BlackRat

Told you so xxx

Now I remember why I don't bother with clubs any more!

Night all, pleasant dreams.

Always a tricky one.....trade as I guess you can only ask.

My list included Sea Foam (the one bloke selling the scenic stuff had no idea what it was!), three hole disc wheels (Ideally Romford/Markits) and some brass/plastic tube to make street and yard lights.

I also wanted some Railmatch etc track colour and underframe dirt.

The shows not unusual in that you just cant get the traders to attend, or at least the traders I would want to attend.

I came away with a rtr tar tanker (Dapol as try getting hold of a kit these days).

Its still a great small show tho, with several top class layouts and WELL worth the trip.

6 hours ago, Penlan said:

Cornwall ?
I'm west of PZ, PM  me if your near.

I'm the other end me anzum.

Well.....there were several top notch layouts there, 2mm fs, 4mm fs, P4 etc.

I travelled from Cornwall, and I wasn't disappointed in any way at all!

Morning mine and all........early start.....Cardifff bound.

If anyone is at the Cardiff show.......look out for the shirt!

Tiz me old club me anzum. I think that's Mike Birds layout.

There's a lot of mythology when it comes to spraying......I've never had an issue spraying during any of the seasons and temperature and humidity have not been an issue, and in Cornwall we can get ( sort of ) extremes of both.

I often recourse to the use of a hair dryer ( Ive got my own for modelling) either to 'warm' the item being sprayed but I find it helps to warm the primer rattle can first.

Halfords make excellent primers with a fine pigment and I have had NO issues ever using these.

I use both single and double action airbrushes, and have a large set up in the garage as well......not much use for modelling but great for bike and car bits etc.

Ive had to correct and re spray models for people quite a few times......but have found that the main issues are the fact that models haven't been adequately prepared prior to painting.

I can't emphasise how important it is to get surfaces clean......a new ( not old!) toothbrush and something like Cif works wonders on metal and plastics.

You wouldn't use an old battered  and frayed one in your mouth so why on models? 

Same with a nice nail scrubbing brush.

NEVER use washing up liquid as they contain hand softness like lanolin which will leave an oily surface and some contain a 'gleamed' which want to coat your dishes to make them sparkle etc.

Nice on your hands and plates......but not on a model to be sprayed.

Most people on here have never been on television, let alone worked on actual progs so have little idea what goes on 'behind the scenes'......

The prog is purely for entertainment, if there was sufficient interest to raise revenue from advertising for a prog about actual railway modeling....and by that I mean the sort of layouts you would typically see at a show, then it would have happened.

The fact that it hasn't tells us volumes about the public interest re railway modeling.

The prog has been made, it was popular and successful enough to generate a second series......a third might be in the offing?

Take it for what it is.

If you want a channel on 'real railway modelling' do your own thing.....its easy enough on YouTube and many are indeed doing just that.

Look at the number of subscribers in some case....to see exactly how 'popular' these are.

Even BRM TV couldn't keep going.

One of the Cardiff 4mm groups....cant recall which one?

I wonder if Modelu will do me with my helmet?

My thoughts with you and yours.

When someone's layout is in a mag and they say your layout inspired them.....

Or as in one of this months mags.....,,someone has liked a modelmyou did ( clay dries) enough to copy them, and build a layout around them.

Getting there.....

Well ..........been a little busy but started on another section which I thought needed updating.

The scenery over the hidden section is split into 2 just in case of a derailment and for track cleaning.

The scenery was reduced in height quite substantially and has been reworked. This left a fair bit of marking and scarring on the back scene so I've started to have a bash at painting some detail on.

Bit if a first for me, and there's still plenty to do.......but I think we are getting there......I hope!

On 04/10/2019 at 22:35, NHY 581 said:

 

What day are you likely to be there, Sully ?

 

Could possibly rv and hold an impromptu meeting of the Shirt (Hawaiian) Improvement  Team...............I could make a couple of badges but its a bit long. However,  I'm not sure about the abreviation either........I'm a tad worried about wearing a badge with S.H.I.T. on it. 

 

Rob. 

Is wearing it ....... the same as being deeply in it?!?!

Ill be there on the Sunday mate, you should be able to spot me.....

Who'd have thought it......... a model train show........Saturday night........prime time t.v.

That HAS to be a good thing.

We don't build 'special effects'?

The trains and stock move, some now have sound, lights which alter depending on direction of travel, opening doors, smoke, inertia effects etc.

Signal arms move up and down, light up, colour aspects change.

Pantographs can be raised or lowered, and power switched between the overhaed and the track.

We can have cars, buses, lorries, motorcycles and even bicycles all moving around the layout one way or another.

Moving ships, working water wheels, windmills, cranes ice skaters and swimmers.......

All readily and easily available....and that's before we start scratching anything!

Compared to any other sort of modelling even fairly basic layouts are full of special effects.......

Some interesting points here.........how does one 'observe' a prototype from 30,  50, or 80 years ago?

Historic photos, film clips, books, all have their 'pro's' but do we need to be wary that they have their 'cons' as well?

As a 58 year old I have no recollection of steam, as a spotter in the 70's and 80's my memory does what seems to be normal....and everything seems to have taken on a rose coloured hue.

Observation is a skill many lack, you'd be surprised how long it takes to become a trained observer.

Observation is a good thing, but often certain things can be over emphasised to the detriment of the scene as a whole.

Are we talking about prototypical movements, train formations, colour replication, sound, .....the list is endless.

I recently had a conversation with the owners of a layout based in North Cornwall, where even the uniform of the local plod had been taken into consideration but to me, the trees just didn't look right as any tree in on the North Coast, what they are are definitely wind blown to the prevailing wind.

I wa probably the only person to notice, and it was no criticism of a superbly modelled scene., it certainly didn't detract from my pleasure of the layout or of reading the book the club produced about its building.

Some of you will know....... why are things seen........ and if you don't, it's worth googling the 7S's.