RMweb Premium Gedward Posted February 17, 2022 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted February 17, 2022 3 minutes ago, KNP said: Very nice looking model boat, just a shame you're going to have to cut the bottom off to make it waterline version for the railway... or are you going to have real water in the harbour? Nurse, hacksaw. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Graham T Posted February 17, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 17, 2022 Being serious for a moment (yes really), if there's a big enough tidal range where you're modelling then you could show her bottomed out at low tide. Depicting all the wet silt with runnels of water through it, mooring chains, various bits of detritus on the harbour bed... Could look very interesting! 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Gedward Posted February 17, 2022 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted February 17, 2022 7 minutes ago, Graham T said: Being serious for a moment (yes really), if there's a big enough tidal range where you're modelling then you could show her bottomed out at low tide. Depicting all the wet silt with runnels of water through it, mooring chains, various bits of detritus on the harbour bed... Could look very interesting! Exactly what I have in mind for Bovey Quay. This harbour will be modelled at low tide. So will include the mud, the ropes and chains, the buoys, the seaweed, the moss, the small trapped pools of sea water, the sea gulls. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Graham T Posted February 17, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 17, 2022 Lucky you're not modelling present day - you'd have to put a load of shopping trolleys in there! 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Gedward Posted February 17, 2022 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted February 17, 2022 The only nagging problem I see is reaching across the harbour for coupling etc. So I'm thinking of using MagLink couplings or something similar. Answers on a postcard. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium John Besley Posted February 17, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 17, 2022 Kadee couplers, OK I know they're not 3 link but do allow for fully hands off running... 1 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Gedward Posted February 18, 2022 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted February 18, 2022 8 hours ago, John Besley said: Kadee couplers, OK I know they're not 3 link but do allow for fully hands off running... I've been doing a fair bit perusing Kadee couplings. Thinking that's the smart way to go. Might swap out their magnets for something a bit smaller and more discreet though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium John Besley Posted February 18, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 18, 2022 30 minutes ago, Gedward said: I've been doing a fair bit perusing Kadee couplings. Thinking that's the smart way to go. Might swap out their magnets for something a bit smaller and more discreet though. I think they work if you hide them right under the height of the rail it's self... Worth experimentation 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Gedward Posted February 18, 2022 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted February 18, 2022 1 hour ago, John Besley said: I think they work if you hide them right under the height of the rail it's self... Worth experimentation Problem solved. As the track in the dockside will be set in tarmac covered cobbles. It should be relatively easy to disguise the magnets. As I won't be using any granular ballast. 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post Gedward Posted February 21, 2022 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted February 21, 2022 (edited) This afternoon sees the finished deck in place. Apart from final weathering and filth which will be added much later. I think I'll make a start on the winch next. That should be interesting. Edited August 1, 2022 by Gedward Editing copy and typos 11 13 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Graham T Posted February 21, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 21, 2022 Are you scratch building the winch? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Gedward Posted February 21, 2022 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted February 21, 2022 (edited) Yes I am Graham. So basically everything is scratch built apart from the propeller and ships wheel. Edited February 21, 2022 by Gedward Editing copy and typos 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Graham T Posted February 21, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 21, 2022 You're a braver man than me then, gunga din! 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Gedward Posted February 21, 2022 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted February 21, 2022 Just now, Graham T said: You're a braver man than me then, gunga din! Brave or quite mad. Depends on the day. 7 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Graham T Posted February 21, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 21, 2022 I don't think they're mutually exclusive... 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benbow Posted February 21, 2022 Share Posted February 21, 2022 3 hours ago, Gedward said: This afternoon sees the finished deck in place. Apart from final weathering and filth which will be added much later. I think I'll make a start on the winch next. That should be interesting. I thought for a minute from that first picture that you had built two!!!! Then common sense prevailed 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Gedward Posted February 28, 2022 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted February 28, 2022 (edited) I just remembered painting this back in 1980. During my year abroad, working in Saudi Arabia. Just a little scene in the grounds of my villa. But posting here today as it seemed so poignant and meaningful. Edited August 1, 2022 by Gedward 11 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted March 1, 2022 Share Posted March 1, 2022 On 17/02/2022 at 15:19, Graham T said: Lucky you're not modelling present day - you'd have to put a load of shopping trolleys in there! But he wouldn't have a fishing fleet to model. Just a few sail dinghies and maybe a jet ski... Rather like my modern image branch station theory. Either lots of RTP houses or Stobart artic's. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted March 1, 2022 Share Posted March 1, 2022 5 hours ago, Gedward said: I just remembered painting this back in 1980. During my year abroad, working in Saudi Arabia. Just a little scene in the grounds of my villa. But posting here today as it seemed so poignant and meaningful. I do like the depth and space between the features in that painting. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Graham T Posted March 1, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 1, 2022 14 hours ago, Gedward said: I just remembered painting this back in 1980. During my year abroad, working in Saudi Arabia. Just a little scene in the grounds of my villa. But posting here today as it seemed so poignant and meaningful. The national flower of Ukraine, as I'm sure you realised George. Very nice painting. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Gedward Posted March 1, 2022 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted March 1, 2022 11 minutes ago, Graham T said: The national flower of Ukraine, as I'm sure you realised George. Very nice painting. Yes of course, that's the only reason I posted this very old painting which I almost forgot about. Mind you it was 42 years ago. 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Bogie Posted March 1, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 1, 2022 15 hours ago, Gedward said: I just remembered painting this back in 1980. During my year abroad, working in Saudi Arabia. Just a little scene in the grounds of my villa. But posting here today as it seemed so poignant and meaningful. If you had posted that picture and asked everyone to guess where you painted it, I would never have said Saudi Arabia. I now expect some knowledgeable RMWebber is going to tell me that the picture just oozes Saudi Arabia. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted March 1, 2022 Share Posted March 1, 2022 I just liked the painting, I wouldn't have known where it was painted. Having worked in Lugansk and having friends over here of Ukrainian descent, I'm finding the whole thing a bit too close to home. 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Gedward Posted March 9, 2022 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted March 9, 2022 Well modelling on Bovey Quay has ground to a bit of a halt. But thankfully my mojo is firmly still in place. Right now, all my attention has turned to getting this house ready to market next month. Lots still till do, not least, clearing out 24 years of ’stuff’ in the loft. Then will need to splash some paint here and there. And generally get this place ship shape for the photographer. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post Gedward Posted March 12, 2022 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted March 12, 2022 (edited) Despite all the moving house stuff. I managed to get the 'double drum net winch' to about 90% finished. Edited August 1, 2022 by Gedward 7 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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