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On 06/11/2020 at 13:07, Michael Edge said:

I didn't say I wouldn't correct it eventually, I'm making notes and corrections as I build it.

Great, I'll keep my fingers crossed.

On 04/11/2020 at 19:16, Michael Edge said:

The Q4 is from my etches but there were quite a few errors and omissions in it - for example I'd forgotten to draw the footplate angle. I think I was compiling this test etch in a considerable hurry.

That's a shame, the Q4 is on my list of locos I'd like to build one day. 

On 25/10/2020 at 11:53, Michael Edge said:

Latest workbench photo from yesterday.

The GKN 0-6-0T has moved on a bit now, in the centre the next loco for Wentworth Junction - a Q4 - and on the right my current 7mm job is well under way now - GW 1361 0-6-0ST. […]

 

Those all look very nice indeed. Is the Q4 from your own etches, and is there any chance they'll be available?

3 hours ago, Nile said:

Their advert in the latest BRM shows the Hawksworth 15xx @ £97.50 (including chassis).

You wait all this time for a 15xx and two come out within a week of each other... 

On 01/04/2020 at 16:31, Michael Edge said:

Added to the growing list...

Thanks!

On 28/03/2020 at 12:04, Michael Edge said:

First batch of Stanier 3P etches all gone now, please don't send any more payments. We will get some more as soon as we can but who knows when that will be in the present circumstances?

Can I put my name down for a set of 3P etches when they are back in stock?

The fact it is sitting low suggests that either the springs are all equally knackered or - far more likely I think - it is loaded with something.  I would think salt is an unlikely 'something' but the contents are still likely to be quite heavy in bulk - I tend the thought that it might be adjacent to the good shed(?) and the 'something' is large quantities of official retained paperwork which are probably filling it.  Sounds daft?  Well maybe, but it wouldn't be the first old van to be pressed into use for that purpose an they did get filled up to the roof.

And paper is astoundingly heavy, as anyone who has moved house with a lot of books can attest.

"more to follow if anyone is still interested?" - definitely!

From the Flickr Page...

http://cl.ly/BBTJ

 

Opposite Lancaster Infirmary.

P

When I saw it said "Old station" I did think for a moment that it was in Northamptonshire.

The wheels at an angle thing IS a cliche! Unless a vehicle is in a curve the wheels usually are straight. People tend to straighten them up when parking and most road curves are gentle enough that they don't look angled. Next time you go to the supermarket have a look for yourself, wheels at an angle are very much the exception not the norm

 

Cheers

 

Jim

Not if your handbrake's as bad as mine was until the last service

What a cracking model of what I think is a very handsome prototype. Good name too!

I hope the Fell diesel does come out. I have a cunning plan for a diorama of the engine shed of the damned (the damned ugly that is): Fell diesel, Crosti 9f, Bulleid Q1. Any more nominations?

(For the record I think the Q1 is wonderful looking, just a little, ehem, unconventional.)

Wow! I'm only visiting this part of RMWeb from the smaller scales, it really does give you an idea of how imposing these models are.

Reddiamond, what scale are the opther two in your photo?

 

Given up worrying about the building licence - it will come when they decide to get back from the holiday season, etc.

 

I certainly wouldn't expect the ayuntamiento to be getting very much done during August!

Some incredible modelling here.

Yep, that's what I meant!

The 9f is great but the Bulleid pacific (or 0-6-0) is just amazing. Have you considered doing the next one without the smokebox door?

Not so far as I am aware, though I see Cambrian have it (and much else) on their 'to do' list.

 

Adam

Thanks Adam, I'll have to keep an eye on Cambrian's website.

Because it's not a 16 tonner, but something a bit more interesting, a pre-war 13 ton coal wagon built for private owners. Paul Bartlett has a collection here:

 

http://paulbartlett....om/steelmineral

 

Adam

Does anyone make a OO kit of those?

I love the model of the powerstation. It's now listed happily and is a bar and restaurant. I used to go when I was down in London as my cousin worked there but it's a few years since I've been.

TV and radio also often report Southall as 'Suthall'. Most jarring for me was on one of the GWR150 TV programmes back in 1985 when I think it was Chris Hughes (ex-UndergrounD driver and Mastermind winner) who pronounced it as such. And him a Londoner as well! Everyone knows it's "Sarf orl", don't they? Obviously not Chris!

(My dad was born there, gran brought up there, and her father was a Southall driver, though he came through the GWR's ranks from rural Dorset.)

That's interesting, I was talking about the Southwell in Notts, I hadn't realised there was a similar thing with Southall!

There's plenty of twin Parvas and Magnas (little and large in Latin) round here. The great is the magna that's been anglicised. And googling I've found a company called Magnaparva who maybe can't make up their mind

This is true, and there is a Glen Parva not far from there (as well Great and Little Bowdens either side of Market Harborough), but I've never heard Great Glen referred to as Glen Magna by anyone other than the MR.

It can be spelt cesister or cicester - which then make more sense than Sisister but we're talking "sounding" rather than "written".

 

 

It's probably due to the influx of newcomers in the past fifty years that it is generally pronounced as it is written, times do change..............

 

See under NAME in this:http://en.wikipedia....iki/Cirencester

 

Best, Pete.

 

 

 

This reminds me of Southwell which is known as 'suthel' by everyone except the locals.

What a fascinating thread and a beautiful bit of modelling! I have plans to use the Brassmasters 8f detailing kit so I'm sure this will come in very handy.

Didn't Great Glen on the Midland Main Line (just south of Leicester) have a a station that was called Glen and Glen Magna at various times? Long closed of course.