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Indeed, and thus a good match with the discussion here 🙂
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3 hours ago, Edwardian said:
The quote is from HMRS 1967. It cites the Railway Magazine 1908, but does not quote it.
I did a reasonably systematic trawl of the Railway Magazine for livery details some years ago. I won't link to the blog again - for some people, there be dragons - but it's attached here.
For mention (and critique!) of all-over coach brown, see the entries for:
July 1903, August 1903, October 1904, June 1905, July 1905, August 1906, August 1908, October 1909.
Note also the different terms used to describe the colour.
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6 hours ago, Miss Prism said:
Mikkel - do you have a thread url for that? (The 'member activity' search function seems not to be able to access archived threads.)
Yes it's here - though there isn't much more to it:
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On 29/04/2024 at 17:36, MikeOxon said:
The photo may have been taken on the opening day, 1st September 1872, since the staff are all posing 'on parade'.
They often are in photos from the period, regardless of the day. I think if it was an opening day shot the broom would have been put away - not proper! 🙂
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Lovely scenes, Louis. And very much your style. A perfect distillation of the hundreds (nay, thousands!) of photos, ideas and thoughts that you have taken us through on here.
I know you also plan for a big layout, but your small layouts are little gems in my view.
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Thank you!
Ah yes, the shed is John Dornom's work, the photo is even on the commemorative page here: https://www.masterpiecemodels.co.uk/index.php/latest-news/217-john-dornom-1950-2022
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A wagon frenzy! Great stuff Matt. You're going to be needing more foam for your clever wagon storage solution.
Chris' prints do look good. As opposed to something else I am working on right now. The 3D printing scene seems to be a Wild West at the moment, some prints are superb and some are very poor, but you can't always tell the difference from advert photos because these days anything can be made to look good in an image.
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Further to discussion of the brown 517s, I dug out this old post by Nick (much missed) from an archived thread:
If Nick is correct here, brown is an option from 1905 to the mid-20s, which surprises me a little.
As since pointed out by @Brassey, the brown livery on 517s can be distiguished by the cream cab interior (when it can be seen).
Many years ago Andy posted these excellent shots on here that he had taken. The images disappeared in a changeover or the Great Loss, so unfortunately I cannot say whose model it is, does anyone know?
Incidentally, Nick's point about the lake 517s is interesting. An opportunity to be different if anyone is so inclined. There were one or two Lee Marsh 517s done in that livery. Or perhaps the Wolverhampton livery might tempt someone.
James has posted some photos of delightful models in these liveries here and here.
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50 minutes ago, Edwardian said:
I understand there is to be a brown 517 as announced. As they were painted thus to match carriage livery, it is worth noting that Dapol has announced autocoaches in both lined chocolate and cream and lined lake, but not the lined brown of 1908. It may be that the Diagram N trailers never went into brown, of course, but it leaves me feeling the brown-liveried 517 version, while attractive, is perhaps the most redundant.
Here's a photo posted by Brassey of a brown 517 with choc & cream trailer:
- and below it his model version. Irresistible if you ask me.
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9 hours ago, rprodgers said:
Wouldn’t the 517 tank also be the first GW tank depicted in a pre-grouping build and livery?
I think so - certainly with a roundtopped firebox, as God intended them 🙂
1 hour ago, Miss Prism said:green or brown
That's what I was wondering when I came across this:
Further 517s here, the first three are nice studies:
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14 hours ago, BWsTrains said:
Quite a bit of my time has been taken up with the next two buildings on my list, viz. the Stables and the Tannery.
The first stage was to build up a collection of reliable drawings with measurements and then planning my requirements for windows and other misc. supplies. As for the Stables I'll be building a much smaller version of Mikkel's @Mikkel which was based on the Park Royal Block. His posts are here...
and there are extensive details for which many thanks are in order. One thing I can't do is follow the main build route as that made heavy use of a Silhouette Cutter which I don't have. Additionally the windows are a odd size so off-the-shelf items are ruled out. Then there's all the in wall ventilators under and over windows, all cut by Silhouette.
The Vents seemed to be a good place to start, crack these and the rest should fall into place. Only catch was the vents are very fine at scale 12 slots in a 14mm length means each slot + divider is just over a mm.
