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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...

The stone work is terrific — the paint finish is really effective (and I shall have to copy it)

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…

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...

Great stuff — more music please!

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

This has been a really interesting read. And the loco looks lovely. Really makes me appreciate the extraordinary scope of 3D design and print. Cutting up plasticard looking increasingly crude and clumsy!

This has been (and is) absolutely fascinating. Beautifully done (and described). I love that wheel!

Here’s its first go outside. This is more-or-less all I shot before it started raining again.
It does look a bit long for the garden’s curves but it will get round, slowly. You just have to be careful.

philipy wrote: ↑Tue Oct 17, 2023 2:00 pm Rural backwater

That’s a remarkable picture, I think. The moss! Lovely.

The cranes (and that new wagon) all look astonishingly good, as we would expect. Terrific!

Beautifully done. Love the detailing, ‘pipework’, motion…

It all looks great, really neat.

Knowing nothing about narrow gauge or its history, I find it difficult to comment usefully beyond coming out with stuff like…

Looks great, really neat, nicely weathered. Cool ‘Raspberry Beret’ ref.

Thanks again, Rik. Sized the emblems in Photoshop and, along with the lining panels and numbers, printed it on to white, inkjet decal paper (artwork below), which can be cut as appropriate. Getting a decent result (matching the printed decal’s grey background to the grey paintwork), I have to say, w...

But it’s not ugly I tell you!

It’s subtle, elegant, refined…

Thank you both.

Thank you very much!

1_36022_2875_800.jpg 2_36022_2825_800.jpg 3_36022_2868_800.jpg 4_36022_2861_800.jpg ‘Like a tube train on steroids’, I’ve read The fun-scale Leader overhaul is most of the way there, with my ‘untrustworthy aesthetic judgment’ (see above) leading to this challenging variant of the ‘cycling lion’ era...

Thanks very much! I usually get ‘nul points’ and I’m dead chuffed.

Thanks for the encouragement — and stuff.

The lengthened, narrow(er) gauge Leader: a bit scruffy now, obviously, but it’s coming along. Will I have to re-landscape the garden to accommodate it? (Or move?)