Owd Bob

Keep right on to the end of the Road . Sir Harry Lauder.

We Did'nt Start The Fire. Billy Joel.

Nice CME a later 80 RAF model with the lights through the grille! Now if Marc could just swap the Moggy Minor in the great pics on the previous page for a pre-pro '48 Sage Green 80" to go along side the Brockhouse trailer. I must try and sneek an old Landy in mine somehow

O.R. i could never at the time and never ever will understand why such abuse could occur over what is meant to be just a hobby and pleasurable pastime, and why these mindless folk can't just keep their mouths shut and opinions to themselves, this is why i've kept to myself for years, unfortunately as i've seen on this forum there are still lot of opinionated folk about if you look hard enough......i just ignore them O.R. Shame you could be on the move again as i was looking forward to watching the new lines construction this Summer ...never mind onwards and upwards as they say and all could turn out a lot better for you. ..... do like i do these days, and leave all the heavy lifting and moving stuff about to others

Cheers Ian i will keep in touch and i do get the local meets & events e-mailed to me by Rob' i re-joined the 16mm group last week and all my mags' etc came in the post yesterday, i thought it would be best to be a fully payed up member once again especially if i'm to travel and visit other members lines more in the future. I normally do my own thing and i'm not really into clubs and groups etc. but things change and surprisingly for me it's now best i change with them.

I've now got most of the detailing done on the tunnel mouth with the mortar lines scraped out and the castle style turrets cut to size. I skimmed over the tunnels arched top half with a bit more car filler, into which i then carved out the oblong stones by hand with a Stanley blade. Just leaves me the turret top cappings to make and the paint work to sort out over the Easter weekend.

Little White Bull. Tommy Steele.

Welcome to The Jungle. Guns & Roses.

Thanks Ian! I sure did get close up and personal with some famous loco's on Sunday I fancy going to the newish one at Preston Docks 'The Ribble valley railway' i think it's called??? I see it has a lot of industrial type locos etc. Will deffo' have to get a trip up to the Narrow Gauge West Lancs' as well this year!

And Your Bird Can Sing. Beekles.

Love those superb pics' Marc thanks for the loads of inspiration, plenty for me to copy off there and with me having a thing for old Land-rovers i really love the old Brockhouse trailer and the way it typically sits dumped nose down Had to buy another tub of car filler yesterday to make the tunnel mouth, it was only a small tub at a fiver and i've enough left over to stick all the tunnels bits together with it later. I made a template using foam board, i cut the tunnel portal out of the foam board and spread the filler all around it once i'd used the other part of the template to position it correctly. I had to get the class 40 out and sat at the final height i wanted on a piece of track chocked up with foam board as ballast to make sure the tunnel was made high and wide enough. I have done it as a single bore, but i'm still copying the castle styled turrets off the original .

Green Door. Jim Lowe.

Spotted this one under resto' on the ELR at Bury.

Nice to be still breathing and waking up alive in the mornings Mike Really Nice to see some old names and some old previous forum mates popping up again, have you all been in Hibernation? ..........Fillipe!.... will the real Phil' please sign in! Wow! Ian! Sundays day out! i'm still recovering from a really great day ..it'll take some beating Ian...Thanks!

Yep! its great how SWMBO finally thought of me & the railway stuff yesterday CME, 'cos whilst she was out in the car, She very thoughtfully called in at the local turf farm come garden centre and bought me the four bags of soil and a big grow bag of compost i needed to spread around the garden line, Wow! " thanks i thought" she do's care! Then she said "Don't worry! i've already took the Tenner out of yer wallet for it all" Funny how it all came to exactly a tenner and i had no change!

A Horse with no name. America.

Some good news for followers of my line, the Daughter managed to retrieve a lot of my photos off 'Photofeckitupbucket@ coughitup.dotcom. and i should be able to post them soon, i would'nt think they'll be in any great order, but i'll try to explain as much as i can remember about them, as there's lot more than i thought Had a good warm morning tidying up, re-ballasting and topping up the line-side with soil all around the line. Surprising just how much gets washed or blown away over a few months of British weather. I'm waiting for it to get a bit warmer for a lot longer before i start to mix some concrete again to get the subsidence sorted! Looks a bit stark at the mo' but it'll soon all weather in ok.

The track and some detailing is now added to the shed base and inspection pit, still loads to get done on it but it's a good start now the track is in place i can work around it, i just cut the sleeper ends and sleeper centres off a length of track leaving just two full sleeper at either end to hold the rails together and parallel, i rested the chairs and what was left of the sleepers on the pit side walls/shelf i made...thankfully it rested at the right depth so the rail top is flush with the shed floor surface. I used a wagon to gauge the rails and keep them apart in the centre of the length whilst the glue set! I probably had the most enjoyable and railway related and interesting day i've had for a long-long while yesterday when a great friend and fellow modeler whom is a long term member at the E.L.R. Bury invited me and a friend to have a guided tour of the hard to get to see places. It was an early and very frosty & misty start but it added to the atmosphere. The day ended sitting on the station in the warm Sun with a bacon butty and a brew of strong Black tea. Plenty of pics' were taken mostly for research but a lot for pure pleasure. I'd love to share them all but there are just some things that can't be seen or shown at the mo' as we don't want to spoil things for a lot of folks and also for security reasons as they had had some un-welcome crow bar wielding visitors only hours before! I did get to see the tunnel mouth and retaining walls quite close up that i'm going to try to copy. The concrete panel fence and Garage above the tunnel mouth will make a simple low relief back scene....i hope!

50 015 Valiant on the ELR Bury 25-3-'18.

She whinges at my daily morning hour or so trawling around on here CME.....and just seemingly like your other half, she seems to be watching over my shoulder all the time......

Whole Wide World. Wreckless Eric.

Thanks all & CME, It's all done of course with research and great ideas i've gleaned off this site along the way. I'm taking my time but i have done a lot more in this last week or so, mainly due to being stuck indoors due to the cold weather, this evenings fettlings will be back to the engine shed and start some detailing...i cut/altered some track and sleepers/chairs to fit it yesterday, now i have to stick 'em in at the right height and width either side of the pit in a suitable prototype looking but not an exact way, i have plenty of my old inside diesel shed pics' to look at for inspiration. Although the layout will only be seen from one side i'll still detail it just in case it ever gets seen from t'other side and both ends as well. Deffo off to the E.L.R. Bury, tomoz' i missed out last weekend because of the snow. It's all for photographic research purposes!...Well that's what i tell the 'She Devil'

Holidays In The Sun. The Sex Pistols.

I molded a bit more walling the other day, three butresses to hide the stone wall joints and break up its long run to the eye, and a walled recess where a signal post stands, i might as well copy a real feature from the area true to form. An hole was jig-sawed out for the sheds inspection pit. I played around with the buildings, and they are now roughly being set in where they are in these pics.

Reminds me of a a primary School Teacher i had in the mid' 1960's, a certain Mrs Seddon, she had a lovely Burgendy/Plum coloured Austin Badged Mini Minor Seven....well that's what the very long looking chrome boot badge said, i remember it also had the curly Austin Grille and chrome moustache' as well...i can say i never saw many other Minis in that colour! I do remember seeing plenty of the booted Elf versions in that colour though.