glasspusher

This is by way of a very-little-progress report, which can serve as a warning to others .......

 

My small amount of modelling time over the weekend was devoted to getting the two baseboards to nestle-up against one another with barely any gap at the baseboard surface - surprising amount of wood planed off the end of the wonky one to get a half-decent (it still isn't wholly decent) joint.

 

All because, I built each base board complete, separately. What I should have remembered is that the "crime against joinery" trick is to build one, and the frame of the next, then clamp the frame of the second to the first, THEN, pin the top surface of the second one down. My only excuse is that the apprentices (ages 4, 4 and 8) were in full-on "helpful" mode at the time.

 

Still procrastinating about track arrangement (which is quite an achievement with three points and barely any space!).

 

Kevin

 

PS: why when I type a figure eight, do I get a picture of a rude-boy emoticon?!

 

PPS: Northroader, I tend to think of it as Coarse Railwaying, in the same way as Coarse Fishing. In fact I've just invented an interesting genre crossover cartoon-strip called "Mr Crabtree Plays Trains", where it becomes apparent that Mr Crabtree is, in fact that pipe-smoking Dad from the Hornby Dublo adverts,mand only took up fishing because his Mother in Law came for a protracted visit. The deeper plot, of course, is that both of them are really Tony Benn, and the boy is Hilary, but that only comes out much later in the series.

Looking at the pictures that accompanied the above post, it seems that you need extra fingers to be a pipe smoking train dad!    :-) 

http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/107911-1910-mini-layout/&do=findComment&comment=2195065

Nice box Jason. As regards the stairs, oddly enough one of the boxes on our club layout 'Waterstock'  has not yet had any steps added. It has been there a number of years too and nobody has yet questioned how the bobby gets in or out. 

Excellent stuff Jason.  That chap on platform 2 just needs a Snap Dog.

The biggest challenge of them all has to be to find a purpose and suitable relaxed pose for 'Muscly shortarse with his lump hammer poised to smash the crap out of something'. This poor chap appears on literally thousands of layouts, even seen on some finescale ones and his pose remains the same; just about to bring down some PAIN on an unsuspecting object with that hammer of his. He's been stood like that for years and judging by the cleanliness of his shirt, he's not done any work so far. Maybe he is not supposed to be using the hammer but is sorely tempted and at the same time nervous of the outcome, so is umming and ahhing about swinging it down.

 

On my last layout, he was poised ready to smash the living crap out of an AEC Monarch, that other stalwart of a thousand layouts. No place for him on Bacup though, I fear.

 

Anyway, in a roundabout way, what I am getting at here is why so many tiny people come in such animated poses. Looking in my box of bits, I've found around 40 people (not including the ones already glued on the station) and of those, only 10 are in restful poses. The most common seems to be 'man with arm held up' which is great if you have a position that needs someone to have their arm held up but I can't think of many of those.

 

Edit: I name most of my photos when I put them up on Photobucket. Unsurprisingly, this one is named MC Hammer:

 

 

Double edit: Or is it a plunger? Have I been wrong all these years?

Why would he be holding a plunger aloft?

Plunger I reckon.

Could he be an Obstetrician?  About to perform a ventouse delivery?    He's no plumber, the trousers are too high.

Hasn't quite worked out like that, Duncan!! Bunker = 15C ... feels tropical. Outer section of garage, uninsulated = 4C. so cold my hands were going numb cutting the wood!!

 

I think the bunker is warmer than the house - just popped in for coffee and it feels that way.

 

First part structure built (the whole thing is in 3 bits). Recharging the drill then I'm going to try and fit a curved backscene board. The line of the board will tell me how the next bit is to be done...

 

Jeff

It'll be the heat generated by all that plaster curing.  

