Worsdell forever

Don't know what you mean Andy, must be all coincidence...

So, back to the lorries... I've made good progress on the Ford, it's had mirrors and been weathered, it looks a bit old and grubby, I'm going to try and dent and rust the front bumper a bit, it will get wipers when the glazing is re fitted. I also added the FORD to the front grille using transfers from an LNER wagons sheet. Next in line is a Bedford HA van, this is a resin and whitemetal kit that Mark had started, don't know whose kit, it's quite a good kit with some excellent etched details, the only problem is the chassis casting seemed to be a little short, a bit of tweaking and moving the rear wheels back a bit and it seems ok. It's painted red but it won't be a Royal Mail van, wanting to keep away from that cliché. At the same time I'm on with a Leyland FG, a Base model, probably one of the ugliest lorries ever produced... (needs that roof sorting)

Looks like you had a good time. Have you heard about the time the K1 (second to last photo) fell over? a little further up the gradient to where it is in the photo (although I think the track has been realigned since), Brent shouted bellowed out of the box' "Open her up Bill, there's no one in front!", Bill did so and the loco ended up on it's right hand side in the ballast, a group of us rushed over, picked it up, cleaned the ballast out of the motion, Bill settled the fire back into the grate and away they went, didn't really slow him down though...

Mike hasn't 'Reproduced' your photo, he's posted a link. Links of this type in this software automatically puts up the image which is also a link to your Flikr page and it then puts details (also as links) below it. If he had posted the photo as his own work. that would be a different matter but that is a kind of thing Mike would never do. Anyway, there's plenty about copyright elsewhere on here, back to the minerals...

Mine didn't but it does now

Stu, I have one of the Base forklifts, I'll get it detailed and weathered. I think with such a small yard the lorry would be parked on the road/pavement and the forklift trundling in and out to load/unload.

Just measured it and it is 36mm wide (over mirrors) and 38mm high. Length 100mm.

Managed to get the wipers on the AEC tonight and they're made ready for the Bedford.

Nearing completion, hopefully tomorrow night I'll have a session making wipers but the AEC is pretty much there. AEC Mercury. A parcel arrived the other day containing some goodies from Mark (see post 11) and the first to be tackled is this Ford D series, it was in a kind of BR yellow colour but I spotted a photo of a dropside (different make though) in this livery and thought it would work on this one, I think it does. I haven't started with details on this yet, but it will get mirrors, wipers and I'll try and add 'FORD' to the grille.

It was introduced in 1976 but it had to be done... (can't be seen through the window anyway)

What else would it be... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olI5xzshtFQ

This really is going too far... Inside the AEC cab. First correct answer gets a 'Like'.

Still making progress, just no real updates as someone broke the internet here and the phone can't really cope.

Mirrors, .5mm brass wire and a rectangle of brass, there is a small piece of .9mm wire separating the two parts. Like these Brian? 20thou plasticard and .9mm wire for the corner posts. fairly battered and rusty.

The Stockton & Darlington did that to their bridge over the tees on the Middlesbrough branch, they broke the bridge and had to put a servere weight restriction on it... Edit, they used real engines, not southern ones.

Are they from the Isle of Sodor, they've all got eyes!

Will this do Stu?

Phil, that's what I mean, very specialist! perhaps we could persuade Jim...

We'll be the judge of that...

No apology needed Mark, it's just I know very little about buses and those from this area are quite specific and people get quite passionate about them!

Oooh, Oooh, no more curried eggs for Dennis...

That's a possibility for the next one Brian, as it will be for Stubby's WE Millward Ltd they would fit well with delivering/collecting from a small factory. I've found one photo from 1970 in a magazine (not a brilliant shot) but does anyone have or know of any suitable photos? No, not yet, they're that horrible soft rubber that files/emery hate...

Sorry to disappoint but I don't do buses! don't know enough about them. The TK is very nearly finished, all painted up, managed to mix a green very close to the cab green from Vallejo Olive green, Prussian blue and a bit of black. The body has been fitted and a couple of pallets and a sheet roped down at the back. The whole lot has been weathered with powders as a well looked after 10 year old workhorse. Jobs still to do are to add rear lights, windscreen wipers and a spare wheel, for which I have, somewhere, a couple of old EFE chassis that I can pinch one off.

Thanks Chris, great to be here! Oooo! the Cortina! It will be well travelled if it heads it's way up here, full circle almost as I was talking to the Captain at the very show where it started it's journey... Got the fuel tank and rope cleats fitted last night.