Richard_A

Does anyone have one of these knocking around? 

Recently, I have bought a few British Railway Modelling magazines from the mid 90's, I recognise a few names from this thread, but the thing that has struck me is, the articles are so much more interesting than modern magazines, MRJ excepting. 

I have even read Tony's V2 article, very amusing. 

On 21/03/2024 at 13:49, Dieselbob said:

Hi Richard

I was just looking at 4 VGA's I built from Kits, probably 35 years ago now, which are sitting on my layout, I couldn't remember the name of the maker and you have reminded me that they are Roy Gould kits, thanks for that. Time for them to go, the will be on ebay this weekend if its an 80% off week.

cheers

Bob

I think I had these in my watch list, cdo you still have them? 

Thank you all.

1 hour ago, Tony Wright said:

Here we go..................

 

 

A DJH Crab. £150.00.

 

 

Another DJH Crab (there must be a reason for the clean '3'). £150.00.

 

 

A DJH Fairburn tank (Portescap-powered). £150.00.

 

 

A DJH Ivatt 2-6-2T (Portescap-powered). £140.00.

 

 

A DJH Standard 4 4-6-0. £140.00.

 

 

A DJH Standard 5 4-6-0. £140.00.

 

 

And another DJH Standard 5 4-6-0. £140.00.

 

 

A Nu-Cast Stanier 2-6-4T. £110.00.

 

 

A Vulcan Class O4. £80.00.

 

There are some carriages as well...........

 

 

A kit-built (Comet?) ex-GWR Autocoach. £50.00.

 

 

A much-modified RTR ex-GWR Autocoach. £40.00.

 

 

A BSL ex-GWR BSK. £50.00.

 

 

And a BSL ex-GWR SK. £50.00.

 

Anyone interested in any of the above, please PM me. 

 

Thanks in anticipation. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Arrgh, I'd love to buy two of those but I have a big house project coming up. 

I know that the class 59/2 were used in south Wales, but I'd be grateful if someone could shed some light, on the time line and if they had all been repainted from  the nice national power livery by then. 

14 minutes ago, Clive Mortimore said:

 

Hi Richard A

 

Richard (30368) is possibly referring to my slightly off the beaten track music I share on the Sheffield Exchange thread. I must say for a "rave" song it wouldn't have been my first choice, especially as I was expecting something sort of in the death metal mode by the record label. Thankfully there is so much good music of varying different taste to make most people happy.

 

To me there are only four types of music.

1, the stuff I like

2, stuff that is listenable

3, stuff other people like

4, Oh (not a RMweb word) 'ell turn the radio off, its that (not another RMweb word) song by (yet one more non RMweb word) Queen.

Hi Clive, 

I listen to some of the music you link on said thread, and it is very eclectic indeed, rave music is quite a strange genre and I understand when people describe it as noise, I soon gravitated to trance and the harder types of house music, as I found it had more going on soundwise to keep me interested than the type I shared up thread. 

My choice of music is categorised in a similar fashion to your list. 

11 minutes ago, 30368 said:

 

What is going opn here? Where is Clive?

 

 

Can I assume, that you're not a fan? 

2 hours ago, Jesse Sim said:

I thought some of my other taste in music my scare some viewers.

This is the type of thing I'd listen to, when I was a young lad back in the late 90's. 

I'd wager this will scare more people than you could. 🤪

Fwiw, I have been building a shed for a friend's autistic husband to allow him some space to unwind in, I have used 125mm pir in the roof, walls and floor, the temperature is very very stable, which is what you need in any building. 

Oh well, I just keep looking every now and then. 

7 minutes ago, Stretch37266 said:

Found a copy, sorry about the creases

 

Paul

 

mb35a.pdf 4.76 MB · 2 downloads mb35b.pdf 3.78 MB · 0 downloads

Thank you, the creases are absolutely wonderful. 

1 hour ago, ikcdab said:

I don't know but in 40+years of modelling, I have yet to empty a pot.

The real answer is that it depends!  How many coaches, how many coats, how much you thin it.  I think one pot will go quite a long way.  Certainly it will do 3 or 4 coaches.

Thank you, 

I'm spraying six coaches first off, but I have four or five 15ml pots, so I assume I have plenty. 

Well, I tried that obvious and contacted branchlines, they might have a pdf of it they can share, or I cam buy another kit. 

I have a kitmaster Midland Pullman to paint, and I realised I have no idea how far a 15ml bottle of railmatch enamel paint will go.

I am planning on using an airbrush to apply the paint. 

Could someone enlighten me please? 

I have found one of these in my stash but it has no instructions, does anyone have one they could scan the instructions for please? 

On 24/03/2024 at 10:48, MartinWales said:

If you're struggling, I have a colleague who is disposing of some....

Hi, 

Sorry just seen this, are they unbuilt kits? 

12 hours ago, Mol_PMB said:

Agreed, I wrote Slawit first, but then thought that the t is rather soft and sometimes omitted altogether in the pronunciation.

I've heard Linfit a few times, but I agree the full Linthwaite is more common.

I've never heard linwit, but after saying slawit several times, I agree the to is spoken softly, not something you could describe Yorkshire folk doing often. 

12 hours ago, Mol_PMB said:

There's a sign at the Huddersfield end of the platform at Slaithwaite station which is actually spelt Slaithwaithe. I suspect there are a lot of errors when you look closely.

Slaithwaite is of course pronounced Slawi', so if anyone was getting it wrong you would expect them to leave letters out rather than add more in!

 

Few signwriters seem to have been in the top set for spelling and grammar at school. They were probably sitting in the back row with the greengrocers and their bucket of free apostrophes. I've even seen a signwriter's own van with a spelling mistake on it!

As a native of Huddersfield, I thought Slaithwaite was pronounced as, slawit. 

I also couldn't understand how Linthwaite was pronounced as "Linthwaite" and not "Linwit" or similar. 

I have been deliberating about buying two for my kitmaster Midland Pullman but as above, I have been putting it off because of postage. 

I should order some now. 

3 hours ago, locomad2 said:

 

You dont seam to come across them 2nd hand at toy fairs prehaps type of models modellers hang on too as they work so well

Perhaps, luckily a member on here thinks he might have one or two hiding away somewhere. 

I have a picture of 56004 in blue during 1998, if that is any help? 

I don't suppose anyone has a couple of the chassis frames going spare? 

I have two bodies and some spare Hornby bogies to use for them, but the chassis are hard to get. 

6 hours ago, Tony Wright said:

I'm delighted Richard,

 

Not only are my presentations useful for those who can't sleep, but I'm told they're equally marvellous at removing guests who've overstayed their welcome. Put me on, and all you see are their @rses disappearing in a cloud of dust, at speed!

 

Regards,

 

Tony.  

Hi Tony, 

Maybe next time my mum is visiting, I'll try it!

I watched the full set last week when my little boy wouldn't sleep, he fell asleep very quickly once I put these on, but he loves falling asleep listening to videos of railways.

Quite sweet really.