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That's really looking very good - the paint wash has made the stone walling look very convincing...

I've taken a note of Stixall as well, sounds just the thing...

Cheers,

Andrew.

Hello! That's looking great, with a real sense of identity, thanks for the photos. I started in the garden at about the same age, although things paused for a while at about the age you are now when I found myself the father of twins. Somehow used it as a good excuse to buy a RH Bertie though... Any...

I have always had the philosophy of doing the worst or hardest jobs first and not leaving 'till last, after that everything seems easier. A good idea I reckon, and one I've been thinking about - I've vowed to myself to start with the droplights next time I build a carriage... That said, it's not al...

I picked up these tired coaches recently and I prefer the colour of them to my mint brake coach so I might try and replicate the colour or leave it outside as the previous owner of the newly acquired coaches did to achieve the faded look: Sorry, not much to add on the science of SBR, but those coac...

Glad you like it, I was pleased with the result... Peter, it's just Poundland primer (which comes out slightly darker than a usual grey primer finish), with certain slates (or the corrugations which represent them) picked out in lighter or darker shades using acrylic craft paint. The whole thing was...

Wonderful stuff, I love it!

Afternoon all! Following a conversation about wagon loads on the (WH)WHR thread on the layouts board, I spent this morning having a go at making a slate load for one of my new wagons. It uses 4mm (?) scale corrugated iron and plasticard "slates" over a foamboard shell - I think it looks OK...

I do wonder what will eventually happen to Axe and Issac when the 5 engines are recreated... Funny you should ask that - so do Steam Railway... L&B Chairman, Peter Miles, replies "Well, Axe is not really designed for a long, passenger-carrying railway. However, she may have a useful role t...

Thanks again for all the thoughts and advice on this - when I've got a suitable spot for it I'll give it a coat of red paint as suggested and it can take its place on the railway. In the meantime it's gained a new (temporary!) driver... Monkey.jpg Rod, the tractor is a fraction over 6" long... ...

Network Southeast red, white and blue...

Got it!

Nothing definite, but one might be in early Southern livery, L&B holly green but with SR number plates on the cabside, and the other "something else"... Furness red? Great Eastern blue??!

Liveries were mentioned in the article but I can't remember what it said - I'll check when I get home...

Exciting, isn't it? According to Steam Railway, which arrived yesterday, Yeo's old new (?!) frames won't be used - they're 20 years old and have been moved around a lot so may not be in great shape (although surely better than your average Barry wreck?!), plus they're taking advantage of the work do...

Have to say that lucky man on the video seemed to have more than one lifetime! I don't think I have that patience...... I don't think I do either, but thanks or the suggestions and links folks, much appreciated! With 12 loads to build, more wagons to come, and less modelling time than i'd like, I t...

That train looks as good as I imagined it would, well done. Are you going to load them? Glad you like it, thanks! I probably will create loads for them, but it's not an immediate priority, partly because there are now so many of them - should've done it as I went along! My line's end-to-end, with t...

Hello again... Yesterday evening came the anticipated test running of the full slate train - rather latter than planned, in failing light, so I'm afraid these photos aren't great... First the wagons were assembled in Penlan's loop - 12 mixed slate wagons, 9 from the FR and 3 WHR examples: Slate test...

Interesting isn't it? I'm tempted by the timber bolsters too, they'd make a nice model. I think one of the Ashbury brakes ended up as a bogie flat for timber too, could make for an interesting train... I've realised that you were quite right, by the way, it is an Ashbury the FR are building, so the ...

BertieB wrote: ↑Fri Aug 10, 2018 9:01 pm The cat has a complex and confused relationship with the trains in her back garden. She can go to great lengths to sneak up on them. Once she leapt out and ‘punched’ the passing Bulleid experimental locomotive. Make of that what you will.

Just a game of follow the Leader...

I'm experiencing a strange sensation of genuinely wishing I was 3" tall so I could put down a deposit on a house in your village and move in... It'll be a model village in both senses of the word - a miniature recreation but also model "in the sense of an ideal to which other developments ...

Glad you like the wagons, thanks for the feedback! That spot's about the only photogenic location on the railway at the moment - I've been including the baby's tears with the marigolds when I've been watering! Sounds like your WHR/NWNGR train's coming along nicely JMORG - have you got any photos? My...