Sorry for the delay but hey up.
I'm afraid I have no experience with Halfords aerosols to date but I keep hearing good things about them for the larger scales. Simon Atkinson's 1:15 Douglas shown in issue 288 of 'Garden Rail' for example does look most impressive and I get they're more economical than the small Tamiya spray cans I've gotten used to in 4mm.
dougrail wrote: ↑Sun Jul 29, 2018 10:58 pm
I noticed that you had a little bruha over the Skarloey shades. May I make a recommendation?
Yes i've had a little trouble. You can't really see it on the camera but what I had applied to the opens was a little purple and the back up GER one was a little dark, though the latter is actually perfect for the MSR in my eye, sure even Falcon will look happy in it
Your Capri Blue there against Fennec does look pretty bang on so i'll try that and the white next for my SR standards
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I got the kit as it was cheap and I was plain curious to see how it stood up against others. I agree its age shows but so long as you aren't doing a TR style livery the lack of clean edges aren't that much of a problem and it's a fairly easy kit to assemble. Tenmille have however failed twice to send out modern replacement window overlays I asked for amongst other items so until I need something else from them it's on hold as I do not wish to use the cloudy originals. I P Engineering version is nice but despite my best efforts have failed to stop the sides bowing. In my opinion there simply isn't enough surface area for the glue to hold the tumblehome shape. I'll give another kit a try before I write them off as they don't exactly cost much but I'm intrigued to try out Brandbright's when they do get around to the Brown and Marshall stock as well as some wagons (quite a few other prototypes are in the queue is what I was told at Tywyn so nothing to add to their Lancaster for this year at least).
Perfect World's coaches are nice kits to build but lack accuracy, especially for the price and i'm not so sure about Jurassic Models' as I can only find pics on this site.
http://laurell.today/reviews/kits/jurassic16.html
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Would that be ThomasTankMerch? Can't find his name if it has been put up online but love what you lot have put together on Twitter and elsewhere
I actually acquired a Tenmille L&B van a few months back but it fits between my standard and narrow gauge endeavours so the plan is to use it as a guide for scratch building some enlarged NWR versions, might ask Accurcraft if they can provide any spare fittings from their lovely update.
The L&B bogie wagons in the show i'm not sure were actually Tenmille as I've failed to find anything on them elsewhere. Anywho once I get a shade of red i'm happy with and some replacement bogies they'll become Wellsworth and Suddery Railway stock where their shortness in G3 scale won't show up as much compared to later NWR stuff
If you have anything additional on the freelance narrow gauge wagon (the one in Percy's Predicament with Spiteful's face) or the old coaches though I would be most interested.
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Afraid not really. R/C and all that is still another world to me which is why i'm concentrating more on rolling stock and other stuff first, while my to be 'black beetle' serves as a track tester. Got my eyes on PDF's Tom Rolt as well as the in development Douglas though and you've promoted me to get back on the Lowcas, but by gum they take some sanding and filing! Was hoping to show a little of the red I've chosen but my little Tamiya primers don't go far at all in 16mm and i've now exhausted my eBay stock pile. Living in the sticks Halfords aren't too close to me but i'll see about picking some biggies and the already mentioned shades from their Cwmbran store when I go see Ant and Wasp next week
Lovely vid but doh, was hoping to make the first 16mm semi opens
I'll try and make the next event as it's not that far for a day out. Can you recall the names of the green, red and light blue colours there btw? They do look an excellent match I must say and well done on the execution
Alright as i'm posting here's a quick brake down of what's occurring. The planned Cros-ny-Curin layout has been thrown out as I finally realised Dalby's road bridge in The Four Little Engines was retconned out in IoS, as in the 11th hour Awdry effectively backdated the station to match Rhydyronen's earliest state. The level crossing in place of it leaves the edge of the layout too exposed, so after struggling to find a suitable Skarloey Railway replacement location in the space I have decided to adopt the Mid Sodor's Railway's Arlesdale Green, which is actually better all round
It's true Peter Edwards took quite a lot of liberty with the western end of Eskdale Green and neither the curve nor the bridge are on the maps,
but i'm happy to run with it. The eastern end is much truer to its inspiration but i'm still struggling where to draw the line on his condensed perspective vs the available room.
The opposite U bend support will be tackled by the end of this weekend hopefully, which will complete the oval but the other put away section and back wall strait are mostly completed.
The minimum radius is 42", which while little better then PECO's set track comes to a 7' diameter. Ideally I would of gone bigger, especially as i've got side buffered stock but with the additional clearance needed, along with transitions on the scenic edges that's the limit of what I can accommodate. A full spread of Wood Valley Works' curve templates have come in most handy but the 4 per radius set only goes so far and the interlocking joints are flimsy enough to be affected by the track trying to straighten itself. The slack can actually be a good thing if a little short or over your x mark but rather than buy a whole bunch jigsawed a full circle's worth from the side of an old flatpack cupboard that I had saved.
Not perfick I admit but good enough as the string and pencil technique wasn't practical for my usual 'moving everything about' space planning
Not sure how much sense these pics are making to be honest but east to west this is the scenic area which can accommodate a certain Welsh England and four of the Ffestiniog's largest bogie designs if need be.