MrWolf Posted October 16, 2022 Author Share Posted October 16, 2022 Well that's very much up our strasse, it puts me in mind of this: https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=96uqew6Zirg 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Limpley Stoker Posted October 16, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 16, 2022 That drain looks really good- if you drop a small screw on the road you will know where to look! 1 1 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winslow Boy Posted October 16, 2022 Share Posted October 16, 2022 2 minutes ago, Limpley Stoker said: That drain looks really good- if you drop a small screw on the road you will know where to look! I've found that having a magnet on the end of a length of fishing line helps in such circumstances. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted October 16, 2022 Author Share Posted October 16, 2022 It's another of the duplicated components from the Ratio cattle dock kit. They seem to put a lot of useful little extras in their kits, much in the same manner as Wills' do. It's even better if you have a habit of not building things straight out of the box. 7 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winslow Boy Posted October 16, 2022 Share Posted October 16, 2022 Always useful to have extras. You never know when you might need one so never leave home without having an extra in your back pocket. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted October 16, 2022 Author Share Posted October 16, 2022 Re drains. Have you ever noticed that no matter where you park in town, there's always a drain directly below the driver's side door lock? Proof that God has a sense of humour... 1 3 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted October 16, 2022 Author Share Posted October 16, 2022 1 minute ago, Winslow Boy said: Always useful to have extras. You never know when you might need one so never leave home without having an extra in your back pocket. Better to have it and not need it than the other way around. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winslow Boy Posted October 16, 2022 Share Posted October 16, 2022 1 minute ago, MrWolf said: Better to have it and not need it than the other way around. To true. But remember to rotate them otherwise it will be no good when the time comes. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Donw Posted October 16, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 16, 2022 5 hours ago, MrWolf said: Or "How to alienate the vast majority of people from your cause, however worthy you may think it is". If someone comes up with a clean alternative for ordinary people to put in their tanks and keep their old cars going so that they can keep putting bread on the table, they'd get my full support, until then? well I dont recommend the tomato soup that will gim the plugs up. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted October 16, 2022 Author Share Posted October 16, 2022 42 minutes ago, Donw said: well I dont recommend the tomato soup that will gim the plugs up. That's what E10 turns into if you leave your bike standing for a month. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 57xx Posted October 17, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 17, 2022 8 hours ago, MrWolf said: That's what E10 turns into if you leave your bike standing for a month. A good excuse to get out riding then. 😀 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post MrWolf Posted October 19, 2022 Author Popular Post Share Posted October 19, 2022 On 17/10/2022 at 09:13, 57xx said: A good excuse to get out riding then. 😀 Chance would be a fine thing at the moment, before we have our regulation six months of winter. Not that it really stops us. I've been busy earning a living, but I have made a little experiment with briars / dog roses and similar. I found a packet of Javis scatter I got in an eBay job lot, sprayed a tuft of rubberised horsehair with matt brown enamel and shook the scatter over it. I'll try for a better picture in daylight, but it's a different shade / colour without being a strident green. 33 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post MrWolf Posted October 22, 2022 Author Popular Post Share Posted October 22, 2022 (edited) Today consisted mostly of a quick visit to an exhibition, followed by hanging lots of pictures and old mirrors, whilst the memsahib acted as artistic director, interior designer and spirit level, left a bit, right a bit etc etc. But I did pick up a couple of secondhand wagons... My excuse? One was because you don't see many wagons for sale relevant to the border area and I missed a Morris & Griffin wagon on eBay. The other was because a relative of mine worked at Groby Granite for fifty years, retiring around 1949. As I said to @LDM34046 earlier, thanks to the efforts of himself and @NHY 581 I now have the urge to vandalise some wagons. It will be a good distraction while I wait for some more materials to arrive. The flat wagon is a fairly recent Bachmann and has a nicely detailed chassis. The open is an older Dapol, but has NEM couplings, so neither has a huge block of plastic under the buffer beams. I've also improved the room lighting, that picture was taken about 11pm, even the PW hut looks less black. Edited October 22, 2022 by MrWolf Unreliable internet rage 32 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LDM34046 Posted October 23, 2022 Share Posted October 23, 2022 I’m glad I can be of inspiration! Looking forward to seeing your results! