RMweb Premium Physicsman Posted July 1, 2013 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted July 1, 2013 Hi Rob, Whilst Jeff is away lets hi jack the thread and get him to 300 pages of dribble, hahaaaa On a more serious note, it is amazing that when the pics stop coming, then new ideas dry up and it all goes very spookilly quiet on here. Where is the main man? Maybe he is planting the GRASS, AGHHHHHHHHHHHHH :scared: Bodgit Hi Andy, I'm still here - honest! Not much time for the layout at the mo because of the patio project. However, the weather will stop external work on Tuesday, so there'll be something done in the bunker tomorrow. I promise to post pics of whatever I do. Must admit, I don't like a quiet thread - and there are plenty of quiet threads on the Forum at the moment. Must be the time of year. Btw, it's almost exactly a year since I started the viaduct build. Seems years ago to me! Jeff Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew P Posted July 1, 2013 Share Posted July 1, 2013 Hi Andy, I'm still here - honest! Not much time for the layout at the mo because of the patio project. However, the weather will stop external work on Tuesday, so there'll be something done in the bunker tomorrow. I promise to post pics of whatever I do. Must admit, I don't like a quiet thread - and there are plenty of quiet threads on the Forum at the moment. Must be the time of year. Btw, it's almost exactly a year since I started the viaduct build. Seems years ago to me! Jeff NO NO Please just the layout if you don't mind :no: :no: :no: Bodgit Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Physicsman Posted July 1, 2013 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted July 1, 2013 Andy - don't panic....it's most likely to be an exciting photo of a piece of SMP with Copydex and 2mm ballast applied. Not the kind of thing you'd want to submit to Playboy!! Jeff Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jukebox Posted July 1, 2013 Share Posted July 1, 2013 *for a minute there, I thought the mankini was getting another airing....* Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Physicsman Posted July 1, 2013 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted July 1, 2013 *for a minute there, I thought the mankini was getting another airing....* Scott - as soon as I saw you'd posted I thought..."here comes the mankini!!" Maybe someone who is skillful with 00 figures could make a mankini-clad figure to walk the Fell, herding the sheep. Just a suggestion .... Chris? At least it isn't Reg Varney! Jeff Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jukebox Posted July 1, 2013 Share Posted July 1, 2013 (edited) "I'll 'ave you, Jukebox!" *** Of course, if that 4mm Mankini comment is a challenge, I'm up for it on one condition: I'll [attempt to] make you a 4mm Mankini Jeff ,and a 4mm Comical Ali Jeff, so long as they crew a loco of K/L with an open footplate for all the world to see [if they look closely enough!]. Edited July 1, 2013 by jukebox Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Physicsman Posted July 1, 2013 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted July 1, 2013 Brilliant stuff! One of these days I'll have to "pop over" to Perth and meet the Jukebox jester himself!! I'd be quite happy to have Mankini Man and Ali crewing one of my 9Fs - or a Black 5 / Jubilee.... you take your pick! Let me know how you want to proceed and I'll send you an address! Cheers, Jeff 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jukebox Posted July 1, 2013 Share Posted July 1, 2013 Hmmmm. Maybe it needs to be a Dub-Dee, if we're talking Comical Ali! Hold that thought and I'll PM in a few weeks you when I have something worthy.... Scott Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Physicsman Posted July 1, 2013 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted July 1, 2013 Hmmmm. Maybe it needs to be a Dub-Dee, if we're talking Comical Ali! Hold that thought and I'll PM in a few weeks you when I have something worthy.... Scott Ironic, considering that I bought my first Dub-Dee last week!! I await with bated (or is it baited?) breath! Jeff Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew P Posted July 1, 2013 Share Posted July 1, 2013 Nice one Jeff, you know what they say; If the cap fits, wear it, hahaaaaa Walls, we want WALLS, we want WALLS, we want WALLS. Bodgit Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Alister_G Posted July 1, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 1, 2013 Sausages, or Ice Cream? Just asking... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Physicsman Posted July 1, 2013 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted July 1, 2013 Sausages, or Ice Cream? Just asking... I see the humour doesn't get any better!! If you wait for JUST ONE CORNETTO MOMENTO I'll sort it out! Sorry. Must be all that sunshine on my head while I was bricklaying today! Jeff Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Physicsman Posted July 1, 2013 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted July 1, 2013 Nice one Jeff, you know what they say; If the cap fits, wear it, hahaaaaa Walls, we want WALLS, we want WALLS, we want WALLS. Bodgit Well Andy, you'll be pleased to hear I'll be having a day in the bunker tomorrow. I think I can accommodate your desire for walls as I'll be building a good 30 - 40cm of new wall, including some kind of stile. I've been wanting to do this for a week but other things have got in the way. I'm also going to set up the ballasting trial with some offcuts of SMP. I'd prefer to use the Captain Kernow PVA technique/Jason Copydex method if possible. We'll see what happens. Good to see you're already half-way through the design and build of Bute Road!! Jeff Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
