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- Wed May 29, 2024 4:40 pm
- Forum: Videos
- Topic: Semi-scale BR: Strictly Bulleid*
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1336
Re: Semi-scale BR: Strictly Bulleid*
“It feels like about six too many” OMG! — Help — I need to sit down… As an unreconstructed Southern Region bore, I’m beside myself with excitement. And I would like to think that by now the chaps at Swanage have developed a pretty shrewd notion of what works for them. The lovely T3 (and their other...
- Wed May 29, 2024 1:24 pm
- Forum: Videos
- Topic: Semi-scale BR: Strictly Bulleid*
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1336
Re: Semi-scale BR: Strictly Bulleid*
STOP PRESS The Swanage Railway confirm that their ‘Strictly Bulleid 2’ event, 7-9 June, will feature EIGHT Bulleid Pacifics in steam! Wow! It's going to be impressive, and I will be keeping an eye via the webcams, but I'm not sure I "get it"... It feels like about six too many, and I gues...
- Wed May 29, 2024 8:50 am
- Forum: Locomotives - Electric
- Topic: Another Faller Railbus
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1145
Re: Another Faller Railbus
Glad you like it folks! Chris, your (very nice!) chocolate and cream one looks very much like my original model, but rather cleaner - mine has suffered from hanging around in dusty cupboards with dirty steam engines... And because I never got round to varnishing it, so I can't get grubby fingerprint...
- Wed May 29, 2024 8:45 am
- Forum: Projects
- Topic: Sheehaun Light Railway
- Replies: 2
- Views: 75
Re: Sheehaun Light Railway
Hello!
Looking forward to learning more about your Irish-themed line. I've got a couple of books on the Irish NG, which I find fascinating - so much variety!
All the best,
Andrew.
Looking forward to learning more about your Irish-themed line. I've got a couple of books on the Irish NG, which I find fascinating - so much variety!
All the best,
Andrew.
- Tue May 28, 2024 3:04 pm
- Forum: Locomotives - Electric
- Topic: Another Faller Railbus
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1145
Re: Another Faller Railbus
Good afternoon! This weekend saw the railbus project pretty much draw to a close - it's now ready to go apart from adding some traction tyres (the other one uses kids' "loom bands") to improve running. As you can see, I've gone for a BR "green diesel" era look, complete with &quo...
- Tue May 28, 2024 11:20 am
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: Yr Hen Felin & Yr Orsaf Newydd
- Replies: 330
- Views: 60024
Re: Yr Hen Felin & Yr Orsaf Newydd
Very nice - I like the gentle curves.
They're a decent length too...
Cheers,
Andrew.
They're a decent length too...
Cheers,
Andrew.
- Tue May 28, 2024 9:04 am
- Forum: Scenery
- Topic: A Quiet Sunday
- Replies: 292
- Views: 133778
Re: A Quiet Sunday
If I came across one of those I'm not sure I'd recognise that it was an insect?! I reckon I'd prefer not to know, actually - it's HUGE!
- Wed May 22, 2024 4:43 pm
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: The (Windmill Hill) Welsh Highland Railway
- Replies: 791
- Views: 337362
Re: The (Windmill Hill) Welsh Highland Railway
That really made me smile - I love it!
- Wed May 22, 2024 4:20 pm
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: The (Windmill Hill) Welsh Highland Railway
- Replies: 791
- Views: 337362
- Wed May 22, 2024 12:46 pm
- Forum: Locomotives - Live Steam
- Topic: Daisy, Daisy...
- Replies: 43
- Views: 14316
Re: Daisy, Daisy...
Thanks chaps, much appreciated! The benches in the tender are based on Ffestiniog locos, I was pleased with how they came out too. I might make a fireman figure to sit taking a rest on one of them. And yes, I was happy with the lining, although it's all a learning process,, and there are clearly som...
- Wed May 22, 2024 12:41 pm
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: The (Windmill Hill) Welsh Highland Railway
- Replies: 791
- Views: 337362
- Tue May 21, 2024 6:53 pm
- Forum: Locomotives - Live Steam
- Topic: Daisy, Daisy...
- Replies: 43
- Views: 14316
Re: Daisy, Daisy...
Evening all, This project rumbles on slowly - as I type this the varnish is drying on the loco and tender, which are sitting in front of me on the kitchen table. Here's the tender a few days ago, with the painting completed, a proper coal space added (a late addition, I was just planning to have coa...
- Tue May 21, 2024 6:43 pm
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: The (Windmill Hill) Welsh Highland Railway
- Replies: 791
- Views: 337362
Re: The (Windmill Hill) Welsh Highland Railway
Rampant campanula was my problem this year. Rampant moss is mine... I'm thinking of starting an export business - using rail transport of course, if I can clear enough of it to allow the trains to run! Oooh, I'm imagining something like the Irish peat lines, maybe with those rustic looking wooden c...
- Tue May 21, 2024 6:41 pm
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: The (Windmill Hill) Welsh Highland Railway
- Replies: 791
- Views: 337362
- Tue May 21, 2024 6:40 pm
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: The (Windmill Hill) Welsh Highland Railway
- Replies: 791
- Views: 337362
Re: The (Windmill Hill) Welsh Highland Railway
"Curre ea cum te obtinuit eos"
The line's motto?
Yes, I just ran your line through Google translate...
- Mon May 20, 2024 1:15 pm
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: The (Windmill Hill) Welsh Highland Railway
- Replies: 791
- Views: 337362
Re: The (Windmill Hill) Welsh Highland Railway
Normal (???) service has resumed! I finally found the missing fishplates, relaid the track that had been lifted, repaired some of the other bits, undertook the necessary clearance and... ran a train! Nothing fancy, a battery loco and the first wagons that came to hand, but it was the first train for...
- Wed May 15, 2024 7:01 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: where am I?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 400
- Wed May 15, 2024 1:34 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: It's a Sign!
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1049
Re: It's a Sign!
It's been 20 years since I've wallpapered (we tend to just go for painted plaster), but when I did I don't think we used anything as hi-tech (!!!) as a plumbline, let alone one with a chalk reservoir! It came out OK, but it was only lining paper for painting uneven walls, no patterns to line up... ...
- Wed May 15, 2024 12:56 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: It's a Sign!
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1049
Re: It's a Sign!
So, does that mean you never do any wallpapering?? :lol: Because, using a plumbline, that's how you get a vertical line on a wall to line the edge of the wallpaper to. I've been doing it that way for 50 years and never had any probs ( he says modestly!). In fact you can actually get plumblines with...
- Wed May 15, 2024 11:11 am
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: It's a Sign!
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1049
Re: It's a Sign!
Hi Andrew, When my Dad used to get his wagons sign written the guy used to chalk out the sign first and then use that bit of stick that has a piece of cloth wrapped around it. He had many different sizes of those because some letters were really small, like the bottom of the doors on my Dads cabs w...