Worsdell forever

Saw an 03 plate one in Whitby today just as you describe, would the back door/boot be completely black from soot? This one was...

What's the scrap metal price at the moment?

I've been looking for a while for a horse and rider, it needed to be quite a large horse to represent a Cleveland Bay, this of course ruled out all the H0 scale ones, there are some 4mm ones but these either have huntsmen riding them or look very pony club gymkhana... Dart Castings though do an 'Arabian Horse, with rider' I thought I'd have a look at it at York and decided it's big enough and the rider didn't look like they were after a rosette or a fox's brush. What I was hoping to represent is this - Jack Welford, known as America Jack or Mister America (he lived at America House Farm), he was a local Character, savior of the Cleveland Bay horse and friend of my grandad. The Dart horse and rider were a good start, a bit of filing was done so he would sit a bit further back and his riding helmet eased into a flat cap, might have to have another go at this as it's still a bit domed. A plastic sheep, possibly by Preiser, was gently butchered to fit across the front of the saddle and after the horse and Jack were painted it was glued on and the gaps filled a bit at a time with thick super glue and painted.

Mrs WF was in Scarbados today and just happened to be passing m&s so thought it would be rude not to... Not very big... but you wouldn't want any more! Ouch! Well that didn't last long...

But has it straightened out again?

Never mind that, they call it a 'Diesel' brake tender, turns out it doesn't have an engine at all...

Of course the modern image one would be baconless bacon in a seeded, sourdough, wholemeal, rye, multigrain focaccia...

You know when some people get carried away and try to cram in as much as possible into a small space?

I thought the same, very good but feels too modern, the Monty ones are meant to be sort of 30s to 50s.

Dart do a selection in the Monty's range https://www.dartcastings.co.uk/montys/MLV1.php https://www.dartcastings.co.uk/montys/MLV13.php https://www.dartcastings.co.uk/montys/MLV38.php

M1? measured one and it's just short of 1mm diameter.

Portrait of a moorland wanderer.

1093 in action this morning.

Ready for day 2.

Had a good first day, layout behaved itself apart from an uncopling magnet thats possibly failed. Now for a couple of pints in 'spoons in Goole then off for a curry.

Some more.

A few details on the station building. Windows are laser cut sash windows from Smart Models, three layers in total. They're slightly too big but look OK. Chimney pots are printed and also from Smart Models. They're just about spot on for the type used on these buildings. Slates and ridges are from Scale Model Scenery and are sheet LX415-00. The clock is a disc of plasticard, a ring of plasticard, a printed clock face off the Internet and a disc of clear plastic. At the moment under the canopy there's a serpent platform seat from a D&S kit and a couple of barrows from Shire Scenes kits, I assumed these would be the same colour as the seat but I read in, I believe, North Easter Record 'the passenger barrows would still be painted green' I'm assuming this would be loco green? Poster and timetable boards drawn on the computer, suitable posters added and printed. Don't look too closely at the timetable board, the top half is for the Blyth & Tyne and the bottom for Scarborough, Whitby and Middlesbrough... Door signs drawn on the computer and printed out.

We're at the Carlton Railway Society show at Howden School, East Yorkshire this weekend. https://www.ukmodelshops.co.uk/event/y2023/24854-CarltonRailwaySociety_Exhibition

Not much been happening of late, been slowly (started before Christmas) building an NER 'country' station building in the style of the Forge Valley line buildings designed by William Bell. There are slight differences, the windows are a different size and the single storey gables don't stick out on to the platform as far. I'm currently (very slowly) adding guttering from Modelu components, they're very good but a bit fiddly!

Yes, it is in that kind of style, slight detail differences, but no thread about it.

Many years ago my granddad told me that he and his two brothers went to collect lime for the fields from Kettleness station and he said that 'they [station staff] wouldn't drop the lime until we were there to take it away'. it was shovelled in to ordinary farm carts. I would imagine it would be delivered in 10-12 ton hoppers, sheeted It's quite rare to find photos of 20t hoppers on station coal depots, these were mostly used for pit to industry and ports.

Well, I'm sure it's mother loves it...😲

Been making up guttering and downpipes (using Evergreen 221, 1.2mm) from Modelu parts, fiddly, but worth it.