Wright writes.....

[Jesse Sim]

21 minutes ago, MJI said:

A bike I think should have used Diesel as a fuel

I disagree 

Edited August 28 by Jesse Sim

[NHY 581]

2 hours ago, 46444 said:

 

Thanks Tony,

 

Now you come to mention it, fuse wire at the ready for donning of wiggly pipes.

 

Watch this space.

 

Cheers,

 

Mark 

 

 

 

Did some one mention pipes ? 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Tony Wright]

3 hours ago, Atso said:

After much internal debate, I decided to add my own thoughts to recent discussions.

 

I wonder sometimes if we can forget that we are in this hobby for our own personal enjoyment (OK, group projects acknowledged too). Therefore, we will each have a set of ideals and standards that we find acceptable for our own needs and situations. Ultimately, as long as these values bring us personal enjoyment, then it doesn’t matter what others may (or may not) think of our choices.

 

Along a similar vein, I think it that people should be able to voice their own opinions about what the hobby means to them and how they find enjoyment in that meaning. As somebody who has battled with mental (un)health for a long time, I have recently become aware of just how important it is to air one’s own views from time to time and not constantly be in a position where they feel that that such views are not valid or acceptable.

 

While drawing a line at social/cultural/hate speech, I believe that everyone has the right to express what brings them meaning and enjoyment. However, I do wonder sometimes if this can be misconstrued as an attack on another’s values when there is no such intention.

 

What is one of the saddest things I’ve seen is where those feeling they are viewed as undervalued or unheard and/or potentially inferior end up displaying the very same intolerances they believe has been directed at them. I will freely admit that I have fallen into that trap myself in the past – and I have no doubt that there will be situations in the future where I will possibly do so again.

 

As I mentioned before, I have had a long struggle with mental health. One of the side effects of this is that I very much value people’s honesty with their thoughts and opinions. The number of times that I have been led into a false sense of security, only to have the carpet pulled from under me later has had a profound effect and has consequently impacted all aspects of my life. Therefore, my own preference is to know what people honestly think as that helps me work out just how to evaluate comments without worry (which is a massive help).

 

Therefore, I personally would love to see everyone continuing to express what this hobby means to them and not try to shut down those who don’t necessarily agree with the things that bring unique personal value and meaning to each of us.

 

Wright Writes has always been a source of inspiration to me. Having not been too active in my own modelling over the last few years, I recently decided to look in and see if I can find some inspiration to help kickstart my own mojo. However, some of the recent negative comments leave me wondering if this is still the right place to find inspiration from a diverse variety of modellers.

 

Tony, I appreciate that, since Covid, communication has been lacking at my end. However, I do hope that we could arrange a visit to Little Bytham in the not too distant future as I do really value our conversations.

 

I acknowledge that I may have misunderstood this recent conversation. If that is the case, then please accept my apologies in advance.

Good afternoon Steve,

 

You're most-welcome to visit whenever is convenient. You always will be. 

 

I'd be horrified it Wright writes was not the place to find inspiration (not from me, but from all those who post). 

 

Maybe I'm to 'blame' because I encourage robust discussion. As is known, I'll stand my ground, while still respecting the work of others (even though we might not agree). I have little time, however, for the thoughts of some others, when we see nothing they've made themselves. What many show is inspirational, making Wright writes what it is. 

 

Speaking of inspirational - take heart in what you've shown us in the past.....................

 

 

 

 

 

All in N Gauge. 

 

Kindest regards,

 

Tony. 

 

 

[grahame]

As mentioned earlier, here's an example of the compression I've had to employ (should anyone be interested). Hopefully the character is captured, although the scene is far from completed.

 

 

 

 

 

[MJI]

2 hours ago, Jesse Sim said:

I disagree 

Low revving V2, not high power, just torque, I reckon it would be ideal.

[Atso]

1 hour ago, Tony Wright said:

Good afternoon Steve,

 

You're most-welcome to visit whenever is convenient. You always will be. 

 

I'd be horrified it Wright writes was not the place to find inspiration (not from me, but from all those who post). 

