luckymucklebackit

Here are a couple of photos of the other side of the layout, showing the pipework that connects the fuel and water tanks with the building, been a bit slow and bitty over the past week having been away, however I have a window of opportunity next weekend to get a lot done as my wife is away with her sister for a weekend away so hopefully get the ground cover done. Still wondering if I was to make this a "standalone" shunting plank whether this should be the front of the layout or the back, both have advantages and drawbacks. Eagle eyed viewers will note that the point levers are in place. With that done I turned my attention to the railway water tank, my experience with Ratio kits is that they are not good for handrails, the signal kits don't have any at all, and the water tank kit has this crazy idea of plastic filament for the uprights and handrails, totally flimsy and chances of successful completion very low, especially as you are provided with the filament in coils which is almost impossible to straighten. I decided to revert to my tried and tested use of dressmakers pins and ware, but the base is a bit flimsy and I have used a block of wood as a jig with holes drilled right through the block to support the assembly, Going to be a slow process but much more likely to offer a good outcome than the kit instructions!! Cheers Jim

Met a weird guy in the pub last night, claimed he was into s4dism, necrophilia and besti4lity! Personally I thought he was flogging a dead horse! (as is the profanity checker - why is necrophilia acceptable and the other two isn't)

Did he have a Mexican friend called Juan Kerr

I have a green version of this model. and the headcode panel is very small compared to the Bachmann model Jim

Now I'm Here - Queen

We have an old family video taken on Xmas Eve when my son was about 3, my wife is heard asking him"who is coming tonight", and he replies - "SATAN"!!!

Found the old video with the class 15 at Haymarket, managed to get a video capture of it, it is a bit blurry unfortunately Jim

Interesting, I thought this thread was going to be about D8233, which went to Haymarket in the guise of DB968001 in June 1972 as power for Mk.2s during staff familiarisation, I have some old movie film from a train passing Haymarket which shows the loco parked up Jim

I quite liked the little Metcalfe hut that I acquired recently and it fitted quite well on the plank, however I had decided that the plank would be a "card finish free zone", so I raided the plasticard junk box and found enough brick and slates to clad the hut, the brick came up great, thanks to a little thicker mix of the mortar coloured paint. The roof is not great, need more practise at applying slate, and unfortunately I need to get to the shops and get some dark "slate" grey, everything I have is too light. Gutters and down pipes have also been added. Other small touches are to use up the brick tank cradles as a redundant tank site and to start running the pipe lines properly Jim

Well if it was a copper mill instead of a steel mill they would get Copper Nitrate (it is getting close to Xmas Cracker joke time afterall)

Lilywhite Lilith - Genesis

Blue sky - in Glasgow????

Ah! but is that not a model of the early series (D2700-D2707) :-)

Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life - Monty Python

A D27xx hasn't been made and one exists. Jim

For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her - Simon & Garfunkel

And the fuel tank is completed at last!! It has been a true kitbash, with Dapol (main support), Ratio (Tanks and some pipework), Knightwing (other bits of pipework), Slaters (plasticard), Wills (pump hut), Plastrut and Evergreen (girders). Last job was to fit the intake pipe between the pump shed (Wills Kit) and then apply some weathering I picked out the valve wheels and some bits of the handrail in Railmatch "Oily Steel" paint and added a couple of lights. Final stage will be to link the fuel tank to the main building by elevated pipe, this will be threaded through the steelwork for the water tower where it will ne joined by a water main, the two pipes will then be carried by the crane girders Onwards and upwards!! Jim

Baby, You're a Rich Man - Beatles

Hi all - a source on another forum tells me that filming is in progress for a documentary about Hornby. This will be presented by James May and should be on the box sometime next year. Will be interesting to see if this is a dewy eyed history of "Britain's Favourite Model Train Brand" or if it will be a more in depth investigation of the trials and tribulations that has beset the company over the past few years. Jim

Really good backscene, I see you have done your research well and have added variety to the buildings, it was one thing I became aware of when I built a tenement for my layout, there is no such thing as a "standard" Glasgow tenement

So it is an existing locomotive, which excludes a lot from the froth list, looks to me like electrical sheathing on a HT cable so not steam, probably on a preserved locomotive with a very clean interior, 89001 perhaps?? Jim

First time I saw that was on a school holiday to Rome in 1972, a bunch of 15 year olds travelling across Europe, after the interest of the St Gotthard main line the transit between Milan and Rome became very tedious and various amusements were sought. As we were in the back coach, dropping soft drink bottles down the hole and watching them disintegrate became one! Jim

She Came In Through the Bathroom Window - The Beatles

Performing Telegraph Road to Hell??

Don't get me started on "Jeruselem", in England's green and pleasant land?, my backside, about 400 miles too far south.