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Re: NGG16
I recall reading the suggestion that, inevitably, all garden railway builders will eventually succumb to doing a Garratt (I certainly intend to). This one will be terrific, I’m sure. Love it.
- Fri Apr 28, 2023 3:45 pm
- Forum: Quarterly Garden Railway Gallery
- Topic: June 2023 Gallery now open for entries
- Replies: 21
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Re: June 2023 Gallery now open for entries
Giant bluebells and BR’s smallest 2-6-0 (and cobweb)
- Wed Apr 12, 2023 4:08 pm
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
- Replies: 280
- Views: 128720
Re: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
Thank you. It was all OK. I grabbed both, as the loco collided with the phone, fearful something was going in the pond. I may have had Lonsdaler’s gravity train, pond story at the back of my mind.
- Tue Apr 11, 2023 6:15 pm
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
- Replies: 280
- Views: 128720
Re: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
https://youtu.be/ccrhiVj2DOo It's a bit silly. More to come... I spent a couple of days digging the weeds and tidying up the permanent way, while the shunter trundled round (for the first time) at very slow, scale speeds —without incident, until I decided I should film it for a few minutes. Of cour...
- Wed Mar 22, 2023 8:51 am
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
- Replies: 280
- Views: 128720
Re: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
“…the courage to start hacking the body about” The cab is moulded (and attached to the chassis) separately from the rest of the bodywork, so it could be used as a risk-free template for making a plasticard duplicate, with amendments as required… Shell-BP_1760_1.jpg A bit scruffy now — but it’ll loo...
- Mon Mar 20, 2023 8:49 pm
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
- Replies: 280
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Re: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
Jon — Of course. Thank you very much. I’ll get in touch
- Mon Mar 20, 2023 8:46 pm
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
- Replies: 280
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Re: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
John — Quite right too, that’s not hijacking the thread at all (and I’ve just got another one of those cheapo tank wagons, as well). You going to cut out the windows?
- Sat Mar 18, 2023 10:08 am
- Forum: Locomotives - Electric
- Topic: TVT - Down in the Forest Something Stirred
- Replies: 14
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Re: TVT - Down in the Forest Something Stirred
That’s terrific. It looks great.
- Sat Mar 18, 2023 10:01 am
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
- Replies: 280
- Views: 128720
Re: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
Thanks, Aaron. The shunter could never have been a ‘scale model’ (obviously) but now, several weeks later, I’m inclined to think that I ought to have taken the surgery a little further. Reduce the height of that bit with the angled top, immediately in front of the cab — and the cab front windows and...
- Mon Mar 13, 2023 9:23 am
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
- Replies: 280
- Views: 128720
Re: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
I was told recently, by someone engaged in magnificent, main line, steam loco restoration how, for a full-size replica of ‘Percy’ from the Thomas stories, rather than recreating the GWR original on which the character is allegedly based, in the US they referenced the Bachmann version. It’s true! Her...
- Thu Mar 09, 2023 10:30 am
- Forum: Locomotives - Electric
- Topic: Lets see all your scratchbult locos in G scale etc
- Replies: 20
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Re: Lets see all your scratchbult locos in G scale etc
Ooooh! That 47/57’s very interesting…
A garden railway just can’t have too many big tank engines and even bigger diesels, I reckon. Here’s my fun-scale Class 73 from not that long ago (I assumed I must have posted a snap of it complete before but it seems not).
- Thu Mar 02, 2023 10:53 pm
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
- Replies: 280
- Views: 128720
Re: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
“The ‘as delivered’ model is so out of proportion it’s not even funny…” Thanks. Bachmann, presumably deliberately, chose not to follow the proportions of the original. It seems perverse. They don’t appear to have been limited by any obvious practical or manufacturing issues. But I suppose their int...
- Mon Feb 27, 2023 2:00 pm
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
- Replies: 280
- Views: 128720
Re: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
"... those suggestions were a little tongue in cheek..." Me too. Well, a bit. The Lymington branch (for a ferry to the Isle of Wight), continued using two mid-60s, 3CIG, slam-door EMUs, as a kind of ‘official’ heritage railway, long after they had disappeared elsewhere — one in green and ...
- Mon Feb 27, 2023 1:43 pm
- Forum: Quarterly Garden Railway Gallery
- Topic: March Photogallery enter here. ONE week left!
- Replies: 18
- Views: 6778
Re: March Photogallery theme and enter here....
Colourful shunter, with short train (still incomplete; posed in scruffy garden on a very cold day).
- Tue Feb 21, 2023 9:26 am
- Forum: Rolling Stock
- Topic: (WH)WHR Rolling Stock
- Replies: 939
- Views: 360690
Re: (WH)WHR Rolling Stock
I don’t know anything at all about this kind of thing — but it looks to me like a pretty neat reproduction of the item in the pic. Cool!
- Tue Feb 21, 2023 9:22 am
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
- Replies: 280
- Views: 128720
Re: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
“…you've got the makings of a Southern Region diesel gala” My thoughts exactly, thank you. However, I’m afraid I can’t agree that “the Bulleid ‘Spam Can’ would look rather nice in ‘large logo’ blue livery” — not to mention, in the hopelessly naff “Network South East, with the swooping stripes at ea...
- Mon Feb 20, 2023 8:33 am
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
- Replies: 280
- Views: 128720
Re: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
Thanks very much! I’m plotting what else can be painted blue…
- Sat Feb 18, 2023 10:20 pm
- Forum: General Garden Railways
- Topic: Hunslet Hughie
- Replies: 34
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Re: Hunslet Hughie
Gosh. Beautifully done.
- Sat Feb 18, 2023 10:17 pm
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
- Replies: 280
- Views: 128720
Re: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
09_1593_800.jpg I’ve seen a photo of a real one actually with a yellow cab 09_1615_800.jpg Not glazed yet, run out of Canopy Glue Here it is in vivid, disruptive camouflage — sorry, I mean ‘a fanciful, late development of’ the Rail Blue scheme. That bit in front of the cab in yellow is (partly) an ...
- Thu Feb 16, 2023 7:14 pm
- Forum: Quarterly Garden Railway Gallery
- Topic: March Photogallery enter here. ONE week left!
- Replies: 18
- Views: 6778
Re: March Photogallery theme and enter here....
On no! I contrived to get a couple of those as a Festive Gift, to do much the same thing. Most difficult kit I’ve ever made I think — whatever you do, don’t drop any bits on the carpet. I’m very impressed with the chains, I’ve spent ages looking for appropriate brown string. And you haven’t painted ...