 

Maybe I'm to 'blame' because I encourage robust discussion. As is known, I'll stand my ground, while still respecting the work of others (even though we might not agree). I have little time, however, for the thoughts of some others, when we see nothing they've made themselves. What many show is inspirational, making Wright writes what it is. 

 

Speaking of inspirational - take heart in what you've shown us in the past.....................

 

All in N Gauge. 

 

Kindest regards,

 

Tony. 

 

 

Thank you for the kind words Tony.

I think that "robust discussion" is fine and I actually enjoy debating. However, my personal view is that a certain level of decorum should be maintained which I think might have slipped with some comments posted by others. I don't see how you could be to blame for this at all.

I do think that, as a race, we can be too quick to focus on things we disagree on and too slow to recognise on what we do agree at times (a natural instinct?). I think it is also very easy to forget that, on a social media/public forums, many different people may read the thread (and possibility never comment) and form opinions based on how all users purport themselves. 

While I made reference to my health previously, this was in an attempt (I don't know how successfully) to link up my own journey and present point of view. My present health, while still far from perfect, is the best it has been in some years - other than the beforementioned lack of modelling mojo.

Edited August 28 by Atso

[31A]

4 hours ago, Tony Wright said:

Just in for photography................

 

 

Hornby's latest Railroad Grand Central HST..............

 

The prototypes of which used to fizz through Little Bytham just a few years ago.

 

Well there's a couple of fictional models if ever there was - where's the front buffers? 🤣

 

[Tony Wright]

1 hour ago, 31A said:

 

Well there's a couple of fictional models if ever there was - where's the front buffers? 🤣

 

I can't find them in the box!

 

Regards,

 

Tony. 

[31A]

2 minutes ago, Tony Wright said:

I can't find them in the box!

 

Regards,

 

Tony. 

 

Even if you did, there'd be nowhere to fit them!

[Tony Wright]

Just to prove that it was my fault that the cab on the recent Heljan O2/4 was leaning back.................

 

 

Now on straight (though I'll have to alter the return crank's angle on this side). 

 

 

Certainly better with regards to the cab.

 

I think this model is certainly worth taking further. I'll report accordingly.

 

 

[Tony Wright]

Taking pictures of Bytham's O2s, sent me on a quest to take some shots of some of the other 2-8-0s operating on my trainset. These include......................

 

 

A DJH 8F, painted/weathered by Geoff Haynes.

 

 

A Hornby/Comet 8F. 

 

Though not an everyday occurrence, 8Fs were not uncommon on this section of the ECML.

 

 

A Little Engines O4/8 from the Peter Lawson collection.

 

 

A Little Engines O4/1.

 

I produced the same loco earlier using a Bachmann O4/1, detailing/renumbering/weathering it................

 

 

But subsequently sold it. I didn't like the solid slab for a footplate. 

 

 

A Little Engines O4/7, weathered by Geoff Haynes.

 

 

Tony Geary's heroically-filthy Little Engines O4/3. 

 

 

A Little Engines O1 (builder/painter unknown), detailed weathered by me.

 

 

Rob Kinsey's K's O4/2, weathered by me (I need to adjust the tender's ride height). 

 

 

A detailed/altered/renumbered/weathered Hornby O1. 

 

 

A really old K's O4/3 (original builder unknown), 'resurrected' by me. 

 

 

A K's/Bachmann/scratch/Graeme King O4/8.

 

 

A DJH Austerity.

 

 

One of Tony Geary's Austerities (originally built by Allan Hammet).

 

 

Another DJH Austerity. 

 

I have photographic evidence of this actual locomotive actually working through Little Bytham.

 

This is a selections - there are more O4s and more Austerities! All are unashamed 'layout locos'. 

 

Considering that there are only eight trains which all these locos might pull on LB (three unfitted), then such a large amount of 2-8-0s is definitely 'over-kill' (especially counting the O2s as well), but all of these are underlined in my Ian Allan abcs; total self-indulgence! 

 

 

[gingerangles]

49 minutes ago, Tony Wright said:

Just to prove that it was my fault that the cab on the recent Heljan O2/4 was leaning back.................

 

 

Now on straight (though I'll have to alter the return crank's angle on this side). 

