James Fitzjames

On 22/11/2019 at 07:56, Clem said:

 

Hi Tony. I'm surprised to hear you say that, when there's a Nucast kit to be revived by SEF? :-) ... . No, I'm just joshing you. (I assume the verb 'to josh' is not intransitive).   Of course, it would be perfect example for the RTR guys to choose and if fact I'm surprised they haven't done it already. BTW, I'm hoping to be at Warley tomorrow so I'll pop by and say 'hello'. However, there'll be little left in terms of traders that is of real interest to me. Just Alan Gibson, Branchlines, Dart Castings, Eileen's and perhaps a couple more, but it's a nice day out and a chance to chew the cud with a few people and see some interesting modelling.

Is the SEF revival in the pipeline, or is it just there to be revived? I would find the former pretty exciting...

On 19/10/2019 at 08:51, gwrrob said:

Following a link supplied by @Trains&armour there is a resin [hessian] camo set available to cover a Cromwell.

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Redog-1-72-Hessian-camouflage-modelling-kit-for-British-Cromwell-Mk-IV-tank/292858761041?hash=item442fbe0f51:g:u68AAOSwX85cxQR7

 

 

AFAIK hessian camo would only be applied once over the water: a response to having a big square turret sticking up above Normandy hedgerows. Same with the 'Normandy Cowl' over the exhausts on the Bachmann model. Must say I'm pretty disappointed: Warflat itself is a nice model, but the tank is pretty dreadful for the price

24 minutes ago, Tony Cane said:

The best information I have is that the last batch of WWII Warflats was built in 1942.

Curses, didn't realise the info I was looking at covered Warwells as well Thanks for keeping me right. Looks like a repaint will be required, then

Received 'Khaki Drab' Bachmann Warflat today. The correct terminology for the colour is actually 'Olive Drab' (British Olive Drab S.C.C. No.15 was created to match US Olive Drab, so that Lend-Lease vehicles didn't have to be repainted) introduced mid-April 1944. Compared to a swatch of the actual colour, Bachmann have got it absolutely spot on. I note Bachmann are also producing Warflats in Postwar 'WD Bronze Green' (actually deep Bronze Green), for 1955 onwards, so, given that Warflat liveries appear to have adhered to British Army colour schemes, would it be safe to assume that those produced in 1943 would have been painted S.C.C. No. 2 (brown), and those produced pre-1942 in Khaki Green G3?

Another side to the RTR v Kit debate is the manner in which RTR products are released. 'Fast or last' now seems to be the order of the day. I understand fully manufacturers not wishing to be left with stock they can't sell, but there always now seems to be an imperative to order or pre-order some RTR item, which eats into budgets otherwise available for kits.

For example, I need several members of a particular loco class only available as a, hard to source, kit. My plan was to buy one kit a month to facilitate this, but, one kit into this plan, a required RTR release meant that my money had to go there instead, for fear of 'missing the boat'.

I should add that I am having to start again from absolute scratch, so the option to kitbuild everything is not one I can entertain realistically.

7 hours ago, Tony Wright said:

Regarding rainy depictions (or approaching rain, anyway), when Rob Kinsey built Merthryr Riverside in EM, he asked me to paint a typical South Wales Valleys' backscene; which I did!

 

The different colours/effects are caused by the use of different cameras and different lighting at different times.....................

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Most observers (most recently at STEAM, Swindon), seemed to think it looked 'realistic'. 

 

 

As a former resident of Merthyr, that sky is absolutely bang on

21 hours ago, BlackRat said:

Flying anything RC is always great fun.......mate has a buddy box and I recently was able to say......."I have control," on his newish £5k turbine!!! I was actually shrieking with joy.

 

Im also into AFV modelling.....,RC now and have 3 RC Tigers in various scales.

 

Theres about 50 plus various other models ohhhhhh and I've a Billings tug as well.

 

The best is what we would call (I guess) detailed RTP or But it's had that many mods.......chassis, gearbox, tracks, barrel etc all done by me that it's a different model from what came out of the box.

 

Its 1/16th and will tear the carpet up....literally.

 

When a few of us get together fun ain't the word........especially if it's been snowing!

 

You do still get the odd rivet counters........one show years ago in Plymouth I had one punter telling me all about my 1/35th Land Rover which was based around a Tamiya ambulance, but with quite a bit of it scratch built.

 

He'd never been in the mob or driven one but knew all about what was wrong with it.........he asked me what did I know.......then I told him it was actually a model of MY own LR....... 10 GX 10.

 

Apparently they were never FFR ( fitted for radio) and he would not be told.

 

Happy daze?

You're obviously not grim enough about your modelling  Rivet counters will be rivet counters whatever sphere they operate in; now there's humorless! Having been on the receiving end, such creatures never seem to let evidence get in the way of pure opinion. 

Shame about FFR: I used to love a nice set of TUUAMs 

8 hours ago, t-b-g said:

A hobby can be enthralling, absorbing, enjoyable and fulfilling but still be taken quite seriously. I have known railway modellers through the whole range of no visible sense of humour through to giggling chuckling naughty schoolkids.

 

The word fun conjures up frivolity and silliness. I know some top rate model makers, who take their hobby very seriously, who are also quite capable of giggling at themselves and others.

 

If people want to treat the hobby as a bit of a laugh and throw accuracy and following the real railway out of the window and have a layout full of jokes that is fine. It doesn't mean that those of us who don't are not having fun.

One just has to look at other modelling disciplines, that don't have the equivalent of RTR/RTP, to give the lie to the notion of po-faced automatons grinding out a cheerless hobby by striving for authenticity. In my experience, military and aircraft types are usually quite jolly types and everything they do involves modelling!

On 09/08/2019 at 10:47, grahame said:

 

I certainly wouldn't have hung out washing near a steam railway line. All those smuts, soot and muck that would have got on it. 

;-)

G

Prototype for everything: there's a wonderful photo of washing hung out on the boundary fence at Fort William, extending for about 50 metres, with an NBR C class belching stour all over it...

Regulations stated that all permanent (not Temporary or Acting) Regular Army Officers retained their rank. Others had to be granted the privilege. The use of rank in civvy life was left to the individual's 'conscience' and 'sense of propriety' (so no snotty Subalterns!)

On 17/07/2019 at 08:01, Clive Mortimore said:

So who use to bull his DMS with Klear?

Never in the Guards (we had two pairs of Ammo boots as 'best anyway). When you're dealing with individuals who can not only spot a bit of microscopic fluff, but determine whether its state was idle or active ('idle' lost you your name), imagine what they'd have inferred from a whole toecap!

Tony,

Thank you very much for applying your impressive ‘squiggle’ to my copy of your superb Modelling the East Coast Main Line at the Glasgow show, and for your sage advice regarding my K1/1 quandary.

Jamie