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post MrWolf Posted October 23, 2022 Author Popular Post Share Posted October 23, 2022 Results? Hmm. Today has been a lazy Sunday by our standards. At least it wasn't wildly hung over like last weekend. Today, I have mostly been... (And I know that I'm going to get stick for this:) fixing our bed. We awoke to an alarming sense of lean and when I did a bit of dismantling, I found the culprit. The question being: What philistine clownfart fixed the joints on a circa 1910 hardwood bed with No More Nails? The human race is doomed. So I spent a happy few hours taking the head apart, cleaning up the joints and rebuilding it all with proper furniture glue. Meanwhile, in between a thousand other little jobs and probably with an unconscious sense of righteous vengeance at being defeated by the Oxford Toad, Miss R has reduced the two wagons I bought yesterday to component form and put the bits into recycled takeaway containers. So I felt obligated to slosh a base coat of dirty grey brown around the insides. I put the buildings back on the layout temporarily to clear the Bench of Bodge and took a (hopefully!) morale boosting photo. 34 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted October 23, 2022 Author Share Posted October 23, 2022 I should have taken some photos of it in pieces but it was rather depressing and a lot of bits of wood. I'm going to have to make good the areas around the joints in a couple of places, because it had really been hacked about at some point. At least the gloop came off easily where the joints hadn't been cleaned out with what was probably a hammer and screwdriver. The wagons are shown here waiting for paint to dry. Unfortunately the Dapol 5 plank only has interior details on the floor, probably why someone has adapted a Dapol coal load to fit. Maybe they had a dummy gravel load when new? I'm going to hide it with a new load, but weathered the top plank anyway. Externally, I've distressed the planks and lettering a little, mostly around the top and the side door. I don't know what Dapol use, but their lettering is really good and my fibreglass pencil wouldn't touch it. A bit of 400 grit was the answer. 19 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted October 23, 2022 Author Share Posted October 23, 2022 (edited) Just as an afterthought, does anyone know what the business Morris & Griffin of Newport Monmouthshire was? It would help me decide what kind of a load to put on it. I'm already aware of the amount of speculation that a mystery crate on a layout can generate... Edited October 23, 2022 by MrWolf Sheer incompetence 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Graham T Posted October 23, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 23, 2022 Congrats on your century Senor Lupo! 1 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted October 23, 2022 Author Share Posted October 23, 2022 https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Morris_and_Griffin Found them, I think. The question is however, what on earth would they have wanted a flat wagon for? 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted October 23, 2022 Author Share Posted October 23, 2022 2 minutes ago, Graham T said: Congrats on your century Senor Lupo! Century? Who? What? I deny everything. We were never there / I have no recollection of seeing any bodies / the safe was empty when we got there / I never wear underwear that colour.... Please circle as appropriate. 2 1 6 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Graham T Posted October 23, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 23, 2022 That selection is a rather disturbing insight into how your mind works 😁 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Nick C Posted October 23, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 23, 2022 (edited) 17 minutes ago, MrWolf said: https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Morris_and_Griffin Found them, I think. The question is however, what on earth would they have wanted a flat wagon for? You'd have thought most of their produce would go out in barrels of some kind, so a 5-plank would be more appropriate... https://glostransporthistory.visit-gloucestershire.co.uk/grcwPOcw.htm says "PL402 shows a similar wagon supporting a wooden framework for a large rectangular slurry tank", with a cross reference elsewhere on the page: "PL = PLATE REFERENCE IN KEITH MONTAGUE’S BOOK " PRIVATE OWNER WAGONS FROM THE GLOUCESTER RAILWAY CARRIAGE AND WAGON COMPANY LTD" OXFORD PUBLISHING COMPANY 1981 SBN 86093 124 2" Edit - the book Abe link Edited October 23, 2022 by Nick C 1 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted October 23, 2022 Author Share Posted October 23, 2022 11 minutes ago, Graham T said: That selection is a rather disturbing insight into how your mind works 😁 Good job I didn't wheel out any more then... So what is the century then? Or is it a code I am not familiar with? If you'd said "three" that was the number of clapped out GWR 2251's I saw yesterday and resisted buying, which I was quite pleased with myself about. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted October 23, 2022 Author Share Posted October 23, 2022 10 minutes ago, Nick C said: You'd have thought most of their produce would go out in barrels of some kind, so a 5-plank would be more appropriate... https://glostransporthistory.visit-gloucestershire.co.uk/grcwPOcw.htm says "PL402 shows a similar wagon supporting a wooden framework for a large rectangular slurry tank", with a cross reference elsewhere on the page: "PL = PLATE REFERENCE IN KEITH MONTAGUE’S BOOK " PRIVATE OWNER WAGONS FROM THE GLOUCESTER RAILWAY CARRIAGE AND WAGON COMPANY LTD" OXFORD PUBLISHING COMPANY 1981 SBN 86093 124 2" Thanks, that's a mine of information, I have no books on PO wagons, so that might be a good place to start. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Graham T Posted October 23, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 23, 2022 You appear to have 100 people following your adventures in Aston on Clun. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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