubt if they punch holes in a stone tile with a spiked hammer, not with any consistency anyway. You can use a spiked hammer or hammer a nail through on most slates and they go through easily.

The top and bottom sash on sash windows both slide, well until they seize up with paint anyway. The top one is always outside the bottom one. I'm a builder as well which is why I replied to these posts.

Dave 

This business of upside down braced and ledged doors has been haunting model makers and builders both since time begun!

 

It's a common and very easy mistake to make and  I've lost count of the number of times I've done it and once, after being invited around by a neighbour who was..... wait for it .....a carpenter, to look at his new double 8Ft high gates into his drive I noticed that he too had hung them upside down - "So Allan, whaddya think, proper gates, not like your daft 3Ft high jobs?!"

 

"Well" said I, a modelmaker and not  a carpenter "I'll give 'em week and they'll be dragging on the floor  "

 

"Absolute rubbish ! " protested he " I'm a carpenter, you stick to cutting up cardboatd, and I'll stick to cutting up wood "

 

Seven days later he couldn't open them as the strap hinges gave up the struggle as the doors slumped down and away from their posts.

 

"Er" said I " Don't worry, a good modelmaker will soon sort those out for you " !!!!

You mean on the wrong side not upside down 

Dave

Surely if you turn it up the other way the braces would be correct, they'd just be on the outside?

I would call that turning them round rather than turning them over. The braces would be correct if you did that but it wouldn't look very good and would probably cause problems with hinges and locks

While I was at work Mythocentric explained it better than I would have done. When they are like the drawing the weight of the door is pushing the braces down on the bottom and mid rail. If they are the other way up the braces are pulling away from the rails

Dave

Mullie, that is a stunning piece of model making - the work of a master.

 

However, just one comment if I may - the doors are hung upside down but hey! we all do it and it was me that set the trend !!

 

Cheers.

Allan

They are not actually upside down. With a ledged and braced door, the brace on the door should start at the hinge side on the bottom and so if you turn it over it will still be on the wrong side. However if you swap the left and right hand doors over they will be right.

I don't know how you lot have time to do any modelling. Every time I look here there are another three pages to catch up with.

Keep it up.

Dave

The colliery exchange sidings were inspired by Mountain Ash 

In the 1950s my dad had an aunt that lived in Mountain Ash. On one of our visits there was an engine with "For sale" chalked on it, on the track beside the road. I remember asking him if he could buy it which was totally impractical as we lived in a terraced house in Gloucester and he didn't have any money either. My memory tells me it was a small blue tank engine. Would it be one of the ones you have modelled? 
 

Dave