MrWolf

Good to hear that, both for your sake and for others. There's so much static created by the spurious complaints that many of the real ones aren't heard.

In towns, York stone type flags, elsewhere I expect cinders 

I've got about fifty pages reposted so far. Where I no longer have the image I have left the original information in place, just in case.

Modelling time has mostly been taken up by "The Great Re-insertion" 

Of pictures, that is.

I'm up to page 44. I have been able so far to replace at least ninety percent of the images. What's missing doesn't stop the thread making sense.

Not sure that it makes sense most of the time anyway....

3 hours ago, Harlequin said:

I made some RMweb badges for Warley a few years ago. They went down like a lead balloon - I was the only person there wearing one and nobody said hello! 😆

 

It could have been worse!

https://youtu.be/PI9jFp0cnig

Built out of odds and ends fora siding filler on his sons layout as there was a maintenance depot near their house.

I think it rather nice that a father takes an active interest in his child's hobbies.

If it helps this is a Victorian mill yard across the road from our house.

Most of the roads look like this. Okay on a 1930s standard bicycle, not so good on 1970s Tour de France machinery, which can result in the sudden feeling that one has three Adam's apples...

Good to see that the squadron leader hasn't been promoted to flying a desk!

Seconded, you have really caught his character there.

Like a pannier, a coal tank never offends.

More bench of bodge chaos as the Toad is finish painted ready for weathering and the 22XX is dismantled and modified. I've removed the postwar lettering as well as the big coupling mounts. I've yet to decide how best to deal with the horrible and fragile tender drawbar.

I was hunting around for some paint to modify my Collett Goods last night and found that the Railmatch 601 / 1601 is marked as GWR loco green - post 1928.

To quote the opening titles of Stingray:

"ANYTHING could happen in the next half hour!!"

It would be interesting to see some pictures of the real thing, I didn't know that any had survived.

Is this it?

https://www.bluebell-railway.co.uk/bluebell/pics/100677.html

2 hours ago, Tortuga said:

Never been a fan of this prototype. To my eye it looks unbalanced - which is odd as that front overhang can’t be more than that of a Super D, which are definite favourites of mine.

Perhaps more oddly, I quite like the 0-6-2PT version*.
 

*I have no idea if the 0-6-2PT is a version of the 0-6-0 loco shown; the GWR is not my area of expertise!

They are a bit of an ugly beast, the closest the GWR got to building an SR Q1. I think that it's the short wheelbase and high pitch of the boiler that gives it the sit up and beg look. Add to that the huge tender.

But I like strange engines, I do like a Super D too.

The 0-6-2T I think shared a boiler, but the side tanks and bunker disguise it.

2 hours ago, Graham T said:

Remind me which green you're using please?

It's Railmatch enamel (unfortunately for anyone outside the UK) 1601 GWR loco green.

But there's some decent swatches on , I think Gaugemaster's website.

2 hours ago, NHY 581 said:

A couple of images of Sheep Dip.........

 

 

That's a wonderful shot, lots of rusty tin and a loco barging its way through the weeds.

2 hours ago, 2ManySpams said:

 

@MrWolf not seen a copy, anything on Polsarrett?

Yes there is, it reads like a list of America's most wanted:

Castell - Stu Hilton

Kernow MRC

Ladmanlow Sidings - Alastair Green

Ewe - Rob Gunstone

Bridport Town - Dave Taylor

L'heure Bleu - Al Reynolds

Orchard Road - Richard Slate

Parkend Sidings - John Farmer

Penmaenbach - Chris Hopper

Pig Lane - Clive Mortimore

Polsarret - Chris Tooth

Tucking Mill - Jerry Clifford

Upbech Drove - Martyn Mullender

1 hour ago, chuffinghell said:

do you think it needs a little brown weathering powder?

Test area up against one of the walls, easier to disguise any resulting fubar.

Removing the G W R lettering also took the paint off the tender in a couple of places, but I'm already thinking of a respray to get rid of the mould line atop the firebox anyway.

35 minutes ago, Winslow Boy said:

 

So you're splodger are you Rob?

Jack the Dripper actually.

The splodge on, wipe off method is what I employed for the livestock yard, subtlety is not always your friend. 

It looks like granite setts now though.

25 minutes ago, Limpley Stoker said:

There is no one running the country at the moment so that’s why we’re all off topic!

That's a little unfair, I don't think that anyone has been running the country for decades, we've been off topic about 24 hours....

49 minutes ago, Northmoor said:

Can we leave the Daily Express editorials out of this thread, please?

Sorry, as a one time teacher I must remember that I am still bound by the Guardian's official list of subjects and or persons allowed to be mocked....😉

1 hour ago, Graham T said:

Looks right at home - but very shiny!  🙃

We can soon fix the shiny!