MikeOxon

Since this thread has come to life again, I have restored images in my own posts that were lost in the 'great extinction'.  In particular, this one may be of continuing interest:

Mike

2 hours ago, Annie said:

Be careful now, Night Cafe is a rabbit hole that's very easy to fall down.  As with all such things there is a learning curve with understanding how to operate the software and becoming familiar with using keywords and short descriptions to tell the robots what to do.  Sometimes they can be woefully thick and just not get it and other times they come up with just the perfect images that you want.

I tried Night Café a while ago and didn't manage to get anything I wanted.  When I tried to create some early railway scenes, they all looked like something from a Wild West movie.  I gave up rather quickly but you make me feel I should have persisted. 

The vehicles look very odd though and nothing like what appear in real 'old London' photos.

49 minutes ago, Annie said:

And since no one seems to be interested in the research I did into GER building colours I might just delete that as well.

If you had said chocolate instead of brown and cream instead of white, everyone would have been interested 😄

I would have suggest Mavis and Doris but then realised they are Welsh ladies, so I have no idea.  I sometime buy odd figures, intending to use them later, but they seem to escape somewhere and I never find them when I want them!  I know Brunel is lurking somewhere ...

1 hour ago, Compound2632 said:

Just my little joke.

Phew!  for a moment I thought one of us had flipped 🤪

1 hour ago, Compound2632 said:

And a couple of photographs taken by a Mr. Wilkinson at Birmingham New Street in January 1900, purporting to show the engine in grey, having worked a trial trip from Derby:

Part of the point of photographic grey was the dull matt finish, to eliminate reflections.  The engine at New Street seem to have more of a 'sheen' than I would have expected from matt grey.

4 hours ago, Pete Haitch said:

Newbie question - sorry - are the vans with roof hatches, 'Henson Patent' wagons? Asking as I'm trying to produce some GWR Henson vans and finding pictures hard to come by. First batch (including an improbable grey one) awaiting transfers and Dullcoat.

 

I have written about Henson's patent, as applied on the broad gauge GWR, in my blog at https://www.rmweb.co.uk/blogs/entry/25862-broad-gauge-covered-van/

Mike

15 hours ago, ChrisN said:

I did get out the ladies of the Dolgelley Temperance Society to paint them, but then I saw the time, and so put them back

I'm sure they would have painted your carriages very nicely!

Mike

On 21/08/2023 at 16:17, TEAMYAKIMA said:

 

Good question. Two thoughts come to mind.

 

1. I was told by a (British) TV production friend of mine (and an RMwebber) that, " Outside broadcast Units are hardly ever owned by the TV company, they are just hired in as and when required." Whether that holds good in China I honestly don't know.

2. Having a logo like that would make it 'stand out' but that might not look so good or be so easy to do now that there is a ladder on one side

 

When I was in China for the solar eclipse in 2009, the TV vans were marked as shown below:

Mike

3 hours ago, Flying Pig said:

 

Yes, it seems to be a pretty murky industry with some very dodgy green claims made by parts of it.

and hydrogen combustion doesn't just produce water but NOx as well - just like other fuels.

I should add that ink-jet printable vinyl takes acrylic paints very well - that's now my preferred medium.

Mike

13 hours ago, Schooner said:

Any info/guesses on what vehicle is the tiny thing three in from the end on the right/seaward siding?

It's just possible that it could be one of the five early box wagons built by Braby and Carrs, which  were supplied in 1838-39.  These adopted Brunel’s original concept of placing the wheels outside the body of the vehicle.  Part of one of these early wagons appears in a lithograph by J. C. Bourne of Pangbourne Station.  Probably more likely to be a contractor's wagon, though.

Old vehicles often seemed to end up on West Country broad gauge lines.

Mike

5 hours ago, ChrisN said:

Well, to cut a long story short the cuts between individual slates began to disappear although the lines of slates are still visible.

Isn't it strange how, when you want lines to disappear they will not, yet you are experiencing the opposite. 

In my 3D prints I have tried all sorts of fine surface fillers etc but the layers are still visible.  I usually resort to self-adhesive vinyl.  You can buy ink-jet printable vinyl, which will absorb inks, so can be coloured as you require.

7 minutes ago, Ohmisterporter said:

 

Forgive my ignorance but as I see it a cylinder is a big hole with a piston that only partly fills it. Combined with piston valves that would give a four cylinder engine eight big holes compared to six big holes of a three cylinder engine.  So how would a four cylinder front end weigh more that a three cylinder front end? 

yes, but that big hole has to contain steam at high pressure, which means it has to be surrounded by a strong cast iron casting - that casting weighs a lot for each cylinder.

Have you consider wood?  here are a number of laser cut wooden kits available. A supplier such as Cornwall Model Boats can provide various sheet materials beading, etc..  I have used their materials for building broad gauge track, for example.

Mike.

I always find it depressing when I look at a close-up photo of a 4mm scale model.  All sorts of 'faults' leap out from the photo, although they are unnoticeable in normal viewing. 

In my case, a major culprit is the layers in 3D printing - so obvious in a photo but not in reality.

For slates, imagine it's been raining - they look much darker then!

Mike

1 hour ago, Mikkel said:

Oxford's old timber station

as Beerbohm put it - " that antique station, which, familiar to them and insignificant, does yet whisper to the tourist the last enchantments of the Middle Age."

Perhaps it's related to the quotation on you 'signature' panel, Edwardian "Norfolk is cut off on three sides by the sea and on the fourth by the West Norfolk Railway" - E L Ahrons

I think it was perhaps the colouring that give it the Transatlantic look

There's something about the buildings that gives Mumbling on the Hill an American or Canadian look. 

9 hours ago, drduncan said:

Spray the 3521 chassis red oxide!

I'm sure your workroom would have looked very nice in overall red oxide colour 😀

14 hours ago, JimC said:

..............

I have sketched up such a beast, and it looks, well, horribly anomalous with a side window cab stuck on the back of what is otherwise pure 19thC. I included a 3,500 gallon tender, which didn't help, looking biger than the loco!

 

You've ended up with something reminiscent of 'Galloping Gertie', absorbed into the GWR from the MSWJR and numbered '24'. She is reputed to have taken an express from Bristol to Swindon, following the failure of 'King George IV'.

12 hours ago, Annie said:

Latest spot of silly nonsense, - attempting to get a driveable bus functioning correctly.  That engine sound file seriously needs some attention.  And the hedge on that corner has since been cut back to clear the road.

 

 

What time period are we supposed to be?  Flashing indicators did not appear in Britain until mid to late 50s.

12 hours ago, ChrisN said:

 

Mike,

Thank you.  That is very interesting.  Can I ask where you found that as the site which has the newspapers of Wales only has the Barmouth Advertiser from a later date, I think.

 

Still, not a lot of milk.

Perhaps Mr Price knows Mr M G Williams and could find out more?

1 hour ago, ChrisN said:

My next job is to look at the Welsh newspapers for 1895 in mid Wales,  to see what articles adverts there are so as to glean any more information.

This advert from 1899 may be of interest

Mike

In the days before railways, cows for milk were often kept in quite small yards amongst the houses in towns - as were hens for eggs and a pig being fattened! 

Visitors to the SS Great Britain in Bristol can see the cowshed on the open weather deck, to provide milk during a voyage:

Mike