Joseph_Pestell

Leffe Ruby on draught and at home. Nice refreshing fruit beer from my Perfect Draft™ machine.

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That looks like an interesting bit of kit.

Pleasantly drinkable if not exceptional

 

steve

That looks positively anaemic rather than pale.

Hi  John

 

Sometimes repeating it to yourself helps fix the thought - You WILL have hour of fun!

 

Also it may be a bit too late to help, but I got an e-mail this week from L Cut (who produced  my doors windows) re their new GWR footbridge kit.

Might be a bit easier to bash about. 

http://www.lcut.co.uk/index.php?product=B%2000-31&title=B%2000-31

 

Look forward to next weeks update, to see how the levr frame has progressed.

That LCut bridge kit looks very impressive and a real bargain at that price.

And tiring!

 

I watched Spurs’ last game of the season and last at the lane from the comfort of New York City. At one point the camera focussed on the stands and there he was, Pat Jennings! Still with the same hairstyle from his playing days......

On that  last day I had a choice of watching ten Premier League games all live - on various NBC owned channels (at no cost). It’s good to be in a country where they are trying to boost viewers of the Premier League.

 

Enjoyable season. Sorry about Sunderland, though.  As a Londoner I always had a sneaking admiration for them.

 

With regard to London - a total population of  7 million (Greater London) should have  50% more football teams than Scotland (total population of around 5 million). Only kidding but the figures are right (ish).

 

Best, Pete.

If you have looked at all those pitches on Hackney Marshes and elsewhere, I think it is entirely likely that London has more football teams than Scotland.

Wish you well with this. Both the railway and tramway are lovely. Should make for great modelling.

I will have a look through my photos but I doubt if I have any which would help.

Simon, Apart from the Corpet, what do you have in mind by way of rolling stock? With my long association in the Aude, I could fancy a small layout to this gauge standard. As David points out, the Jouef Villeneuve station would be very suitable.

If the wargaming stuff is for 15mm figures, that suggests a scale  somewhat less than 1:100 as the men would all be less than 5ft tall. But not quite 1:120 either as then they would all be nearly 6' tall.

I guess what narks me the most about planning and development is when a decision gets made that some people don't agree with, the assumption is that there is corruption in one form or other. 

 

I've said it quite a few times, that if it was possible to bribe my way through planning it would be far cheaper than what it is now. But the reality, is that although I know the local planning officers well through the many projects I've done, there isn't the merest hint of favouritism shown or expected.  They are after all professional people trying to do a thankless task.

As I have previously said, some planning officers are their own worst enemy by making inconsistent decisions. That inevitably leads to a suspicion of corruption.

That warehouse looks just what I need for a project I have in mind. Are the window openings cut to suit a suitable window product? Or are the windows included in the kit?

Edit: Just found his website. It really is modular! Very clever.

Yes, D stock is a very good train; good car body and good, newish, bogies.

 

I think that suitably "upcycled" it will actually be very popular with customers.

 

It came out of service for all sorts of reasons relating to capacity, and acceleration capability, which have no bearing its usefulness elsewhere.

 

Kevin

To give it its full title, D78 stock. There is a clue there as to why some people are not that keen.

Going to bump this as I have just mentioned it on another thread.

As an architect, you are going to be more than averagely sensitive to how something looks. So unless you can find a seriously large room or shed to build your layout in, you should probably rule out, for the time being, any sort of continuous run layout in 4mm scale (00).

Given your interests, I would suggest you look up a layout called Wellington Road. http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/36589-wellington-road-leeds-1975-79-period/ You could build something similar quite easily along one wall of your guest bedroom on wall brackets or a bookcase and build it in such a way that it can be incorporated easily into any future project when you have more space. It will allow you to try all aspects of the hobby within a short timescale and see what you enjoy most.

Agree with the suggestion that you use a baseboard kit such as Tim Horn's. Given the price of good timber, if you can find any, they are a really good option.

Finally, if you want track that looks good (Code 75), you are right that your 70s models are not going to run on it without serious modification and expense. So really better to start again.

And no reason why Golden Plover, suitably renamed and renumbered, should not appear on a steam special.

Many thanks for clarifying and for the Diagram information.

Regards,

Martyn.

