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That rarely bothered wargamers in the 1980s when these were painted. The renowned painter and wargamer, Bill Brewer of the South London Warlords, certainly never raised that as an issue, when I painted for him. I did quite a lot of standards for him. He could knock out regiments quite quickly, yet at a high quality, but his productivity and thus earnings dropped with the fiddly bits, so I got to do knights with their arms on shields and caparisons,crests on their helms and huge banners and other one-off items. I didn't mind because I was doing the work more as a hobby than a source of income.. Had I been asked for the plainer 1815 campaign style, I could have saved myself the bother of dabbing on the lines of gold blobs suggesting lettering. Mind you, I guess that I would have had to saw off the staff above the hand and built a new standard without the bullion fringing, as I can't see that would have been bothered with either..

Injected into the thread to show that one has to dry brush your static grass with a straw colour to tone it down, not because it has anything to do with Napoleonic warfare.

I have a few of Dad's photos of trains at Wells in the 1950s & '60s. If they may be of interest I could add them to my gallery. You can find them on line at my photo-sharing pages, among other GW line photos at http://www.ipernity.com/doc/philsutters/album/514681 This one isn't at Wells, but it ties in with the last post. Obviously someone polished up 3218 for the day. 41245 definitely didn't get the same treatment. I am not sure what the head code is meant to be. A quick search on line only comes up with that once - as 'empty passenger train'.

If you can lay you hands on the hard foam tubing that is used to protect? scaffolding and grate it on a kitchen grater or a rasp/Surform, that gives a firmer material and may be more long lasting. I have found a short length of yellow in a skip and some light blue in a gutter near a building site.You won't need much to make a load of flowery bits. I don't know what other colours there are - probably day-glo orange. I have seen black and grey foam pipe insulation, which is similar, but they are not colours for flowers, I guess, but if there is a white version that would do.

I think you will have to weather them a bit to get the correct look

All we have attached to our railings are these!

But some tombs are grander than others

I think at least alternate postings benefit from being railway related, especially if they have something relevant to the east of England.

What do you mean 'Civil servants don't have garages and cellars full of useful bits like this'?

It looks like a hand-painted sign-writer job, as one would expect. If you look in the private owner wagon forums you will see that what we now regard as fonts were not standardized for this kind of use. Although the nearest commonly used font is probably Times New Roman, that is too slim and too regular for Ackton Hall.

Given the massive reduction in small birds in this part of East Sussex, I think this could soon be a non-topic for modern image layouts. Perhaps it will have to be regarded as a period layout matter, like porters with barrows and saluting AA/RAC patrolmen.

The problem is getting them to sit still long enough to line up the 3D scanner and scan them. If you can achieve that then the materials cost is very low.

If you prefer the NBR version - also from Neilson - you could have this one - still around in 1952 - seventy years after the first was delivered to the NBR. It very conveniently shows the other side, with the tender's brake lever. Most were coupled to the engine with a standard three link coupling. With the handrails and footboards they also served as shunters' trucks. (It was good to see the sharper image - the iron work is particularly interesting)

My family knew how to dress appropriately - especially as they had a high quality tailoring business in Hereford. They do seem to have chain cases or guards on the ladies' bikes. I do hope that the older man in this photo didn't expect the rest of the group to keep up with his motorized bike. Dated to circa 1912, by the age of the twins, two of my mother's aunts.

Haven't got one with snow - there's a nice one with a 2P on Highbridge Wharf and my favorite, rounding the curve at Glastonbury with the Tor in the background. I found Dad's negative of it by chance and couldn't work out why I hadn't seen a print of it. But then there's a lot peculiar about Glastonbury. When I was putting locations with his photos on the ipernity photo-sharing site, I could never get Glastonbury by searching for it by name, I had to go to Wells or somewhere else locally and move the marker across the map from there - very curious!

We got quite fond of the Colletts eventually!

Let's see if anyone has some more 000s - I haven't and I haven't any more 111s apart from the official Great Bear.

You could have had Great Bear in photographic grey but that would have been an official photo not one or mine or Dad's. or did you want more 000s

There is a model of the gun in Newhaven Fort, which is across the harbour from the site of the firing exercise in the photo.

There are a number of cycling related photos in the WW1 p.r. book Kitchener's Army, showing cycle scouts peering through hedgerows having dismounted, whole companies of cyclists including a large number of AA motorcycle scouts who volunteered to pedal rather than motor and there's one of two cycles with rifles across them being used to evacuate a wounded soldier - the bikes are being pushed rather than ridden, I hasten to add. My mother's family were keen cyclists. I think I have shown several of their photos already so I won't repeat them all here! This one is post-WW1 so may be a bit late for this forum.

It has to be another IOW tube train - this time it's not NSE

Given the generally flatish terrain of Norfolk I am surprised to find that there is no obvious provision for the regiment's bicycles. Obviously far too much had been spent on impressive portraits and not enough on new technology. https://cyclehistory.wordpress.com/2016/03/10/military-cycling-the-war-office-mark-bicycles/ Image was obviously more important than efficiency, especially if the cyclists that might be recruited had bad teeth! Was Gloucestershire particularly known for dental dereliction, one wonders?

My grand-daughter and I saw the original architects' model of that last year at Tate Modern

While we are rambling about with Edwardian ladies on strange mounts my grandfather snapped this while wiring up Abbassia Barracks in 1912-13. This print was dated on the back - 1912, but another copy of the print had 1913 on the back. Both were in the same hand-writing. Let that be a lesson to you - you can't always rely on the information on old photos.

More 006 ?