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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?)

That’s very kind Peter, thank you. I wish I was that confident!

Leader_2650_800_1.jpg It’s coming out of the workshop significantly longer than it went in Return of the Leader A rather semi-scale, ‘informed by the Bulleid Leader’ effort, from a few years ago, has reached the top of the ‘tidy up and equip with battery-power and radio control’ queue, at last. As ...

Lots of nicely composed and neatly handled shots, as always, especially all those with no glimpse of the real world looming in the background (I do appreciate how difficult it can be to avoid it). Set-dressing with all that ‘snow’ is extraordinarily convincing… 0-6-0 Harthill is very pleasing too. S...

5_diesels_0291_800_A.jpg Loverly, early evening, warm light I was pondering a ‘Diesel Gala’ video epic, though recent rain means everything outside is now sopping wet — but here’s a couple of alternatives to the Photo Gallery 'arrival of the Gala’s attractions' picture. 4_diesels_0299_800.jpg Shoul...

On their way to the Diesel Gala

Bright and cheerful paint jobs!

Thanks Rod. Same here. It all works fine on all my Mac / iOS browsers (though there was a time when Chrome and Firefox would have you pulling your hair out). Different browsers on different OS render differently and things can change whenever there’s an update. I’m afraid the Windows and Android kit...

That’s really convincing. Nice!

Deary Me. Apologies. This kind of thing comes round not infrequently. I wonder what it is this time? Thanks for letting me know.

Uh-oh. What doesn’t work Phil?

And thanks, Rod.

https://youtu.be/HjuHT2I_wus Branch line, BR Standard mogul revisited Please excuse the self indulgence here. I’ve been toying with this for years, and now an opportunity has presented itself. Here’s the short BR 2-6-0 sequence from the recent ‘branch line steam’ video (see ‘Videos’) with previousl...

Very neat — and the video too. The ‘cheesy’ music is cool. “…boarded the 2:15 to Dinas Junction. Can ‘Russell’ outrun Rover?” But, after a tense journey, fraught with suspicion of seemingly harmless other passengers, he’ll find the train will have mysteriously terminated at a previously unknown stat...

Thank you all — glad you’ve enjoyed it (and relieved).

The moment I press the button to publish a new video is immediately before the moment when I cringe about not having taken a little more trouble with it…

33_600_2.jpg Thank you. And at last, the Class 33 makes it round the garden (with wagons), though without functioning directional lighting at present (see above*), in another noisy video, now posted in Videos > Semi-scale BR: Class 33 . https://gardenrails.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=14387 *...

https://youtu.be/PMGxso8UvsA G-scale 33, supported by bashed Bachmann shunter, performs for the camera A sunny fun day with not too many derailments (usually the oversized ballast lodged against the rail, or more spectacularly, crossed-up couplings — keep watching at the end). With, inevitably, add...

33_runs_7.gif It goes! I’ve stuck a couple of large lead ingots over the bogies — and it runs pleasingly smoothly. It was time to finish wiring up the 33 and give it a go. Switching it on and fiddling with LocoRemote, you can imagine my surprise when the front, directional lighting glowed bright re...

“…to both build items of rolling stock and remember to take pictures…” Thanks. It’s useful to have taken snaps, I find, when you go back a few years later, to repeat, repair or modify — and you can’t remember what you did (especially electricals, which I’m clueless about). They fill up web pages to...