Mikkel

Very useful, thanks! You don't wait around!

28 days!

Depends how much aesthetics means to you. I sometimes run my Kernow Railmotor with a Slaters' clerestory. It's visually not very pleasing (unbalanced) as the former are surprisingly large affairs.

Lovely vehicle. I hereby challenge the 3D printing wizards to enter this early era of motorcars. I assume it is too late for your period, Mike! PS: Is it motor cars or motorcars, Google is no help on that matter.

Interesting to see a modern version of the Triang coaches. For GWR, I don't understand the roof vents - or lamp tops. Why not leave them off, as has mostly been done on the GCR variants.

Yes, I got it 🙂 But it got me thinking whether the double doors were actually correct.

Interesting! 🙂 That's how it came from Rail Model, who say it's a GWR prototype. I never finished it as I wasn't very happy with it - but I have a vague recollection of a prototype photo. Just checked Vaughan's GWR Architecture now, but nothing in there. This drawing of a different GWR design (GWRJ No. 23) does shows stable doors though.

Some interesting wagons in there. I think your approach makes good sense when a layout needs a lot of wagons, i.e. mixing kitbuilt and RTR. The latter can always be personalised anyway, if that's a preference.

That was a tough one, but I found it in the end: Nice work on the grass. As a Dane I am allergic to bright green grass, which for decades was the standard colour on Danish layouts (slowly changing now). So I very much appreciate the British approach with more subdued and prototypical looking greenery, as done so well here. Lovely train. How are your 517s coming along? Soon every man and his dog will be running the Dapol 517s, but it won't take anything away from your carefully crafted engines,

A Coke can to indicate scale. And as such it works perfectly too, across the world. Says something about our times.

Mike, I'm impressed that you could remember our 9 year old exchange. I confess I had forgotten. Interesting to read up on Pomeroy. According to Wikipedia, he got his ideas from a French engineer. But of course, Wikipedia can also be edited from France 🙂 Scale-Link have a 1914 Vauxhall kit in 1:76 still available. I am not sure if it is the Prince Henry version though, it is referred to as "the 50 Bob" type, which I believe was an Australian monicker. The early motor car industry seems to owe a lot to the eclectic interests of its engineers and companies. It seems that Wolseley cars developed because Austin was looking to complement Wolsley's production of sheep shearing machines! Likewise, Napier were into a variety of production lines before turning to motorcars in the Edwardian period, and from there on to the aviaton industry. Here is a shot from the Olympia show, which quickly became a major international event in the industry. The original caption is confused, so no date. Source: Getty Images, embedding permitted.

Tim, my fogman's hut from Rail Model did have a separate door - but I had other issues with it. The door came across rather thick when modelled in open condition, so I replaced it. More importantly, the corners of the whole structure weren't a good fit on mine. I had the same problem with their weighbridge office. It's odd because Rail Model seem to know what they are doing otherwise. I believe some of their kits were inherited, perhaps there is an explanation there.

It's art, darling 🙂 In model railways we have realism, impressionism and expressionism. Here we are firmly in the latter category, I think.

I like kit building wagons, so my first thought was: With your skills, why not build kits instead? Then I did the maths: 28 wagons x 5 hours build time (minimum) = 140 hours. I don't know how long your modelling sessions are, but mine are usually 1-2 hours. So that's 140 hours divided by 1½ hours = 93 modelling sessions! Yes 🙂. Mine isn't quite old enough yet for Wind in the Willows, Peter Pan and Winnie the Pooh, but I'll give it a try. Probably naive, but if we don't try...

Thank you. I think it adds a bit of local colour to feature the local name - assuming it's big enough to have its own allocation of brake vans. The lettering is composed from individual letters picked out of other words on the HMRS Transfer sheet for GWR Goods Wagons. E.g. F from "Fruit", A from "Conflat" etc. You wouldn't happen to be an owner of one, perhaps? I read that the Ford T black was initially introduced because that's what was available after the outbreak of war, but not sure if it is correct.