 

 

Certainly better with regards to the cab.

 

I think this model is certainly worth taking further. I'll report accordingly.

 

 

 

I love this model, it's a cracking bit of kit especially with the LNER liveries now available - that black & lined version is 👌
Been trying to think of a reason to be able to crowbar one onto my early 30's, LD&ECR layout but sadly have been unsuccessful! 😂  

[1471SirFrederickBanbury]

11 hours ago, Izzy said:

Kodachrome has an inherently strong magenta cast. I was told by my late father-in-law who worked for Kodak at the time it first arrived and tested it before general release that it was down to it’s unique chemistry, normal slide films being of course E-6, which it isn’t. This is at times quite noticeable in the slower ISO’s, 25 & 64, and more muted in the 200. I’m sure it could be reproduced either in camera in some cases, or in post processing in such as Photoshop. 
 

Bob

Its the later varieties of Kodachrome that have the magenta cast, which is why I prefer Fuji Provia to them, whereas early Kodachrome and Kodachrome 2 (and to a lesser extent Kodachrome X), despite being a bit of a pain to expose, is the closest I've seen to a perfect duplication of the real world in a photograph.  Digital has a lot missing and usually has a green cast (like new Ektachrome), but when I try to correct it, I cant ever really get it to match reality, but I'll settle for Provia, as it is a really close second to early Kodachrome (it does have a slight purple cast sometimes).  Fuji Velvia was aimed at people to capture the look of later Kodachrome, which is why its over saturated and high contrast, but its warmer, rather than magenta in cast.

Edited August 28 by 1471SirFrederickBanbury
velvia is warmer, not greener, oops.

[1471SirFrederickBanbury]

7 hours ago, MJI said:

A bike I think should have used Diesel as a fuel

how about a Nitromethane 2 stroke, just like my little toy planes!  Now that would produce some power!

[Northmoor]

10 hours ago, t-b-g said:

 

The point I was trying to make was that pretty much all layouts include some fiction. It is just about the degree or amount that an individual is happy with. In the case of LB, you have said yourself that you run some trains that only appeared after the station had gone. This means that an element of fiction has been introduced out of choice rather than necessity.

 

I think it improves the layout rather than diminish it in any way as you can have a greater variety of trains than you could if you stuck strictly to the period set by the infrastructure but it is definitely a bit of fictionalisation.

 

When Roy started Retford, he wasn't going to have anything on there that didn't appear on a certain week in the summer of 1957. It was something like the second week in August. Over the years, he mellowed and trains that he liked but weren't there during his chosen week appeared. I think the layout was the better for being a bit less rigid in its time frame.

 

So in my view, a bit of fiction on an otherwise prototypical layout can be a good thing.

 

 

I think I once said on this forum before that the more precise you set your prototype location and date, the more likely someone will come out of the woodwork to find fault.  Your 11.13 local service will have the wrong number of carriages for a Thursday and in any case, you need to gloss varnish the whole layout as on your chosen date, it was raining.

[Northmoor]

10 hours ago, Jesse Sim said:

I prefer Harley Davidson’s, I ride and own a Harley Davidson, I don’t turn my nose up at someone who prefers sports bikes because they’re quicker, corner better and are far less expensive… that’s their personal preference. I would rather be slower, louder and have my testicles bounce around at traffic lights. 

Interesting Jesse - when I got onto bikes three decades ago (and have lapsed for far too long) - riders always acknowledged each other with a "nod", but non-Harley riders rarely got a nod back from Harley riders.  In the UK the latter really saw themselves as a different breed.

 

I think (hope) things have changed a bit now - a Harley or an MV Agusta rider round here is just as likely to work for the same merchant bank.......

[NHY 581]

4 minutes ago, Northmoor said:

Interesting Jesse - when I got onto bikes three decades ago (and have lapsed for far too long) - riders always acknowledged each other with a "nod", but non-Harley riders rarely got a nod back from Harley riders.  In the UK the latter really saw themselves as a different breed.

 

I think (hope) things have changed a bit now - a Harley or an MV Agusta rider round here is just as likely to work for the same merchant bank.......

