Garden Railway Forum

Paul_in_Ricky wrote: ↑Thu Jan 16, 2025 1:32 pm All available on iPlayer at the moment.

I watched the Darjeeling and Shimla episodes as we travelled on them on our Indian expedition a few years back. I'm saving the Nilgiri for later. Might inspire me to make a return visit.

Rik

Beautiful in every respect.

Rik

Yes - the Belmont Common Railway didn't earn the nickname of the "swamp railway" without good reason - and its development was ultimately blocked by the golf course and main road developments. The run between Queenscliff and Drysdale is however a little more challenging than shuffling out...

Sounds promising. I'll let Philip get his head around the finer points and keep fingers crossed he'll produce one of his excellent tutorials.

Rik

Hi chaps. Some of you may recall that a former South African mate of mine has been 3D printing 1:32 static scale models of the locos he remembers from his childhood. He works from original works drawings, reproducing the scaled down components from them which he then assembles. He asked if I could s...

gilfachphil wrote: ↑Sun Jan 12, 2025 3:55 pm It's been a beautiful day here in West Wales, bright and sunny. Just back from walking on the beach.

Phil

Shadupayaface!!!

My mum and dad used to live in Pembrokeshire. I well remember walks on Broadhaven, Newgale and Marloes beaches.

Happy days!

Rik

Good to see something running despite the weather.

Rik

WLR_CD wrote: ↑Wed Jan 08, 2025 1:00 pm The reason for starting at Stage 1 is because the domestic planning authorities were only aware of stages 1-3!

Martin

It now all makes sense ...

Rik

I have seen this before, but really would like to see it again so thanks for the heads-up

Rikki

Looks like an interesting layout which makes good use of the space. FWIW, my temptation would be to construct Stage 4 first. Then you can have something running round and round while you do other things in the garden. But there might be logistical reasons for starting down by the house. Rik PS Also,...

Some really great shots and interesting trains. Were the doors left open on the Taitset for ventilation?

Rik

That does look good, Rod. Well worth the effort. As others have said, the weathered finish on the greenhouse is especially well done.

Rik

Old Man Aaron wrote: ↑Sat Jan 04, 2025 3:54 pm

FWLR wrote: ↑Sat Jan 04, 2025 6:20 am I'm really not bright enough for them

Nor am I, I still can't tell!

Me neither. The extra photo clue hasn't helped I'm afraid.
Is it a pathway or a wall?

Rik

Great looking model, Peter. Love the nonchalant driver. Interesting that the blue looks a different shade in the last photo.

Rik

The sign for an over enthusiastic pawn broker?

Rik

I realise there's still a couple of hours to go here in the UK, but some of our Antipodean members will already have celebrated the coming of 2025.

Let us hope and pray that things can only get better.......

Rik

The Scale3D link on his website has hundreds of figures in a wide range of poses and costumes https://www.scale3d.co.uk/ including those from the 1930s and 40s https://www.scale3d.co.uk/collections/figures-1930-to-1940 I can't vouch for the quality of their figures but the ones I've had from Dean ov...

Not sure if everyone is aware that you can download 3D print files of a range of figures from DesignScanPrint3D which, at only £5.00 per figure (or in some cases per couple) seems like very good value. https://designscanprint3d.e-junkie.com/ He also sells printed 1:22 figures from £5.99 each (I'm su...

Thanks chaps, I'm sure there are plenty of better bridgy photos out there.

Rik

And .....

A delivery for the mill

Rik