RMweb Gold Hroth Posted August 16 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 16 12 minutes ago, F-UnitMad said: then the builder just plonked the third, concrete-sleeper flexitrack down on top of the (different colour) ballast!!! Looks more like its lightly pinned to old-fashioned Triang grey foam track underlay.... 2 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KingEdwardII Posted August 17 Share Posted August 17 18 hours ago, railsquid said: "modern" merry-go-round diorama, There is more than a bit of Zen going on with that carefully raked gravel on the left... ...then I spotted that the poster is from Japan, and that explained everything - it's a garden layout in a Japanese garden! Wot - no cherry trees?!? Yours, Mike. 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green too Posted August 17 Share Posted August 17 Though it has its limitations it's probably one of the best Zen gauge layouts I've seen ! 🤓 1 1 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purnu Posted August 21 Share Posted August 21 Courtesy of David Page on Flickr. https://flic.kr/p/2pQweQU 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-UnitMad Posted August 21 Share Posted August 21 (edited) 2 hours ago, Purnu said: Courtesy of David Page on Flickr. https://flic.kr/p/2pQweQU Dave a.k.a. @Ruston has really got carried away this time.... 🤣🤣👍👍👍 Edited August 21 by F-UnitMad To link User Name 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KingEdwardII Posted August 21 Share Posted August 21 3 hours ago, Purnu said: https://flic.kr/p/2pQweQU Got to love all the debris lying around - the large propeller is a great touch. Yours, Mike. 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mol_PMB Posted August 21 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 21 3 hours ago, Purnu said: Courtesy of David Page on Flickr. https://flic.kr/p/2pQweQU Nice. Looks like an old propeller shaft and its new replacement alongside it. That loco previously worked for the CWS at Irlam on the banks of the Manchester Ship Canal. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris M Posted August 21 Share Posted August 21 Personally I think the weathering has been overdone on the loco. Otherwise a nice little scene. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mol_PMB Posted August 21 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 21 22 minutes ago, Chris M said: Personally I think the weathering has been overdone on the loco. Otherwise a nice little scene. I dunno. When you start looking at the details there are loads of flaws. The soldered copperclad trackwork with no representation of rail fastenings is a bit crude. That van has been very roughly repainted - did they not think of masking off the headstock and the end of the roof? And having a dumb-buffered wagon still in use in the 1970s is stretching Rule 1 a bit far. Is that ship's propeller to the right scale? 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium rab Posted August 21 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 21 1 hour ago, Chris M said: Personally I think the weathering has been overdone on the loco. Otherwise a nice little scene. Made more noticeable by the freshly painted closed wagon. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halvarras Posted August 23 Share Posted August 23 Of all the photos I've ever taken I remember thinking at the time that this is the one which looks most like a model - D1023 'Western Fusilier' passing through Sonning Cutting on its way to Paddington on 1st October 1976. It had been released from a Laira repaint that very day (as evidenced by the unidirectional exhaust soot on the roof and very white corner footsteps) presumably in expectation of its starring role in the various looming Class 52 farewell tours - I would travel from Kings Cross to York behind it the following month. I think what gave that impression was that not long before I'd been handed an MTK N gauge 'Western' kit to build and paint in BR maroon SYP livery for the Swindon Model Railway Club's 'Brent' layout; the kit, designed to use a Lifelike chassis, was very simple - solid whitemetal with no provision for see-through windows so I painted them gloss black all round with the cab window frames picked out in silver using sharpened matchsticks (armed with these and the eyesight of youth I could create passable BR emblems and roundels back then, a skill not called upon very often as I wasn't an N gauge modeller so had no such transfers to hand). D1023's bright cab window frames against very dark windows from this angle reminded me of that model, aided in no small measure by that 'just out of the box' appearance! 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris M Posted August 24 Share Posted August 24 9 hours ago, Halvarras said: Of all the photos I've ever taken I remember thinking at the time that this is the one which looks most like a model - D1023 'Western Fusilier' passing through Sonning Cutting on its way to Paddington on 1st October 1976. It had been released from a Laira repaint that very day (as evidenced by the unidirectional exhaust soot on the roof and very white corner footsteps) presumably in expectation of its starring role in the various looming Class 52 farewell tours - I would travel from Kings Cross to York behind it the following month. I think what gave that impression was that not long before I'd been handed an MTK N gauge 'Western' kit to build and paint in BR maroon SYP livery for the Swindon Model Railway Club's 'Brent' layout; the kit, designed to use a Lifelike chassis, was very simple - solid whitemetal with no provision for see-through windows so I painted them gloss black all round with the cab window frames picked out in silver using sharpened matchsticks (armed with these and the eyesight of youth I could create passable BR emblems and roundels back then, a skill not called upon very often as I wasn't an N gauge modeller so had no such transfers to hand). D1023's bright cab window frames against very dark windows from this angle reminded me of that model, aided in no small measure by that 'just out of the box' appearance! Its amazing what you can do with Woodland Scenics though. 