Owd Bob

59 104. The over the top 'Rockery' gives it away, just too much poly-filler.

Short named, Silver buffs' unknown class 86 passing under Taylors Ln. Ince, Wigan. 1986.

Three steps to Heaven. Eddie Cochrane.

Sorry! The tabs had'nt kicked in when i posted that DMU. Heres an electric thing then....a 'Dog head' EMU from Amsterdam Central, Holland. 1993.

Cheap camera and bad light so bad pics i'm afraid, the recent purchase 08129 joins 08130. Numbers and double arrows made by Railtec Models, then given just a light wash with a 50/50 mixture of matt Black and Humbrol Chocolate Brown No.98. It will suffice until i master an air brush.

With failing health and numb fingers the smaller modelling is getting harder to do myself in this scale, so i have to bite the bullet and i'll have to buy RTR stuff for this layout. The buildings with their detailing and being already weathered are superb and instantly look the part. The Bachman and the Skaledale buildings are ideal for what i have in mind. Waiting for some more track and one set of points to arrive this week, but i nailed a lot down yesterday, i also cut out what will be a sunken area to tip 'stuff' off the railway wagons down into some lorries below, just what materials this will be i have'nt yet decided....may even be a Jam butty mine.

Lostock Junc' Nr. Bolton 1980.

I have given up on my folding picnic table layout for now as i just could'nt get all the buildings and features i really wanted into the small space, anyway i've built a slightly bigger 6mm thick plywood base with an inch square batten frame measuring four feet long by two feet wide, and it will be attached to the folding legs of a new but very cheap ironing board which i bought just to get the metal grille i needed for my camper van resto'...cos' its cheaper & stronger grille stuff than Halfords etc. sell. The layout will be total fantasy and straight out-a my head, with a nice mixture of industrial grime and some Greenery. Waiting for a Skaledale tin house to arrive in the post today, which will hopefully match the Bachman curly tin engine shed. The progress so far.

Nice! Snap! I re-started a similar sized 009 layout over the weekend having given up on my old picnic table based effort, and i've got the very same tin buildings, i'm looking forward to watching your progress and maybe nicking a few ideas You've already inspired me to go nail some track down.

I think we did Gilbert! Still there's no harm in politely giving him the correct advise for future reference is there?

Looked like a gathering of some sort of owners club Rugd1022, they had been staying in the 'Village' as i saw them driving around Porthmadoc during all the week i was around. Just wish i could either afford to stay in the village or own a car like any of those Little consolation but i bought myself 'The Prisoner' TV show sound track album on vinyl though, now i can finally play it on the retro record player i got for Xmas off the Missus! I am not A Wigan-er....i'm a Leigh Man.

Another taking water, 'Hugh Napier' at Harbour Station Porthmadoc, whilst resting from training duties last week.

Spotted these last week in 'The Village' Portmeirion. N. Wales.

I don't think it looks like '00' or 'N' it looks 'real' to me! Love the steep and very realistic slag heaps. Superb stuff!

Another Mini i'm afraid Back in 1980 my old 1973 pickup had rotted away to nothing and was beyond repair, so i bought a second hand 1976 van shell off the then new weekly mag' called Auto-Trader for just £25, it was very solid and the owner had just stripped it of all it's mechanical parts which he used to build a kit car with. It once belonged to a brake company called E.B.C and was originally Blue and covered in E.B.C. stickers. I transferred all the mech's over from the pick-up and was even was allowed to keep the pick-ups reg: Number: XEN 834M. The rear door bottoms were rotted out though so i plated them up and put the spare wheel under a board in the back, i still managed to stick a single mattress in it and used it for camping trips for a year or two!

Brown Sugar. The strollin' Bones.

Same day.... same un-known bloke as above! Looking t'other way and swmbo is waiting for me....again! and totally bored as usual!

You Make Me Feel Brand New. The Stylistics.

Your Mother Should Know. Them four again!

Porthmadoc Apr. '18.

I sprayed some areas of the track bed the other eve' whilst 'She' was out and with all the windows fully open! I used a pound shop can of Matt Black and it came out ok and it's slowly getting to look better and slowly i'm building it up a layer at a time. After some recent wheelin' and deelin' i've just bought another Dapol 08, my grand total of 08's being two It will be another locally known loco' to me and will be done as the White wheeled and Red Buffered 08 129 from Newton Heath depot, which was later transferred to 'Springs branch' it's another weathering job that can wait for the darker, colder nights. I've put my name down at a certain shop in Blackpool for a 25/3 and a 47, both are not due out yet so it gives me enough time to save up or sell summat! I've also ordered a brake van and one MGR wagon, all is plenty enough for my little display and to keep me busy learning to use an air brush and how to weather them all up properly one day. A view (having climbed over over the wall ) of the fueling point and shed that i'm trying to replicate from the real Springs Branch Depot at Cecil st. Lower Ince, Wigan..

NYMR. Aug' 1989.

Is that as steep as it looks?

I like Ian McShane and i've been watching 'Lovejoy' lately with all those now old looking '80's & 90's cars I remember one of the first eps' when he go's to an auction in his Volvo estate and theres half a dozen series one landies parked around....Heaven!

Thanks for sharing all these great pics' They are ideal for modeling & detailing.