mobi323

Station view

Firstly your modelling is just great and my question is not trying to pick any fault.

But this photograph reminded me of a question I have been meaning to ask for years but keep forgetting to do so. Why are the loading gauges shaped like an inverted W. I can understand the purpose of the central U but the only purpose for the other two Us to the side to my mind is for oversize loads that stick out the side. However I'm not convinced.

Please put me out of my misery.

Woop Woop Near Cedar Vale Qld.

Basically identical but take care over the matter of top feed (or not) and ATC fitment (or not).

How can you tell if it has top feed? Is it that pipe thingy that goes transverses the top of the boiler in about the middle of the barrel?

Actually Jim gave me an idea of using "N" to get the sheer breadth of the desert South West in Arizona on the BNSF mainline around Winslow - the length of the intermodel trains down there is limited somewhat (even though the mainline is beautifully double tracked) to about 1.4 miles which is about 40 real feet! I don't believe my wallet would stand ten trains an hour...........

 

Luckily the USA is still blessed with plenty of shortlines all over the place with interesting locos and stock.

 

Best, Pete.

I always like that line in The Eagles song "Take it Easy" - "I was standing on a corner in Winslow Arizona". It has a real beat to it.

Well done. You have captured the spirit of the time.

You sure have done a lot in a short space of time, and, as well as that, it is of a very high quality.

That 37 looks very well weathered. Was bought like that or did you do it? Either way it is a great job.

hi all, been a little while since any updates, mainly due to me going back to work and bbq's and beer and family summer outings, but i got a few hours peace and quiet this afternoon.

I went to the model shop and picked up a pot of frame dirt and roof dirt, with the intention of getting the airbrush up and running, this became a failed attempt as the airbrush trigger siezed, thats what you get for buying cheap, so i decided to have a go with the brush and adding a few powders after.

I painted the bogies and underframe matt black to start then a coat of frame dirt, this was then stippled with oil stain powders and a little rust powder in places, i then took a wet cotton bud and took little bits off here and there to give varying levels of colour to the dirt.

 

The roof was litterally paint on with roof dirt and the majority taken off with a cotton bud then blended in using powders.

 

The buffers were coated in roof dirt, stippled rust powder and then roof dirt again then rust powder until a there was a rusty/greasy build up, then a light dust with rust powder and a bit of matt black in the centre.

 

Im pretty happy with the results now and except for the couplings these are pretty much finished, i hope they look ok and please give me some feedback, im still learning the art of weathering.

 

b

 

Cheers

 

Neil

You have done a great job especially on the weathering of your engines.

Well done! Looking forward to more photographs.

Just a couple of pix of the new ballast wagons, painted and Transfered (Cambridge Custom Transfers) but as yet unweathered.

 

 

 

Looks like the WR have borrowed a couple of SR ballast wagons.

I really like the weathering on the old 2.6.0 engine. Did you do this yourself as well?

Great effort at a worthwhile project.

I had the opposite happen.

I bought a fountain pen and immediately (I mean 10 seconds) after the sale the seller said he had sent it in the mail.

My suspicions were aroused and when it didn't come in a week or so. I put a claim into Paypal. They paid with no questions asked.

Anyway eight weeks later the pen arrived by sea mail. I honestly tried to give the money back but Paypal and the seller didn't want to know me. I tried for about two weeks and eventually gave up and figgured it made up for the book I had been dudded out of a couple of years earlier.

Hi

 

I thought that would do a quick photo update since I have managed to snatch a few hours and make some progress. As you can see the main tracks are down on the first board and look suitably filthy to represent 80 years of steam operation! Apologies also for the quality of the photos.

 

I think the scale is right and the station has a suitable level of grandeur even if it is only on a 50cm wide board. Although I am a fan of brickpapers, the jury is out on the paving stones. They might have to become tarmac in the future. This would fit better with the platform profile since I have opted for no lip which would fit better with a later re modeled platform surface.

 

Andrew

 

 

Apart from the Chocs, I should have mentioned the fantastic modelling. Makes my efforts seem very puny.

Hi

 

I thought that would do a quick photo update since I have managed to snatch a few hours and make some progress. As you can see the main tracks are down on the first board and look suitably filthy to represent 80 years of steam operation! Apologies also for the quality of the photos.

 

I think the scale is right and the station has a suitable level of grandeur even if it is only on a 50cm wide board. Although I am a fan of brickpapers, the jury is out on the paving stones. They might have to become tarmac in the future. This would fit better with the platform profile since I have opted for no lip which would fit better with a later re modeled platform surface.

 

Andrew

 

 

Are the Chocolate Eclairs a soon to be erected advertising hoarding??

All I can say is, "Well Done!!"

Great modeling and great photography.

Well done? The furrows in the garden beds is a nice touch. What have you planted?

I also will be keeping an eye on your project as I intend to incorporate a clay siding in my layout.

You have done a good job with the tunnel entrance.

Well done.

Interesting layout there. I'll have to keep coming back to see how it is all progressing.

Well done on all counts - trackwork, scenery, photography and engine weathering.

The greenery looks very real. How did you manage to get that effect?

And a bit more on the Laidley steam special (it wouldn't take all the pics at once).

 

 

The above pic shows Laidley as it was a few years before the derailment of a coal train which 'modified' the trackwork - fortunately sparing the station structure.

 

Now we move back to the Grandchester area on the lineside just west of the station where the line begins to climb towards Laidley and the west

 

Incidentally the town of Granchester (not actually shown in these pictures) was almost totally wiped out in the Jan 2011 floods.

 

 

 

 

 

A little narrow gauge....

Where did you get/make this little cart? I would like one for my coal stage.

Probably what you are missing is that the current second bidder had bid £72, £2 more then withdrew the bid , leaving the £70 bidder as the current high bid- The bidder with the withdrawn bid had 100% bidding record with the seller , whilst the rest had 3 to 27% bid history with the seller..Unless I have read the info incorrectly.

 

Again draw your own conclusions.

I would be more worried that s/he (the one that withdrew the bid) has withdrawn his/her bid five times in the last six months. I have bought on ebay for about the last 10 years and have never had to withdraw a bid.

Whitewashed cattle wagons (with black and white cows in the yard!), on the other hand, are common errors, not cliches.

Sorry, Am I missing something here? What are the errors with whitewashed cattle wagons and black and white cows in the yard.

Maybe I can see that black and white cows are dairy cows and would only take the train for their final trip to the great pasture in the sky but I can't see the problem with the whitewashed cattle wagons. Nearly all pictures I've seen of cattle wagons in the pre-WWII era have whitewash splashed rather haphazardly on them.