emt_911 Posted July 1, 2013 Share Posted July 1, 2013 Nice one Jeff, you know what they say; If the cap fits, wear it, hahaaaaa Walls, we want WALLS, we want WALLS, we want WALLS. Bodgit Is that a type of g***s :jester: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Physicsman Posted July 1, 2013 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted July 1, 2013 Is that a type of g***s :jester: Now don't YOU start! It was bad enough being misrepresented as Reg Varney, dressed in a mankini and eating a cornetto while muttering "sausages".... But, to paraphrase Mr Fawlty... "don't mention the grass!!" Jeff Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jukebox Posted July 1, 2013 Share Posted July 1, 2013 You can mention the grass, Jeff, just don't mention the war. I did on another model rail forum - but didn't get away with it... Result: hyper-sensitive moderation, and me deleting my own account! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew P Posted July 2, 2013 Share Posted July 2, 2013 Well Andy, you'll be pleased to hear I'll be having a day in the bunker tomorrow. I think I can accommodate your desire for walls as I'll be building a good 30 - 40cm of new wall, including some kind of stile. I've been wanting to do this for a week but other things have got in the way. I'm also going to set up the ballasting trial with some offcuts of SMP. I'd prefer to use the Captain Kernow PVA technique/Jason Copydex method if possible. We'll see what happens. Good to see you're already half-way through the design and build of Bute Road!! Jeff Morning Jeff, I am just sitting down for a coffee and Belgium Bun and haveing a catch up on here, I have also been looking on the Marcway website, and I have been looking at the track plan this morning but I wont fill up KL with that. I am really looking forward to seeing the ballast trials, in full glorious technicolour. If, as I think, you have already laid your track, how will you go about lifting it to lay the track on the Copydex/PVA and then re lay it? Catch up again later, I have a LAYOUT TO BUILD, hahaaa Bodgit of the Moor. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Physicsman Posted July 2, 2013 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted July 2, 2013 Morning Andy. The technique you refer to was the one used by Larry - a "bed" of PVA painted onto the cork and the track stuck onto it. My track is already fixed down - the SMP is glued to the cork with PVA. What I'll be trialling is application of ballast - I've used the traditional way of ballast/wet-water/eye-dropper many times. This time I'll just be painting a thin layer of Copydex/PVA between each sleeper and sprinkling ballast ONTO the adhesive (not the other way round). Ballast dries and is hoovered off. This is how GordonS/Jason have done it - with PVA/Copydex respectively. The critics argue that this method doesn't give a "deep-ballast" effect. At the moment, I've no idea what'll happen - so I've got some offcuts of SMP ready to give it a try! Jeff 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew P Posted July 2, 2013 Share Posted July 2, 2013 (edited) Morning Andy. The technique you refer to was the one used by Larry - a "bed" of PVA painted onto the cork and the track stuck onto it. My track is already fixed down - the SMP is glued to the cork with PVA. What I'll be trialling is application of ballast - I've used the traditional way of ballast/wet-water/eye-dropper many times. This time I'll just be painting a thin layer of Copydex/PVA between each sleeper and sprinkling ballast ONTO the adhesive (not the other way round). Ballast dries and is hoovered off. This is how GordonS/Jason have done it - with PVA/Copydex respectively. The critics argue that this method doesn't give a "deep-ballast" effect. At the moment, I've no idea what'll happen - so I've got some offcuts of SMP ready to give it a try! Jeff Hi Jeff, even with my small layout, painting PVA/Copydex between each sleeper could take forever, (but then I am not in any hurry) BUT with your big one it could take a lifetime I will watch with open gob!!!! Bodgit Edited July 2, 2013 by Andrew P Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Physicsman Posted July 2, 2013 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted July 2, 2013 Hi Jeff, even with my small layout, painting PVA/Copydex between each sleeper could take forever, (but then I am not in any hurry) BUT with your big one it could take a lifetime I will watch with open gob!!!! Bodgit It's all relative.... Compared to the time taken to build the stone walls it may not be TOO bad.... umm. Jeff Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Physicsman Posted July 2, 2013 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted July 2, 2013 (edited) Ok, nothing particularly exciting - but at least I've done something. One of the cross-walls on the FELL, with my first attempt at a stile-like structure... Chip's photo from a few pages back is included as the basis I'm working from: Just watching the Tour de France then it'll be out with the Copydex. Jeff EDIT: CLEARLY the wall is a work in progress!!!! Edited July 2, 2013 by Physicsman 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew P Posted July 2, 2013 Share Posted July 2, 2013 Ok, nothing particularly exciting - but at least I've done something. One of the cross-walls on the FELL, with my first attempt at a stile-like structure... Chip's photo from a few pages back is included as the basis I'm working from: 100_3548.JPG 100_3549.JPG post-8639-0-68340900-13715850071.jpg Just watching the Tour de France then it'll be out with the Copydex. Jeff EDIT: CLEARLY the wall is a work in progress!!!! Hi Jeff, I must say I am impressed how you managed to capture the image and with SNOW on the Fell as well, haaaaa. In all seriousness though I am impressed, the wall has the right look to it and I am frighted to look and see if my area of Cornwall has any stone walls, Think I might build a Swiss Layout, NO WALLS, only Ice Cream. Bodgit, P.S. more pics please very impressed. how about a distant shot along the Fell. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Removed a/c Posted July 2, 2013 Share Posted July 2, 2013 Looks great, can I ask what you are using to makes the stones? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Physicsman Posted July 2, 2013 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted July 2, 2013 Looks great, can I ask what you are using to makes the stones? Hi Scott. The stones are made from DAS modelling clay. If you go back to post # 6343 you'll see the method for making them and additional details. I can't take credit for the method (MR Feb 13) but I'm grateful for it - even though it is a bit of a slow process! Jeff Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Physicsman Posted July 2, 2013 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted July 2, 2013 Hi Jeff, I must say I am impressed how you managed to capture the image and with SNOW on the Fell as well, haaaaa. In all seriousness though I am impressed, the wall has the right look to it and I am frighted to look and see if my area of Cornwall has any stone walls, Think I might build a Swiss Layout, NO WALLS, only Ice Cream. Bodgit, P.S. more pics please very impressed. how about a distant shot along the Fell. Hi Andy - I'll see what I can get, distant shot-wise.... Bad news for you re. walling... I did a Google on "Devon stone walls" (is your layout Cornwall?). I'm afraid it came up with lots of images like this: Looks like you are in for a bit of walling!!! Jeff Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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