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Evening CK, I hand scribed the cobbles for the Midland stables I built for Bath. Can I recommend something soothing on the radio and a glass of something equally soothing close at hand as crucial to the success of the project.

 

Jerry

Or get the penguin to do it....

That is looking great! If you ever decide to sell any of these chassis etches you have designed I am sure people would buy them too.

Big Brother is reading you® blog...,

Well done! Milk tanker looks particularly good.

Interesting idea. Does the same apply to operators....?

Club looks friendly and fun too. Glad the larger premises are allowing more development.

Why is it that tidied spaces never remain that way for long?

Looks interesting, will keep an eye on developments.

Yes the dyers alone would have covered a deal of other smells! Looks great, the finished model is going to be superb.

Inset track is really hard to do convincingly, well done. Tortoises are fairly idiot proof and have good instructions. I use sticky copper tape for my bus wires, easier to solder to and it just sticks to the bottom of the base board. I too use SCSCFS, a magic marker to write the bus colours on the board!

Some shown here:

http://www.ashfordmodel.co.uk/v-groove-1479-p.asp

The duke is certainly looking regal! Well done to your son too, I have 20+ years on him and still haven't built a loco kit.

Coming along very well. I have a couple of ratio coaches stashed away so was interested to see the 'flash' photograph. One suggestion, put some real coal in the tender, the moulded stuff looks very poor and your excellent painting is making it stand out more!

Yes, I saw a few bits like that too when I was last in Wales, it is amazing what is crammed into Victorian industrial settlements.

Looks fantastic, when you do the cottages at the front I would consider moving them forwards a little and including a retaining wall with buttresses for the slope behind. I live in a house with a hill like that behind it, and have a 40ft retaining wall in the back yard, featuring a pulley operated washing line to elevate it to above ground level to dry!

 

 

Don't go steal your wife's though...

I don't know, trying whilst she is in them could provide a welcome distraction from footbridge modelling..,,

How about a pair of tights? You could rob a bank first, then save money by re using the pair on your head...

On a more serious note the other option may be the fine stuff used in 2mm scale chain link fence kits. I used some on SBL from eBay which was pretty fine.

Have I missed something on the dangers of glass fibre pencils? Should I not have used mine to clear a blocked nose.....?

Cassettes look very neat as usual, will all this fit in your luggage?

There is also the forum here,

http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/forum/25-modelling-questions-help-and-tips/

Did you find out what was wrong with the deltic?

This sort of thing does not belong in a blog, use your status updates. Good luck with doors.

Clay adds too much weight to be supported by a single thickness of card, also it is wet when applied which makes the card warp. A mortar course in 4mm is less than .5mm in scale size so brick paper is perfectly acceptable, with a good range of colours and weathered options available to download and print. Most people seeking surface detail in brick use embossed plastic sheet. This is good, but allowance should be made for priming, usually with an acrylic aerosol can, which means no fitting window glazing or signs etc until finished painting.

Absolutely a William Clarke building, fantastic stuff.

Well done! That hole in the sky has to go. Hope it all comes together in time.

Now that is something even Bulleid missed on the original design, a steam operated toe damage reverser....

I think the Mathieson clear rapido is actually cleverer than their 3 link, they are so much less visible at normal viewing distance. So far I have stuck with DG for all my finished stock, but was impressed by the "invisibilit"y of the clear rapido, having tried a few or fixed rakes. Richbrummit of this parish uses scale 3 links on his 2FS stock and he as not reported problems, other than seeing them to uncouple!

Good start, what is the structural material? I like foam board, it's easy to get free from shops or supermarkets who use it for hanging signs, it is light and stronger than card on its own. Plasticard is good too, but more costly and trickier to cut.