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- Fri Feb 16, 2024 1:56 pm
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
- Replies: 280
- Views: 131268
Re: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
That's looking great! And it does look a lot like BR express blue - needs a nice rake of blood'n'custard carriages behind it...
- Fri Feb 09, 2024 2:52 pm
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
- Replies: 280
- Views: 131268
Re: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
Wilko's will be missed for such trivial items as rattle cans but I get my Hycote satin black from 'The Range' for a reasonable price. They stock primers, lacquers and limited paint colours. There is a list on-line of locations for all 180 branches nationwide. I mourn the loss of Wilko several times...
- Thu Feb 08, 2024 6:57 pm
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
- Replies: 280
- Views: 131268
Re: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
Magnificent. Somehow, just absolutely 'right', like that's the only way a 3'6" gauge blue BR Garratt could possibly look. Exactly! A little less audacious and maybe it wouldn't work, but it does, beautifully! Congratulations! Any idea what it'll pull yet? Can't wait for film footage... Andrew ...
- Wed Feb 07, 2024 5:26 pm
- Forum: Rolling Stock
- Topic: Sweet Miscellany
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4890
Re: Sweet Miscellany
That's a REALLY lovely model! The detail's just fantastic... It's a shame you're modelling a prototype, otherwise you could add skylights to allow the a better view of the inside, like those on a tool van that's just been restored on the GWSR, being pointed out most helpfully by the chap in this pho...
- Wed Feb 07, 2024 5:02 pm
- Forum: Scenery
- Topic: (WH)WHR Buildings
- Replies: 187
- Views: 95490
Re: (WH)WHR Buildings
It's not a building exactly, but it's the only modelling I've done in weeks, and it needed to go somewhere, so here's a little figure on a Phil Sharples bench: Little man.jpg The bench is lovely, and only cost £2 or 3, I think - great value. I'm not entirely sure where the figure came from, Poundlan...
- Wed Jan 31, 2024 12:08 pm
- Forum: Garden Railway Technical Help & Advice
- Topic: Camera Vehicle
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3080
Re: Camera Vehicle
Andrew, Mine doesn't have wifi, only records to the on-board microSD card, but there are wifi models on Temu for not much more. https://www.temu.com/uk/1pc-hd-1080p-mini-wifi-camera-smart-home-security-camera-mini-camera-wifi-ip-camera-small-cctv-camera-night-vision-motion-detection-alarm-monitor-r...
- Mon Jan 29, 2024 12:15 pm
- Forum: Garden Railway Technical Help & Advice
- Topic: Camera Vehicle
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3080
Re: Camera Vehicle
That's very impressive!
Maybe the technology exists already, but presumably it should now be possible to combine such a camera with phone-based RC so that you can drive, with a driver's eye-view, from the screen of a smartphone?
Maybe the technology exists already, but presumably it should now be possible to combine such a camera with phone-based RC so that you can drive, with a driver's eye-view, from the screen of a smartphone?
- Thu Jan 25, 2024 8:27 am
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: The WWLR Layout Begins
- Replies: 26
- Views: 6642
Re: The WWLR Layout Begins
Those who make their own points are the true Gods of our hobby, in my opinion - beautiful work!
- Thu Jan 25, 2024 8:18 am
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: this is the two thousandth topic in this forum
- Replies: 3
- Views: 738
Re: this is the two thousandth topic in this forum
Seems quite fitting that the milestone Off-topic Topic in this sub-forum is about - itself?!
- Thu Jan 25, 2024 8:16 am
- Forum: Videos
- Topic: Shunting on the wrong track!
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1686
Re: Shunting on the wrong track!
They used to do something similar in the canefields, only pulling, with rope. Dangerous, and I'm told, illegal nowadays. I think it was an occasional, but frowned-upon, practice in the UK. I believe using a capstan was more common, with the loco and wagon were heading on opposite directions. I thin...
