Coombe Barton
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Replacement dishwasher installed and working (they delivered early this morning) and replacement lights fitted on car. So what's next ......
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has returned from looking at caravans. Will seem odd to change from a tent (not the same one) after 45 years.
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Did you realise that ten months today is Christmas Day?
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Which layouts have really inspired you?
Coombe Barton replied to PGN's topic in Modelling musings & miscellany
Off railway topic but into the philosophy. When I was researching broinze and iron age boats the people who were the experts were the model makers. They had already done the research and knew the sources. They had solved the constructional problems in small scale. When I look at layourts I compare with the prototype - and can ask the questions. It may be that the prototype detail does not exist in the phtographs or physically - but sharing the knowledge gives an insight into what should be modelled. So the prototype, if it is there for promary research, is fine. It's the interpretation that can provide the inspiration. -
Back from lunch out - glad to be back - say no more
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Which layouts have really inspired you?
Coombe Barton replied to PGN's topic in Modelling musings & miscellany
Except that much of what is modelled does not now exist. -
Which layouts have really inspired you?
Coombe Barton replied to PGN's topic in Modelling musings & miscellany
Maybe rather "I want to get mine to look as good as that". -
Which layouts have really inspired you?
Coombe Barton replied to PGN's topic in Modelling musings & miscellany
P4 layouts all Heckmondwyke-- showing what could be achieved in P4. Only saw this in the flesh once. The long sweep, the attention to detail, the effect. Clinkerford - John Darch's (Killybegs) n branch that sets the railway in the landscape. The consistency and the understated detail is great. And you don't need a load of stock to have an interesting layout. Wheal Elizabeth - (Ullypug) you can have fun on a P4 plank. It works at all levels. How I made my choice? It's thinking that when I'm considering what to do I think of these most often as exemplars. -
Am trusted to be home alone for the weekend with SWMBO's instruction to get some modelling done.
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feels that the most productive thing I managed to do at work today was going to the loo before coming home.
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ATTENTION ADULTERERS: Morrison's doing buy 1 get 1 free on Valentine's cards, I kid you not.(via Twitter
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The Stafford show was inspiring. But I;ve been stuck with my nose in spreadsheets all day!
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1986
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In MRJ no. 9 Mike Jolly and Mike Clarke carried out modifications to the Airfix model using a previous incarnation of the Dart Castings kit. (It's improved now). Article comes with complete drawings for both Diags A28 and A30.
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That would be me in trouble, then - http://bbc.in/fls4FR
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You know it's been a bad day when you can say the friendliest voice you've heard is that from your SatNav
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SWMBO rehearsing for summer - watching the Aussie Open
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Thanks for the compliment - but they're only normal sized trees. Modelling them to 'real' hright is both a challenge in modelling and believability (and it may just hide the models you're trying to show off) However I believe that trees of this size can and should be modelled to scale - It'll just take time and careful positioning so that they fit. and yes, they will dwarf the trains. But other prople build big warehouses, so why not? [Edit] Trees are the biggest living thing on this planet.
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Talkling of the height of trees, this is of Ashburton Engine Shed on 13 August 2010. To 4mm scale these'll be about 1ft 4 in high. The engine shed comes in at just over 4 inches.
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Having just found out what it's called from here just looked for a website for detail - and found the scouts website for knots - http://www.pioneeringmadeeasy.co.uk/knotsandlash/harvesthitch.html - thanks
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Maybe - but 11ft from mill to platform isn't small - and without the shunting rope you try working out how you're going to shunt it in model form. Cliche it may be (and I'm adopting a fully signalled version) but it's still a cracking place to model. Ashburton station was at the grotty end of town, unber works, mill, darned great chimney, coal merchants, cattle market across the road with attendant perfume, gasworks, raw concrete blocks under the coach body, which was itself covered in bitumen, The now renamed 'Station Hotel' (was it?) is now the Silent Whistle.It was also pretty wet when the Ashburn flooded. (http://www.ashburton.org/history.htm third pic down) The Ashburn runs just behind the station.