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted August 24 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 24 15 hours ago, Halvarras said: Of all the photos I've ever taken I remember thinking at the time that this is the one which looks most like a model - D1023 'Western Fusilier' passing through Sonning Cutting on its way to Paddington on 1st October 1976. It had been released from a Laira repaint that very day (as evidenced by the unidirectional exhaust soot on the roof and very white corner footsteps) presumably in expectation of its starring role in the various looming Class 52 farewell tours - I would travel from Kings Cross to York behind it the following month. I think what gave that impression was that not long before I'd been handed an MTK N gauge 'Western' kit to build and paint in BR maroon SYP livery for the Swindon Model Railway Club's 'Brent' layout; the kit, designed to use a Lifelike chassis, was very simple - solid whitemetal with no provision for see-through windows so I painted them gloss black all round with the cab window frames picked out in silver using sharpened matchsticks (armed with these and the eyesight of youth I could create passable BR emblems and roundels back then, a skill not called upon very often as I wasn't an N gauge modeller so had no such transfers to hand). D1023's bright cab window frames against very dark windows from this angle reminded me of that model, aided in no small measure by that 'just out of the box' appearance! But up-close it was obviously painting executed with a badly, and insistently, loaded brush with various runs and patchy areas of varying depth of paint. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halvarras Posted August 24 Share Posted August 24 5 minutes ago, The Stationmaster said: But up-close it was obviously painting executed with a badly, and insistently, loaded brush with various runs and patchy areas of varying depth of paint. Laira's Western repaints didn't look too bad to me but I don't recall ever giving one a close-up quality inspection! I've just consulted Adrian Curtis's 'Western Liveries' book and the Laira repaints had petered out by the autumn of 1975 with only D1009 receiving its THIRD such repaint in early September 1976 followed by D1023 later that same month - the last Laira repaint and exactly 3 years since its long-delayed emergence from Swindon Works. Perhaps D1023's dodgy application was a rush job due to Laira staff time having to be devoted to fixing failed Class 50s 😜! 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted August 26 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 26 On 24/08/2024 at 13:48, Halvarras said: Laira's Western repaints didn't look too bad to me but I don't recall ever giving one a close-up quality inspection! I've just consulted Adrian Curtis's 'Western Liveries' book and the Laira repaints had petered out by the autumn of 1975 with only D1009 receiving its THIRD such repaint in early September 1976 followed by D1023 later that same month - the last Laira repaint and exactly 3 years since its long-delayed emergence from Swindon Works. Perhaps D1023's dodgy application was a rush job due to Laira staff time having to be devoted to fixing failed Class 50s 😜! I got the impression that it might well have been a rushed job; was it done for a railtour I wonder? I took several transparencies of it passing Fairrwood Jcn on the Westbury - Exeter cement train but we'd had it for a few day around Westbury before that. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hmrspaul Posted August 26 Share Posted August 26 On 21/08/2024 at 08:48, Mol_PMB said: I dunno. When you start looking at the details there are loads of flaws. The soldered copperclad trackwork with no representation of rail fastenings is a bit crude. That van has been very roughly repainted - did they not think of masking off the headstock and the end of the roof? And having a dumb-buffered wagon still in use in the 1970s is stretching Rule 1 a bit far. Is that ship's propeller to the right scale? Not quite in the spirit of this topic, more in the Rule 1 stretch, but there were several North Eastern Railway dumb buffered wagons remaining in use there in 1986 https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/nerballast Perhaps not as unusual as https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/falmouthdocks/e65aeaff and https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/falmouthdocks/e187a16a I would love to know the origin of these! Paul 1 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green too Posted August 26 Share Posted August 26 1 hour ago, hmrspaul said: ... I would love to know the origin of these! Some sort of mobile machinery - such as cranes - rather than wagons as such ? 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold scottystitch Posted August 28 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 28 (edited) I appreciate this is not railway related, but it reminds of the excellent work @brylonscamel does, especially the building on the left. Clearly a model, as the cuddie is standing skew-whiff... Best Scott. Edited August 28 by scottystitch 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium keefer Posted August 28 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 28 (edited) Kirk Wynd, Kirkcaldy😊 Much in the photo still exists today. https://maps.app.goo.gl/QkJCqVA6ZqauQmRy7?g_st=ac Edited August 28 by keefer 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brylonscamel Posted August 28 Share Posted August 28 11 hours ago, scottystitch said: I appreciate this is not railway related, but it reminds of the excellent work @brylonscamel does, especially the building on the left. Cheers Scott, that's very kind of you! I do think they did a better job of the traditional pantiles on the model. I've used the Wills ones and they're nae right! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted August 31 Share Posted August 31 D854 at Bristol Bath Road... 16 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green too Posted September 6 Share Posted September 6 It's that PECO Crazy Track again ......... Izcuchaca, Peru : 23/11/99 7 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted September 6 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 6 It will look better when it's ballasted. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-UnitMad Posted September 6 Share Posted September 6 (edited) 4 hours ago, PhilJ W said: It will look better when it's ballasted. You mean when it's ballasted properly.?? 👍 Scattering some overscale cork granules around & plonking the track on top just doesn't cut it, these days. 🙄🤦♂️ Meanwhile, I know etch brass kits can be difficult to build, even in O scale, but here you'd think the builder would've taken more care with the grilles on this 37 - they'd never be so distorted in real life. And look at the mess he's made of forming the tumblehome 🙄 ..... Un-identified (because I couldn't be bothered to walk to the other end) Tractor at Bridgnorth this evening. Edit - it's 37 263. Edited September 6 by F-UnitMad 6 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green too Posted September 6 Share Posted September 6 Those of you who've ben taking notice and have sussed out where Izcuchaca is will not be surprised by T-scale in the rock garden ...... I don't think growing moss as trees is particularly convincing : - Puente Ruinas from Machu Picchu, 23/11/99 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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