Jeff

 

Ha Ha that sofa was a place of shelter..... Jan 59 for me so that terror through grainy TV strikes a chord.  Your assumption on my living in the Dales is pretty good, just outside actually in a town at the end of a line (I like a brain teaser).  You could deduce from the alias that I spent my youth in Carlisle, and in cycling distance from Kingmoor Yard - many happy days spent watching Peaks, Type 4s, Brush 4s, 400's, Type 2s and Birm 2s as we used to call them before computerisation and Electrification.    

 

My favourite working was always the Thames-Clyde express which headed northbound mid-afternoon, nearly always Peak hauled, just before the Royal Scot with its double headed class 50s.  Not quite a lifetime ago but it seems to have gone quickly. 

 

I also respond to Simon, there are a lot of us around from the early 60's.

 

As we like pictures on this thread here's the next Air Shaft spoilt by Solar Panels, a Wind turbine and some other paraphenalia, and another view of your tunnel mouth.

 

 

 

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Looks a bit like a submarine stuck in an ice flow.

A lot of S & C type layouts, including our club one has Hanging Basket Liner and that is very effective providing you DO NOT try to paint of weather it.

 

 

Bodgit

Hi Andy P. What happens if you try to paint and weather the hanging Basket Liner (HBL)?  

Anthony

<snip>   You're all going to be bored stupid of these shots before long but here is the progress update  </snip>

I find it inspiring Jason. Motivational even, to hie me thither into the garage and get on with mine.

Difficult being in two places at once though, so I'm either reading this and the Lunester shennanigans, or I'm gettin' on with stuff.

Keep it up, it's all good.

Anthony

Interesting Project.

The house second from right in your prototype photo doesn't look too safe though. can't make up my mind whether the front wall is bulging or whether it is sliding /subsiding downhill into its neighbour on the right.

Will you be looking to re-produce that particular feature?  Could be tricky to do without it looking just plain 'wrong'.

I'll be keeping a keen eye on this, much to the detriment of my own modelling output I fear.     

Hurrah for the Bacup Britannia Nutters.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/9899499/Morris-dancers-dance-on-after-winning-health-and-safety-row.html

A happy dance for the first circuit. Always a fantastic moment. :danced: :yahoo: :dancer:

I'm a firm believer in the old adage  "Test more, worry less" so plenty of circuits to be done whilst you think about sorting the 'Down Main'.now.

Anthony

For me it was a little HOn9 MPD layout in the Nov '73 MRC. it was by Nigel Adams and it sparked off my railway modelling days. It had everything to me, aged 11.  Industrial, run down, grimy and clever use of Airfix engine sheds.  Best bit was it was in a space less than a square yard, about all the space I could aspire to at 11. It's memory stayed with me for years. it wasn't even my magazine copy it was my brother's. My funds at that time would never stretch to 35p or whatever the magazine cost then. Not with Spangles and sugar mice to buy.

Strangely it was also responsible for bringing me back into Railway Modelling as an adult 30-odd years later when I discovered a bound copy of the entire years magazines for 1973 on the second hand shelf at Midland Counties Publishers. Flicking through, my eyes alighted on the very article and the old flame was re-kindled.

Thank you Nigel Adams. my obsession is your fault.  

I recall now that there was also the Rawnook & Holme branch, in September MRC of the same year, though I can't recall the builder's name . I'm off to go look. It had L&YR in spadefulls.

A couple of years later, '75 I think, During a family holiday in the area I made my first visit to Pendon.   The rest as they say, is history.

Kind regards,

Anthony

This one is for Peter and Jeff, and any others that prefered the weathered pics, I too prefered the rusty old nail, but I have now done a compromise, some rust on the smoke box and rust streaks from the hand rail knobs. NOW THIS WAS DONE WITH WEATHERING POWDERS!

Absolutely lovely job on that 4F. Hard to think it was just a powder job (though skillfully done).

It just looks so beautifully... well...Workaday.

Super.

Edit: Sorry, I'm a bit behind the times with these posts. Oops!

Excuse me whilst I rescue my lower mandible from the carpet.

Ah! Thats better!

Excellent Modelling Mr F.