Shed bash!

Simon

Flying Squad
Had a great day out yesterday, went up with Andrew Vines and his boys to visit Steve Harrod's wonderful "Worcester Road" shed.

Rob Mabbett and Nick Trudgian were visiting too and various models and modelling projects were displayed. A hugely enjoyable day in the best possible company - thank you very much to Steve for organising and hosting and everyone else for attending.

Others had much better equipment, but here are a few snaps:

Andrew has got Fred's latest masterpiece underway.
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Newly released to traffic D6318 alongside "Rapid" on shed.
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There was an 08 shunting outside in the sunshine.
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Rapid moves off shed for an up Paddington working. (I was never good at head codes)
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Some old duffer had brought some wagons up for painting.
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More hydraulics outside.
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A stunning model and models, we all went away feeling suitably motivated:thumbs:

Thanks again to Steve (and Jess and Katie) for putting up with us!

Simon
 

Steve Cook

Flying Squad
Fantastic :)
Some lovely models there chaps, I'm quite envious!
Whilst you were shed bashing, I was shed tidying and tip running - not quite the same :D
Steve
 

Simon

Flying Squad
If only Fred produced Hymeks & Westerns...

Rumour has it that a "Western" is on Fred's radar, although he's apparently building a buffet coach at the moment.

Whatever Fred did I hope it wouldn't divert you away from your great Withercombe line, which I find as inspiring as ever.

I really like the "throwing sand" way you did your station building, it has given me a lot of thoughts about how good a "plastikard concrete" footbridge could look on my line:thumbs:

In fact, having cut the grass last week I'm going to try and escape to the garden and carry on with the permanent "bus" wiring around last year's new section - let's hope I don't get waylaid by domestic necessities:eek:

Simon
 

Phill Dyson

Western Thunderer
Rumour has it that a "Western" is on Fred's radar, although he's apparently building a buffet coach at the moment.

Whatever Fred did I hope it wouldn't divert you away from your great Withercombe line, which I find as inspiring as ever.

I really like the "throwing sand" way you did your station building, it has given me a lot of thoughts about how good a "plastikard concrete" footbridge could look on my line:thumbs:

In fact, having cut the grass last week I'm going to try and escape to the garden and carry on with the permanent "bus" wiring around last year's new section - let's hope I don't get waylaid by domestic necessities:eek:

Simon

Not much chance of that Simon, 7mm fine scale is keeping me very busy..........been too busy to update my thread, but I will do when I get chance.
 

Mr Tiger Viking

Western Thunderer
Well its taken me a week to work out on this Apple mac thingy how to reduce the image size so i can upload them to WT (Should have kept my old Microsoft device), anyways here are some more images from Worcester road open day, even the shed foreman got enthused enough to take some images. Some terrific items we on display, Andrew Vines nearly finished D6318 was superb, Simon Castens scratch built rolling stock (He is threatening to weather the Toad!), Rob Mabbett with his 2x Class 22's D6320 & D6327. In all a very inspiring day, we even managed to go out for lunch at Glos airport and sit in the beer garden observing the comings and goings in lovely warm sunshine (did I say the date was March 7th)!!!:)
 

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David Halfpenny

Western Thunderer
Well its taken me a week to work out on this Apple mac thingy how to reduce the image size so i can upload them to WT (Should have kept my old Microsoft device),

Yeah, I know the feeling!
At first I found my shiny new MacBook a disappointingly dumbed-down machine, but as I've got to know it I've found that it can do a whole lot more than it says on the tin - once you get tin-opening apps and secret codes to unlock the OS.

Thanks for those stunning photos.

Sets me in mind of Greystar's new Finescale Railway Modelling Review. Issue 1 includes (quote) Light-and-shade: displaying and photographing locos and stock in a lit diorama to produce breathtakingly convincing results, and if the cover photo is anything to go by, we could use it in 1/32 scale:

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David 1/2d
 

Mr Tiger Viking

Western Thunderer
Yeah, I know the feeling!
At first I found my shiny new MacBook a disappointingly dumbed-down machine, but as I've got to know it I've found that it can do a whole lot more than it says on the tin - once you get tin-opening apps and secret codes to unlock the OS.

Thanks for those stunning photos.

