Jesse Sim

Thanks for allowing me to tag along Tony, it was awesome seeing a master at work. A very professional facial expression! I thought I had seen something similar on the weekend at Harrogate………… @jwealleans

It’s crazy how quick it went! I remember having that convo at Warley, forgive me if it was short I had many people wanting to chat. Ive compared Tony to a circus operator and I the prized monkey 🤣

I wanted to write jib, but I panicked at the last minute incase of being wrong!

My my what a dick It is! Goes well with the cock holding area, unfortunately only one cock insight, nice sausage next to it though I particularly like this photo of you working away, I do wish I had taken a photo of you taking a photo of your dick.

We’ve got to keep him on his toes!

I do love that it’s not the tattoos, long hair or piercings that bother you, it’s the fact that I use DCC! 🤣 A wonderful first full day at Wrights Towers, thank you Tony and gentlemen for the wonderful day filled with laughs and screams (mostly from Geoff West and I getting flogged for being naughty school boys in the corner not paying attention). That photo of the Jonathan’s milk train gave me the interest to model one, I mimicked his work but didn’t want to copy him completely so I added the perishable and larger vans at the rear off a photo I have. A great day, and there’s still over a week left!

I’d always been interested in trains, Thomas the tank and my Pops model railway really had a profound effect on me. I was gifted a garage at my other grandparents house and started buying different things and making my own little layout. It eventually progressed and I was modelling the 50s very loosely, I had all sorts of locos from different areas etc etc. It all changed when I seen the front cover of BRM in the March 2014 edition; Grantham! I fell in love and started googling and finding info, I had sold all my stock and started buying LNER models and the disease stuck! It’s quite surreal that the Grantham crew are now my dear friends (I think) and that I spent the previous weekend operating it at Harrogate. By far the biggest effect on me with LNER modelling has been @jwealleans who over the last couple of years through covid has really helped me with LNER knowledge and building LNER related stock that you can’t buy off the shelf. But if I was to name names of the people who have helped me I would be here all day. But we can’t forget Mo! The backbone of the whole operation who's about to get a pile of a week and half’s washing! (I asked politely first).

It’s been good to see you Tony! My modeling has come along way since last I was here (Nov 2019) so I wanted to bring some models that show it. The C12 is a Crafstmans kit and is actually the third locomotive I have started and the second I’ve completed. We have the engineers train which has a mix of kit and scratch built wagons. The DS Shildon crane once belonged to Ron Reily and was built in EM with a ghastly green paint job and it needed finishing. It also has a scratchbuilt runner wagon to support the arm. Moving along we have the three nessecwry vans at the rear, a 3D printed ECJS Mess van, a 51L G1 tool van (my first whitemetal kit) and a DS GN ballast Brake van. Flipping the camera around we have three ballast wagons, the first two are made from Hornby wagons with the tarps covering the incorrect oil box’s, the larger of the three is a scratchbuilt offering of a GN ballast brake made from a NER plate wagon using the cut and shut method. At the head of the train is a Nu-cast J6, this is my first kit built loco I’ve finished. None of the models you see here are perfect but they’re mine and I’m happy with them. Yes they need improvements, but I am only into my third year of kit/scratchbuilding can’t wait to see year 25 🤣 Lastly is the A2 I purchased of you Tony, nicely weathered, not too dark but enough to show her nice and dirty in her final year.

Not far off to be honest, I forgot my Akubra (the hat).

I have just send you an email my master!

This will be me the entire time staying at Wrights Towers

A deliberate mistake used to make sure you were not an imposter before commencing my UK 2023 trip.

It’s not mine, shush 😬

Anyone able to put me up for a week and a half, I’m too scared to attend Wrights Tower’s.

I’ve had this issue as well, I think I could be the only modeller thats contemplating switching back! to DC!

I’m kind of scared to type still….is 2 hours enough to cool down after having to relive the terrible experience? It actually arrived perfectly fine in the mail from buyer but it was a dud! This was before I had any idea of what I was doing (2019) and I sent it to you to get fixed up and for some reason it did a u-turn and arrived back here exploded. I think customs had opened it to have a squiz and destroyed it searching for clearly non-existent substances! That’s when the deal was struck (before you learnt your lesson) and I sent it again over to you Tony. You’ve done a fantastic job and I thank you for it. I’m bringing two locos over that I’ve refurbished/rebuilt that need some doctoring if that’s okay? I promise they will leave with running or not!

2nd of March

I completely agree regarding the photosynthesis.

You popping in before I leave?

I prefer to learn the smaller ruder words of the UK. I think Tony puts on these big words hoping to confuse me. Hope you weren’t here over the weekend, was a scorcher.

Are what?

Tell Mo to answer the phone in 5 minutes

Sooooo I can’t bring two locos I’ve worked on over in March to help get them going?

Is that the P2 that you soldered the motion back to front, followed by many swear words, on the very first night I stayed with you back in 2016?

Or a “my wife’s watching” answer to click.