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Bracing walk with dog 'Poppy' at 05:35 today on Leopard Hill, Worcs, heavy dew and breath condensing in golden dawn light.

It has struck me that there is a significant disconnect between the behaviour of modellers towards rolling stock when compared with the places we model.

Many people go to great lengths to ensure that every detail of their engines is historically correct, then cheerfully place them in a ficticious piece of geography.

If we allow ourselves to create an imaginary world, then surely we should imagine also that the railway companies built additional stock to serve the line, because all the real vehicles were busy serving the real world.

I am not necessarily advocating freelance designs but, rather as we adopt characteristic architectural styles and standard buildings, we could postulate extra members of real locomotive classes. If the traffic demands it, we could also propose variants or sub classes of real designs.

Discuss....

milk cheese makers

Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana

Hi All

 

Another one from me - a bit of photoshoppery this time!

 

 

Cheers

 

Jim

Grughhhh!! am I going to stand out here for another half hour in case something interesting shows up or am I going to get a coffee?

Which reminds me of the keyhole surgeon who wallpapered his hall through the letter box.

and cheap cigarettes

beat South Africa

Teddy bears' picnic, John Inman (et.al)

I can recall seeing a special right-angled brush with a broom-length handle for this job which would paint the top and side of the copings simultaniously. Unfortunately the file in my brain is corrupted and won't tell me where. Dribbles down the face and on the ballast below, very definately. Use grey not white, there was no such thing as white as we know it today, until fluorescing optical whiteners were introduced in paints (and soap powder), probably in the 1960's.

Yuletide greetings.

I thought that was the hedgehog ?