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St.Michael · Post by **St.Michael** » Wed Oct 24, 2012 9:14 pm

Hello Brian
I wonder if you can explain the name of your little railway in a way so me beeing Swedish/Norvegian can understand it? All the words exists in norwegish and will give the most strange meaning to the name

MDLR · Post by **MDLR** » Tue Dec 11, 2012 3:05 pm

Sorry I haven't replied.................

Flagg is a small village in Derbyshire...........

http://goo.gl/maps/kKmsd which is situated not far from the site of the MDLR's Monyash terminal.................

http://goo.gl/maps/gUh3y

The "Fluorspar" bit comes from the mineral that is mined around here.

Any road up................. I've been making progress on the loco repair shop - the walls were from a sheet of AnDel Models brickwork: they've now been trimmed to size, glued together and painted.............

hussra · Post by **hussra** » Tue Dec 11, 2012 9:23 pm

Ooh, those look nice, will be interested to see what you make of these. (I don't see 'em on Andel's web site just now - I'm sure they used to be there!)

MDLR · Post by **MDLR** » Wed Dec 12, 2012 12:56 am

hussra:77828 wrote:Ooh, those look nice, will be interested to see what you make of these.

I'm making a loco repair shop! The roof framing will be made from coffee stirrers, covered with corrugated iron (in plastic).

Dr. Bond of the DVLR · Post by **Dr. Bond of the DVLR** » Wed Dec 12, 2012 10:38 am

Could you go over how you painted the brick work please?

MDLR · Post by **MDLR** » Wed Dec 12, 2012 11:46 am

Mr. Bond of the DVLR:77846 wrote:Could you go over how you painted the brick work please?

OK - the panel is cast in "mortar colour".

The first job is to paint the whole surface with brick colour - I've got a sample tin of masonry paint which is right. I kept the 1/2" paint brush almost parallel with the surface and "lost" much of the paint off the brush before starting, so I only painted the faces of the bricks and the paint didn't go into the mortar joints.

After that, I picked out the black bricks with acrylic and then washed over the whole lot with a very dilute black acrylic - the brick colour is very bright and "loud" until you tone it down with a wash.

St.Michael · Post by **St.Michael** » Sat Dec 15, 2012 9:28 pm

[quote="MDLR:77803"]

Flagg is a small village in Derbyshire...........

http://goo.gl/maps/kKmsd which is situated not far from the site of the MDLR's Monyash terminal.................

http://goo.gl/maps/gUh3y

The "Fluorspar" bit comes from the mineral that is mined around here.

Thank you for explaining, I still have much english to learn..
Michael

MDLR · Post by **MDLR** » Fri Mar 29, 2013 11:09 pm

................ and here it is completed! It's only been plonked in position and will need a hole drilling in the baseboard for the wire for the lighting and properly "planting" with greenery to hide the gap.

www.mdlr.co.uk/ff05.html shows it in all its gory detail!

dougrail · Post by **dougrail** » Sat Mar 30, 2013 12:25 am

"Like" button for that shed job

Narrow Minded · Post by **Narrow Minded** » Sat Mar 30, 2013 1:39 am

Just back from Sterndale Moor - we drove past the sign for "Flagg"

MDLR · Post by **MDLR** » Thu Apr 25, 2013 8:33 pm

Right - you may remember this picture of the sign that was on the line at Exeter:

Well, today IS 25th April, AND..................

THIS is what's standing on its site!

Today's mostly been titivating - adding lettering for the layout title and the "skirt" that hides the stands (and all the stock boxes) and getting loaded - mind you, it's been nice to have THIS as accompaniment!

MDLR · Post by **MDLR** » Fri Sep 06, 2013 10:55 pm

I've just added a page of pictures of the completed layout - see http://www.mdlr.co.uk/ff06.html

METHSSNIFFER · Post by **METHSSNIFFER** » Sat Sep 07, 2013 12:54 am

Excellent pics I like the foreign import are you sure your mining flurospar and not frankincence

MDLR · Post by **MDLR** » Sat Sep 07, 2013 3:02 pm

No - DEFINITELY Fluorspar! When you see the layout "in the flesh" I'll be happy to tell you why the camel is there, but it's a long story!

SapperAnt · Post by **SapperAnt** » Sat Sep 07, 2013 5:45 pm

Looks great!

Flagg is a lovely village.

What did you use for your corrugated iron, please?

MDLR · Post by **MDLR** » Sat Sep 07, 2013 5:53 pm

SapperAnt:88055 wrote:What did you use for your corrugated iron, please?

It's the sheets of styrene from Brandbright.

SapperAnt · Post by **SapperAnt** » Sat Sep 07, 2013 5:57 pm

Thankyou!!!

MDLR · Post by **MDLR** » Sat May 28, 2016 2:17 pm

I've just done an update on the rolling stock page for Flagg Fluorspar - take a look here................. http://mdlr.co.uk/ffstock.html

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