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- Mon Feb 20, 2023 8:33 am
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
- Replies: 280
- Views: 132217
Re: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
Thanks very much! I’m plotting what else can be painted blue…
- Sat Feb 18, 2023 10:20 pm
- Forum: General Garden Railways
- Topic: Hunslet Hughie
- Replies: 34
- Views: 11043
Re: Hunslet Hughie
Gosh. Beautifully done.
- Sat Feb 18, 2023 10:17 pm
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
- Replies: 280
- Views: 132217
Re: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
09_1593_800.jpg I’ve seen a photo of a real one actually with a yellow cab 09_1615_800.jpg Not glazed yet, run out of Canopy Glue Here it is in vivid, disruptive camouflage — sorry, I mean ‘a fanciful, late development of’ the Rail Blue scheme. That bit in front of the cab in yellow is (partly) an ...
- Thu Feb 16, 2023 7:14 pm
- Forum: Quarterly Garden Railway Gallery
- Topic: March Photogallery enter here. ONE week left!
- Replies: 18
- Views: 7434
Re: March Photogallery theme and enter here....
On no! I contrived to get a couple of those as a Festive Gift, to do much the same thing. Most difficult kit I’ve ever made I think — whatever you do, don’t drop any bits on the carpet. I’m very impressed with the chains, I’ve spent ages looking for appropriate brown string. And you haven’t painted ...
- Wed Feb 15, 2023 9:47 am
- Forum: Locomotives - Electric
- Topic: Lets see all your scratchbult locos in G scale etc
- Replies: 20
- Views: 8414
- Tue Feb 14, 2023 10:10 am
- Forum: Locomotives - Electric
- Topic: Lets see all your scratchbult locos in G scale etc
- Replies: 20
- Views: 8414
Re: Lets see all your scratchbult locos in G scale etc
Most on the forum do 16mm — but here’s some semi-G-scale Bulleids, shot for a video a couple of years ago. I suspect you can tell that whatever’s in that glass, it’s not London Pride.
- Tue Feb 14, 2023 9:56 am
- Forum: Locomotives - Electric
- Topic: Semi-scale BR: almost a 2MT
- Replies: 35
- Views: 22082
- Tue Feb 14, 2023 9:49 am
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: The Railway in the Valley of the Mill
- Replies: 356
- Views: 78102
Re: The Railway in the Valley of the Mill
https://photos.simonwood.info/index?/ca ... ruary_2023
That’s a great set of pictures, as well as it all looking beautifully built and finished.
That’s a great set of pictures, as well as it all looking beautifully built and finished.
- Fri Feb 10, 2023 12:26 pm
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: A tiny G gauge indoor layout
- Replies: 118
- Views: 30998
Re: A tiny G gauge indoor layout
“This is what I produced for a 4mm backscene, but was still an improvement on bare hardboard” I suppose if you study your photograph, you might be able to work out where 3D ends and which is the backdrop — but I think it’s extraordinarily effective. The matching of colour and tone is completely con...
- Wed Feb 08, 2023 6:14 pm
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
- Replies: 280
- Views: 132217
Re: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
"...a glimpse into the minds of fellow modellers" I feel suitably chastened. So, just to illustrate just how off-the-scale nerdy I can be, here’s the amended, annotated plan / cheat sheet / mood board / user guide, I assembled as the rebuild began. Not followed exactly , of course, for al...
- Wed Feb 08, 2023 11:49 am
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
- Replies: 280
- Views: 132217
Re: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
“…how have you altered the proportions?” As delivered, Diesel measured (in mm) 168H x 115W x 324L but its wheels appeared to be undersized and the running plate too low, which also appeared to exaggerate the length of the overhangs at each end. I thought it looked a bit weird. To sit comfortably wi...
- Wed Feb 08, 2023 11:36 am
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
- Replies: 280
- Views: 132217
Re: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
Thank you kindly! I did have a look at the real, cut down Class 08/9 versions, as Andrew suggests (there’s a picture on the BR class 08 Wikipedia page). Ironically, their rebuild would have been constrained by the full-sized wheels and higher running plate — the lack of which I was complaining about...
- Mon Feb 06, 2023 10:33 pm
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
- Replies: 280
- Views: 132217
Re: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
Shunter_1540_800.jpg Probably the most flattering angle. Grill held on with sellotape Shunter_1545_800.jpg Chopped and modified to fit. A few bits to glue on after painting Bachmann Large Scale ‘Thomas’ range Devious Diesel makeover I bought this online, assuming that I’d replace the sour face on t...
- Sat Jan 21, 2023 10:29 pm
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: The Potters Orchid Railway
- Replies: 975
- Views: 277545
Re: The Potters Orchid Railway
Wow! Wonderful.
- Fri Jan 06, 2023 10:32 am
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
- Replies: 280
- Views: 132217
Re: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
“Lima created a 33 along similar lines back in the 80s” What a clot! I’ve only just noticed, prompted by your Lima picture — Thank you — that I’ve put the lift-off roof on the wrong way round in all my snaps. This is despite spending ages on a wire mesh grill and red cooling fan (that you can’t rea...
- Wed Jan 04, 2023 1:05 pm
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
- Replies: 280
- Views: 132217
Re: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
Thanks for the kind remarks. The pictures are a bit naughty really. It is in ‘authentic’ Rail Blue and in most circumstances (certainly at this time of year) doesn’t look as bright as that. I could attempt to modify the dodgy bogies later on — but I want to finish the rest of it first.
- Tue Jan 03, 2023 4:57 pm
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
- Replies: 280
- Views: 132217
Re: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
1_33_1425B.jpg 2_33_1368B.jpg 3_33_1388B.jpg 4_33_1455B.jpg 10_33_14518.jpg G-scale Class 33. I’ve boosted the colour a little, it was all looking a bit dull and gloomy Well, it’s certainly bright and cheerful now. I’ve not stumbled across any evidence of Class 33s actually in a ‘large logo’ livery...
- Thu Dec 01, 2022 11:36 pm
- Forum: Quarterly Garden Railway Gallery
- Topic: Dec 2022 Photo Gallery - VOTE HERE - 2 DAYS Left
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4064
Re: Dec 2022 Photo Gallery - VOTE HERE
Oh! I didn’t think the second picture would be considered an entry — I figured it was sort of background guff for the main pic… And it’s got a vote! Philipy — if you need to drop one, feel free. Apologies.
- Wed Nov 30, 2022 5:57 pm
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
- Replies: 280
- Views: 132217
Re: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
It is, it is! The ‘Thomas’ one, of course.
Fingers crossed it won’t look too small — I may have to organise the sequence of wagons specifically to disguise that, or attempt to.
Fingers crossed it won’t look too small — I may have to organise the sequence of wagons specifically to disguise that, or attempt to.
- Wed Nov 30, 2022 2:00 pm
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
- Replies: 280
- Views: 132217
Re: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
33_yellow_1017.jpg sprayday_1_1028.jpg sprayday_2_1157.jpg Spray day. Keen-eyed viewers will identify the newspaper to be The Yorkshire Post (!) Between being very busy (though with intermittent spells of extreme laziness) and many, miserably rainy days, I’ve made a little progress. I have to say t...