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Post by mikkel on Jun 8, 2008 19:21:50 GMT
With just two Exhibitions under our belt early in the year, we have another two definate bookings for August. One is taking place a l-o-n-g way from here and literally 5 minutes from my front door. 'The Club' have been asked to arrange a Mini-Exhibition in our village hall and that is now going ahead, followed by a 3-day show and about 10 miles from where we meet.
See our website for some interesting photo's. The address is just below, so please take a look and particularly to the 'G gauge' and 'Dovecote' line.
Re the Bramley Line, once again I have been down there today and there is still a LOT of work to do, but on the way home again, I went to look at what could well be the first loco to run on the track when we get the lease. Some idiots feel we can do it all overnight with just a small band of volunteers. Wrong!
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Post by mikkel on Aug 4, 2008 9:54:30 GMT
This coming Saturday, we are Exhibiting our layout in the local village hall where I live and to give you a sample of what is going to be on display, here is a photo showing about one-third of the layout and as you will see from the road vehicles, it is based around 40 years ago when steam was being withdrawn. On the left is Daniel our youngest member who is Excellent at building the shops, houses, etc seen and Ron 'The Club' Secretary and who has a superb knowledge of steam railways in general. This photo was taken as we prepared for the second Exhibition we attended.  This layout has taken three years to complete and so now we are in the process of extending it by another six feet. |
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Post by DAG on Aug 4, 2008 11:19:33 GMT
Ah splendid mikkel! Are you going to show us the rest of it after Saturday?
Have you seen the article on the newly built Tornado 60163 class A1 Pacific in the Mail on Sunday?
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Post by mikkel on Aug 4, 2008 23:38:31 GMT
Ah splendid mikkel! Are you going to show us the rest of it after Saturday? Have you seen the article on the newly built Tornado 60163 class A1 Pacific in the Mail on Sunday? You should be able to see the rest in the next couple of months and when we have done the extention to it and our webmaster puts it on the website, or you just happen to be where we have it on Exhibition in the meantime. ;D Re Tornado, I don't buy a paper on a Sunday due to the high cost of them, but I have seen some Beautiful pictures of this loco already thank you.  |
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Post by jc on Aug 5, 2008 23:00:21 GMT
Lovely. I love anything miniature but to scale. I could play with those houses and the people all day. Always wanted a dolls hose and miniature furniture.
I often browse for hours looking at small, tiny models. Anyway, nice pic Mikkel
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Post by Deleted on Aug 6, 2008 5:21:55 GMT
Mikkel .... what a wonderful model railroad site. It is obvious how much time and effort ... and love ... has been put into the model railroad layouts and the website. I actually built one too ... when my boys were young ... on a 8x4 sheet of plywood ... with the smaller model trains, with mountain and tunnel, and rivers and buildings and landscaping....and people It was great fun and I enjoyed going to the hobby store and adding bits and pieces to it. Although my boys liked it, gradually they lost interest and it was a shame that it was not being enjoyed... so I brought it out for a garage sale and I'm happy to say that a model train enthusiast was thrilled to pick it up ... But it was fun and definitely a family project I would encourage ... just for the experience of it all..... I'm glad I found this thread .... .j. |
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Post by mikkel on Aug 6, 2008 22:18:20 GMT
Mikkel .... what a wonderful model railroad site. It is obvious how much time and effort ... and love ... has been put into the model railroad layouts and the website. I actually built one too ... when my boys were young ... on a 8x4 sheet of plywood ... with the smaller model trains, with mountain and tunnel, and rivers and buildings and landscaping....and people It was great fun and I enjoyed going to the hobby store and adding bits and pieces to it. Although my boys liked it, gradually they lost interest and it was a shame that it was not being enjoyed... so I brought it out for a garage sale and I'm happy to say that a model train enthusiast was thrilled to pick it up ... But it was fun and definitely a family project I would encourage ... just for the experience of it all..... I'm glad I found this thread .... .j. Thank you very much for the wonderful compliments that you posted. I will pass them on to the Guys next week, but perhaps you'd like to add a comment in the 'Visitors' book of the website? I know I started 'The Club' as we call it, but the Members deserve the credit, because it has been a Team effort. As you will see from the website, we are Exhibiting this weekend and I have also been asked to start a Club in the nearest town to here and where I now live which to me, even though it is an Honour to have been asked, I wont be. |
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Post by DAG on Aug 7, 2008 7:13:22 GMT
Just signed your club visitors book mikkel and I think both the railway layouts and the website are very impressive indeed!
