MrWolf

We've just cycled across the site of Green Ayre, you're doing a great job of keeping it alive in miniature.

I heard this morning via The Sheep Chronicles that Iain Rice has passed away. Much of what you see at Aston on Clun is inspired by his models, books and techniques. His ideas inspired the entrance and exit from the layout, the view blockers and dozens of other items. My condolences to his family and friends. Rest in peace. May he be up there sharing a conversation with the likes of Roye England.

There was indeed a yellow one, driven initially by Carole Bouquet (Who distracted a very young Wolf for most of the film...) A car which Citroen produced as a limited edition model to commemorate it's appearance in the movie, highly collectible now as it's the only Bond car which spawned official replicas. It didn't get fitted with the 4 cylinder GS engine like the one Roger and Carole thrashed around unfortunately, it might have been a little too trés bon...

I got bored of that as it kept circling back to the same half a dozen songs or artists. It was like listening to local radio....

But at least he did it his way...

I've just spotted that your brake van is one with a planked rather than plated over verandah. Could you please tell me what the origins of it are?

That just makes me think of dreck, an American term for all those random vehicle parts lying around the backyard. I have been that man who realised that he was a redneck when he mowed his lawn and found a car....

2CV's are a hoot, my sister had one, a maroon Charleston, used to drive it through the Birmingham traffic the same way she did her motorcycle. Like you say, the crash protection is minimal, so you simply adopt the same self preservation instinct you do on two wheels.

Now I fancy building a Triang ducking giraffe mechanism into a scratchbuilt GWR bogie iron mink. Just for the devilment of it!

She's highly unlikely to shoot me, it was @The StationmasterI was trying to reassure...😉

There's a lot of non runners listed, are they a bit of a nail or just too expensive to fix / no spares available? I imagine that by the way they're talking about the "very good box", they value that at about £130, given the state of the loco? PS. Someone here was watching me type and she has now got a fit of the giggles about my quoting "very good box"...

Purely because I knew that nobody could say that I wasn't a helicopter without losing their jobs and becoming subjected to death threats on Tw@tter.... (Other similarly nasty moronic platforms are available.)

I know that feeling, from when someone commented: given that your branch joins up with the GW LNW joint line and it's set just before WW2, you would see a lot more LMS constituent vehicles. I'd just managed to get my wagon kit stash down from around 150 to below 120, admittedly by building rather than selling them. That went straight out of the window...🙄

Dammit, that looks good, I suppose I had better get mine rebuilt.

Just to show how ridiculous a situation you were handed, I ordered a handmade replica mudguard for a vintage motorcycle from India. I was contacted the same day by the makers to say that India had just come out of lockdown and would I be happy to wait two weeks for them to make and ship it or did I require a refund? I told them to go ahead. Six days afterwards, another email to let me know it was ready and being shipped, along with another apology for the delay. It then travelled, from Delhi, to Leipzig, Manchester and was on my doorstep three days later. I ordered some little springs that would fit in a letter from Cornwall and it was three weeks before they arrived!

I do like that and like you, I prefer to build my own, partly because I enjoy it and partly because I can make them to suit the level of weathering and colours on the layout. I sometimes find that the fantastic finish on RTR stock a little bit daunting when I come to add assorted dirt and damage and unless you spend a lot of money, pre weathered finishes aren't all that to my eye. I've also gone about learning the same way that you have and a lot of it has also come from military modelling. I gave away all my 1/35 stuff because it sat in a glass cabinet and I didn't look at it from one day to the next. I've never been a member of a model railway club, so I really can't comment on that.

Thank you. That's covered both aspects of the interesting/useful button. Would you mind putting it into a signed document and passing it on to Miss Riding Hood so that I can amass even more wagons? Nothing to worry about, she can't hit a barn door at anything over 800 yards...

That actually looks very organised, without having been prettied up for the camera, like some celebs home in a Sunday supplement.

That's the big advantage that I have in sharing the hobby room with my other half. It never gets that cluttered. Not because she imposes any rules, just that I would feel guilty! 😉

That looks much more like the real thing, those trucks would never move fast enough to really polish the rails*, it's more like the dull but well trodden surface you got with the weighbridge. *It would be amusing if they did, or perhaps not...

I think that the big question is why can't the designers of the modern equivalent come up with something which looks that good? Current shapes and liveries look like the box your toothpaste came in...

Impressive piece of work, I particularly like the way you have modelled the roof.

See how this thread turns off the highway so abruptly at times that I think we snapped the handbrake cable? I never even mentioned mother in laws...😉 I was simply mocking the conflict between a media driven society's "rules" and reality, alongside the double standards also espoused by said media driven society. I will admit however, that it was absolutely nothing to do with trains, models of them or my attempts to build a convincing miniature environment in which to run them. Guilty as charged m'lud.

I've been busy with mine too, unfortunately Cloud has managed to lose some of the photos from my previous phone. It's not as difficult as you may think and I have a couple of hundred pages.

It's definitely red and definitely not a class 37. I don't know much about diesels, but I know a 37, having had a very close look at one when I was ten years old, it was doing about fifty miles an hour at the time! You're the only person I have heard of other than SWMBO who has trouble seeing blue, everyone else seems to be related to Stroudley....