phil_sutters

You can't see any of the detail you want, but here's Dad's only photo of 53809!

The only information I have is in this handful of my Dad's photos - if they are of any help to you.

https://weburbanist.com/2009/10/29/all-aboard-clever-recycled-train-car-homes-offices-hotels/ Just a few ideas! or

Have you tried Google Earth street view? https://www.google.com/maps/@51.5506112,-0.1172772,3a,75y,351.45h,88.03t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sd4T2f1CvPTX61CUXs46Nqg!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo1.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3Dd4T2f1CvPTX61CUXs46Nqg%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D46.84404%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656 and https://www.google.com/maps/@51.5511007,-0.1151469,3a,60y,272.82h,95.21t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sz1BnhTHEyuZq7yTqP54dWQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

As his home is Frogmore perhaps he should be Kermit.

If I have caused us to wander off into the funny signs thread's territory, the mention of Tesco's reminds me of this, which should prove hard to enforce as it was intended.

Grandpa Sutters took a photo of a Pyramid and a Sphinx. He can be seen on the left in the other photo. I have no idea why that location was chosen! He was out in Egypt installing electricity in the Abbassia Barracks. I believe that in subsequent years some of the prisoners held there may have regretted that he did, as his wiring may have been used for purposes not described in the original spec.

Just because there was, a few posts earlier, a brick building with a central pediment and talk of matters of religion, I rather like this sign in central London.

I lost track of it for a while after the 'great leap forward', as I hadn't realized where to access it. So I don't know how long galleries, in general, were out of action - if indeed they were. I have done nothing to change them, so additional clarity, if that is evident, must be a consequence of the new format. I have yet to find out if one can add new photos or albums to my existing gallery. The new uploading arrangement seems different and, as I have only odds and sods to add, I haven't bothered to fathom it out.

I don't know what the 'Burnham Box' was used for, but this looks like a chalked on identification for a particular service. What I don't get is which of the 'Burnham Box' or 'Empty' notes was the most recent that had the current instruction. If it was a regular use for that van, why didn't they just paint it on, as with those 'Return to........' markings.

This one doesn't seem very ferocious - https://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/gallery/image/77601-sdjr-fox-walker-0-6-0-1874-no-1/

The veteran Bilteezi range is still around, if you don't want to print your kit. http://www.freestonemodel.co.uk/page17.htm

Not a boat train and for Hastings rather than Folkstone but it's a nice image from just a few years before your era.

Mind you you can get pretty large if you have too many chips.

Thanks Andy. I don't know why I didn't spot that tab - it's big enough. I was looking for it in the drop down menu at top right, where I think it used to be. I didn't expect to have to click on my ugly mug. Thanks to others who tried to help!

If I click on my username there is no Albums tab!!!!!! Maybe you can see them because you are a Gold member - which tells me that as an ordinary member not only I am not getting the same service as I used, but that I need to get Gold to see my own stuff!!?!

I have been ploughing through this thread from the beginning to see whether there is a reference to personal galleries, but the thread is going so fast that I may never get to the end if I try that approach. I see that gold members can have personal galleries - I can't remember whether they were limited in capacity. I also see that ordinary members will not be getting less than they were. Well I can't find my galleries, which I uploaded for everyone else's benefit - not mine, as I have all my photos, my dad's photos and a collection of old coloured railway postcards. There certainly doesn't seem to be an index tab in my personal menu. If they have been lost in the change, that will be sad for those that found them interesting, as I really have too much else on to reload them.

Thanks for the identification Phil. I have replaced the caption on the original photo.

Not really in the same league I am afraid. This is not the earliest I have spotted butterflies, but, as last year was very poor for butterflies, here on the Sussex coast, I was pleased to see this one and its partner flitting about in the sun.

Thank you for clarifying and adding to my rather badly punctuated caption.

Was this one that couldn't pass under?

That will certainly make an impressive back drop for your locos! I don't think that any show anything that will be of significance to your project, but Dad's and a couple of his friends' photos taken at Swindon in the 50s & 60s can be seen here - http://www.ipernity.com/doc/philsutters/album/1225098/@/page:2:18

See Compounds post about 7 above. The lack of post numbers is a bit of a nuisance. I am not really involved with turning this into a mass production effort. I shall continue with my printed body between a Parkside chassis and roof. However I doubt that the Fuller's CCT visited Highbridge Wharf, on which my very slowly developing model is based, very often if at all. Any posh cars for that area probably would have come off at the passenger station where there were end loading bays. The wharf did have a delivery of half a dozen or so steam rollers for the major local road contractor, W.W.Buncombe. I haven't seen the photo in any S&D books but there is one in a book of old local photos that I have.

Wargamers, or rather wargames figure painters use quite a number of different painting techniques. I learnt mine from Bill Brewer, a leading light in the The South London Warlords group. He was a prize-winning professional figure painter, as well as running the Rye Stamp & Hobby Shop, in Rye Lane, Peckham. In the attached photo of a display group (rather than a wargames unit) that I painted, the white-metal men will have had a black matt enamel wash and then several layers of paint. Prominent features like noses and knuckles got lighter shades as highlights. He never used black for the centre of eyes as he said, out in the open pupils contract to almost nothing. He used to paint 9/10 brown and 1/10 blue! Some fabrics like canvas haversacks were dry brushed with lighter shades, as were hair and beards. Bill used to finish figures with a satin wood varnish. He said that that gave a consistent appearance. As wargames figures get handled a lot it also protected them. Matt varnish would look better on railway figures. Horses were painted with a matt white undercoat. Then oil paint was used for the horses' coats. As it dried this was carefully rubbed back to create the highlights. Some times several coats of oil paint were needed to get the right coverage. Details like eyes, manes, tails and hooves were dealt with much like the figures were. They again would get a coat of satin varnish. Bill was among the first to decorate the bases. He used mainly lino tiles as the base, sticking the figure on with UHU. His favorite filler was Artex, mixed with some brown water-based paint, into which he pushed small stones. He found that the grit one finds at roadsides was a good source and he used crushed brick as well. Then he would dry brush a pale grey or light cream over the filler and stones, pulling them all together. Finally the flock grass would be added and that would get dry-brushed with a light yellow or brown.

Having used Photoshop to square up the body and give it the proportions of 27ft long by 7ft high, the height of the MR 25ft CCT body, the springs look far to long and the wheels are oval. OK there are still perspective distortions in there when looking at the chassis.