 

 

I've knocked around with Harley riders since I started riding which is getting on for over 40yrs now ( crikey ! ). Those riders  I do know have ridden Harleys for years and in all weathers and distances. The ignorant ones are generally those who go for the corporate look and have matching Harley everything, wheeling the bikes out for the dry weather in order to make their fashion statement. 

 

I've never owned one, ridden a few ( including a memorable run on a metallic pink iron head Sportster !! ) and have stuck with Triumph, in fact the same one for 24yrs now.  The nod seems to have become a rarity these days. I tend to do the continental thing of extending the right leg which is reciprocated now and again or simply a cool wave. 

 

Rob. 

[St Enodoc]

58 minutes ago, NHY 581 said:

I tend to do the continental thing of extending the right leg which is reciprocated

Crikey!

[St Enodoc]

12 hours ago, Clive Mortimore said:

Does it matter if people build model railways based on a real place, a fictitious place or like me a train set to run toy trains?

 

"Just a'lookin' for fun
Only lookin' for fun
Oh, please mister
Just leave me alone

I'm only
Lookin' for fun

 

I'm only
Lookin' for fun

 

F  U  N "

White man in Hammersmith Palais............the Clash

 

And your train set is indeed great F  U  N.

 

We seem to be drifting back towards the perennial authentic/realistic debate again.

 

Not all authentic modelling is realistic.

 

Not all realistic modelling is authentic.

 

Modelling that is both authentic and realistic is rare and to be treasured.

[Tony Wright]

7 hours ago, St Enodoc said:

And your train set is indeed great F  U  N.

 

We seem to be drifting back towards the perennial authentic/realistic debate again.

 

Not all authentic modelling is realistic.

 

Not all realistic modelling is authentic.

 

Modelling that is both authentic and realistic is rare and to be treasured.

Good morning,

 

'Modelling that is both authentic and realistic is rare and to be treasured.'

 

Indeed!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Regards,

 

Tony. 

 

 

 

Edited August 29 by Tony Wright

[Tony Wright]

15 hours ago, Atso said:

Thank you for the kind words Tony.

I think that "robust discussion" is fine and I actually enjoy debating. However, my personal view is that a certain level of decorum should be maintained which I think might have slipped with some comments posted by others. I don't see how you could be to blame for this at all.

I do think that, as a race, we can be too quick to focus on things we disagree on and too slow to recognise on what we do agree at times (a natural instinct?). I think it is also very easy to forget that, on a social media/public forums, many different people may read the thread (and possibility never comment) and form opinions based on how all users purport themselves. 

While I made reference to my health previously, this was in an attempt (I don't know how successfully) to link up my own journey and present point of view. My present health, while still far from perfect, is the best it has been in some years - other than the beforementioned lack of modelling mojo.

Good morning Steve,

 

When your modelling is to this standard..............

 

 

Your modelling mojo will soon return!

 

Beautiful work in N Gauge. 

 

Best regards,

 

Tony. 

 

 

[Dunsignalling]

18 hours ago, MJI said:

A bike I think should have used Diesel as a fuel

 

Beefing up the bottom end to take diesel compression ratios would make Harleys even heavier. 😉

[CF MRC]

Or you could try one of these if Harleys don’t float your boat. 

 

Pembleton V Sport. Moto Guzzi 750cc. All up weight 300Kg. 
Sorry for even further thread drift…

 

Tim

Edited August 29 by CF MRC

[St Enodoc]

1 hour ago, Tony Wright said:

Good morning,

 

'Modelling that is both authentic and realistic is rare and to be treasured.'

 

Indeed!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Regards,

 

Tony. 

 

 

 

Yes - but while all of those images are, in my opinion, realistic, they aren't all authentic as some are models of fictitious locations!

[Tony Wright]

1 hour ago, St Enodoc said:

Yes - but while all of those images are, in my opinion, realistic, they aren't all authentic as some are models of fictitious locations!

I'm puzzled. 

 

So the only 'authentic' layouts are based on actual prototypes? 

 

I'll say no more........... For the time being.

 

Regards,

 

Tony. 

Edited August 29 by Tony Wright
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