Sets me in mind of Greystar's new Finescale Railway Modelling Review. Issue 1 includes (quote) Light-and-shade: displaying and photographing locos and stock in a lit diorama to produce breathtakingly convincing results, and if the cover photo is anything to go by, we could use it in 1/32 scale:

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David 1/2d
Wow what a great photo, creates the right atmosphere for a smokey Roundhouse.
 

David Halfpenny

Western Thunderer
Sadly, since we started this thread, Bob Barlow of Greystar, Editor of Finescale RMR, has died.

Quite apart from the human tragedy, we've lost what looked like becoming a first-class showcase for the best of 1/32.

I hear from friends that Narrow Gauge RMR may go back to Roy Link, but FRMR is unlikely to carry on.
Apparently Mrs B does have back-issues in stock but I hear she is too shell-shocked to be able to fulfil orders - and no wonder.

While there's much fettling of 4mm kits, Issue 1 has two articles on Presentation that could work in any scale:

- Mike Lynch's House of Shadows (displaying models in a 'shadow box', sample picture above) runs to 8 pages of simple modelling with stunning results. Blown up to 1/32 scale, Mike's 'peep show' box would have a 4 foot square footprint, on a par with just one section of a traditional Gauge 1 oval.

- Jon Norman's Guerilla Modelling is in like vein, using a series of simply-detailed temporary boards to provide settings for excellent models. He also uses 'borrowed landscape' - setting up the shot out of doors to collect not just a natural background of countryside, weather and sky, but natural light consistent with it.

(Plus, for those of us with grey beards, 11 pages about Rev Peter Denny's Buckingham Branch, now reborn fifty years on.)

David
 

Simon

Flying Squad
A couple of snaps of yesterday's trip from Andrew Vines.

Just running in from Halwill Junction, the coach is a Bulleid brake composite and the PMV is one of "those" kits that has been finished.

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And D6318 on the clay working:

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It was all pretty mind blowing:)

Simon
 

Mr Tiger Viking

Western Thunderer
Simon, Andrew, Great photographs that capture that North Devon feeling, Having been to Bob's Hatherleigh Junction, I know what a superb 1/32nd layout it is, Cricky the Hatherleigh Junction signal man was quick to return the signal to the on position in the last image! I thought he could have had a few more sips on his tea and few more blows on his pipe before returning the signal.
anymore images of the former L&SWR backwater?
Cheers Mr TV
 

Mr Tiger Viking

Western Thunderer
Hi Simon
Thanks for adding a couple of more images, glad to see if its good enough for Maradona then its good enough for Fred:).
I do like that side profile of Bob's class 29.
Cheers
Mr TV
 

Toffee

Active Member
Blimey that local scrumpy is strong, I thought I saw a sixty-one in the West Country for a minute......no one will ever believe me :-(
Still no one believes that I saw D425 at Cadoxton back in the 60s :-((
Seriously looking wonderful to these eyes.
 

Thirtysecond

Western Thunderer
We have such a lot to thank Fred for; no other 1/32 diesel models come even close. Here is my Warship (Jupiter) built from Fred's kit years ago complete with illuminated head code and marker lights! This one uses four bogie mounted Foster motor/gearboxes to allow prototypical speeds. Somebody's forgotten to turn the light off in the rear cab. Must be another driver hitching a lift home!! IMG_4939.JPG
 
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Mr Tiger Viking

Western Thunderer
Wow D826 Jupiter looks fantastic and even more at home with that Southern head code on a rake of SR stock. I do like the illuminated head code panel at the correct illumination, what did you use for that nice warm glow?
Cheers
MR TV
 

Thirtysecond

Western Thunderer
20160907_144603_resized.jpg Thanks for the comments TV. We are talking several years ago when I adapted the kit and there wasn't the same range of LEDs that there is today. Obviously the first thing was to cut away the resin behind the headcodes but leave the external detail. You need to be very careful and in this case I called upon the skills of one Pete Insole (of Bagshot fame) who did a beautiful job. Drilling holes for the markers was comparatively easy by comparison.

The two headcode light boxes were made up from the ends of Smint boxes with the insides painted white. They just happened by chance to be exactly the right size. Into those boxes I placed a bank of warm white, wide angled leds mounted on a scrap of white veroboard. These were wired in parallel with the white marker which is direction dependent. Hence the appropriate headcode always lights dependent on direction. They may be more generally available now but I know I had to source the wide angled LEDs from Germany 4 years ago. The warm white LEDs for the marker lights came from DCConcepts.

Cab lights are grain of wheat filament bulbs.
 
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