Vale of Fairway

[tom_tom_go]

It looks better now because it looks knackered!

[bazzer42]

Doesn't work for railway modellers - They never look good either old or knackered ( or both in my case )

[bazzer42]

Your wife is working at home in the kitchen and a bloke needs to keep out of the way so what better time for playing with rivets. A lot of 7/8th modellers on the lounge seem to like a pop rivet for coupling pins. I've done it myself but they always look like pop rivets so spent half an hour dressing some up with necklace couplers and a brass ring formed from brass as a sort of pull ring. I think they will work for multi heights and as intermediate couplers on trains of skips. Apologies for the background.

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PS They need trimming and a dip in blackening fluid.

[LNR]

Wagon looks great. I gather that was a blind rivet, to be able to drill a hole through it without hitting the mandrel. Tedious all the same.
Grant.

[ge_rik]

Great weathering on the wagons. I too would be interested in the recipe...

Rik

[Busted Bricks]

That looks amazing. I can't do weathering to save my life.

I offer a set of 3 of my 7/8ths skip kits for free to anyone who fancies building and weathering one. Only condition is I get a picture I can use on the webpage.

[tom_tom_go]

I will have a go if you like

[Busted Bricks]

I will have a go if you like

PM me your address and they will be on their way to you.

I have another set up for grabs if anyone wants to have a go.

[Busted Bricks]

Second set is now spoken for. We can have a build-off and see who finishes first

[tom_tom_go]

I will lose ha ha!

[bazzer42]

The Great Britsh tipper Build. Big Jim asked me to do a recipe for rusting so I will use this chance to do this under a separate thread.

[jim@NAL]

I'd like to have a go at wheathering some skips too

[Maple]

now that is a well weathered wagon

[bazzer42]

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Look what arrived today (along with a 7/8th Ruston kit from PDF), will put glue to wood next week.

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A batch of dolls house crates arrived earlier in the week. I have tried a mixture of alcohol and India ink to try and age the wood. Fairway Farms or Fairway Fruit?

[tom_tom_go]

I still reckon you will build those skips before me!

[FWLR]

Some great work Derek, love your layout, those wagons look fantastic. Like the idea for the couplers, may have a go at some point.

[FWLR]

Fairway Farms for me.

[bazzer42]

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Trying an experiment to transplant moss onto the breeze blocks under the track. I have temporarily shovelled the loose ballast back and tried a sprinkle of out of date Boddingtons and sugar.

[philipy]

Trying an experiment to transplant moss onto the breeze blocks under the track. I have temporarily shovelled the loose ballast back and tried a sprinkle of out of date Boddingtons and sugar.

To encourage moss, I've found that out of date yoghurt works well, but do avoid the ones with bits of fruit mixed in! I've also successfully used Tesco 'Value' yoghurt, costs about 80p for a large pot. Just take a teaspoonful and dribble it about randomly.

[bazzer42]

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I told Mrs B I was going to edge the bottom station with concrete edging not log roll as she suggested. Finding log rolls at £2 in the tesco sale on Friday changed my mind! Will hopefully keep the vegetation back bot not the flower growing through the bridge, flowered for the first time last year and too pretty to move. I think it is a freeshia and will try and redirect the growth next autumn.