MrWolf

I am busy painting so the modelling is taking a back seat. Nice to see that you are combining the two!

1 minute ago, Hroth said:

 

Still too many clothes....  😉

 

 

I think that everyone who saw the movie thought the same thing...

I drilled mine out whilst the parts were still on the sprue, starting with a 0.5mm bit and making three or four passes with bigger drills as far as I could, then opened out the spectacle plates carefully with a rat tail file. 

The plastic is quite forgiving if you take your time and let the tools do the work without applying pressure.

Perhaps I'll stick with Hollywood?

2 hours ago, ianmacc said:

It’s the old Airfix refuelling figure from the 1/72 military sets with its base removed. 

Welding with 100 octane Shell Aviation spirit.

I wonder why nobody else has thought of doing that? 🤔

2 hours ago, Enterprisingwestern said:

 

Mine was on the mobile too, so much for standardisation!

 

Mike.

Ah, the world has ended, everyone is dead, we just weren't cc'd on the email...

Pic: Garden Collage 

Thank you both, I might just get the woodwork installed tonight, especially now that we have decided to hoof the TV out of our little room of many interests. It's a spare that came in here when we moved. Fatal!

I didn't realize how difficult it is to simply give away a flat screen (32") TV, people are quite happy to take the ones that are the size of a garage door though, provided they're free of course.

TV is very dull anyway and channel 4 still haven't gotten back to me about hosting the next series of Love Island in Lugansk....

21 minutes ago, KNP said:

 

Very nice but one thing missing?

 

You need a crate on the back....

I know where I can get hold of one of those!!

Good idea, it would save on the crate jokes, on your thread at least....

20 minutes ago, westerner said:

Thanks Mr Wolf 

 

Almost finished I'm waiting for transfers to do thehead board and I still need to make the wing mirrors.

 

It's obvious from your pictures that you got the proportions bang on without my help! The driving position is quite odd, (but strangely comfortable) that cab is tiny compared with modern lorries, it's like sitting inside a post box.

8 minutes ago, Enterprisingwestern said:

 

On my screen it is marked as no longer available, there's a line through the £950, and there's no list of bidders.

 

Mike.

Thanks, the mobile version is somewhat basic to put it mildly. It's listed as sold on my phone.

Maybe the complainants worked for once!

That's a handy link John, one thing that I do want to model for Aston is dog roses, there seem to be a lot growing around the village.

8 hours ago, Nick C said:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/125509072344

 

Hornby Platinum Jubilee West Country for an asking price of £950!

Now listed as sold! 

OMFG...

I also have some of those, a very dangerous thing at times, is reading. I'll see an old photo and think that I could squeeze that scene onto a 4'x 1' board....

2 hours ago, Ponthir28 said:

 

Internet playing up, sorry!

If this is the future, we've had it!

2 hours ago, Ponthir28 said:

Looks like like its been there forever. Not just a week or so amazing.

I'll second that, it puts me in mind of so many real places that I've actually been to and inspires me to get on with my own layout.

But it's going to have to wait a couple of weeks yet!

That would make sense and seem to be the most efficient method rather than changing locomotives at point X. I'd be interested to know also and if @The Stationmastercan't provide a definitive answer from his mine of prototype information then I suspect that you can pretty much run anything within reason and add a third man to the footplate perhaps?

50 minutes ago, John M Upton said:

Another three have been listed, clearly most of these have been bought purely for ebay resale which with the Queen finally deciding to call it a day means the clamour to make a quick buck has gained even more momentum.

Is this the point where someone comes in and defends blatant profiteering by telling us what we already know about "market forces" yadda yadda?

Just like after Captain Tom died and those locos were being sold like stocks and shares?

There's just something rather distasteful about it, business or not.

22 minutes ago, SteveyDee68 said:

“Incredibly rare”

 

Must be legit, otherwise would have said “L@@K!!! INCREDIBLY RARE!!!!”

 

HOURS OF FUN!

Incredibly rare as in very few produced / known to survive, or incredibly rare to see one at this price?

Grab it quick before the collector's world moves on and the toy fair stalls are full of them at a tenth of the price.

Remember when Wrenn and Dublo were crazy money?

12 minutes ago, RFS said:

 

Not the only one either - see this search, One of these has already been bid up to £740!

Allegedly, we're in the middle of a huge recession and people are struggling to eat and heat their homes.

Or maybe we as a nation aren't that badly off after all?

Or a tender drive Flying Scotsman for the price of a new one?

42 minutes ago, Winslow Boy said:

 

This would'nt be the same person then who keeps finding other items to include on his to do list of models he'd like to do would it by any chance would it?

 

Just in passing have you finished the level crossing?

 

Asking for a friend.

It would. It's more a matter of procrastination and more pressing jobs  than not being ar*ed there too.

Hopefully you're sitting down.

The gates were installed on the layout about 10pm tonight.

Still a lot to do.

7 hours ago, 2ManySpams said:

Explains the black eye...

Just so it doesn't happen again, might I point out that "Nice bush" has been taken as something of an insult for the last three decades or so...😜