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Typical English weather in Belgium today... It has not stopped drizzling for a bloody minute !!!
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I can try, but I'm not sure my "Sunny dance" would be quite fine... I'm more known for my classical "Rain Dance"... Like in august in the Ardennes when I just had to swallow back my words when, just after I said "That's a nice sky backdrop there", it really started to pour like if they opened all the taps up there : a H.U.G.E. rain wall !!!
And according to the National Meteorology Institutes's previsions, we should at the best have a m...
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First exhibition day is over. Seen lots of people there, and also quite some fine layouts. There's this French O scale layout in front of us with a wonderfull depot and on the other side a fine crossing with the signal tower (Saxby, wooden) and also a fine masonery bridge over a river... That one is really worth a visit. I'll post pictures tomorrow night.
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Getting ready to leave for the annual exhibition in the French Railways Museum in Mulhouse (Cit
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Finally arrived yesterday in London. Performing a Demo at the MRC tomorrow night on weathering OO rolling stock with Vallejo's acrylics...
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Is getting ready to perform in an exhibition this week-end before moving to London on friday (Yay !)
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Yay ! One more year added to the meter today... I will only have my gift next month though... A little trip to Didcot for a steam train ride...
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Pffff.... Never knew that the installation and configuration of 4 new PC's would prove that difficult... Mainly because it's fine outside and I'm locked behind a desk all day...
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Now that I'm better, starting again to work on the models for my weathering book... But Damn that Peco tank wagon kit... Impossible to fix the coupler in place ! (I tried to adapt a Kadee n
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Sneezing like crazy ... Stinking rotten weather ... Thanks God for the perfect cure: Tea & Scotch Whisky
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Ah... Sorry to say that, Horsetan, but I fear it does not work for that... The main result of my "cure" is to induce a good "sweat". You drink it before going to bed and you sweat the cold out of your system in a few days... Also another effect is that it helps you sleep (imagine trying to sleep when sneezing like crasy...)
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Pictures from my work in Seraing this Week-End
alderson.eric.j commented on alderson.eric.j's blog entry in Eric J Alderson's Blog
Hi Mikkel, Just look the MKB website. They propose their egraved & embossed brick & wood papers for scratchbuilders. I gonna buy some to build my own OO buildings from it (with HO 1/87 size bricks, they may even be more realistic than the classic 1/76th ones... ) Check here : http://www.mkb-modelle.de/index.php?cPath=247_251 (embossed sheets - brick, wood, etc.) http://www.mkb-modelle.de/index.php?cPath=247_259 (windows) http://www.mkb-modelle.de/index.php?cPath=246_270 (Buildings HO Scale) http://www.mkb-modelle.de/index.php?cPath=246_322 (Buildings 1/72 scale - Military) Hope this will help you. I know the price per sheet is high, but they're the only one I know that provides the "Nord-Belge" brick layer (cross layer) that I am not able to find by Slaters and had till now to carve in PVC board (Pa-Light). Cheers, Ricky. -
Getting ready to head back to the office...
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Pictures from my work in Seraing this Week-End
alderson.eric.j commented on alderson.eric.j's blog entry in Eric J Alderson's Blog
Hi Mikkel, That locomotive was in service prior to the late 30's (before the merging of the different companies in the SNCF), but some of them remained in service in the SNCF and lately ended as "privately owned" shunters.... That's what I wanted to depict. The building in the background is a PLM (Paris Lyon M -
Pictures from my work in Seraing this Week-End
alderson.eric.j posted a blog entry in Eric J Alderson's Blog
Hi everybody, Here are some photographs from my club's stand in an exhibition in Seraing (Liège) this week-End. We'll start with some pictures of a club member's layout : First, a tunnel portal. This is a reproduction of a real tunnel portal located in Chaudfontaine, on the line from Liège to Cologne. This is a scene from the village, with the detailed and lighted pub (the name, G + Soif, gives the phonetic expression "J'ai plus soif", translated in "I'm not thirsty anymore"... ) Ah... Here is one of my "weathering jobs" on my friend's layout, an abandoned and rotting old steam locomotive... As he really loves Alsace, he even went to put a Stork nest on it... ) Another "Gag" on his layout is those skiers... Without snow ! Yep, the global warming did it again !!! Another of my "works". This signal box (original located in Quiévrechain, France) has been scratchbuilt with detailed interior and lightning. Ha... Jean-Claude and his puns... He went to put a submarine (check for the periscope) and even some spies (the divers) in the pond... But how dit they made it there, would you ask ? Well... simply by groundwater... ) And we finish with those two "global" views of the layout (with functional superdetailed Sommerfeld catenary). He's about 10 meters long for 3 meters wide. Then, some of my work... First, one of my freight trains (with my old Jouef 030 TU steamer from the French "Etat" railway company. Finally, the result of my simple painting and weathering job on a Wills kit (a goods shed)... This depicts one that is in dire need of repair and repaint... And a details of some of the planks and one of the two doors... This "Chipping Medium" from Vallejo really gives a wonderfull result. Well, that's all for this time. More to come later. Ricky -
Back from the Exhibition in Seraing. Photographs of my work and my friend's layout in my Blog...
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Back at the workshop. First some "Website" work, then back to weathering my OO fleet...
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Is working on his friend's website, and can't wait till tomorrow night for his "Finale" (Europa League Chelsea Vs Benfica Lisboa) - Do I need to say I'm a Chelsea Fan ?
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Back to my workshop to start weathering some goods wagons from Dapol and Bachmann...
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After working a bit on the book, getting ready to "hit the road" to get to the ALAF model railway club in Liege to work on my latest modelling project...
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Getting ready to hit my own "Sushi Bar" (I make them myself, yep...)
