Can I play too please ?
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Dog Star
Western Thunderer
If we carry on like that then the someone will start to sell tickets for the Ceilidh... and with the Crab and Winkle influence appearing then maybe we ought to ask The Oyster Band to open with "Bonnie Susie Clelland".
regards, Graham
iploffy
OC Blue Brigade
A wandering thread here? On Western Thunder? It'd never happen
you had to say it and Doggers obliged
Come on Stuart more pics pls
marsa69
Western Thunderer
With all this talk of back of the class and how much room there is here does this mean im slowly moving forwards to the middle or is it wishfull thinking
Wishful thinking mate. we've had an extension built on the fire escape to cope with the amount of tiffin the Colonel goes through. So you've either sat still or been pushed further back in the rush for the front
Dog Star
Western Thunderer
Where?
Buckjumper
Flying Squad
Welcome Stuart!
lancer1027
Western Thunderer
Well according to Marsa im still at the back of the class....... so i must be very cool as i've been here a while now.Welcome Stuart, from an Blue interloper, sitting firmly at the back of the class... it's where the cool kids hang out.
iploffy
OC Blue Brigade
Yorkshire Dave
Western Thunderer
Welcome Stuart, look forward to seeing the development of the layout. I've only been to Whithorn once - sailing into the drying harbour in a falling tide with 10cm to spare under the keel!
Pennine MC
Western Thunderer
stuartp
Member
Go on then, you've twisted my arm...
My ropey trackwork doesn't look too bad until you photograph it from this angle. There is a cunning plan to do something about it involving a large bag of C&L bits. One day ...
Stranraer's 46467 pauses by the water tank. The original was at Sorbie and is a 1920s replacement for the WR's original wooden one. The WR's wooden water towers were quite photogenic but I doubt they would have survived until the 1960s. In any case, largely thanks to Jamie (South By Southwest) of this parish I operate an 'anti-shortbread' policy preferring rural grot to Grannie's Heilan' Hame (or lowlan' Hame for that matter). The signals are Ratio placeholders, some proper G&SWR ones courtesy of MSE/51L await their turn on the bench. The branch leading off left behind the signalbox (Crossmichael) leads down to the harbour and the enigmatic Hawkshaw Estate Tramway.
Gratuitous Brian Monaghan-esque helicopter shot showing the rather cramped location the layout currently resides in. The two Palvans sitting in the Tramway Company's exchange siding are waiting to be tripped down to Glenn-Campbell Shortbread Ltd on South Street by whatever ramshackle motive power the HET is currently borrowing (well all that shortbread had to go somewhere). Some sort of half built East Anglian NPCCS vehicle appears to have wandered into the yard.
More later, and hopefully a bit more variety than what happened to be sitting on the layout at the time. Apart from being cramped and badly lit, photography is frequently stymied by the fact that my 4 yr old's room is next door, and he doesn't need any excuse to get out of bed to see what all the clumping about is !
For Dave and Ian.
Yorkshire Dave
Western Thunderer
Nice layout plan. You've also captured the sparseness of the area with the low scenery.
The building in the last picture is worth modelling . Put it on a layout and no-one will believe it exists.
The other place I think would be nice to model would be the Garlieston harbour branch - an excuse to have Clyde Puffer
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The building in the last picture is worth modelling
. Put it on a layout and no-one will believe it exists.The other place I think would be nice to model would be the Garlieston harbour branch - an excuse to have Clyde Puffer
.
Jordan
Mid-Western Thunderer
No No No...!!! Leave it well alone!!
Ropey Track is GOOD !!! 
See here for details :- http://www.westernthunder.co.uk/index.php?threads/and-you-think-your-tracklaying-is-bad.2210/
40126
Western Thunderer
stuartp
Member
Until the colour debate kicks in ..................
Easy. Duchesses should be maroon. Anything else is meddling.
Was that the one ?Thank you all so much for the welcome, I'm glad I made the decision to come here. It might not be the busiest forum but there are people making stuff !