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- Wed Apr 10, 2024 3:33 pm
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
- Replies: 277
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Re: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
Brrdgepaint_3985_800_1.jpg Leader-bridge_4002_800_2.jpg It's supposed to be the same colour in both pictures... Pre-season maintenance This softwood bridge has been out in the garden for six years. It would hardly come as any surprise that it was showing signs of wear and tear – mainly rot, of cour...
- Sun Mar 03, 2024 10:14 am
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: That Car I Keep Alluding To
- Replies: 41
- Views: 1095
Re: That Car I Keep Alluding To
Wonderful! Congratulations.
- Mon Feb 19, 2024 10:53 pm
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
- Replies: 277
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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...
- Sat Feb 17, 2024 10:31 pm
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
- Replies: 277
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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...
- Tue Feb 13, 2024 8:59 pm
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
- Replies: 277
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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.
- Mon Feb 12, 2024 5:35 pm
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
- Replies: 277
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Re: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
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.
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.
- Fri Feb 09, 2024 11:46 am
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
- Replies: 277
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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...
- Thu Feb 08, 2024 5:25 pm
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
- Replies: 277
- Views: 124792
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 ...
- Sat Jan 20, 2024 9:37 am
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
- Replies: 277
- Views: 124792
- Thu Jan 18, 2024 12:07 pm
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
- Replies: 277
- Views: 124792
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...
- Sat Jan 13, 2024 10:12 am
- Forum: Rolling Stock
- Topic: Gladstone Coach to Bush Tram Carriage
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1340
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.
- Wed Jan 10, 2024 10:18 am
- Forum: Videos
- Topic: Sandstone & Termite
- Replies: 110
- Views: 70509
Re: Sandstone & Termite
Wow! Love it.
- Sat Jan 06, 2024 8:12 pm
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
- Replies: 277
- Views: 124792
- Fri Jan 05, 2024 10:32 pm
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
- Replies: 277
- Views: 124792
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...
- Fri Jan 05, 2024 11:13 am
- Forum: Quarterly Garden Railway Gallery
- Topic: March 2024 Gallery CLOSING DATE 1st MARCH
- Replies: 36
- Views: 8171
Re: March 2024 Gallery Entries HERE please.
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.
- Fri Jan 05, 2024 11:08 am
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
- Replies: 277
- Views: 124792
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...
- Thu Dec 28, 2023 10:47 am
- Forum: 3D Printing
- Topic: Tan-y-Bwlch Water Tower - Finished ( I think!)
- Replies: 27
- Views: 11981
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)
- Wed Dec 13, 2023 6:54 pm
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
- Replies: 277
- Views: 124792
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…
- Wed Dec 13, 2023 5:47 pm
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
- Replies: 277
- Views: 124792
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...
- Mon Dec 11, 2023 2:36 pm
- Forum: Videos
- Topic: Season’s Greetings from the FeckHallBahn
- Replies: 6
- Views: 976
Re: Season’s Greetings from the FeckHallBahn
Great stuff — more music please!