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by BertieB
Mon Mar 20, 2023 8:46 pm
Forum: Railways & Layouts
Topic: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
Replies: 272
Views: 124281

Re: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan

John — Quite right too, that’s not hijacking the thread at all (and I’ve just got another one of those cheapo tank wagons, as well). You going to cut out the windows?
by BertieB
Sat Mar 18, 2023 10:08 am
Forum: Locomotives - Electric
Topic: TVT - Down in the Forest Something Stirred
Replies: 14
Views: 4008

Re: TVT - Down in the Forest Something Stirred

That’s terrific. It looks great.
by BertieB
Sat Mar 18, 2023 10:01 am
Forum: Railways & Layouts
Topic: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
Replies: 272
Views: 124281

Re: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan

Thanks, Aaron. The shunter could never have been a ‘scale model’ (obviously) but now, several weeks later, I’m inclined to think that I ought to have taken the surgery a little further. Reduce the height of that bit with the angled top, immediately in front of the cab — and the cab front windows and...
by BertieB
Mon Mar 13, 2023 9:23 am
Forum: Railways & Layouts
Topic: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
Replies: 272
Views: 124281

Re: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan

I was told recently, by someone engaged in magnificent, main line, steam loco restoration how, for a full-size replica of ‘Percy’ from the Thomas stories, rather than recreating the GWR original on which the character is allegedly based, in the US they referenced the Bachmann version. It’s true! Her...
by BertieB
Thu Mar 09, 2023 10:30 am
Forum: Locomotives - Electric
Topic: Lets see all your scratchbult locos in G scale etc
Replies: 20
Views: 6531

Re: Lets see all your scratchbult locos in G scale etc

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Ooooh! That 47/57’s very interesting…

A garden railway just can’t have too many big tank engines and even bigger diesels, I reckon. Here’s my fun-scale Class 73 from not that long ago (I assumed I must have posted a snap of it complete before but it seems not).
by BertieB
Thu Mar 02, 2023 10:53 pm
Forum: Railways & Layouts
Topic: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
Replies: 272
Views: 124281

Re: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan

“The ‘as delivered’ model is so out of proportion it’s not even funny…” Thanks. Bachmann, presumably deliberately, chose not to follow the proportions of the original. It seems perverse. They don’t appear to have been limited by any obvious practical or manufacturing issues. But I suppose their int...
by BertieB
Mon Feb 27, 2023 2:00 pm
Forum: Railways & Layouts
Topic: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
Replies: 272
Views: 124281

Re: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan

"... those suggestions were a little tongue in cheek..." Me too. Well, a bit. The Lymington branch (for a ferry to the Isle of Wight), continued using two mid-60s, 3CIG, slam-door EMUs, as a kind of ‘official’ heritage railway, long after they had disappeared elsewhere — one in green and ...
by BertieB
Mon Feb 27, 2023 1:43 pm
Forum: Quarterly Garden Railway Gallery
Topic: March Photogallery enter here. ONE week left!
Replies: 18
Views: 6015

Re: March Photogallery theme and enter here....

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Colourful shunter, with short train (still incomplete; posed in scruffy garden on a very cold day).
by BertieB
Tue Feb 21, 2023 9:26 am
Forum: Rolling Stock
Topic: (WH)WHR Rolling Stock
Replies: 939
Views: 347511

Re: (WH)WHR Rolling Stock

I don’t know anything at all about this kind of thing — but it looks to me like a pretty neat reproduction of the item in the pic. Cool!
by BertieB
Tue Feb 21, 2023 9:22 am
Forum: Railways & Layouts
Topic: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
Replies: 272
Views: 124281

Re: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan

“…you've got the makings of a Southern Region diesel gala” My thoughts exactly, thank you. However, I’m afraid I can’t agree that “the Bulleid ‘Spam Can’ would look rather nice in ‘large logo’ blue livery” — not to mention, in the hopelessly naff “Network South East, with the swooping stripes at ea...
by BertieB
Mon Feb 20, 2023 8:33 am
Forum: Railways & Layouts
Topic: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
Replies: 272
Views: 124281

