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Does anyone remember a manufacturer producing a pair of Holmes and Watson figures for OO a few years back?

9 minutes ago, MrWolf said:

I don't really see what the problem is with the colour of that wagon floor, other than it looks like brand new.

This is the colour of timber used on roadgoing low loaders ( also the colour of David Dickinson, TV evangelists and  footballer's girlfriends...)

 

Chiltern Timber.

I completely misread that last sentence, and thought that David Dickinson was a TV evangelist and footballer's girlfriend!

Recieved my copy of The Great Western in South Devon on Friday, courtesy of Cotswold Internet Books.*

Thanks to gwrrob and melmoth for pointing me in the right direction.

(*Other online booksellers are available)

12 minutes ago, melmoth said:

Do you mean "The Great Western In South Devon" by Keith Beck and John Copsey (Wild Swan, 1990, isbn 0906867908)? 

 

If so, there are about half a dozen copies listed for sale online between the £20 and £30 mark.

Yes, I guess that must be the correct title. Explains why I could never find it online...  hahahahah.

Thanks for the help.

Does anyone have a copy of the GWR in the South Hams that they'd be willing to part with for the right price?

3 hours ago, St Enodoc said:

What Andy said about what Rob said about what George said about what Stu said about what Al said about...

 

...I've forgotten what Al said.

Say what?

22 hours ago, Mallard60022 said:

Yes, I guessed that as well. Strange that all those years ago, Comet Coaches was born from three blokes who needed decent coaches for their layouts and they just couldn't get them back then. Thus they decided to get their own sides made and then thought, ooohhhh let's sell some to cover costs. Think it was sides first and then they went full Kit and Comet Models was the grown up version of the business. However, things have changed in over 35/40 years. 

However I was thinking more along the lines of the 'unusual and few ever built',  that they would think, no way we are going to sell more than a few of X even if Mr Sweet and his gang want one ! E.G. some of the ones we have been looking at on here.

Anyway, enough of Kits as Brian made the rule.

Sounds like something from a Tarantino movie. The Sweet gang in Pannier Dogs, with Spams as Mr. Malachite.

47 minutes ago, Ponthir28 said:

From my old and distant memory every thing was pretty black and oily. In the sixties.

If you can remember the sixties, you weren't there. Obviously a rocker, not a mod!

3 hours ago, gwrrob said:

Afternoon Cornish leftovers.

 

Cornish leftover, yourself! Oh, wait, I see what you mean...

2 hours ago, chuffinghell said:

I’ve lightly applied a little sleeper grime over the edge of the sleepers just bleeding into the ballast and attempt to blend the ballast between the two halves

 

 

it’s less of a defined join (even though you can obviously see the split line)

 

I might have to try and lighten it a little, depending on how it drys

 

I’m particularly pleased that my point rods still line up…..

 

…..sort of, probably about 0.25mm out 

 

We won't tell anyone if you don't.

On 29/08/2021 at 23:49, KeithMacdonald said:

 

Here's one I prepared earlier, with two tracks for arriving trains and two for departures, all with a minimum of conflicting paths.

 

That's not a Minories, that's a Majories!

19 hours ago, Tim Dubya said:

As an aside,

 

someone broke a bridge in Plymouth with a lorry yesterday afternoon, apparently services are still running as single line with a 5mph speed limit.

I'm nipping down to Okehampton in a mo to start track laying towards Gunnislake 

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-58387682.amp

 

I don't know if this is an update, out-of-date, or just plain wrong, but the Metro newspaper said that all services were suspended. Mind you, they also said the accident happened at "Mannamead, near Plymouth" when any dam fool can see that from the photo that it's actually Ashford Road bridge down by the old Lipson Vale Halt.

Maybe Rob could run a replacement bus service from Brent?  

2 hours ago, Stubby47 said:

Meanwhile, what is this siding for ?

That's to store incoming cans of worms... do not open until p.228!

