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Don't envy you having to chip through 6" of concrete Andrew. It will be worth it I'm sure. Eat plenty of cake!
Grant.

Oh! what a superb video Rik, boy the head shunter really knows his stuff, un-coupling everything so quickly ;) ;) . The placement of the copper mine buildings was like a scenery change on a theatre stage, greenery one minute, busy industrial scene the next. I see the timber sidings in the whole pict...

What an impressive set-up Brian, and the extent of the track work. I've watched videos of Brambleton before, but didn't realize it was so extensive. We don't have anything like that down here, least not in Victoria. Great show!
Grant.

The station with the bay road and general layout looks very prototypical Jim, I particularly like the dark screeding for the loco shed area. That will look good with some general junk laying around. Also good to have your wife's support, makes it that much more enjoyable. Your pace in getting this d...

Nice pics. Steve, your Dad looks like he's enjoying himself. Hope he gets reciprocal running rights on your railway soon.
Grant.

Hi Invicta, The mill is constructed using Aerated Autoclaved Concrete (AAC) blocks also called Hebel I believe. I bought 600x200x100mm blocks and sawed them down the middle to make 50mm thick walls. Painted in suitable bluestone colours, then scratch and saw in the mortar joints. ./myff/1981464/Rail...

After starting the mill at 5am, Dan steps out for a breath of morning air.

While researching info for my tractor, I certainly kept many pics. on file of Fordsons in the same or worse condition. I keep having to pull myself up and remember I'm modeling the 1920's, so back then the tractor would still be quite new, much as I'd like to do a really decrepit weathering job on i...

Totally agree re leaving an object outside, that has involved as much time as I suspect would have gone into Doan's work. My vehicles don't stay outside, rather placed in daily situations. Shall wait in anticipation to see the Fordson. That gun is an interesting acquisition, would it be made by &quo...

Glad to see you have trains running James, your moving along at quite a pace. The block work is looking really good. I notice what seems to be a fairly open fence line, I hope security is not an issue.
Grant.

Hi Tom and thank you, The loco is a home build, but using a Roundhouse Katy boiler and cylinders, axles and some motion, with my own frames, rods, body, wheels, trucks etc. I bought a Katy frame and boiler kit, used the frames wheels and axles to make my petrol/mechanical loco, and the boiler cylind...

Best of luck with the build Steve, you've made a start so the end has just got a little bit closer.
Grant.

The tractor interested me because yours has not got the enormous mudguards (to counter the tractors propensity for rearing up ) and so appears smaller overall. Mine are removable, but all the ones I've seen pics. of in Australia had them. Yours also has the correct wheel cleats but unfortunately the...

Sounds like a cue, to me.



Grant.

Sounds and looks like you had a perfect day Peter, glad to see your training your "visitors" to lie on the ground to view your railway. Great photos, ( did notice a shiny new tractor amongst many other things ) the area to the photographers right will provide a great background to photos i...

Beautiful work David, the opening doors should make for some lovely platform photos with a door open and a passenger or two milling about.
Grant.

Rik, the bags on the water cranes are the hemmed parts from the sleeves of khaki cotton shirts, frayed at the bottom with an exacto knife. I use the shirt material for tarps and other "canvas" bits, and the hems were left overs that happened to prove useful.
Grant.

Thank you one and all for your kind comments, they are much appreciated. Makes lying around on the ground with blocks of wood or bricks for the camera to take photos all seem worth it. If I can inspire others that might make up for the inspiration and ideas I have gleaned from the forum in the past ...

The afternoon Pass. has been made up, and the Hunslet is about to top up with water before coupling up and heading off to Nayook ./myff/1979231/Railway+Scenes+051.jpg Later the same day, the pass. has returned, locos on shed, and all is quiet in the afternoon sunshine at Leawarra. ./myff/1979232/Rit...

Wow!, like Rik said that is some building. What is the approximate ground footprint of something like that? Plenty of scope for stone painting technique there as well.
Grant.