gwrrob

I want one of these but over £48 not on your nelly.Come on Hornby do another run please.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Hornby-R4535-SOUTHERN-RAILWAY-LUGGAGE-VAN-/141060348339?_trksid=p2047675.l2557&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEWAX%3AIT&nma=true&si=cviX2zIlZo2D5McgM4qLqBptLoc%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc

 

 

 

Sorry your boys aren't on telly today, s'pose they were never going to compete with that derby game.

 

OT I know but we've have a job because we played yesterday.

I have to admit I thought that painting was a 14xx but on further inspection its actually some Southern tank thingy.

http://www.military-art.com/mall/more.php?ProdID=16314

Very nice though.

The "Wish List"

 

• A small area on a curve to replicate the Don Breckon painting "Morning Delivery"

A fabulous thread Colin and I paricularly like this scenario as I find Don Breckon paintings to be usually very modellable in some way.With your mix of regions and liveries you can really do anything here.

Having found the elusive invisible thread (EZ line) I've been able to do the post and wire fence for the industrial line on the viaduct board now. As Old Gringo had found a very attractive 1963 shot of the real viaduct in the June 2003 Steam Days we realised there had been some growth and fencing beneath the viaduct so I thought I'd quickly replicated this with 1.5mm square plastic strip and the EZ line. Painting the wire with Modelmates Rust Effect increases its visibility a little and gives in the lived-in look.

 

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No-one else would ever know but I couldn't neglect to do that little run of fence.

Excellent.I really like this product but I found it didn't take paint very easily using enamel.You seem to have no such problems using Modelmates though.

Still stood on that crushed step ladder box thingie Chris ?

Here I need some help with a couple of queries.Firstly is the headlamp code correct here for an oil train and which of my liveries on them, if any, are correct for a late '40s period ?

An overall view of the fiddle yard taken from the house end.

 There's still plently of room for the number on the prototype.

Nick

There's not so much on the model though,very tight in fact.

Rob,

 

How about a Summer Saturday holiday outing with a 28xx/38xx?

Morning all.I was thinking of doing an oil train but can't decide which loco to use as I don't think the period is correct for what I have.

Ever thought about triple heading with a banker attached at the rear ?

I don't possess all your stock so can't justify one.

Incidently,talking of stock,a great photo of 72xx class 7202 has been sent to me and will help with the renumber to 7200.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/64518788@N05/7361671038/in/set-72157629736491456

A very nice photo of 7202 in Swindon works has been brought to my attention.The detail that's caught my eye is the correct placing of the rear bufferbeam numbers however it looks like they moved the vacuum pipe to the left of the coupling to accommadate them.I will do this on my model.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/64518788@N05/7361671038/in/set-72157629736491456

 

 

Everyone to their own taste, however, isn't it a little anomalous that the vans on the same train are pristine.

 

 

Very much so but I can't bring myself to weather my kit built coaching stock. I bet Coachmann of this parish don't either.

Thanks John.I've never seen a photo shewing a clean milk tank.In fact the ones on the Hemyock branch were very dirty.A matter of taste I suppose although I don't like locos overdone.

Thinking back to my childhood before the days of Thomas etc I didn't have any interest in railways.In fact it wasn't till my 30's that I discovered Gods Wonderful and that came from my late father.I had a Scalextric before getting a train set.

A final few for today.Now how about a rtr offering of a full brake ? The NGS are doing one I believe but what about 4mm.

A few more photos to shew the rolling stock off.It looks nicer than Tomy's offerings......

Normal,whatever that is, service is resumed with one of my favourite trains that I own.4948 'Northwick Hall' on the down milk train to Penzance.RTR alongside a pair of Comet kitbuilt full brakes of the K40 & K42 varieties.

Incidently I don't think I've shewn the K40 in close up before and can take no credit for this vehicle as I commissioned Brian Mosby [Mozzer] of this parish to build and paint it long before I started any layout.I only did some minor work on this like fitting MM gangways etc.This coach is at the rear of this train.More anon.

 Toad should also be present! 

 

Regards,

 

Nick

See post 1439

You've got Duck as well then?

Yes but he's in bits at the moment.I thinking of using the body on a Bachmann chassis.

You don't get this on Diesels in The Duchy or Peterborough North do you.

Exactly 6 months since you started the thread. Almost 40k views - that's pretty good going!

Thanks Ian.I hadn't noticed but 59 pages in 6 months is good.Hopefully most of the content is decent.

Is that a DJH and Comet set up mate? If so I think you might have been sampling too much Devon Dew

Croak.

Yes those hinges on Annie were a right old pain.

I reckon you should handbuild a short stretch of mixed gauge track at Tigley Junction and re-gauge the latest additions to the stud to Broad Gauge and demonstrate what Tigley Junction might have looked like in 1890 or thereabouts.

Now that's a bit too clever by half.

I might ask you the same. After all, I'm not the one posting this product in one of the busiest threads on the biggest forum in the country...

 

I'm just shewing off my latest rtr purchases including Tomy's answer to the B set.Annie and Claribel.

Now Mikkel has slapped my wrist I will revert back to GWR type and post something a little more discerning....

Busiest threads ?

 now it's blue garters

Yes and here it is on shed going by the name of Thomas. To think I've been reduced to shewing my kids toys off instead of mine.Pah.

 Makes me wonder if we're all taking ourselves too seriously!

Perhaps that's why I've just seen something in garter blue sat on shed at Tigley Junction.I'll go and get my camera......

Looks like the BCB car park is going to need to go multi-storey:

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You're taking this excellent layout to another level then.....

I'll get my coat,again.

Your birthday again already, Rob? :-)

 

The worrying thing is that it actually looks quite good. Makes me wonder if we're all taking ourselves too seriously!

No I'm a Pisces.

You don't work in Hornby's design office by chance do you Mikkel.

What do you use for your fall-plates Alan.You can still get the old Jackson Evans etch that you can trim to any GWR loco size available from Classic Trains in Leamington.What would you give to a brand new Manor from Bachmann.

Where's the lamps?

P

Alongside Gerrard in Englands midfield...

I'll get my coat.

The shed foreman got a shock this morning when this came on shed.Tomy red no.5 James in whats now looking like their design clever.No moulded handrails at all.I don't know why he's smiling either as his wheels are not on the track.

It's James the red engine!!!!!!!!!!!

Bang on the money as was Twomanyspams.

 

I think Rob is having us on and as we've recently seen his rather nice restaurant car what he's actually talking about is a pink blancmange he has modelled to grace a  table in it!  Bet you that whatever it is it will be the same colour as a pink blancmange.

 

I modelled blackcurrant jelly in trifle if you must know.

Those BR loco exchanges went a little to far.Not the up CRE is it.