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Incredible stuff!  Keep up the great work.

Impressive work and notes.  The braking stuff goes over my head though!  Keep up the good work!

Thanks for another informative post.  Keep up the good work!

I think the word is “thorough”.  Every power to your elbows!

A “thumbs up” seems an inadequate response to the huge efforts and impressive work being done on this 26.  Keep it up and best of luck!

Good to get a write up on the amount of work that is required.  
 

One tiny comment - I’m never very clear if your captions are for the photo above the caption or for the picture below it.  In this instance I think it is always below, as I think it should be!  It is maybe partly you leaving a gap between the caption and the picture above that throws me

As I say, only a tiny comment but perhaps helpful to you, given the amount of work put in to doing the blog.

Great informative update.  Keep up the good work!

5 hours ago, Dave John said:

Ok, a very harsh closeup.

 

 

Not perfect, but better than I could do by hand. 

Thanks.  Looks good to me!

Interesting technique.  Could you post some closer up pictures as and when you do the next sides?

Holy Jenolite indeed!  Good luck with repairs and thanks for the detailed posting.

The parts you are making look the business to me, but difficult to grasp the scale.  Could you maybe include something to help viewers?  Perhaps a coin - maybe a 20p piece as it is fairly distinctive.  Of course, that might be too small, or too big!

Regarding the wall, the first thing that caught my eye was the fairly continuous “horizontal” course, just above the bench.  There are no doubt walls like this somewhere, but it doesn’t seem very “coursed” and therefore not much like a building wall, to me.  As you suggest it does look rather “crazy paving”/patio.

Hi.

Found this picture when browsing this photo collection.  A bit late in the day for your model, but thought it might be of some interest.

https://devabob.zenfolio.com/p855931604/hE6748379#he6748379

Is it wrong to wonder if the driver’s head could be made to rotate to face towards the direction of travel?!  Or even do that but randomly look around?!

Impressive looking work.

With regard to pop-up adverts, I don’t get those on my Ipad although there are ads onscreen.  Also don’t get pop-up ads on PC, although I do have an adblocker on that.  Hope you can find a way that the adverts are less annoying for you and that you can return to greater participation here.

This page on Wikipedia mentions road locomotives similar to this built by R.W. Thomson of Edinburgh which had rubber tyred wheels.  Sure I have seen a picture in a book but the only I could find quickly was a very small one in Wheels around Edinburgh" by Alan Brotchie, published by Stenlake.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_steam_road_vehicles

Just in case you haven’t seen it, the 2mm Association do a wee booklet about point ridding, see:

http://www.2mm.org.uk/products/nms/index.html

I got a copy at the recent York exhibition but have only flicked through it.  Seem to recall it got a good review somewhere, perhaps in MRJ?

Would a platform surface be so black?  If it is meant to be tarmac would agree not be more appropriate?  e.g. look at roads, probably only black when freshly laid.

impressed with progress!

Interesting to see such dramatic progress.  Had heard of sculptamould but have never used it.  Was under the impression it was a form of paper mache?  I wonder if there is scope to add in colour when mixing it - poster paint or emulsion paint, of an appropriate colour obviously!

Hi.

Lidl have had something along these lines very recently - the front hinged plate is very much like what you have made.  £29.99, I think.  We’re still some in my branch at the end of last week - I think it was maybe an offer from about 10 or 14 days ago?

This: https://goo.gl/images/sXXjBJ

This is maybe the third time they have had them?  Coincidentally Monday was the first time I’ve used mine in anger.  If you get one then try removing the adjustable table (you need to do this to stick the sanding disc on) as on the first one I had the captive nut to take the bolt that holds this on immediately came adrift somewhere inside!  So that had to go back.

Hi.  Wonder if the sidings and mill should all be swung round a bit, so that the line of the buildings isn't parallel to the baseboard edge, as it appears to be in the fourth picture? 

Also wonder if the size of the complex would justify a need for its own loco?  Would the reality not be that it would be shunted daily/as needs be by the trip working setting off/picking up wagons at it?  And if something needed moved inbetween times it could be just a pinchbar, or later a motorised wagon mover (little bit like a wheelbarrow)?  

An example I thought of of an industrial siding without a headshunt was a military depot at Throsk, because of the pictures of it posted by Ernie Brack, see:https://flic.kr/p/2b14y5M as an example.  However that is off a double track, and it might be that there was interchange sidings within the depot.  I suspect the available mapping of the time doesn't show the full extent of that facility, see: https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=14&lat=56.1094&lon=-3.8463&layers=193&b=1  No doubt there were examples on the real railway of facilities with and without their own headshunts!  

Anyway, just some thoughts, I have no particular knowledge of how something like this would have worked!  

Very neat idea and implementation.

Would think there would be a magazine article in the construction of this, or at least as a worked example in an article of the use of the Silhouette.

Hesitate to make what might be a negative comment, but wondering about the roof slates. Seems quite a large gap between individual slates in a row? Would say that they normally butt up to each other. The rest all looks very impressive! Delicate, square and neat.

Hi.

Who or what are the Brian Morgan linkages?  Don't think I've heard of them before?

Thanks,

Hello.  

Have you any pictures and details (size etc) of Wheegram Sidings?  Looked through your blog entries, but didn't find many pictures.

Thanks.

Finding page 3 seemed harder than it should have been, for me anyway, so links to the two articles mentioned:

http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/blog/525/entry-10871-q4-progress/

http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/blog/525/entry-9893-a-dinosaurs-opinion/