I did not fancy cutting anything this fine at all accurately in PS sheet so the challenge sat on the shelf while I considered solutions. Bizarrely, my solution was sitting on my desk staring me in the face, an stainless steel fine mesh from a kettle which had died. This is shown top left in the Pic. The holes are about 0.5mm and a very careful cut with tin snips along one side of a row of holes delivers a handy template spaced at 1mm intervals.
A trial assembly run was done today.
Upper Right - a 1mm * 1mm strip of PS is loosely glued to the angle (Uhu glue stik) up against the mesh. Short lengths of 0.56mm * 0.28mm PS strip are places upright in each slot with a tiny drop of limonene applied with a fine screwdriver tip. the second 1mm sq strip serves only for support at this stage.
Once set, the assembled piece is removed from the angle support and offered up to the mesh at the desired separation - Bottom Left.. The second 1mm sq PS strip, now against the mesh can be glued to the strips as per before. With the strips each in their respective slots it all assembles easily.
Finally, Bottom Right, strips of 0.45mm * 1mm PS are glued over each face, the thicker supports being for the rear.
Hi Colin, that's a very creative solution. I really like when ordinary household items are brought into use.
Can the strips be angled slightly downwards or is that too fiddly?
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First George Armstrong design in RTR, I think.
Looks well pleased.
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He's doing a Saint now, should be interesting.
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A little over two years since you started this thread, saying you were "relatively new to railway modelling". And here we are with views and stock like this. A proper tour de force!
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Look at all those details. Hours and hours of modelling potential. Years, even.
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A round-ended "backgrounder" here, number not quite readable, is it 3xx47?
I won't mention the foreground as that will only lead us astray 🙂 But the wider album (of which this is a sub-sub- album) is of general interest I would think.
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Just looked it up, hadn't heard about it. 🙂 But no it is just good old Daisy.
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1 hour ago, ChrisN said:
Thank you.
I think most people would find it very boring. Just normal everyday life. People working hard and trying to get on with each other. Not much industry, plenty of hotels on the sea front, lovely beach, (of course), a boy's boarding school, and a girl's boarding school, whose pupils are rigorously kept apart, half a dozen churches, (not counted them up really), a happy little community with two or three gossips so that everyone knows everyone else's business, and no TV cameras trying to rake up things to keep people from switching off as it is ordinary boring life.
I had thought of writing a blog of interviews with locals, but I have not done so, 1) because I want the layout to look more like the town before I do, and 2) I think it would probably be misunderstood, as the people would speak with the mindset of 1895, although written in a way to poke fun at some things, ( "What is the point of giving bursaries to local girls to go to Lady Gwyneth's school. What is the point of educating girls anyway?)
I was thinking of the station. This sort of thing:
19 hours ago, ChrisN said:The contractor has had him locked up somewhere, just to stop him complaining.
19 hours ago, ChrisN said:He sleeps in the Station Masters office, except on Saturday night
🙂
Anyway, the blog sounds good, I hope that will appear some day!
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It strikes me that life in and around Traeth Mawr would make excellent reality TV, and the first of its kind that I'd actually want to watch.
Though I am not sure the contractor would approve 🙂
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They look excellent. The moustache always makes a big difference and helps established the period so well.
5 modelling sessions was well worth it, I think. Just another 50 for the passengers now 🙂
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Which one is that please, Stephen?
Quiite a lightfooted look, but presumably that's the angle.
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A classic modelling situation. You start off thinking "here's a nice readymade item that will give me a quick result", but before you know it you're deep into conversions and new builds!
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Best looking worst looking structure I've seen for a while.
It's thought-provoking to compare it with your earlier build of the same house. I assume it's for someone who has restored the house, what a nice idea.
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From my "Trains worth modelling" folder. With apologies to Churchward 🙂
Pembroke & Tenby line. Source: Embedded link from Pembroke & Monkton Local History Society.
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Ingleford Wharf: 1870s canalside inglenook on the "M&WJR" in 00, and Victoria Quay: a 1900s WIP in 0
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And 4-plankers. If it's GWR 1900s you'll need 4-plankers. Though I know that's very modern for you 🙂