MrWolf

Hope you don't mind Graham, just wanted to show @Andy Keanesome Wills'point rodding sat on plasticard strip etc. It looks fine as you say when you have a couple of runs. It's easy to work with for my shovel hands and is way better than no rodding.

9 minutes ago, 40152 said:

Not unlike watching a tiny train go round and round and round for no good reason, really….no, hang on

 

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I wouldn't pull at that thread too much, we might all have to find another hobby!

It needs to drive something if it's not going to become an expensive ornament, then you're into collecting the matching machinery and building a model sawmill.

It's a potential trip down the rabbit hole...

That's an interesting building, (apart from the blue paint) it's simple but there's plenty of opportunities for details.

I'm rather liking the round house in the 1873 picture too.

I resisted the urge to buy a Bing vertical boiler oscillating engine last week. Reason told me to consider what I was actually going to do with it?

Thank you, it's scratches made with a no.11 scalpel on 20 thou card before I cut it from the sheet.

I try to keep it simple!

Good point, even in the last decade or two out in the sticks there were wooden poles with an electrical cable strung across the top, a few telephone insulators and even a 1930s era bracket street lamp attached. Some still had the old round sodium lamp though most had been converted with a rectangular yellow lamp in the 70s.

These BLEECO type were common.

Image: BENO.

This kind of thing:

Image: BENO.

Not something I recall seeing modelled?

Quite possibly whilst hoping to cop 9084 Isle of Jersey perhaps?

I like the station idea, a bit of Great Western Tudor.

38 minutes ago, BroadLeaves said:

I'm not sure which is more overpriced, the set itself for £959 or the postage. I know stamps are going up, but even so...

I didn't notice the £26 all bar a penny postage.

Beedy grastards.

Potato watchers?

I suppose couch potatoes is too post 1990 for Little Muddle.

32 minutes ago, Esmedune said:

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https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/275290899429?mkevt=1&mkcid=1&mkrid=710-53481-19255-0&campid=5338722076&customid=&toolid=10050

How much?

That's just ridiculous.

Tin sheds are like Panniers.

One is never enough.

I might be a little biased, but that old truck has character already.

34 minutes ago, Graham T said:

I received a brace of rather nice wiggly tin huts through the post today (after they'd taken a few days' holiday hiding in depths of the Austrian postal service).  These are courtesy of @Brinkly, and they really are good little pieces.  I'm wondering where to put them at Chuffnell R, there are lots of possibilities with these as you can imagine!

 

Near the engine shed maybe?

 

 

I quite like the idea of one next to the pagoda hut on the platform...

 

 

And perhaps one to house the pump and so on for the water tower?

 

 

 

You can't beat having a good selection of tin sheds, as in reality they seem to breed.

Wallingford, 1960s. Wikipedia.

I like that and the shadows don't detract from it, more like a typical English sky!

Those look rather good and I even managed not to be distracted by the steam railmotor!

Mine are illegible too, despite that, I still got  all obsessive about copying the frame in my previous photo.

Images like that are just about the only source of inspiration and information for those of us born after the 1960s and the fact that we can simply hunt for them on the internet saves hours of hunting through a set of archives or being unable to access another. Besides the train there's a lot of other information such as the ground surface, telephone poles and the home made diamond pattern fencing which is now rarely seen.

It's either this one:

Or this one:

Pictures: Railwayana Auctions.

There's a cast iron version of the top one I believe.

This is the second version in situ outside a crossing keeper's house, I have borrowed the Idea for my own model.

Pic: Model Rail.

I've seen the scraps on eBay for that kind of thing. 

My wallet tells me to stick with sawn up Tri-ang clerestories!

Thinking about it, if I knew the length of the fire irons and the dimensions of the heads I can make my own.

I've found that 247 Developments do etched brass number plates for 2291.

Thanks, I'm trying to fit as much detail as I can and that's some very useful information. It would make sense to identify the fire irons from the handle end anyway as they will be heaped together and on some locos (IIRC?) they are stored in a tunnel forward of the cab.

Can anyone recommend a decent set of fire irons?

Am I right in thinking that the storm sheet supports are fitted in the front corners of the coal space between the back of the toolboxes and the tank vents?

40 minutes ago, Graham T said:

 

Cheers.  No problem messing about with locos though, it's being able to switch around between different areas that helps to keep my interest, I find.

 

I'll probably start fiddling about with something completely different tomorrow!

I also find it helps to have a few very different projects for the layout on the go, just not too many!

15 minutes ago, Sasquatch said:

Please be forewarned about Coopercraft Graham. Many people have made online purchases and not received their purchases.

 

For while there, things all looked rosy when the company started buying up tooling for other ranges such as the Ian Kirk LNER and Mailcoach coaches. Things all went dark except the website and the hobby has sadly lost many great kits!  

I only buy them secondhand.

In the very first post of my own thread I said I was surprised how much in the way of kits and detail parts seemed to be no longer available for one reason or another.