Kev_Lewis

Good thinking. That will definately make it easier for you to carry on entending. Keep up the great work!

Crikey! If that's a little bit of progress I dare not imagine what you call a lot. I really like the feeling of space you've created. How do you plan to hide the hole in the backscene?

I don't think there's any danger of mocking, Andy. The quality of your modelling is always excellent. The re-modelling of the over bridge looks great.

Thanks for the great advice Ken. All of the issues appear to be the same as with thier 14XX/58XX kit I built earlier this year. That's my shopping list for Bristol started!

Ah, excellent. I've been eying up the Scorpio Hall for a future project (I as originally looking at the JLTRT kit but that's a bit too expensive). It will be great to see how the 2884 goes together, especially with an expert like yourself manning the soldering iron! Of course, I have a Slaters Saint and several rolling stock kits in the queue. But what's one more kit?

You always amaze me Ken. You can make even the most challenging kit into a masterpeice. I look forward to seeing your progress on the 28xx. What make is the kit?

You've got on rather well there. The extra detail on the veranda looks great. I went in to my local Halford on friday only to find out that they run out of large cans of grey primer!

Yes, exactly. Hopefully your list of parts required wil be short.

Hmmmm...... that is a challenge. I think I'd start with a good soak in some cellulose thinners. That should get rid of the horrendous paint job and any bits glued on should drop off. I'd love a Hall of my own, but I think I'll wait and maybe one day I'll be able to afford a JLTRT kit.

That's a nice photo of 1466 on the turntable at Didcot. I don't see any reason why the chaps at 81E have to be 100% accurate all of the time. Especially something as small as the colour of thier lamps. How far you go with being prototypical is up to you. However there always seems to be someone at exhibitions who will point out anything that's incorrect.

The red bodied loco lamps were replaced by white bodied lamps on the GWR in 1934. They were the last of the big four to make the change from red bodies to white bodies. White bodied lamps with red lenses were tail lamps, usually on the last coach of the train. With the exception of yard or station pilot locos which would display one red lamp over one buffer and one white over the other buffer. An explaination of GWR headlamp codes can be found here: http://www.greatwest....uk/basic16.htm A 14xx on a passenger service would probably carry a Group 2 headcode. One lamp at the top of the smokebox door. Oh and the first link above is a photo of a 517 class. Your 1466 entered service in March of 1936 as number 4866 and became 1488 in late 1946. By which time 517 class has long been scrapped. Hope this helps.

I'm not sure that's been re-painted. I'm sure I remember seeing some photo's of the pre-production Heljan 33, that were silver. It was on the Antics website if I remember correctly.

Very nice. The subtle weathering is excellent. I currently have six of the Bachmann Brassworks O guage version of this type of tank wagon waiting for me to get around to painting and addding transfers.

Thanks Ian. I have indeed used grass mats, they're from the miniNatur range. I got them from International Models: http://www.internationalmodels.net/acatalog/Main_Catalogue_Index_Silflor_53.html

Evening. Just the last few photo's I took of Seagry at the weekend. The pannier shunts the coal yard. (My current desktop picture) More shunting. Through the hole in the backscene. The firemans view.

Cheers John. I've been following your thread on Hintock since the start. Your layout is fantastic and I'm looking forward to seeing the re-modelling progressing.

Thanks Nick. The telegraph wires are just cotton thread.

After the amazing response I had to the first batch of photo's I thought I'd better post some more. The diesel railcar waits to depart. Overview of the goods yard. The station buildings. The cricket pitch. I think the grass needs a hoover!

Cheers Andy. I'm enjoying watching your progress expanding Trebudoc. Once we make some space I'll be making a start on an O gauge layout.

Thank you gents for all of your kind words. They're from Model Signal Engineering. The GWR 1920 type. Yes, it's that Seagry. I spent much of my childhood in the village of Upper Seagry where my grandparents lived. Nowadays I play cricket for Seagry Cricket Club, hence the inclusion of the cricket pitch.

I've been wanting to get around to starting this thread for a while, so with the weather preventing any gardening today, here we go. Seagry was when I reached my peak in OO gauge, before I discovered the joys of the senior scale (Some of you may have seen my O gauge workbench and blog) and it's sat in the spare room ever since I built my first Parkside 7mm kit. All of my OO gauge stock was fitted with three link and screw couplings, but I found them to be incredibly fiddly, so as I've always had far too much OO gauge stock I decided that anything that couldn't be easily converted back to tension lock couplings would have to be sold. The resulting funds I plan to use to build up a sensibly sized collection of OO gauge stock and any remaining put towards O gauge projects. In the future I may look into using Kadee couplings, which although completely unprototypical, would allow hands free operation. Based in the late 1930's, Seagry is a small GWR branchline terminus. The senic section of the layout being a single six foot by two foot board and a 30 x 18 inch fiddle yard. Giving a compact layout just eight and a half foot long. Trackwork is Peco code 75, with all turnouts being the largest radius, operated by Fulgurex point motors. All buildings, with the exception of the cricket pavilion (Scaledale), are from the Wills and Ratio ranges, and have had various degrees of kit bashing. Scenics are mostly from the extensive mini Natur range. The layout: Aerial view, showing track plan: Station and goods yard: Water tower and signal box: Cricket Pavilion and PW huts:

A typo when re-listing I expect. If you look at the two already sold they were only for £15.