Dragonboy

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

Wilfred Mott in Dr Who as well I think.

RIP Bernard and condolences do his family
 

Brian

11 hours ago, John Besley said:

 

So why on earth do we do away with what's underground in the UK and buy in from the other side of the world ... All down to cost initially and now look where we are... 

 

When I was at school I remember being told there was enough black stuff to last us 400 years in Wales 

I remember my school days and a lot of what I was told was a lot of rowlocks just designed to shut us up and perpetuate the myth that the teachers knew everything. 
 

The problem I guess with mining all the coal out would I think leave towns etc precariously balanced on what would inevitably be a honeycombed structure which would likely crack and collapse then repeat with the next over weakened area.

1 hour ago, Winslow Boy said:

I bet they were in the crate. That's why its taken so long.

No my money is on Kevin’s bit of elektrikery being in the crate and packing was done by the forerunner of Amazon. Nearest box will do. 
 

im actually astonished because I wasn’t aware that Little Muddle had elektrichitty or what ever it’s called. It’ll never catch on

Brian

Welcome back Mike. Glad you’re getting back into things and I share your pain over the 08 as I did the same thing when I bought one.

Brian

Probably 

4 hours ago, St Enodoc said:

And this 66-year-old ex-schoolboy.

We play trains so I guessing there’s a little of the 11 year old schoolboy in all of us still. Thank god. 

My vote is the land grab. It would be sheer vandalism to destroy any of those areas earmarked as potential sites. 
 

Surely there would be bye laws to prevent it.  Besides if you laid waste to the woods where would poacher Pete get his meat or the derelict building. I mean many little muddle families probably started in the courting couple towers and how could you even think of making all those sheep homeless. Shame on ewe sir.

Brian

Maybe the windmill could stand on piles in the bay. A sort of an early wind farm trial.

Brian

14 hours ago, KNP said:

Thanks

For years and years this very old wagon was put nose first into the barn as the shafts where broken and lost.

Painted in Old Wood it sort of just sat there forgotten about then last week I moved it and felt sorry for it so off to the work bench it.

Repainted and very heavily weathered.

Any old off cuts used, bits of spruce to form the load and an old napkin cut to be a sheet….and hey presto we had on old wagon renovated to make it look even older….!!!!!

So would this be be retro down grade?

Renovated or Retro Down Grade maybe but I think more deserving of Masterpiece 

Brian

Given the extreme weather in your modelled area I was wondering if you had considered one or two slipped slates?

Brian

1 hour ago, Andrew P said:

Your mate Martin and the rest of the North Wales Gang say I should continue on here, and so I may do, and put the negative comments in the wheelie bin.🤣 👍.

Glad you get a morning FIX, mate, I do when I see Kevin's, @KNP Little Muddle of a morning.

Yes I’m with Shedman on this. Mug of coffee and a visit to Trewithin, Little Muddle and a few other quality layouts is my morning ease into the day. Life wouldn’t be without my morning fix so I do hope you will feel able to continue

I think the way you’ve created the fence starting to show signs of falling down is really superb. 
 

Realistic fencing can be hard to portray but failing fencing is even harder.

Brian

16 hours ago, Ponthir28 said:

No it’s the new box brownie.

Have we unwittingly stumbled on the answer to what’s in the crate?

Brian

There’s some pretty decent buddleia  on Kevin’s viaduct on Little Muddle

10 hours ago, LDM34046 said:

Another step in the right direction this evening. Mounting the point motors onto the boards. Yes, they're expensive, however, with the experiences I had on Lancaster Lane, they are very much worth the money. All 5 point motors were set-up and mounted in about 10 minutes and with terminal blocks built in they make the wiring just as easy.

 

 

 

My dad knocked up a temporary control panel to house the switches just to aid with working out the wiring. The rest of the evening was spent pondering over wiring schematics and with my dad offering to tackle the bulk of the wiring over the next few days, diagrams were drawn up.

I'm all for learning new skills and I do enjoy the puzzle solving side of electrics, however I'm not the most competent with a soldering iron and every time I touch one I seem to end up with some form of injury! Some things are best left to those who know what they're doing!

 

 

Despite a busy day job, it has been rather rewarding to come home each night and get stuck in for an hour or two. Great progress has been made and I doubt it will be long before those scale wheels are turning once again!

 

My Dad taught me the basics of soldering when I was building my first adult layout when I was about 20.

Great hunk of metal with a wooden handle that you had to heat on the gas stove and then leg it upstairs to make a few joints before it cooled down.  Happy days.

Whips! In Little Muddle 😱 and it always seems such a refined place to be. 

I remember being at a preserved railway a few years ago and I asked a volunteer in uniform where the toilets were and he pointed at a building a few feet away with the word gentlemen on it but then said but the volunteers always walk over to use the ones at the cafe. I asked why and he just said Typhoid. 
 

I remember thinking as I walked to the cafe that they had maybe taken preserved a bit far. 

1 hour ago, Winslow Boy said:

 

Your going to put a couple of dormas in it and put it up for sale on Right Move. I can just see it now- lovely twee cottage in the bucolic settings of the West country. Needs some refurbishment. It'll sell in record time. How much do you want?

Surely you mean Compact and Bijou 

Yes I’m afraid I’m in the not convinced camp Andy.

For me it’s blocking the view of trains coming through the bend.

Sorry

My belated best wishes for a speedy and full recovery.

Brian

I can’t conceive how you guys must be feeling and like everyone on here hope you have success in recovering these items. 
 

I’m sure you or the police will have circulated traders and auction houses to whom these may be offered already.

Brian

Wasn’t the white coal the stuff they put at the edges of the stacks to spot if some miscreant or ne’er dowell has been nicking the coal ……….. oh.  Someone has 😀 

Are you going to put some way of accessing the deck of the coal stage in?

Brian

9 hours ago, Physicsman said:

In the previous post Jam suggested I was a crazy man re. all the walling.

 

He is, of course, by my own admission, correct. Especially as all the walling within the confines of the layout (about 20k stones, or 10 metres) has been completely re-done in the "new" style, as those of you - desiring a "padded cell fun fest" - who regularly look on here will know!

 

Ok, well I think the video below illustrates the walling fetish better than words. The "old" (middle of 2021) style walling that remained is along the backscene boards - about 6 metres of it. All the rest is replacement. And some coping stones and paint wash still needs adding in.

 

Anyway, hope you find this ditty of interest.

 

 

All together guys. After 3.  “The Hills are alive, with the sound of diesels”  

Brian