1 hour ago, JohnR said:

 

I think thats pretty close to what a retailer would have paid for it (£111+VAT). I use the Cameliser price tracker for Amazon, heres its record of whats happened to the price of Oliver Cromwell.

 

 

 

 

Funny-looking outline - are you sure that's a Britannia?

12 hours ago, Mallard60022 said:

I realise the FB has no central support yet. It needs to look like this and I'll have to make it. I won't need the Ivy!

This is one of many Pictures taken by the lovely man, now departed, Graham Bean. He and Stubby some years back, visited The Junction and thus I have a huge collection of reference pictures.

Phil

 

I'm confused now... are you modelling Seaton or Ivybridge? 

55 minutes ago, teaky said:

The building here used to be a coal merchants.

Image courtesy of Google.

 

This is near Droitwich Spa railway station which is ex GWR and still has lower quadrant semaphore signals.  The coal merchants has obviously been remodelled with new doors and windows and a ramp.  The weighbridge is still there underneath the two cars.  It is quite a cramped site.  Just to the left there is a bridge over the railway.  Behind the building the ground slopes downwards to track level where there used to be some sidings.  Further left there is the station approach.

 

It was still a coal merchants less than 25 years ago because I bought a large bag of smokeless fuel from there.  It was unused for a few years before being repurposed.

 

The building, or the large bag of smokeless fuel?

On 06/04/2021 at 19:51, MrWolf said:

 

I do like a neglected and overgrown shed. This is one of my 1:1 scale sheds. 

 

That reminds me... I need a haircut!

7 hours ago, Nick Gough said:

There is a short article on the 'aircraft' Castles in the new Great Western Echo:

 

It ponders the question of why some poor and outdated designs were so honoured, whilst more successful, concurrent types (e.g. Stirling & Halifax) were not.

Possibly because Stirling and Halifax were served by rival companies...

2 hours ago, Kris said:

The sag has been taken out of the Cornwall bridge deck and the rails have been added to this. There is some fettling to be done and some painting before the sections can be glued together but I can see progress happening. 

 

 

One thing that I still need to work out is just how grey I need to make the bridge for the mid 1950's. It seems like it is much darker than todays colour, the question is just how much darker. 

Hi Kris,

 I've been off RMWeb for a while, and this is the first time I've seen your RAB. That's looking really impressive.

Good work mate.

On 29/10/2020 at 20:15, 31A said:

I’ve just finished a trio of Parkside LNER Fish Vans; one as built and two as rebuilt by BR as Insulated Fish vans.

 

I’ve put them together pretty much as intended, just substituted metal buffer heads and draw hooks, and added cast vacuum pipes from the 51L range which conveniently have nice solid pegs to attach them to the van ends.  I kept the moulded buffer bodies, as they’re neat mouldings, but added the rim at the outer ends with a strip of styrene about 0.25mm square.

 

All three vans are illustrated in Part 2 of Geoff Kent’s trilogy and conveniently the numbers for all three were found on the relevant Modelmasters transfer sheets, so I was able to replicate the subtle differences in the placing of the insignia on the real vans.  There are also different arrangements of rain strip on the roofs - straight, curved and non existent.

 

 

 

 

 

Very nice they look too; especially with that grimy brickwork as a backdrop.

Hi Tony,

 Apologies if this has already been asked, but are you the T.G. Wright behind the excellent Jago Hazzard channel on Youtube?

7 hours ago, 2ManySpams said:

Eh? Eh?

What's going on? Did I log in to A Nod to Vancouver by mistake?

On 27/10/2020 at 22:00, newbryford said:

DL will be on virtual show on 7/8 Nov in the BRM World of Railways event.

Glad to say I "caught" Deadman's Lane yesterday. Really impressive work.

A brilliant concept, superbly executed.

1 hour ago, richbrummitt said:

All this talk of buildings is very important but there are other important questions that might easily be overlooked. One example: How are we spelling bramblery ?

And if you add more brambles, will it be bramblerier ? 

17 hours ago, toboldlygo said:

 

Finally proof that the Men in Malachite have been to got at your layout