I tried Googling it. Most unusually, no results. Gladiator have a different diagram LNW autocoach in their range but not currently available.

I'd agree that finding an odd extra unit compatible with the existing fleet for Okehampton ought to be doable (but things like Tram Train show how a logical answer isn't always the one that gets chosen!)

 

Welsh valleys are the only one that really jumps out as a quantity replacement - pacers were supposed to be replaced by electrification before the end-2019 date for disability upgrades, and to my knowledge nothing has been done on valleys electrification or creating an upgrade program to life extend them. We're now out of time on the former I suspect, and I don't think the latter is really viable.

 

Kicking that issue 10 years into the future with a short term pacer replacement could be a real option there.

 

 

Yes, the Welsh Valleys could be an option if the political embarrassment factor of not delivering electrification can be overcome. Some of the journey times perhaps a bit long for units such as these.

MTK kits were made in the 1980s long before PCs were available cheaply. As the cab ends are complicated, it would have been very difficult to produce a workable etching by hand. The only way then was to scratchbuild masters to make the moulds from.

I prepared etches myself before the computer era.

The maths involved in working out that compound curve might be a bit complex if one could not use the original drawings or measure the real thing. But no particular problem to draw it.

Like the multilevel concept, but I prefer it executed as a coherent scene if possible; here's a lovely narrow gauge example.

 

 

A pity that the video clip does not show the incline fiddleyard in use.

I am the person who is developing the new resin kit for the class 507/508-313, 314, 315 emu kit, not to be confused with the Ayjay models resin kit.

Here is a selection of pic's showing the cab front and coach rear.

The roof's and sides are currently being 3d designed.

That seems a much more sensible way of doing it, by which I mean you will have the joint in a place where it will be easier to match up with the sides. And it looks way better than the Ayjay (not that that is too difficult!).

I don't understand why MTK used white metal ends at all. Would seem simpler to me to do the cab ends in etch with a fold line.

One of the South London clubs, Croydon or Beckenham also had a model of Holywell Town: EM I think. That would have been back in the 70s. I am fairly sure that they did not know about the special operating rule though as I recall locos running round the train in the conventional way.

Would make a good starter project in O. And the engine always being at the downhill end of the train makes for a simpler fiddleyard arrangement that does not need a second operator.

Indeed, I think that is the one.

Hardly such a thing as a standard LMS push-pull coach as many were conversions. But with Bachmann now producing models of several ex-LMS locos with PP capability, it would seem like an obvious option for them to produce a suitable item of rolling stock.

Should not be too difficult, by 2018, to provide some stock for Okehampton which would be interchangeable with other units in the Exeter area.

I wish the Vivarail project well but I can't really see many obvious locations in the UK for them.

Europa League Final tonight........and you know sommat I really can't give a toss.....

 

Bill Shankly was wrong...........

I can understand your emotion. But very important that life carries on as usual. Otherwise, we are letting the terrorists win.

What now for "Big Sam"?

Six months off and then an appointment at which Prem club is bottom at Xmas.

I think that I probably have one of those old Farish OO suburban coaches somewhere which I could convert.

But looking at my Chester-Holyhead book, there is a much more interesting push-pull coach illustrated. Not a good view but it is more in the style of an early GW autocoach - perhaps a conversion from an LNW railmotor.

Hi Martyn

An excellent small layout and thanks for posting the photos of both your model and what's now left. I've always been rather intrigued by Hollywell Town ever since I discovered it as one of Cyril Freezer's plans of the month. I didn't know until your post that the run round was purely to get locos of goods trains to the upper end for shunting. That does make it a real life Inglenook Sidings with no using the mainline to cheat and the extra challenge of the two brake vans. Do you happen to know the real capacity of the run round and the two sidings?

 

How large is your layout of it ?

I didn't know about the loco downhill arrangement either. It explains the rather odd track layout at the junction end of the branch.

I think one can often gauge an LPA's attitude to planning by what they call their department/committee responsible for planning.

Here, it is called Development Control.

Kelly's Directory??? If you can't find an original for that date, have a look to see if Belmont and Stanmore are covered in the Godfrey Collection of replica OS maps. He prints extracts from Kelly's on the reverse of the map.