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"Stanier Green".

Fourth time lucky with the bridge, it looks right to me. And who would have thought a GWR coach looked good in green! 🙂

Trains in a bottle. Now there's a thought. It looks like a lovely van. I see from the Wizard site that they were "the most numerous of all the Midland ‘all brakes’ ". Your usual fact-based approach, then.

...and then mow grass between rails 🙂

Excellent weathering, quite a transformation. And an allegory of life 🙂

Indeed yes. No 1535 a.k.a Mrs Sanders being one of them. From the front she could perhaps pass for Edwardian, but once you see her behind...

A few will go a long way, visually. These are from a Preiser set. Double that and a fair impression of a release could be created, I think.

Thanks Stephen, now that is thought-provoking. I'll accept the challenge. I think I'll time it a bit shy of grouping though, i.e. ca. 1919 with my Open Cab 1854 PT as motive power. It will require a bit of joined up thinking. These five make up the sum total of my foreigners so far: They have been selected mainly from "the neighbours", in order to indicate Farthing's location on the Berks & Hants Extension. They tend to appear one or two at the time when I shunt the yards in my normal 1900-1907 pre-pooling mode. But for this 1919 train I'll need to take other factors into account, e.g. the size and distribution of nationwide fleets, as discussed in the "Foreign wagons" thread. The SDJR Road Van, MSWJR 3-planker and LSWR stone wagon need special backstories, and are out of the equation for the 1919 train I think. The D299 and LSWR 10 ton van are better candidates. Edited for clarity/rambling

See this post: https://www.rmweb.co.uk/forums/topic/171078-rmweb-change-of-hosting-missing-images-april-2022/

Thanks Dave. My mind is on Midland matters at the moment as I need to build one or two more MR wagons for my post-pooling goods trains. The obvious source is Bill Bedford's range of resin wagon kits: https://mousa-models.co.uk/product-category/4mm-scale/4mm-lms-resin-wagon/ I expect that @Compound2632 would instruct me to do another D299, but it's tempting to add a bit of variety with one of the other MR diagrams in that range instead.

Nice to see the railmotor crew and passengers, Neal. I was thinking of ordering the OO ones on the assumption that Modelu have made sure that they fit. But maybe they haven't? With the sheep and all, its going to be a full railmotor 😁

Lovely work, the Thai atmosphere is already there in bucketfuls. I'm impressed that you managed those flames with the Silhouette.

Impressive. Your work is so unique for the Scandinavian model railway scene, which - in my limited experience at least - has not had much of a tradition for advanced stuff like this.

Good to see the 1908-12 livery on an RTR model. A first?

Håvard, it doesn't matter if progress is slow when the results look like this! It's very crisp, what is the kit please?

Thanks Mike, interesting thoughts on the SEF vs Slater's sheets. In my view the both suffer from overscale mortar courses. Not sure why really, perhaps it's easier to print - or maybe it's like figures where heads have traditionally been modelled larger than they are because we expect the features to be clearly visible.

The kitbuilt one has a good deal more character, I think. This phone box stuff is becoming addictive, I hope it will develop into a regular feature. Phone Box Weekly, only on RMweb, I know the feeling!

Thank you for that, it clarifies something I have wondered about. Although that last shot nicely shows that it isn't necessarily a big problem.

Clearly not an RMwebber then 😉 I like the concept, will follow with interest.

Glad to hear that! I like working with the Foamex, apparently the warhammer community use it a lot for building structures. It also takes scribing well.

That's an interesting method with the springbow pen, hadn't heard of that before. Thank you. The Pendon method in the link gives a lovely result. I believe it is also the approach Stephen Williams used on his stone-built Faringdon structures, as seen in his GW Branchline Modelling books.

Hi Keith, nice to see some German stuff developing. The kit looks quite nice, those paper inserts behind the windows work surprisingly well. I've noticed that some structure kits from the continental European manufacturers have (or perhaps used to have) a relaxed approach to scale, tending towards being slightly smaller than they should be. Is that a problem that you have found?

Shocking to see a phone box that isn't red. Whatever next, green carriages? It blends in nicely, thanks to some clever positioning. In fact that whole corner is nicely colour-matched - except the signal box, typical inconsiderate corporate behaviour 🙂

Very nice. The window wipers are a neat touch. Looking at that last photo, it doesn't take much imagination to hear the clank of buffers in a warm dusty yard somewhere in southern Europe. Did you ever settle on the setting? Or maybe it doesn't matter. Nice low cost per hour too.