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Thanks chaps, glad you approve of the work so far!

I'm afraid I seem to have chosen a very flattering angle for the photo - if you were to look closely you'd see all sorts of wonkiness! I like to think it adds to the light railway charm...

Cheers,

Andrew.

Glad to hear you'remaking progress Mitch - and that's a great photo!

All the best,

Andrew.

Lovely job Rik, and thanks for the film - the finished thing looks VERY at home on your line, particularly with the wagons trailing along behind. You'll have to watch it or the management will want to scrap all those expensive and extravagant carriages and steam locos and just order a couple more of...

Afternoon all! A little progress to report on my model of FR Van 4... The model uses 7mm NG Association drawings, which I had the (rare) foresight to photocopy up to 16mm scale before work closed down. They're very good, but inevitably small inaccuracies become much larger ones when you enlarge the ...

CSL wrote: ↑

Wed May 27, 2020 11:20 pm

...it happened and it was good.

And what more could you ask for?! Looks like you had a great time...

I too am pleased with the Bug Boxes, they make a nice splash of colour They look great - the train reminds me of the FfR in the 90s, when they were beginning to come out of their "paint everything red" phase... A "sentry box" brake would complete the rake nicely... https://www.festipedia.org.uk/wik...

That's looking very good indeed, nice one!

I look forward to seeing more progress in due course...

Andrew.

That's looking wonderful Rik, well done!

And I take it back re the stripes, it doesn't need 'em at all, PLR Deep Crimson suits it perfectly!

Very much looking forward to seeing it on film in due course...

Andrew.

The Playmobile people all dashed out in the garden this weekend to enjoy the train ride. My daughter was running the family to the camp site. They'll have a very jolly time, judging by the liquid supplies on the flat wagon! That's a very nice carriage, and you're right, the railway's looking good -...

Hello! The (WH)WHR took on a distinctly industrial vibe today, with the two RH battery locos in service to celebrate the return to action of No 5 "Margaret" following a battery pack replacement. Here they are doing their thing between gardening tasks. It was all so nice that I did begin to wonder wh...

Hello all, I rather late "PS" to this one - I got my RH "Little John" up and running again today! It was an unexpected (and, of course, unimportant) victim of coronavirus in that Strikalite's supplies from China were disrupted for a while. The new battery pack arrived this week and I switched them o...

The Festiniog iBase photo library has some wonderful pictures of the two vans, I'll post some links later... So, as promised: Here's Van 4 at Port: http://217.34.233.120:8086/zoom-item?key=SXsiTiI6MzYsIlAiOnsidmFsdWUiOiJ2YW4gNCIsIm9wZXJhdG9yIjoiMSIsImZ1enp5UHJlZml4TGVuZ3RoIjoiMyIsImZ1enp5TWluU2ltaW...

Considering I hadn't seen a image of them pre preservation, a pre preservation kit could happen :) And yes, I'll happily sell the 3D printed Guards Duckets to you if you wanted. Jon Thanks Jon! I'll let you know re the duckets... I really ought to try to make my own, I have done for my last two pas...

ge_rik wrote: ↑

Thu May 21, 2020 7:55 am

Disappointed though that you didn't recycle casters for the bogies

I consider the use of Big Big bogies "up-cycling"! It's certainly up-sizing...

Cheers,

Andrew.

PS If you fancy the magnet idea you might want to use slightly bigger ones - I reckon my 4mm ones could use a little more oomph...

and it has side steps Yep, another opportunity for a little gentle weathering with the sandpaper! I was looking at pictures of FfR Ashbury carriages 21 and 22 yesterday and noted a quite unusual arrangement of foot boards whereby the two compartments at each end (which have higher floors to accommo...