millerhillboy

What's the expectation for kids attending the show at the weekend? Just as per govmt guidelines which to my knowledge is over 12s require masks but not below 12?

Good work Martin, sounds like you had a bit of a block with track laying but looks like you got clear of that and hopefully now that lets you progress onto more enjoyable stuff.

superb layout, I particularly like the concrete area around the shed

good to see you pass what must feel like a bit of a milestone Iain. Look forward to the next stages

Really capturing the right feel here Martin, and making good steady progress

Lovely work Martin, sorry to see you switch scales I suppose as it was always interesting to see what you came up with in 2mm. However its still great to see what you are up to in whatever scale.

Anyone know if these guys are still on the go, their facebook page has a post from 2020 I think (I'm not on facebook) but not seen anything more recent than that.

Got some of their ballast for N gauge some some time ago and I really would like more.

Hi Ben

 I did actually manage to slide out the three wagon boxes OK although it was very tight although I take your point about that being somewhat necessary. The rip occurred when trying to insert the wagons back in. 

I bought 3 packs of 3 but I've yet to try the second and third packages just in case I was missing something.

 As I say not the end of the world for me as the sleeve isn't't hugely of interest to me personally but perhaps for others it might.

Very happy to receive my cemflos the other day. As others have said these are truly superb, and have a great feel to them weight wise, just right.

I'm looking forward to getting these weathered in due course but it does seem a shame in some ways.

Only grump is having destroyed one of the sleeves already, is there a technique to getting the wagons in and out. I managed to remove the first 3 wagons from their sleeve but managed to rip the sleeve on putting them back in. Not the end of the world I don't suppose.

Great progress here Iain, looks like you are building up a bit of momentum here and heading quickly towards something that's operational to some degree. Great work.

nice work Iain, looks like you've done a good job on what I find a very unenjoyable part of layout building

Smallwonder, that's an incredible video, much better quality than most I've seen from that era.

smashing pictures and a nice variety of weathered stock on display

8 hours ago, Auchend1nny said:

Cheers, aye definitely going for a bit of late eighties bleakness!

The pub and the paper shop are superb as well. Really like the Edinburgh Evening news markings, superbly observed.

Agree with Roddy, very definitely suggestive of the shore along at Granton. Additionally the pub on the corner is very suggestive of many establishment along the whole of the Leith and shore area and the buses tell their own story.

Perhaps a couple of 'trainspotters' could complete the scene, although not the type with pads and pens. More the Irvine Welsh type trainspotters.

wondering............??? confirming I would say was more like it

Going to have great operational interest that Iain, will keep the operator occupied for sure.

Goes without saying but thoroughly enjoying these pictures. Thanks for posting.

15 minutes ago, brylonscamel said:

 

.. and I enjoyed hearing about your connection to this scene. I am itching to travel north again - I live in Bristol - and part of the plan is to visit the Fife coast and the fisheries museum. Maybe I should add Musselburgh to the list of places to visit. I have friends and family on the East Coast and sadly they feel further away than ever right now.
 

Yes Fife has some lovely fishing ports, Anstruther etc. That'd be a nice trip particularly if you got some nice weather. Its a lovely bit of coast.

Musselburgh certainly does have some interesting history on a number of fronts if you were at all interested in visiting.

I also enjoyed your figures working around and about the moored boat. A picture appeared a while back on a website of my actual grandfather (my family hadn't seen it) and your figures certainly capture the feel of working men (hard working as well they were). It was the wearing on the 'bunnets' that done it for me. My grandfather wore his bunnet all his life, didn't go anywhere without it and is a strong recollection I have of him. I notice the picture of the BF registered ship you also posted also had 'bunneted' crew!!

Head down to the fishing section here, that's my actual grandfather with his bunnet on

https://el4.org.uk/parish/inveresk-musselburgh/economy/

8 minutes ago, brylonscamel said:

 

I regard any model of mine that triggers a memory or family association to be a success!

Those boats in the photo from Whitby are beautiful and the three nearest boats  (including your grandfather's) are registered as 'LH' for Leith but I assume you knew that!

 

To my untrained eye they have a very strong look of a North Sea fishing fleet. I'm starting to recognise these purposeful looking boats,  - not unlike the Artitect shrimp/crabber but with high pointed  bows and broader rounded sterns. I'd love to try and reproduce one in model form. Even the bold painted letting with a heavy serif and shadow is lovely!

Yes, I did indeed know LH was Leith. I'm a big supporter of the Leith based football team (shouldn't be admitting that just now mind you ;-) ) but yes my mother still has lots of detailss of her dads boat. I believe the boat could well have been built in Cockenzie (just down the coast) as my family have extended family in that area who way back were boat builders, but I could wrong with that. An online resouce shows it was built in 1948 but not where. My mother would know for sure who still lives overlooking the harbour at Fisherrow.

Its a lovely lovely model which is superbly observed. I certainly enjoyed seeing it.

Lovely work and especially nice for me as my grandfather was a fishing boat skipper which I'm old enough to just about remember (but only just).

His boat was the LH255 'Goodwill' and looks very similar to the boat you've modelled. Its included in the following (colour) picture which might be of interest to you.

http://www.trawlerpictures.net/gallery/image/8905-whitby/

The picture shows the boat in Whitby, but its home port was Fisherrow (Musselburgh) where my family still live overlooking the harbour.

On 19/01/2021 at 20:56, Indomitable026 said:

 

37 261

 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:07.06.83_Thurso_37261_(6447372785).jpg
 

 

The Scottish Rail Preservation Group Diesel working away bringing 37261 back to life, sure she'll be a read credit to the group as per all the other 37s they've done.

Boness 37261 Restoration

Good stuff Iain, a nice chunk of progress made there. You are really making strides now.

It'd be superb to get to see it up and running, which I hope we can do one day

nice, looking forward to getting those through

such a great underframe colour you get, that looks spot on

that right combination of blacky brown but with a bit of sheen as well to it