MikeOxon

1 hour ago, Edwardian said:

I can remember, on a campsite in rural France in the 1960s, collecting milk in a jug from a cart rather like that one.

18 hours ago, Compound2632 said:

 

That was the point, in those skirts.

Don't forget the bicycling craze of the 1890s, when it briefly became fashionable for ladies to be seen cycling in Hyde Park and a whole new style of 'Rational Dress' appeared.  There were also fulminations from some pulpits about the moral evils of ladies wearing bloomers 🤯

On 12/06/2023 at 11:39, Schooner said:

 

Captioned at source as 3031 and 3075 Princess Louise, but others say the photograph shows Royal Sovereign double-heading with Princess Beatrice. Westbound through Hayes, c.1908.

 

I tried enhancing the photo as well as I could and feel that the name on the splasher of the leading engine is more like to be Princess Beatrice than the other suggestions.  I have seen several similar views taken near Hayes. See for example the collection at https://railway-photography.smugmug.com/GWRSteam-1/Dean-Locomotives/Dean-assorted-designs/Dean-Single-3031-class/i-v3DTVQH/A

On 11/06/2023 at 18:57, Annie said:

An early beta picture of GWR No.34 taken in the Trainz simulator.  ............

 

My main reason for model-building is to be able to visualise some of these early engines 'in the round' 

3-view drawings and posed photos can only tell us so much but the real 'character' of an engine often only becomes apparent when you can look at it from different angles.

It's great to see No.34 coming through like this 😀

3 hours ago, ChrisN said:

I realised that I used the 'draw rectangle' function and the draw 'rounded corner rectangle' function, and it appears not to work. 

Your problem rang a faint bell with me.  It may be something completely different but I recall that back in 2014 I had a problem with rounded corners when using Silhouette Studio v.3.  When I reverted to Studio v.2, the problem disappeared.  If you still have a copy of the older version, you might like to try it.

14 minutes ago, magmouse said:

 

No worries if you can't, but I do find the videos curiously mesmerising.

I agree - I feel that the whole point of these 'sims' is to see the trains actually moving 🙂

For anyone interested, I did some experiments with different roofing methods, described in my blog, back in 2015

23 minutes ago, Hroth said:

People go silly over 9ct gold, "Its GOLD" they say, even though its only one third gold, the rest being copper and a bit of silver to take the redness away.  1920-1946 British silver coins do rather better than that!

with the gold price currently above £50 per gram, even 9ct gold is not to be sneezed at!  Weight for weight, gold is more than 80 times the value of silver.

14 hours ago, ChrisN said:

We have had the tilers on the roof. 

I see trouble ahead in Traeth Mawr!  The slaters, or slate masons as they prefer to be called will be looking for you, with their 12 inch hammers and zax!  - and it won't be slates that they're thinking of splitting.  'Tilers' indeed - we''l show 'im  😠

14 minutes ago, Annie said:

In my opinion the inventors of add block software should be knighted for services to humanity.

I agree and I was most put out when this site suddenly refused to let me load it until I by-passed 'AdBlock'.  I nearly quit in irritation, since I naively believed I was contributing quite a lot,through my various 'how to' posts.  Nowadays, though, everything has to be 'monetised'

What did I say? - the lingerie is getting raunchier - I think they've noticed that I noticed 🙂  It says 'next day delivery' but I bet you won't get that in NZ!

35 minutes ago, Annie said:

've just heard of this amazing railway where they painted all their engines black..

That's no ordinary black, that's Blackberry Black :)

I've just noticed, as one of those cheapskates who leaves the ads on, that your post is bordered by an array of shots of young ladies in lingerie!  Perhaps there are advantages to not paying £12 per year 🙂

On 04/05/2023 at 10:51, Edwardian said:

 

 

I've always been rather sceptical about the colour in that photo of the model at Swindon.  I feel that the whole photo has a blue cast - see the (presumably) white box in the right background.  If that is corrected in Photoshop the result looks like this:

 which I feel is a more plausible blue-green shade.

