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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...

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...

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.

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...

Very nice - I like the gentle curves.

They're a decent length too...

Cheers,

Andrew.

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!

That really made me smile - I love it!

Phil.P wrote: ↑Wed May 22, 2024 1:50 pm So as I have about twice the area to play with, I suppose I could justify going to 7 1/4" gauge.

If it's double Zach's, I reckon you could go up to 10 3/4, although you'd need an awful lot of blackberries to fill a wagon...

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...

ge_rik wrote: ↑Wed May 22, 2024 7:42 am Good to see Zach at home in his natural environment....

That's fantastic!

And also makes my annual plum train look positively sane...

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...

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...

ge_rik wrote: ↑Tue May 21, 2024 6:24 am Rampant campanula was my problem this year.

I love campanula - but that means I can't use the long siding at Trefechan until it's finished flowering and I can cut it back...

Old Man Aaron wrote: ↑Tue May 21, 2024 5:33 am Run 'em while ya got 'em!

"Curre ea cum te obtinuit eos"

The line's motto?

Yes, I just ran your line through Google translate...

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...

drewzero1 wrote: ↑Wed May 15, 2024 6:59 pm That has to be Tom Rolt! Are you at the Talyllyn Railway?

The TR's TR's my guess too!

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... ...

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...

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...

Beautiful work! It's not easy to do, but very rewarding. I'll admit to cheating by making my designs in the computer, then tracing it out. Drawing it by hand isn't something I can do too well on 16mm scale shopfronts. Haven't yet tried it on something larger.. Looking forward to seeing more. Thanks...