- Tue Jan 23, 2024 12:44 pm
- Forum: Locomotives - Electric
- Topic: Building an 0-4-0 outside frame tank loco
- Replies: 35
- Views: 4088
Re: Building an 0-4-0 outside frame tank loco
Greg, I'm really surprised that you feel the need to add this mixture. I find that plastikard forms a strong bond if a solvent (eg. EMA Plastic Weld) is used to weld the surfaces together. Tube glues, or superglue don't have the same effect as they just sit on the surface. Personally, I was thinkin...
- Tue Jan 23, 2024 8:22 am
- Forum: Locomotives - Electric
- Topic: Building an 0-4-0 outside frame tank loco
- Replies: 35
- Views: 4088
Re: Building an 0-4-0 outside frame tank loco
I used a new (to me) method from YouTube to make ‘ fillet welds’ where 2 pieces of styrene are glued at right angles. The ‘fillet’ is made from Baking Soda powder, then superglue is dripped on. It sets like ‘rock’. But looks pretty ugly. That sounds like it could be a useful trick, particularly whe...
- Fri Jan 19, 2024 8:38 am
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
- Replies: 280
- Views: 131268
Re: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
It's looking good in "works grey"!
Reminds me of when the F&WHR's Garratt No 87 ran in grey for a season or so:
Reminds me of when the F&WHR's Garratt No 87 ran in grey for a season or so:
- Tue Jan 16, 2024 8:50 am
- Forum: Projects
- Topic: N&BLR Ongoing Projects thread
- Replies: 47
- Views: 18689
Re: N&BLR Ongoing Projects thread
That's very impressive, I like it a lot!
- Mon Jan 15, 2024 11:39 am
- Forum: Locomotives - Electric
- Topic: Kerr Stuart diesel
- Replies: 56
- Views: 28279
Re: Kerr Stuart diesel
Thank you! I am pleased with them. Usually, when I varnish wooden parts (like carriage droplight frames), I use it undiluted, need several coats to get the colour I want, and end it with it looking a little thick and stodgy, with gloopy build ups in the corners. This time, I stained the wood first (...
- Mon Jan 15, 2024 9:23 am
- Forum: Locomotives - Electric
- Topic: Kerr Stuart diesel
- Replies: 56
- Views: 28279
Re: Kerr Stuart diesel
HI a Finally, over a year after I last put it down, some progress on the KS diesel - I've made the shutters! KS shutters.jpg I'm quite pleased with how those turned out, and hope they'll provide the momentum to crack on with the detailing - the next step will involve millions of rivets, which I thin...
- Fri Jan 12, 2024 9:51 am
- Forum: Rolling Stock
- Topic: Gladstone Coach to Bush Tram Carriage
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1817
Re: Gladstone Coach to Bush Tram Carriage
I love this! The detail and the finish are just perfect. Funnily enough though, despite having spent way too long at WHR photos, and having built a model of the Gladstone Car myself, I didn't immediately spot its origins - it looks "right", just as it is. Don't tell anyone I said so, but I...
- Thu Jan 11, 2024 8:31 am
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: Time to build a railway...but where?
- Replies: 3388
- Views: 1110205
Re: Time to build a railway...but where?
Meanwhile I have been viewing Greg's multiple Garratt videos with envy and wondering whether I can justify a second Garratt on my line? Surely the real question is whether you can justify not having a second one? Even a third may be prudent... Enjoying you work on the KS so far, and very much looki...
- Wed Jan 10, 2024 1:52 pm
- Forum: General Garden Railways
- Topic: Faller Hit Train, Play Train and the like
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1244
Re: Falletr Hit Train, Play Train and the like
Hello! I've used quite a lot of the faller "E train" range over the years - the size is better suited to the 16mm/ft scale that many of us here model in. I've used various of the range's wagons modified and repainted to suit my needs, have tinkered with the steam and diesel locomotives, an...
- Tue Jan 09, 2024 12:42 pm
- Forum: Locomotives - Electric
- Topic: Stuart's occasional loco thread - Boot Lane Works 'Lilibet'
- Replies: 40
- Views: 9340