Dragonboy

1 hour ago, Winslow Boy said:

 

Your only saying that as you don't want to  get out there with the copper sulphate and the backpack sprayer!

Surely it would be a bucket of the stuff and a syringe sprayer in Little Muddle. 
 

Brian 

Talking about bees I remember many pages back asking if you was going to model bees when you was planting buddleia on the viaduct. If your now talking hives I’m guessing the bees are on their way.

If you build it they will come …………..

Brian

On 10/09/2022 at 11:46, KNP said:

What you mean this chap?

Its Stan Dare the local artist

 

 

Suspicious, no, he ‘s just looking for his next subject to paint…..

Or meal

Brian

19 hours ago, Andrew P said:

 

My Track Laying is like a Hump Yard on the Main Line. 😆

We all aim for perfectly flat track yet the real thing is anything but. 
 

l watched a Les Gilpin video this week of trains around Carlisle. The track is incredible and if we modelled our track like that nothing would stay on.

Brian

Thank you Ma’am for your service and all you’ve done for us and the world.

Like others have commented above, a tear or two has been shed.

Long Live King Charles the Third

Always enjoyed seeing this layout on videos on YouTube and now that I’ve found this thread I’ll be following with interest plus backtracking. 
 

Brian

Will there be “specials” put on to bring the great unwashed to Little Muddle for their Air Show?

If you’re anything like me if I have a major clearing up session my modelling tends to stall because I can’t find where I’ve tidied stuff away to!

Brian

I’m also building a layout and points using British Finescale track but in N. Just grateful that as a geriatric I still have skills and eyesight to do it, but I was alerted yesterday to an incredibly useful YouTube video from James Hilton Custom Model Railways who video'd himself making a point and showing how easy it was.

Brian

Do you ever come south of Leicester?

Yes I think the changes have improved things massively. 
 

Brian

Brewery Road as a further option

Brian

23 hours ago, Stephen Freeman said:

Not sure where "here" is but I have sourced Chinchilla Dust in both UK and France so should be available in most parts of Europe, another possibility if you want a black finish is the volcanic sand they sell for reptiles etc

I bought a small bag for use as ballast on code 40 N track as conventional fine ballasts seemed too course.
 

Like most things I’m pretty sure mine came from Amazon.

Brian

23 hours ago, Limpley Stoker said:

Tone mapping and now added aroma - wherever next ?

Well for Kevin’s sake I hope it’s not “aromatics” from the piggery

Brian

Just found this thread. Very nice indeed and will look forward to seeing it develop.

Brian

I’ve never heard of a graining brush but a quick Google reveals all as they say.

Thanks for the tip Kevin as that looks ideal for painting streaking rain marks down a loco side.

Brian

13 minutes ago, AndyB said:

It's very quiet here.

Do you think he's finished it yet? 😀

 

 

Probably on the phone with prospective buyers

Brian

As the fly past lacks symmetry in that there are 3 on one side of the formation and 2 the other I’m guessing Little Muddles  Squadron Leader has made a muddle of his navigation charts and looks to be MIA. 
 

Brian

Looking forward to watching this develop

Brian

On 13/08/2022 at 07:57, Neal Ball said:

 

I suspect he’s being retired 🥸

That usually means a promotion higher up the pecking order and less work to do until he gets the ultimate promotion to become Lord Chocs Away and spends his days in the House of Lords bars regalling those to old or infirm to escape with his tales that usually began “When I was a squadron leader at Little Muddle …………

Gonna need considerably more DAS

3 hours ago, KNP said:

Here is my old Bachmann Collett Goods merrily chugging along.....

 

 

Must add a fall plate, very obvious omission in this shot. 

Maybe your missing bearing fell through the gap?

Brian

Very nice indeed Mike.

One thing though I noticed in the very first photo is the siding to the coal staithes. The curve looks incredibly fierce and I wonder if it would look better if eased a touch? Of course this may just be an optical illusion and a trick of the camera such as has been known to seemingly show banana shaped coaches.

Brian

In the second picture you lose the tightness of the curve as well as said by the guys above

Brian

I have to say your permanent way gang are very neat and tidy workers. When I had to replace a point last year it was total carnage.

Brian