WGLR, the 2010 re-build.

Gizzy

Like the sound on the diesel.
Is it the original LGB sound or an after market job?

As my computer has just had a new tansformer there is no power supply for the speakers, so no sound. I suppose the monitor will go pop soon then it will be in black and white, followed by the RAM or internet connection stalling to give a 1920s jerky image and it will be just like the real thing
Very, very nice Mel, I'm absolutely ashamed of my overgrown bombsite.
By the way, how did you do the tarp-covered wagon? I was wondering if I could use an offcut of pondliner but it seems a bit too thick and stiff (I'm going to test softening it with H's hairdryer next time she is out)

The sound chip in the diesel is Massoth Giz as recommended by Mr Duffy. Works a treat on antilog, although it does need quite a bit of power and the track has to be spotless for reliable operation.

Pugsy mate, the tarp is made from stuff called Solertex. It's what they use to skin model aircraft. One side is textured (hence the "tex" bit - don't try Solarfilm, it's not the same) and the other becomes sticky when you run an iron close to it, this also shrinks it a bit so the folds stay in place and it goes nice and tight . You can get it in a range of colours, but it also takes paint nicely. I seem to remember doing a thread on it, but goodness knows where? Maybe back in GSM days?

The washing is all my own work, done while SWMBO took her mother out (not with a shotgun unfortunately). I haven't told her yet what I "expressed an interest in" the other night ........... but, needless to say, I'm going to need a LOT of brownie points .

Okay, model shop here I come!
Hmm, recent interest, need for brownie points, knee patches on trousers for greater grovelling capacity, a recent thread featuring your railway with someone elses live steam locomotive.... am I getting warm?

pugwash


Okay, model shop here I come!
Hmm, recent interest, need for brownie points, knee patches on trousers for greater grovelling capacity, a recent thread featuring your railway with someone elses live steam locomotive.... am I getting warm?

VERY!!!!

I shall probably hear her scream even from here!
Good luck, and if not can I have your Heidi?

looking good mel

great video
I thought the washing was a bit of "blue sky thinking"
the narrows are shaping up nicely, and the railings look very effective set in the grass

This week's project has been an extension to "Stockers Row" as I acquired another pair of Pendlebury shops from Alan. Once again the two kits were joined together, but this time I scratch built a new roof as I had real difficulties in making a convincing roof joint on the first two kits (a shop and a cottage). The new roof has a base from plastic sheet covered with roofing felt "slates". You might also notice that these shops have a different style of frontage/window which Stockers found for me.
 

 
Brownie points for anyone who knows which film Maclaines the grocers comes from. The local toy shop was owned by Mr & Mrs Davis when I was a youngster and was where I used to get my Corgi and Dinky cars from. Now that these buildings have been completed, I can get on with making pavements and surfacing the road so that the buildings look properly "planted" and the track embedded into the road.

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The tram loco appears between the shops. I have made window displays for both, but I'm still contemplating whether to permanently fix them. I'm of a mind to leave them out for the Winter and come up with a means of only fitting them for the Summer months.
 

 
At the back of the shops is an alleyway that runs up the side of the agricultural engineers - hence the old rusty plough courtesy of Big Jack, Rust Dust and Mother Nature.
 

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yb281

Brownie points for anyone who knows which film Maclaines the grocers comes from.

'Plunkett and Macleane' (there are various spellings of his name) Macleane being the Getleman Robber, a highwayman ?

pugwash

yb281

Brownie points for anyone who knows which film Maclaines the grocers comes from.

'Plunkett and Macleane' (there are various spellings of his name) Macleane being the Getleman Robber, a highwayman ?

Fraid not Puggy mate. Here's a clue - it was actually 2 films which followed on, one to t'other.

Very neat mel. Will have to get you to do my new catalogue!

yb281
 

 
Brownie points for anyone who knows which film Maclaines the grocers comes from.

St Trinians per chance....

yb281
 


  
 
Brownie points for anyone who knows which film Maclaines the grocers comes from.

 
I thought i knew this one but then I thought that'll be the day I must have Stardust in my eyes
 

 

stockers


Very neat mel. Will have to get you to do my new catalogue!

I thought this was your online catalogue

steinman

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Brownie points for anyone who knows which film Maclaines the grocers comes from.

 
I thought i knew this one but then I thought that'll be the day I must have Stardust in my eyes
 

 

Give that man a coconut!! Well done Rick, the grocers owned by Jim Maclaine's family (David Essex). Two of my all time favourite films .

nice

mbiff

nice

Cheers Bud .
 
Finished making the pavements today, so that the shops are properly bedded in now (but still removable). The foundations had to be raised to bring everything up to the same height. This was done using the same wood as the pavements which is pressure treated and was left over from when I made my deck (it's the stuff that's used as spacers for the hand-rails). The buildings are still removable for maintenance, they just sort of un-plug from the pavements and little patches of Astroturf.
 

 
Needs some street furniture next, some lamposts and a level crossing (no gates) sign. I can get on with surfacing the road next.

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Just caught up with your rebuild Mel.
Even better than before.
Glad to see you got yourself a Countess - fits like hand in glove on your line. Brill.