RedGemAlchemist

Nice to see someone who also follows the same ethos as I do when it comes to buying stuff.

I imagine the end result would be akin to the Triang Dock Authority 0-4-0DM.

Good so I have time to find something to use as a base then.

For all my LNER fanboying I've always quite liked the look of the LNWR's locos. You have good taste as usual.

As much as I am a born and bred Norfolk boy and a huge fan of Holmes, Gresley and Raven... Brightonised GER locos would probably look really nice.

Ick. Was never a fan of the way they looked.

An Achingverse cavalcade would be fantastic frankly!

Oh, you're only in Sheringham? I'm in Watton so you're only about an hour away from me as the crow flies. Even if you're not Norfolk born, always nice to see someone who lives local to me. Some lovely shots of your layout there, especially the bridge shot with the Class 04.

I have one, and it's not VD related either. A magician was working on a cruise ship in the Caribbean. The audience would be different each week, so the magician simply performed the same tricks over and over again. There was only one problem: The captain’s pet parrot saw the shows every week and began to understand what the magician did in every trick. Once he understood that, he started shouting out in the middle of the show. “Look, it’s not the same hat!” “Look, he’s hiding the flowers under the table!” “Hey, why are all the cards the Ace of Spades?” The magician was furious but couldn’t do anything, it was the captain’s parrot after all. One day the ship had an accident and sank. The magician found himself on a piece of wood in the middle of the ocean and, of course, the parrot was by his side. They stared at each other with hate, but did not utter a word. This went on for several days. After a week the parrot finally said: “Okay, I give up. What’d you do with the boat?”

I agree. Definitely Norwich with that station building and the platform layout. The layout of the yard is very Yarmouth, seeing a bit of King's Lynn in there too. As someone who's Norfolk born and bred, I can definitely say you've nailed the atmosphere as well @russ p.

Lovely work as always Adam! Kind of tempted to ask for a second one to buy from you! Very much look forward to seeing it run!

It is a lovely wagon. Kind of looks like something I'd make to be honest - plausible but not quite matching anything specific.

All these are just reminding me that I really need to come up with something myself.

It's lovely nonetheless.

Hooray, the Scottish Twins finally join the Sudrian Histories crew! They going in NWR blue or Caley blue?

Thanks. After all, celebrating that sort of thing is what this thread is all about! That and laughing at the opposite end of the spectrum.

Both of those are gorgeous, Johnson! Very nice. And to be fair, this thread was never intended purely for eBay, but any unusual scratchbuild or kitbash creations found via the internet or "in the wild" out there, though the latter is harder these days considering The Big Coof. Be they for sale or just stuff you found, all are welcome here so long as you're not just posting random content from your workbench. Since you found those two on eBay and they are genuinely really interesting things not of your own creation and that haven't been broadcast all over the shop, it's fine.

? I have no context for this. Sorry for vanishing for so long. My mental state at the time and the endless political talk just weren't gelling well. The Kelsby Light Railway has been going along well though, as you might have seen from my other threads.

After a year and a half (I think, correct me if I'm wrong) of absence, the Village Alchemist comes in from the cold. "Hello guys. Been a while. What did I miss?"

A little clip of KLR No.7 Gremlin running through Kelsby yard to the sheds. Decided to video this as I was using Gremlin as a transporter for some of my materials while working on the other end of the layout on Berkham yard.

Mmm. Henry. There's a few RWS modellers I know that might be interested in this. Have a weird GWR 101 (I think) knockoff with a terrifying repainted Duck face. Next up is this rather badly painted half-completed attempt at a TVS Duncan. Like the colour, hate the finish. I really do find some weird crap for this thread. A Bachmann Santa Fe diesel with Snoopy painted on the side (that said, the Snoopy is painted really well.) It's one of those things where I sit there and think "Well, it's interesting, but why does this exist?" If I could talk to the person who made this to see what gave them the idea for this, I really would love to. On to something a bit more practical for most of the people on this thread. Here's a OO scale engineer's crane, made out of a cheap toy digger and some odds and ends. I'm actually a real fan of this, as this is very much the sort of thing I can genuinely see existing on a small railway somewhere as a track maintenance tool or something like that. Onto buildings now, and I found this lovely little scratchbuilt post office which... honestly puts me in mind of the local one to where I used to live in Great Ellingham. It is a gorgeous little structure. Then there's this gorgeous scratchbuilt pithead, which looks very nice despite the shaky low-qual photography. I can also think of a few people that could have some use for this.

Very nicely done. Also you gave it proper cylinders and slidebars, which is a massive plus in my book as that is a huge pet peeve of mine.

Good lord.

Fair. Reminds me, you still need to send me that M&GN A Class.