Re: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan

Thanks very much! I’m plotting what else can be painted blue…
by BertieB
Sat Feb 18, 2023 10:20 pm
Forum: General Garden Railways
Topic: Hunslet Hughie
Replies: 34
Views: 8736

Re: Hunslet Hughie

Gosh. Beautifully done.
by BertieB
Sat Feb 18, 2023 10:17 pm
Forum: Railways & Layouts
Topic: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
Replies: 272
Views: 124281

Re: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan

09_1593_800.jpg I’ve seen a photo of a real one actually with a yellow cab 09_1615_800.jpg Not glazed yet, run out of Canopy Glue Here it is in vivid, disruptive camouflage — sorry, I mean ‘a fanciful, late development of’ the Rail Blue scheme. That bit in front of the cab in yellow is (partly) an ...
by BertieB
Thu Feb 16, 2023 7:14 pm
Forum: Quarterly Garden Railway Gallery
Topic: March Photogallery enter here. ONE week left!
Replies: 18
Views: 6015

Re: March Photogallery theme and enter here....

On no! I contrived to get a couple of those as a Festive Gift, to do much the same thing. Most difficult kit I’ve ever made I think — whatever you do, don’t drop any bits on the carpet. I’m very impressed with the chains, I’ve spent ages looking for appropriate brown string. And you haven’t painted ...
by BertieB
Wed Feb 15, 2023 9:47 am
Forum: Locomotives - Electric
Topic: Lets see all your scratchbult locos in G scale etc
Replies: 20
Views: 6531

Re: Lets see all your scratchbult locos in G scale etc

ge_rik wrote: Wed Feb 15, 2023 7:49 am “Marvellous looking transmitter that .......😉
Indeed. Thank you. I wish I’d stumbled across it sooner.

Fab scratch-builds too, of course. The Kerr Stuart is particularly agreeable, I think.
by BertieB
Tue Feb 14, 2023 10:10 am
Forum: Locomotives - Electric
Topic: Lets see all your scratchbult locos in G scale etc
Replies: 20
Views: 6531

Re: Lets see all your scratchbult locos in G scale etc

Most on the forum do 16mm — but here’s some semi-G-scale Bulleids, shot for a video a couple of years ago. I suspect you can tell that whatever’s in that glass, it’s not London Pride.

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by BertieB
Tue Feb 14, 2023 9:56 am
Forum: Locomotives - Electric
Topic: Semi-scale BR: almost a 2MT
Replies: 35
Views: 19947

Re: Semi-scale BR: almost a 2MT

Thank you very much!
Spreeweld wrote: Sat Feb 11, 2023 7:37 pm “….building bigger engines for my railway, I get carried away…”
Yup, me too. That one looks enormous. Brill!
by BertieB
Tue Feb 14, 2023 9:49 am
Forum: Railways & Layouts
Topic: The Railway in the Valley of the Mill
Replies: 321
Views: 69733

Re: The Railway in the Valley of the Mill

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That’s a great set of pictures, as well as it all looking beautifully built and finished.
by BertieB
Fri Feb 10, 2023 12:26 pm
Forum: Railways & Layouts
Topic: A tiny G gauge indoor layout
Replies: 118
Views: 25334

Re: A tiny G gauge indoor layout

“This is what I produced for a 4mm backscene, but was still an improvement on bare hardboard” I suppose if you study your photograph, you might be able to work out where 3D ends and which is the backdrop — but I think it’s extraordinarily effective. The matching of colour and tone is completely con...
by BertieB
Wed Feb 08, 2023 6:14 pm
Forum: Railways & Layouts
Topic: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
Replies: 272
Views: 124281

Re: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan

"...a glimpse into the minds of fellow modellers" I feel suitably chastened. So, just to illustrate just how off-the-scale nerdy I can be, here’s the amended, annotated plan / cheat sheet / mood board / user guide, I assembled as the rebuild began. Not followed exactly , of course, for al...