Mikkel

Hi Missy. Well as they said - it all looks superb. Those signals have a look of real craftmanship about them - almost a pity you have to paint them! Know what you mean about the "summer lull" in model making. But now we have the whole modelling season to look forward to :-)

Hi Nick, just been reading through this and some of your other entries again. It's a neat solution to the problem. It occurs to me that a combination of your "Loose ends" concept + optional fiddle yards either end as per your design above would provide a solution to my problem of how to operate a mainline platform on a (series of) micros. Or you could do it. How about joining camerton to loose ends when noone is looking :-). Might give a bit of a gauge problem though! Thanks for the inspiration, as ever.

I don't need to watch a movie to see bad continuity. Last night, I dreamt I was in Hawai enjoying a drink by the sea. Now being awake, and looking out the window on a grey European morning, I can see a definite continuity problem :-)

Lovely weathering Nick. Much inspiration there. I agree that it does look a little as if it's been in storage for a while, but sounds like you've got that taken care of. I've never tried adding enamel on acrylics. It doesn't sound safe though...

Dinner is ready at exactly the most critical time of a tricky soldering or glue job.

As I remember it, Heljan's first steam outline loco (Danish Litra P) was not the greatest success from a technical/running point of view. But that was 10 years ago and the recent improved P is supposedly much improved and a good runner (according to reviews). (video of the new P here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtqIJ-L_NTM&feature=player_embedded) Their Faulhaber-powered Litra E had some problems with the front bogie, although I believe that was fixed. Other than that I believe it received decent reviews on the running and detail.

You could have a "what if ?" operating session, and pretend that nationalisation never happened. They sure would look good coupled to something like this: http://www.gwr.org.uk/galparsons1.html

Lovely buildings, Chris. I would have liked to see the vertical bricks though, that sure would have been different

Great stuff. I especially like the fact that the wagons are well weathered, as I find it hard to believe that everything was as pristine as we sometimes imagine during that period . For what it's worth, you may be interested in the discussion in the comments to this post: http://www.rmweb.co....pen-in-gwr-red/

I'm afraid it's just the same wagon, with a bit of video editing Nowt more than a bit of fun (well, for the maker at least). Sediment in the whiskey, eh? Well with the cost of modelling materials I have to save money somewhere

That trackwork looks fantastic, very interesting to see. The stop block is rather nice too, lots of bulkiness ! And my own favourite period too. Looking forward to following this!

I want your job - and your boss Interesting idea about the many locos and one uncoupling point. As you say it could be hard to find a prototype for it, but then again perhaps it could loosely be based on the notion of an exchange siding?

Superb model. Given its unusual appearance it could easily have ended up looking "wrong", but to me it looks very believable. Colour of the girders is a bit tricky. Others will probably be in a better position than me to say something about this, but off-hand I would say dark stone, as used on various support columns at stations? Or possibly chocolate, as used on lower (wooden) parts of some GWR boxes?

Sometimes I get really worried about the future of the human race.

Looks good, Al. And thanks for taking me down memory lane, as this was the first loco I bought after returning to modelling (with the ligther blue Lima livery). The body was much better than the Hornby version back then (some parts of it still are?), although of course with your mods it looks a thousand times better.

Beautiful work as ever, Missy. Thanks for sharing experiences on the problems encountered with the lighting. Must remember the need to be able to replace them easily (btw, I haven't forgottten your idea with the tea-lights for my goods depot).

Hello Mac. Well railway modelling is certainly a multi-layered hobby. I would have liked to be a fly on the wall during that club discussion! . I can see the point about even realism being subjective, but for me the difference lies in the intention: If someone is trying to replicate reality to perfection, then they are pursuing the "realist" approach - even if they are subconsciously making their own interpretations while doing so. Anyway, I like the geology map. That's what I call research!

Hi Missy, congratulations with the recent high - it's a benefit to all of us when you are inspired to build some more on Highclere. Am I correct that there is a person in the goods shed in the third photo? If so the figure looks very realistic. Made me think of some of the photos I have seen from the war years when more women were employed on the railway.

Hi Chris. This does look promising, and I agree very much about trains on bridges! "Build first, ask questions later!" Not sure that tip is in any modelling book - but no doubt there are property investors who would agree

Very smooth indeed B). And a very nicely conceived video, too. Thanks for making it !

Thanks Ray, very kind of you. Look forward to seeing some of your own work in due course. Don't know if you're into micros, but I hope the Micro Layouts Group here on RMweb can get going eventually, once we get used to the format.

Dunno what happened to my earlier comment, seems to have gone blank. Anyway Al, I was trying to say that this is one of my favourite layouts, and that I really like how you've designed it. How did you shape the curve of the Wills sheets for the embankment - in boiling water or...?

A wonderful beast, and it has that look of mass and weight that the prototype has. Seeing it crawl along the trakc must be quite a sight! I don't suppose a video is possible? I missed your earlier post about the Neath & Breacon ST, for a quickie it looks really good. I hope the Dean Sidings concept is doing well commercially, it's really nice to have that kind of thing on the market. Am hoping to do some of the early GWR locos in the range in the future.