Temeraire

How you doing Mr P, still too busy strumming?

Hi Rich The yellow was Railmatch warning panel brushed on.

Hi Rich not a full repaint, if you look a few pages back it’s in the Tidworth thread. The blue was resprayed from a Halfords can and the yellow brush painted after the hole was filled following the headlight removal.

Do it! 😉😀

Evening all Just a quick thank you to the South Hants MRC team for their hospitality on Saturday and hope the layout was well received. Thanks also to the Tidworth team this week Chris, Mike and Steve for keeping the trains moving and tea mugs filled. As usual I didn’t take any pics but I’m sure there’s plenty out there.

Blimey TT what a humbling post thank you very much for your kind words about my train set! The footpath was never envisaged as a disused line as it happens, but the bridge you mention was inspired/based on the bridge at Worting Jct near Basingstoke that actually spans 4 tracks. It carries a footpath over the SW mainline and as you imply it’s just a bit different and interesting than just another overbridge. Not sure where you’re based but if you ever see us out at a show be sure to introduce yourself. Thanks again.

Wow it’s been a while! Tidworth hits the road again tomorrow morning and heads down to the South Hants show at the Admiral Nelson School in Portsmouth after a break of almost 6 months. Say hello if you’re passing through.

Evening all After a great weekend operating the rookie's layout on its first outing I thought I'd add a few pics for the record. A view of the clay dry dwarfing the stock in front and giving a good idea of its size. One of the Exford St Blazey fleet 37671 draws some CDAs out. A great pic showing how good the layout is. Another one of the Exford fleet comes to a stand at the end of the headshunt above the cliffs. The resident 08 takes a break under one of the canopies. A bit later in the day and 'Tre Pol & Pen' is back with another train and is amongst the Gorse. There you go then I think you'll agree it's shaping up to be a fine layout that will be popular on the circuit. (especially when its finished!)😉

FINISHED IT! 🤣

Hmmmmm… note to self don’t let Andy film when I’m visiting!🙄

it’s okay me and Paul are bringing deckchairs and lots of popcorn! Can’t wait.🤣

Cheers Graham I'll see what I can do for you. 😉 The 'one armed bandit' tells me you've been working over this way a bit, give me a shout and come over if you are.

So have I! 😉🤣

Chill out Rhys it’s gonna be fine! 😉 The layout looks great and will get even better with time, trust me I’ve been there!🤣

Hi Pete hope you're well. I use the iMovie APP on my phone to create and edit the videos into a montage, I was put onto it by Nigel. You just select all the clips you want to include into a project and once they are there you can then edit them to get rid of the dead spaces and cock ups! 😉

Morning all Its been a while again and not a lot has happened but I finally took a lot of video clips off my phone and compiled them into another YouTube compilation, the first for around a year! The clips are from Feb 23 to Aug 23 and are in chronological order so you can see the changes to background (only small changes!) as the video runs.

Hi Steve I hope the knee is getting better, my mum had a replacement about a year ago and wished she hadn’t to start with! Scott kept to all the speed limits and didn’t crash anything, it was me that did!🙄 A sticky point motor didn’t throw in the FY and I ran an HST at speed into a class 59 in an adjacent road!🤣

Cheers Graham I probably will add subtle lighting under the canopies at some point as it is a bit dark under there. The platform lamps just need connecting to a supply as they are working ones. 😉

Evening all Yet again there's a two month gap between updates! 🙄 Some more progress around the station although not a great a deal. First I put together four Wills Canopy kits. Once all four were painted they were then weathered and here the first one is done compared to the 'clean' one. All four completed and in their final position on the platforms, viewed here from track level. An aerial view showing the weathered roofs and the added 'moss'. This evening I added platform lights that again have been painted over the last couple of days but I forgot to take a pic of them. Once the lamps were in place tonight I thought I deserved to play trains for a bit, here 47701 heads through towards the junction. A short while later 50031 Hood approaches from the other direction with a Waterloo service. Perfect timing catches 'Ted' & Temeraire passing through and you can see a couple of the platform lamps.

Hi fella it’s looking really good so far but if your masking for the yellow give it a blast of white primer first, the yellow will cover much better. I found out the hard way too! 🙄

Hi TT Many thanks for dropping in and your comments. The backdrop is modelled on the real cliffs along the seawall at Dawlish as I wanted this feature at the far end of the shed to place the layout immediately. Having made several visits to Dawlish and taken lots of pics (which I can't find now) I tried to copy some of the features of the real cliffs on the layout but just bending them around the curve. I also picked up some of the soil from the cliffs and to help with the colouring of them by using it on the exposed areas. Originally I wanted the seawall as well but couldn't fit it in and make the layout work, so this is a compromise but hopefully still gives the feel of the real place.

That’s the BBQ over and cleaned up for another year! I hope you all enjoyed yourself and the catering was up to scratch. Thanks to Paul, Mike, Chris, Scott, Iain, Rhys & Andy for their company.

Rumour has it that Oak Road will be going instead! 😉

"Difficult" at your age! 🤣

He’s alive and well but the mojo is MIA again! Busy with bands and gigs.🙄