It must take up a great deal of your time and I can well understand that you don't have the time to start another club as well.
As for me, I built a small garden layout in 'O' Gauge when I was a teenager but that is as far as I got, always intended to build live steam models and even got the workshop that could do it, but never got around to it, as other things were always higher on the list! ;D
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Post by mikkel on Aug 7, 2008 23:30:23 GMT
Thank you again Dag.
My Partner and I have been Spiritualists for a few years now, even running the local Church/Group between us for the last three years and until we got stabbed in the back by a little 'cliche' within the congregation and for no good reason, so my Partner resigned, but I didn't at the time. It was assumed that my Partner was doing it single-handed and I had also resigned, when we were both doing it. Tonight, I got invited to join two different Churches and both of their Committees and have accepted one of them, but on condition I am not expected to commit to every meeting, etc.. It just goes to prove, I must be doing something right.
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Post by mikkel on Aug 13, 2008 22:16:05 GMT
I forgot to mention that 'The Club' were very kindly invited to put on a Mini Model Railway Exhibition in our local Village Hall last weekend and it was such a success, we have been asked to repeat the event next year. We had four actual layouts, one display, plus the Bramley Line 'Roadshow' in attendance and even for such a small village, it was still well attended.
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Post by DAG on Aug 14, 2008 5:56:45 GMT
Well done then, and I do hope that you will soon post up some pics of it here as well. |
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Post by mikkel on Aug 14, 2008 21:27:59 GMT
Especially for you Dag and the one recently featured in a local magazine that advertised the event for us. We have another 'Show' to go to next weekend for three days. |
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Post by kedigato on Aug 15, 2008 19:34:19 GMT
Oh, I just love that row of little houses with the chimney pots! Your trains and tracks are very nice too, mikkel. Bet you would gladly wring my neck for getting that in the wrong order ;D
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Post by DAG on Aug 15, 2008 19:40:33 GMT
Oh thank you mikkel, looking at all those model buildings around your website and some of it above, are they all scratch-built, or do they come in plastic kits to assemble these days? I ask because there is so much of it, and the thought of cutting out and making all those little windows and doorways etc., must be a marathon task? I assume that it is all sheet plastic nowadays and wonder about painting it all? Again a fiddly job perhaps things like the little stone window cills are stuck on afterwards in a different colour?
Another thing, the road transport vehicles, do they make them exactly to the 00 gauge (was that 4mm to the foot?) or do you have to take the nearest available?
All silly questions I suppose, but I have not thought about any of this for well over 50 years! ;D
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Post by mikkel on Aug 16, 2008 20:49:53 GMT
On behalf of 'The Club' members, Thank you for the compliments.
The houses and shops on the left, plus the platforms and station building are all made from printed and pre-cut cardboard kits. Where we have the tv shop, so we have their van parked outside, the post office has a van, sometimes we have an rtc with the ambulance and police car 'in attendance' and yet to get some figures to stand beside them.
The Signalbox is made from a product known to us as Plasticard. It is a very thin, yet amazingly strong plastic sheeting that is measured and cut to the required size, but the best bit is when we lift the roof off and show people the inside. It is finished with levers, clock, desk, phone, lockers, table and chair, cooker, oh and a signalman, all in such minute detail.
The oval-roofed Goods Shed is made from a Plastic moulded kit, with the rear one out of plasticard again.
The trees are made of metal and gauze-like material.
The road is painted then sprinkled with genuine finely ground coal-dust.
The fence posts are matchsticks, drilled with a very fine drill-bit, glued and placed in the baseboard, then thread passed through the holes using a very thin sewing needle.
The vehicles are of scale size and based on the era of 1968, because it was 40 years ago this week, that BR as they were then known, changed from good old Steam to dirty diesels.
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