Mike

It's amazing to see what you are doing with the Penzance to Cambourne line.  I have the TaNE version and realise it is a complete mish-mash, purporting to be 1930s.  I haven't a clue how to modify it but, perhaps one day, when I can no longer drive a 3D printer,  I might start looking at 'virtual modelling'.  In the meantime, I shall enjoy watching your progress.

Mike

6 hours ago, Caley Jim said:

It's the flight of stairs up into the cab that gets me!  Almost like climbing onto the bridge of a ship!

 

Jim

They put me off attempting a model, too - tricky clearances to fit the coupling rods between wheels and steps!

I checked your links all work for me, too.

I recall discussing something along these lines a few years ago:

One problem is that some of our 'railway fantasies' may be in conflict with one another!  For example, in my parallel universe, a (actually proposed) branch was built to Witney from the OW&W Cotswold Line, via North Leigh, and so the Fairford branch never go built.  I suppose we could create a new junction in Witney between the two schemes!

Mike

5 hours ago, Schooner said:

Well it worked on me, looking as I am across the water from Bullo Pill c.1875... :)

... but the South Wales lines, including the line through Bullo Pill, were all converted to standard gauge in 1872

3 hours ago, Schooner said:

Full and dimensioned drawings are available in here (for Broad Gauge at least), from which @MikeOxon created his charming rendition

 

Thank you for the reference - 'charming' is not an epithet I have seen attached to one of my models before 😀

Mike

I like the way they carefully avoid looking at each other at the same time!

A very early example of a railway engine being used to tow river boats occurred in 1822 at Newcastle. 

At that time, William Hedley's engines were being used to bring coal to the Tyne. When there was a keelmen's strike, Hedley suggested that the engine 'Wylam Dilly' could be mounted on a keel and used as a tug boat.  Apparently, this broke the strike.

For more information, see https://www.nms.ac.uk/explore-our-collections/stories/science-and-technology/wylam-dilly/

Mike

As others have said, the condensing mode is only for use in tunnels.  When 'condensing', there is no draw on the fire so any smoke is what might be seen when the engine is stationary.  The water in the tanks rapidly reached boiling point, so 'condensing' was used sparingly.

link not working for me but I'd use red primer. The White areas have a reddish brown tinge to them anyway.

11 hours ago, Mikkel said:

Thanks all, yes the beading and framing is what makes it come alive, I think. I actually wish there was more of this stuff on my chosen prototype. But the decorative limestone will help (and probably drive me mad!). 

You are making good use of your Silhouette cutter, Mikkel.  Don't forget that you could also make use of Slaters Plasticard Microstrip, which comes in sizes down to 0.01"x 0.02" (0.25 x 0.5 mm), which can be useful for very fine beading.  If you scribe a groove with the cutter, then it can be used to help keep the strip aligned correctly.  Alternatively, you can also use fine wire, again set into grooves made with the cutter.  Once painted over, the mix of materials becomes irrelevant.

38 minutes ago, ChrisN said:

What I do need are some finials, for the porch and the end of the roof.  Not quite sure where to get them. 

try Wizard Models - all sorts of stuff and canopy brackets too.

54 minutes ago, ChrisN said:

 

That is how I consider it, but Mr Price certainly will not like it.

I think you should be ready to point out to him that it is a great improvement on other station along the line, where the eaves of the porch are out of line with the rest of the building.  Mr Price's station is so much more harmonious.

2 hours ago, ChrisN said:

This is the front porch and it is quiet noticeable that the shape is wrong. 

Wrong for where?  We're talking about Traeth Mawr, not some other station, and architects didn't do the same thing every time, you know.  I think he decided that a lower profile roof was a better choice for that location.  It's like the carriages on the North Leigh branch - everyone except Tri-ang seemed to forget the diagram to which the coaches on that branch were built. :)