MrWolf

Ouch indeed. The window graphic for my friend's shop was about that price!

Coming together nicely, without it's roof it has a certain monastic quality to it. It's sitting well with the other buildings, I'll be keeping an eye on progress.

That looks suitably scruffy.

It was a very strange almost eerie sight over Wharfedale the Sunday before last, especially with the lightning storm in the facing direction.

A few evergreens behind the platform is pretty much de rigeur for GWR stations. Although the station has been dismantled recently, the pines still stand at the site of Raglan station. The other two are doing a great job of disappearing the road into the backscene.

Thanks everyone for the very useful information, those wagons now have no excuse to remain in their boxes. Regarding the grey paintwork post 1939, this was also the livery of the national POOL wartime fuel arrangement, where all branding was removed. It's quite possible that not all tankers were repaired into their owner's livery immediately after the cessation of hostilities and the POOL livery may have lingered on for several years afterwards.

Is that a polite version of wilfully neglected? 😀 It looks like I had better repair it and replace the unicycling lion with something a little more art deco.

Here she is at Leamington shed: https://www.warwickshirerailways.com/gwr/gwrls2161.htm

Both tenders need minor repairs and the same detailing, so I think that running something different would be taking the job one step further. Plus I can order a set of transfers I can use on this and number 23. I expect that etched plates for 2291 can be had somewhere.

You read my mind.

Crack, God of chaos may escape from Wales....

Thanks @Moxy, that's an excellent bit of detective work. It's also good to see that the image is classified as "fair use" too. That site is a real source of inspiration, I'll be bookmarking it!

I have been doing a little research after finding a Bachmann mogultender in one of my junk boxes. It's got a wheel set missing and the usual damage, but it came out of one of those boxes of old tender bodies at an exhibition, for about a tenth of what greedy bu***rs are asking just for a body on eBay. I found a picture of 2291 taken in 1938 coupled to a small tender. So it's got me thinking. Thoughts and opinions welcome!

Unfortunately I don't, it's a period 1950s illustration apparently. Definitely a painting style that gives me inspiration. I'd like to find out who painted it as I'd like to see more of their work. The tags on the image don't tell me anything and I don't know how to work them back to find the image again on the internet.

I got up to page 101 at lunchtime and would probably have carried on if the battery hadn't gone kaput. Yes it's a royal pain in the ar**, but I don't think that the pictures that were lost will reappear as predicted, so I'm replacing everything that I can, my cloud has managed to lose or corrupt a few as well. I've left in the details of the lost pictures, just in case the site gets everything back. I think it the least we can do to help after the crash and preserve the integrity of RMWeb. "We're looking into a whole bunch of missing JPEGs. Where were you on the night of the seventeenth?" Painting by Haddon Sundbloom

I've got up to page 85 replacing the missing images, which is a good halfway to putting back everything that I can.

Possibly, but there are those who can't find their own a*** with both hands...

Not much use as a sundial up there...

Silver sand or potter's grog are a couple of alternatives.

Ivor the engine! We are not worthy!

On a brighter note, what's the consensus on the old Bachmann range of tank wagons in the prewar liveries? I have a number of them which I would like to work up to match my other stock and was wondering how clean/ dirty they would have been in the 1930s given that the petrol companies were quite image conscious because of the level of brand loyalty amongst customers.

It's very sad that we were in an unthinking hurry to sweep away all of the industry that had supported this country, almost as though we were ashamed of it. Nowadays there seems to be an unspoken opinion that if you get dirty for a living you have no ambition or have somehow failed at life. Generation X had it drummed into us that we must get a degree, forget skilled trades, everyone was going to be a stockbroker, teacher, web designer or estate agent.. Now we have generations of people who are virtually unemployable and the rot set in twenty years before the miners strike. I often wonder where we will end up, no matter who you vote for.

That's very interesting and very simple. I managed to achieve something similar but by a convoluted route. The video has given me some ideas for further improvements though particularly in the finishing stages. Thanks for posting the link.

That was about the last time the police did any visible work. Too busy dealing with internet bickering nowadays.

Also a lot of RTR models suffer with being proportioned to fit on a standard chassis that is a generic representation. The Cambrian wagons won't be, they're all from surviving drawings or actual wagons.