RMweb Gold Worsdell forever Posted February 3, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 3, 2013 This just gets better, can't wait for the weekend to see this. Glad to see that extra road under there 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 2ManySpams Posted February 3, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 3, 2013 This just gets better, can't wait for the weekend to see this. Glad to see that extra road under there Strange that, I'd quite like a few more weekends between now and the show. The extra road is just part of the new mid 1970's road building programme to hit the Black Country. I understand there's a motorway planned too. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 2ManySpams Posted February 3, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 3, 2013 Unless we just get used to this view: DSCF3159.JPG You sunk my battleship! 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Indomitable026 Posted February 3, 2013 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted February 3, 2013 Strange that, I'd quite like a few more weekends between now and the show. The extra road is just part of the new mid 1970's road building programme to hit the Black Country. I understand there's a motorway planned too. We'll need another board for that 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 2ManySpams Posted February 3, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 3, 2013 We'll need another board for that You getting saw dust withdrawal symptoms Mr Ross? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted February 3, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 3, 2013 The layout looks smashing, but may I just point out that some of us were visiting Rock, and aware of the real Doom Bar (not the beer) when some of you were just a twinkle, as they say! Drat! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mark Forrest Posted February 3, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 3, 2013 look who's been playing Playing? This is no time for playing, we've got a layout to finish........ 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Indomitable026 Posted February 3, 2013 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted February 3, 2013 You getting saw dust withdrawal symptoms Mr Ross? Not from today, another 4 sets of legs built. In fact might need a whiskey to clear me throat p.s. all lighting units wired and tested as well... p.p.s. found a box with some buildings in 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 2ManySpams Posted February 3, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 3, 2013 Before: After: Back to the day job tomorrow ;-( 17 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 2ManySpams Posted February 3, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 3, 2013 The layout looks smashing, but may I just point out that some of us were visiting Rock, and aware of the real Doom Bar (not the beer) when some of you were just a twinkle, as they say! Drat! Across the water from Padstow. Love the area. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 2ManySpams Posted February 3, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 3, 2013 Not from today, another 4 sets of legs built. In fact might need a whiskey to clear me throat p.s. all lighting units wired and tested as well... p.p.s. found a box with some buildings in Now, that box, remember where you stash it as you'll need it later in the year... Mind you, the Midland Rly Centre isn't too far from Newark is it?? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 2ManySpams Posted February 3, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 3, 2013 Reminds me of the Boomtown Rats single... "Tell me why, I don't like tractors..." 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold gwrrob Posted February 3, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 3, 2013 Across the water from Padstow. Love the area. Isn't that the fashionable place with Londoners for having their second homes there.Bloody grockles as my old man would say ! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 2ManySpams Posted February 3, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 3, 2013 Isn't that the fashionable place with Londoners for having their second homes there.Bloody grockles as my old man would say ! Must agree that the jet-set have changed it for the worse. Prices gone stupid and too much of the original area's character erased. Edit: Mind you, I'd happily move down to that neck of the woods, which makes me just as bad. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted February 3, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 3, 2013 Bloody grockles as my old man would say ! I say, old chap, that's Devon speak! The Cornish refer to us as emmetts! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Indomitable026 Posted February 3, 2013 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted February 3, 2013 Reminds me of the Boomtown Rats single... "Tell me why, I don't like tractors..." so you know they're Tractors ! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coombe Barton Posted February 3, 2013 Share Posted February 3, 2013 How did we reach a discussion of the area of The Withered Arm again? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 2ManySpams Posted February 3, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 3, 2013 Does Mrs 2ManySpams know? She's being very tolerant at the moment! I suspect I'm in a massive deficit on the brownie points. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Indomitable026 Posted February 3, 2013 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted February 3, 2013 She's being very tolerant at the moment! I suspect I'm in a massive deficit on the brownie points. me too, - well in something brown Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Debs. Posted February 3, 2013 Share Posted February 3, 2013 You sunk my battleship! Time for a cup of tea and a nice butty. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoff Cook Posted February 3, 2013 Share Posted February 3, 2013 Me and modelling water don't get on Stu... some settling ponds, maybe 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 2ManySpams Posted February 3, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 3, 2013 some settling ponds, maybe Yes, mmmm, errr... Well at least we now know that certain commonly used resins soak through plaster and dissolve polystyrene! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
keefr2 Posted February 3, 2013 Share Posted February 3, 2013 Beautiful scenic work Chris, very nicely done indeed! However I must say that I was surprised to see it so green! It's probably because I grew up on the industrial side of Swansea, & one of our favourite 'playgrounds' was Swansea Vale, which was basically the dumping ground for a hundred or so years of mining & copper smelting - it was like the surface of another planet, & I don't remember much greenery there at all, just multi coloured (mainly black though!) slag tips & some very suspiciously coloured pools of what might have had some water in....!! Over the past 3 decades or so the council have done some excellent work in clearing up & rejuvenating the area, but there are still patches where the ground is black & nothing grows on it.. My impression of the Black Country was probably coloured (sorry!) by those memories so I expected it to be a bit bleaker...!! keith 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arthur Posted February 3, 2013 Share Posted February 3, 2013 Again, thanks for all the positive comments, What a beauty, Arthur - and that's from a steam fan! Thanks for all the effort that you've put into the locomotive and the BCB project. Thanks John, I've enjoyed being involved and helping out. And having Jason King on the footplate. That brings back memories too. I had a mate who used to look like that! Jason King? I thought it was Englebert Humperdink! Yes, a look long overdue for a return I feel, I might start rolling my shirt cuffs back over my jacket sleeves...... I read that as 'hauling slag ladies out of the casting bay' - wondered if there was a casting couch in there...!! Sorry.... Back to reality - fantastic little shunter Arthur, the weathering really brings an already superb model to life! Keith Thanks Keith, no casting couch but there is a bit of hot stuff in there.... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coombe Barton Posted February 3, 2013 Share Posted February 3, 2013 The mineralisation of the dumps in Swansea and the mineralisation of the dumps in the Black Country are very different. Swansea was the world copper smelting capital for a considerable time whereas the black country was iron. Copper is poisonous to plants, iron isn't so much. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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