Danemouth

All this talk of 5 and 15 amp round pin plugs reminds me of my parents council house built just after the war had Dorman Smith 13 amp plugs like many Council Houses of the period. Never heard of them? https://www.flameport.com/electric_museum/plugs_other_13A/dorman_smith_13A_ring_main_plug.cs4 The live pin was a screw in fuse which apparently could unscrew and be left in the socket (which was unswitched). Never happened to us but a recipe for disaster. That house had just six sockets in total - Castle Danemouth has 25 double sockets and four single sockets by way of comparison Dave

My preference is the top picture; the effects in the bottom picture look a little too much for my taste. Please do keep the photos coming Dave

At next year's show I would like to think the organisers will place these two stands at opposite ends of the show to reduce any friction. Dave

Our church has a small 1960s Pipe organ {two manuals). Last year it had an overhaul and retuning - cost well over £10k Tell me about it! Dave

3 metre 6 wire lead for a Powercab https://www.dccsupplies.com/item-p-105230/curly-cable-nce-power-cab-3m-6-wire.htm Works well on my layout and only £12 Usual disclaimer, Dave

Collected mine from the same emporium this morning and also a 4575 Prairie in weathered black! Peter checked the handrails for me. How will you dull the buffer heads and wheels please John? Cheers, Dave

Again thanks for posting - my wallet is most grateful as there is nothing there that catches my eye. Cheers, Dave

I presume we are talking about am emporium on Penarth Road - in which case next week will see him sell a couple of coaches to me. Like you i will assume that a set was broken up and two or three coaches ended up at Danemouth. Cheers, Dave

Andy, I was very impressed by the last photo; the way the backscene blends with the fencing and foreground! If I only had a tenth of your skill.................. Regards, Dave

Funny you should say that Tiger, Mt father bought several power tools many years ago and hardly used them - I inherited them. I've made almost no use of them as I make GDB look like an amateur, so last weekend I gave them to my SiL, except the jigsaw which I use on Danemouth Cheers, Dave p.s. It is precipitating in the Capital of the Principality

John, look to see if you have set up some form of exposure correction, I would guess you are underexposing by about one stop. Dave

I do hope you were not foolish enough to use SWMBOs rolling pin! looking very good, Dave

Most definitely a case of the operator uttering those immortal words "Smell it? I'm sat in it!" Dave

Had a white Cortina at the end of the 1970s - same thing used to happen to me Dave

Danemouth has been invited to the Cardiff Show in October - will really need to get my @rse in gear Dave

I bought them in the closing down sale at Ian Allan, Cardiff - how many years ago was that? I will be getting a few more in the not too distant future. Glad you all like my efforts - I freely admit surprising myself I will restart work over the next day or two and aim to complete everything except weathering over the next couple of months. Warmest regards to you all, Dave

Well Danemouth is back in the garage after its first show. When I went to the Cardiff Show in October Paul Rolley asked me if Danemouth would be ready for the Cardiff Small Show on 26th January even as a work in progress - for some reason I said yes! I may be totally hamfisted but I am a Grand Master at the art of prevarication. so much so that I found myself just before Christmas very little further forward and had to go like hell to have something that could be taken to a show. There were a couple of tasks beyond my meagre skills e.g. cutting the tracks across the baseboard joints - my two friends John and Paul came to my rescue again and helped out - without them I would have been in the effluent. So the three of us duly appeared yesterday with this (please excuse the quality of the pictures, I didn't take my Nikon to the show and used my ancient Windows mobile instead): As I said it was work in progress so what's left to be done: Correct some small problems identified yesterday Change the fiddle yard to a traverser, Change the existing Goods shed to the Oxford Rail version which matches the Station (when released) Add: Signalling both semaphore and ground signals, Yard crane, Water crane Loading gauge More people on station platform, Street lighting Crew & lamps to locos Paint the platform lamps Signage on platform & signal box Finish the backscene – clouds etc. Sort out coupling/uncoupling Weather passenger stock and vans & add tail lights I've been an operator several times over the past decade but as the main man I learned a lot yesterday including: Don't overdo the sundry bits and pieces eg spare mains cables, big tool box etc. limit the stock you take - I took far too many locos and coaches - I will be re-evaluating my stock shortly - in my naivety I bought far too much stock over the years and some is now obviously surplus. It was great to meet so many RMWeb friends yesterday and to chat, Once again my thanks to John and Paul and my son in law John who provided a transit van. Dave p.s. Need to straighten a couple of trees and lampposts!

Brian, The first photo contains a nice shot of my tonsurally challenged bonce :) Will post some photos of Danemouth over the next couple of days - really enjoyed myself but now I am dog tired! Dave

Well Danemouth is going to its first show on Saturday! I agreed to attend at the end of October - there's nothing like a deadline to get you to pull your finger out! https://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/138741-the-cardiff-small-model-railway-show-2019/ It's going as work in progress, the major scenics are about finished but much detailing is still to be done; I will take pictures at the show and post them here. Given my ham-fistedness I am really pleased to have got this far - special thanks to my friends John and Paul who helped with some of the tricky tasks. If you are at the show please do say hello :) Dave

V Volume 4 is by C.R. Potts Dave

Dear GDB, I thought I had a gold medal in being c@ck handed ham fisted but I pale into insignificance when compared to your prodigious talent. Joking aside hope you are ok, Warmest regards, Dave

Danemouth will be seen for the first time as a work in progress - much of the detailing is still to be done I will update my thread with new images during the week. RMWebbers please do introduce yourselves! Dave