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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 (...

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...

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...

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...

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...

StuartJ wrote: ↑Tue Jan 09, 2024 12:08 pm I am intending to make a few tweaks to make it look more like the early Manning Wardle locos beloved of the Colonel Stephens empire and other British light railways.

In my book, you can't go wrong with that approach!

Looking forward to updates...

Astonishing, isn't it? Sad too. I haven't used them in decades, since moving out into the garden, but I used to order my indoor supplies from them, following in my Dad's footsteps - he showed me how to write rather formal letters to order things, always beginning "Dear Sirs"... and promisi...

Absolutely lovely! Such a great finish...

Thank you both! The traverser idea sounds intriguing, but this will be on a scenic (ish!) part of the layout, so probably not what I'm after. Thank you though! It does make me wonder whether there would be just enough room to have just one entrance (reducing point costs and curvature issues) by putt...

Lovely stuff, thankyou - it's always a pleasure to see operations on your line...

Andrew.

Thanks chaps, I'll give it some more thought... Do either of you recall roughly how far from the bottom of the until the floor sits? And yes, I'd be propelling whole trains in there, already coupled. I need to think about pointwork - if I have to buy new that will significantly add to the cost, and ...

Thanks for the video! All this has got me thinking... Over the coming months, we need to repair/replace the deck which stands above Penlan station on my line. While we're at it, we'll probably remove the wood store - we live in a built up area, so barely light the stove these days due to the growing...

I wonder if a bit of soft (spongy foam) padding might absorb the vibrations. :scratch: I used that in my one and only bit of "driver's eye view" filming. Alas, the vehicle itself is not one of the most elegant ever to have graced these pages: https://gardenrails.org/forum/download/file.ph...

That looks great! I'm jealous though. I had a storage shed once (well, some sidings in the usual garden shed), but that was lost when we extended the house and I really miss it - setting up a run takes longer and stock gets damaged in the process. Good idea to standardise type and height of coupling...

Lovely! And plenty of BR Standard features, I reckon.

Lined black?

I had a few pages to catch up on here - what a fantastic beast that is! Congratulations Peter!

Looking forward to photos/video of it at the head of a long train come the spring...

FWLR wrote: ↑Tue Jan 02, 2024 7:58 am that little milk van looks perfect with them also.

I agree! The whole rake is lovely.

And well done for getting outside to play trains, despite the weather!

Interested to hear about the Kerr Stuart. I've requested the book about KS narrow gauge diesels as my birthday present and am planning to find something in it to go with a soundcard I bought off eBay. These days, my loco builds seem more related to what bargains I find on eBay. Ooh, I reckon a KS w...

Hello again! The Regner project made a decent step forward over the Christmas Holidays with the completion (well, nearly) of the lining: Lined Daisy 1.jpg Lined Daisy 2.jpg Lined Daisy 3.jpg It doesn't bear close inspection, but (to my eye anyway!) it looks very acceptable from a usual viewing dista...

Afternoon all! Firstly, apologies for my absence of late. Life's been busy, but the Christmas break has seen me find some time for my hobby - including my traditional New Year's Day run. I usually opt for steam power at New Year but, for various reasons, my little RH "Hercules" was the onl...