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by BertieB
Sun Mar 03, 2024 10:14 am
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: That Car I Keep Alluding To
Replies: 41
Views: 1069

Re: That Car I Keep Alluding To

Wonderful! Congratulations.
by BertieB
Mon Feb 19, 2024 10:53 pm
Forum: Railways & Layouts
Topic: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
Replies: 272
Views: 124157

Re: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan

“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...
by BertieB
Sat Feb 17, 2024 10:31 pm
Forum: Railways & Layouts
Topic: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
Replies: 272
Views: 124157

Re: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan

Thanks again. I thought I’d squeeze every last drop, so to speak, out of the handful of shots I took of The First Test Run (as in the GIF) so, here’s another short video. It can’t pull anything at present as I haven’t yet fitted couplings — and that will involve undoing the connections and turning i...
by BertieB
Tue Feb 13, 2024 8:59 pm
Forum: Railways & Layouts
Topic: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
Replies: 272
Views: 124157

Re: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan

Thanks Aaron. Yeh, I’m pleased with the blue (though I expected it to anppear darker) — and I say that as a big fan of the lined black livery. Cheers.
by BertieB
Mon Feb 12, 2024 5:35 pm
Forum: Railways & Layouts
Topic: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
Replies: 272
Views: 124157

Re: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan

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It works!

Still a few bits to add — and the wiring underneath is rather, erm, untidy. Garden wet and muddy, so I don’t expect to be doing much outside for a while.
by BertieB
Fri Feb 09, 2024 11:46 am
Forum: Railways & Layouts
Topic: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
Replies: 272
Views: 124157

Re: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan

“…that's the only way a 3'6" gauge blue BR Garratt could possibly look” Ha! Brilliant. I laughed out loud. Thank you — and everyone, for your comments. It ought to pull a lengthy rake of blood & custard carriages but I’m afraid it’ll have to be a short train of green coaches — or the usual...
by BertieB
Thu Feb 08, 2024 5:25 pm
Forum: Railways & Layouts
Topic: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
Replies: 272
Views: 124157

Re: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan

Garratt_3805_800_4.jpg Garratt_3816_800_3.jpg Garratt_3791_800_2.jpg ‘Light Garratt’ ex-works (or all dolled up at a heritage railway). The ‘burnished’ handrails may be a little OTT, I suppose. Why’s it blue then? The tortuous logic here is that the Bath to Bournemouth route (formerly the Somerset ...
by BertieB
Sat Jan 20, 2024 9:37 am
Forum: Railways & Layouts
Topic: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
Replies: 272
Views: 124157

Re: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan

Thank you Graeme, the Roundhouse cradle seems just the kind of thing I’ll need to knock up.
Andrew wrote: Fri Jan 19, 2024 8:38 am “… F&WHR's Garratt No 87…”
Looks great. I have been to admire them and do the trip. Wonderful. Just think, I might’ve unknowingly bumped into Andrew taking pictures.
by BertieB
Thu Jan 18, 2024 12:07 pm
Forum: Railways & Layouts
Topic: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
Replies: 272
Views: 124157

Re: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan

Garratt_3492_800.jpg Painting delayed because I keep finding bits I’ve not sorted It’s taken several evenings to arrive at a more practical alternative to my super sophisticated wiring masterplan where, once the central, boiler / cab section has been fitted on to the drive units, I’ve found that th...
by BertieB
Sat Jan 13, 2024 10:12 am
Forum: Rolling Stock
Topic: Gladstone Coach to Bush Tram Carriage
Replies: 7
Views: 1311

Re: Gladstone Coach to Bush Tram Carriage

I’m well impressed with the fastidiously organised, methodical manner you go about your builds — which always look terrific. A lesson for us all. Well, particularly me.
by BertieB
Wed Jan 10, 2024 10:18 am
Forum: Videos
Topic: Sandstone & Termite
Replies: 110
Views: 70007

Re: Sandstone & Termite

Wow! Love it.
by BertieB
Sat Jan 06, 2024 8:12 pm
Forum: Railways & Layouts
Topic: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
Replies: 272
Views: 124157

Re: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan

GTB wrote: Sat Jan 06, 2024 2:58 am “…’Locomotive Panorama Vol.1' by E. S. Cox…”
Thanks for all the info. Immediately ordered my copy!
by BertieB
Fri Jan 05, 2024 10:32 pm
Forum: Railways & Layouts
Topic: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
Replies: 272
Views: 124157

Re: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan

Thanks for all the generous comments! "Lined black?" It certainly ought to be — but I'm afraid I’ve been toying with an alternative, I'll have to do some tests. '...clacks straddling the boiler top, along with suitable firebox-top pipework..." I’m treading on thin ice here, because (l...
by BertieB
Fri Jan 05, 2024 11:13 am
Forum: Quarterly Garden Railway Gallery
Topic: March 2024 Gallery CLOSING DATE 1st MARCH
Replies: 35
Views: 8009

Re: March 2024 Gallery Entries HERE please.

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The Cat keeps her enthusiasm under control regarding the arrival of a new addition to the fleet, possibly in view of its dubious authenticity. She’ll be expecting to feature in the video though.
by BertieB
Fri Jan 05, 2024 11:08 am
Forum: Railways & Layouts
Topic: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
Replies: 272
Views: 124157

Re: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan

Garratt_3375_800.jpg The whimsical ‘Light Garratt’: still missing leading and trailing axles at both ends It’s progressed a little further. I’ll admit I’d hoped to manage something with more (and more obvious) BR Standard ‘style cues’. And the central, boiler section doesn’t sit above the driving u...
by BertieB
Thu Dec 28, 2023 10:47 am
Forum: 3D Printing
Topic: Tan-y-Bwlch Water Tower - Finished ( I think!)
Replies: 27
Views: 11915

Re: Building Tan-y-Bwlch Water Tower - Part 1

The stone work is terrific — the paint finish is really effective (and I shall have to copy it)
by BertieB
Wed Dec 13, 2023 6:54 pm
Forum: Railways & Layouts
Topic: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
Replies: 272
Views: 124157

Re: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan

I was just about to comment on yours: terrific, of course. Steves’s done a very nice NG16 too. We all get round to them eventually I believe…
by BertieB
Wed Dec 13, 2023 5:47 pm
Forum: Railways & Layouts
Topic: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
Replies: 272
Views: 124157

Re: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan

Not even semi-scale BR: the inevitable Garratt At the fantasy, narrower gauge, British Railways there’s going to be an alarmingly freelance, Light Garratt(!) intended, I’m pretending, for those twisty, hilly, secondary routes — in the Highlands, Devon and Cornwall and the like. It’s been on the bac...
by BertieB
Mon Dec 11, 2023 2:36 pm
Forum: Videos
Topic: Season’s Greetings from the FeckHallBahn
Replies: 6
Views: 961

Re: Season’s Greetings from the FeckHallBahn

Great stuff — more music please!
by BertieB
Fri Nov 10, 2023 10:09 am
Forum: Railways & Layouts
Topic: Time to build a railway...but where?
Replies: 3350
Views: 1079998

Re: Time to build a railway...but where?

Beautifully done! At first glance I thought those pictures were the full-size original.