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Big Jim · Post by **Big Jim** » Thu Jun 05, 2014 3:32 pm

I have just finished a Swift Sixteen GPV kit. As others here have mentioned it just fell together!
Lettered using print your own transfer paper and weathered using Carrs powders to try and cover the problems with the decals.

Seen here with a delivery for a local factory!?!

No barrier wagon is needed.

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Big Jim · Post by **Big Jim** » Thu Jun 05, 2014 4:27 pm

I will also point out that this is the first official train on the PMR.

kandnwlr · Post by **kandnwlr** » Thu Jun 05, 2014 5:24 pm

Big Jim:101447 wrote:I will also point out that this is the first official train on the PMR.

Congratulations to the first official train, doubtless the first of many

LnBmad · Post by **LnBmad** » Thu Jun 05, 2014 6:02 pm

Nice work Jim!

Peter Butler · Post by **Peter Butler** » Thu Jun 05, 2014 9:42 pm

Nice job Jim..... lovely finish too!
I've been impressed with the quality of these kits, and that one in particular.
Congratulations on the inaugural train too!

DickH · Post by **DickH** » Thu Jun 05, 2014 10:25 pm

Nice job Jim and congrats on the first train!!

Big Jim · Post by **Big Jim** » Thu Jun 05, 2014 11:01 pm

I've been impressed with the quality of these kits, and that one in particular

It fell together, in fact I don't think I have ever made a more straight forward kit (Binnie bogies excluded). Apart from three small bits of resin to remove there is nothing to it. I spent more time working out the lettering on the side.

My only (minor) gripe and I am being really picky is the fact you have to view or print the instruction off the web (and that is only because I don't have an internet connection in the shed and the printer and I don't have a working relationship) With this kit it doesn't matter but some of the kits are slightly more involved.

Post by **Andrew** » Fri Jun 06, 2014 10:24 am

Congratulations on the first train, and on the very nice powder van too. Coincidentally I finished my own last night, photos at the weekend if I get round to it. Wonder if the GPV is Swift Sixteen's best seller, everyone seems to have one - the "must have" wagon of the season...

My Welsh isn't up to much - is "Enynfa" a place or a substance?

Big Jim · Post by **Big Jim** » Fri Jun 06, 2014 12:58 pm

Its a substance.
Anyone any guesses?

Marquis DeCarabas · Post by **Marquis DeCarabas** » Fri Jun 06, 2014 2:14 pm

Fi'n gwybod! Iawn.

DANNO · Post by **DANNO** » Fri Jun 06, 2014 2:27 pm

The driver never smokes, I guess...

Post by **Andrew** » Fri Jun 06, 2014 2:53 pm

Big Jim:101480 wrote:Its a substance.
Anyone any guesses?

Well it sounds a bit like Enfys, but I think that's a red herring, 'cos that means Rainbow. I know that because I once knew a young lady called Enfys (cue a limerick?), and my mate Mike's parents ran "Yr Enfys" gift shop in Porthmadog, usually called "Humphries Nik Nax", as long as Mike's Dad wasn't listening...

Talcum? Itching? Washing???

Big Jim · Post by **Big Jim** » Fri Jun 06, 2014 3:34 pm

Give that man a coconut!!!!!

Itching Powder it is.

I thought that every one has a gunpowder wagon so I would be a bit different.

Hence the lack of barrier wagon.

Big Jim · Post by **Big Jim** » Fri Jun 06, 2014 3:43 pm

Fi'n gwybod! Iawn

diolch i chi,

Post by **Andrew** » Fri Jun 06, 2014 3:58 pm

While everyone's in Welsh mode, what would the Welsh for "Humphries' Quarry" be? I'd like to name my imaginary 16mm scale quarry after my aforementioned mate, but he wouldn't thank me for doing it in English.

Actually, he told me he was grateful that they don't speak much Welsh in Minehead after his 3 year old son used his native tongue to make some very loud and very disparaging comments about a West Somerset Railway loco crew's ability to position a loco on the turntable correctly...

Big Jim · Post by **Big Jim** » Fri Jun 06, 2014 4:16 pm

Chwarel Humphries
possibly depending which part of Wales you are in.

(Standing by for bricks lugged by people who speak the language much, much better than I do.)

Post by **Andrew** » Fri Jun 06, 2014 6:46 pm

Big Jim:101491 wrote:Chwarel Humphries
possibly depending which part of Wales you are in.

(Standing by for bricks lugged by people who speak the language much, much better than I do.)

Excellent, thanks. I'll dodge incoming bricks too. How would that be pronounced - sort of like "Kwa-rell"? This quarry's at the end of an imaginary branch of the Welsh Highland, so the location's Snowdonia.

Off outside to spray varnish my GPV now - to make amends for hijacking this thread!

All the best,

Andrew.

Big Jim · Post by **Big Jim** » Fri Jun 06, 2014 7:21 pm

Sort of, it depends where in Wales you are.

Marquis DeCarabas · Post by **Marquis DeCarabas** » Sat Jun 07, 2014 2:46 am

Chwarel Wmffreis.

Ch as in loch then wah and rel as in relative. Disyllabic.

Post by **Andrew** » Sat Jun 07, 2014 9:26 am

Marquis DeCarabas:101515 wrote:Chwarel Wmffreis.

Ch as in loch then wah and rel as in relative. Disyllabic.

Excellent, thank you both.

Would the spelling of Humphries change in this context? I guess I'm asking if that's a grammatical thing (Like the way I think c's become g's and p's become b's in certain contexts?) - or a historical/political/geographical one? I recognise that the spelling of "Humphries" is possibly an Anglification, but that's the spelling the family in question use...

The wording is to go on some wooden gates that will help disguise the fact that my line ends in a breeze block wall rather than actually continuing into a quarry. To bring it back on topic, my own GPV is to supply powder to this non-existant quarry...

Cheers,

Andrew.

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