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Lovely! It looks perfect on those skips. Great understated colour... And I thnk the cheapo sound card's pretty good...

I do love a Ruston - always have done, "Rusty"'s such a likeable character in the Thomas books...

I like your 3' version, looks like a plausible "might have been" to me... Will it go into your standard green livery?

VERY nice - the yellow livery's fantastic...

ge_rik wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 1:21 pm

Andrew wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 12:52 pm Great pictures - and I do love the photographer!

I take it you mean the scale figure, rather than Grant himself ..... Unless this is the start of a bromance ......

Rik

Well, I am a great admirer of Grant's work but, in this instance, I did mean the little plastic chap...

Catching up here, having been busy with non-hobby stuff for a while, and came across this - how utterly splendid! I love the teak finish - I've been dabbling in a little (full size) signwriting lately and fancy trying some LNER/GER style lettering on teak finished wood... Nice idea to mixthe panels ...

FWLR wrote: ↑Mon Mar 18, 2024 6:56 am Nice looking steamer that Mitch.

Oooh,it is! I haven't seen one of those before...

Great pictures - and I do love the photographer!

Glad you're up and running again...

I like that very much, a lovely little loco!

What a beauty!

In your first picture, the first car I saw was the white sporty number, which did made me think "well, that's a surprise..." Then I glanced across and it all made much more sense. Congratulations on a wonderful restoration job!

How long will the completed line be? And how long will it take to complete a single trip? Depends how fast you go of course, but back in May it took me 13 minutes to get to just this side of the steps in Trevor's photos... Ah, I'd forgotten I'd seen that, thank you! It must be great fun to run the ...

Very impressive!

“I can't read the cabside lettering - what power classification have you designated it? 7F?” It says ‘5MT’ but it wasn’t chosen very scientifically. I had a quick peek at an idiot’s guide to what it all means and looked up the Tractive Effort figures for possibly relevant locomotives. But way out o...

Fantastic progress! How long will the completed line be? And how long will it take to complete a single trip? When I built my own (very much shorter!) end-to-end line, I was surprised to find that (with a live steam loco) the downhill journeys are often longer than the uphill ones, I think because I...

That really captures the look of the original! And, I agree, it's going to look great on your clay branch...

Andrew.

I like the phrase "Light Garratt" very much!

I can't read the cabside lettering - what power classification have you designated it? 7F?

I do love those locos - and yours is a beauty. The lining looks great...

That sounds awful - glad you're both ok though...

Perhaps a little point/track/rolling stock construction would prove therapeutic while you're in exile? I hope it all goes well.

All the best,

Andrew.

That's looking great! And it does look a lot like BR express blue - needs a nice rake of blood'n'custard carriages behind it...

Wilko's will be missed for such trivial items as rattle cans but I get my Hycote satin black from 'The Range' for a reasonable price. They stock primers, lacquers and limited paint colours. There is a list on-line of locations for all 180 branches nationwide. I mourn the loss of Wilko several times...

Magnificent. Somehow, just absolutely 'right', like that's the only way a 3'6" gauge blue BR Garratt could possibly look. Exactly! A little less audacious and maybe it wouldn't work, but it does, beautifully! Congratulations! Any idea what it'll pull yet? Can't wait for film footage... Andrew ...