Mjwomack

I do! Fortunately one lump goes a very long way because it's not as easy to find as it used to be!!

And there's more progress because I've spent an hour with the hairy stick, my there's a lot of surface area. But here's a photo of something else... I said that Rubicon give you loads of options, how in the case of the Hetzer you can literally make every variant. This time there's 3 barrels and 2 breach mechanisms. Though for an added twist no clues as to what they're about. Seems I need the bottom barrel for this kit! At first I wondered if they were for the different turrets, zimmret and not etc. but as they're on the same spire as the turret that doesn't make a lot of sense either.

It's not the size that matters🫣, but whether the stone is inside, outside or in mid flight towards the greenhouse that I was really interested in🤔

Please can you include a stone in the picture for a sense of size please?! Seriously, any guess at a scale? Most 'dolls house' models are 1/12 ir 1/24 so I'd guess one of those. Also seems to be ideal Blitzbuild material

I like these - A LOT! And not just because of the whole cuteness of the little shunter. In conventional model railways, the closest would be 1/32 or Gauge 1, but with the crossover into military modelling and static models, 1/35 opens up all manner of models (though they all seem to be German) and a load of civilian figures etc. for vignettes.

I always have a wry smile when the instructions say 'check the wheels roll freely'

a growing collection of sub-assemblies, and nothing really built yet

I now have a rolling chassis! Replete (splendid word because I think of food) with white walled wheels as is the Gresley way I'm not sure at what point undercoat becomes primer etc. but still going for little and often with the layers on the main body. Some dabs of orange going on soon.

And this is exactly why you wear the cheese as well as running the GB commune! I was going to give your post a like but realised that might completely mess your cunning plan.

That's very good lateral thinking (though really railways are linear out of necessity)- again it's all eyes on The Magnificence and I'm suitably in awe of how he makes the calendar work, I guess it depends on what other anniversaries are featured next year, along with the bunfight survivors. Time to turn the puppy pleading eyes towards him.

On the matter of dates, we are in the lap (metaphorically I stress) of his Magnificence @Enzo the Magnificent has suggested The issue now is the start and finish dates. The Stockton and Darlington Railway opened on 27 September 1825. That would take the GB through to 18 Jan 2026. And nobody seems to be throwing up there hands in horror at those dates - though it does deny me my usual plow of sidling into KUTA from an autumn GB😬 So, plenty of time for foraging the auction houses etc. I agree railway shows tend to be more for operating ones, I've had more luck (some might say too much luck ) with old school auctions for kitmaster stuff etc.

Maybe just the one...

I know it's churlish to object to the widely acclaimed Accurascale model, but I really had this in mind Pre naming, really helps bring out the bulk; though in this photo its also emphsied by the telephoto lens foreshortening effect.

How about something from the Lincolnshire Potato Railways - I kid you not!!! Lots were laid across the Fens using redundant 60cm gauge trench railway equipment after WW1 (a peace dividend) but were soon superseded by road transport. Obviously. shame they were used to transport potatoes rather than peas, but you can't have everything.

Certainly not weird- one of my hopes for this GB is that it shows that a lot of railwayania can be modelled as a static item, and indeed less compromises need to be made as a result. It did occur to me on the afternoon dog walk that this could be the most diverse GB yet, covers 200 years of history and most of the world (Iceland would be a notable exception of not having a railway).

What strange trick of voodoo perspective magic is this?! Remarkably effective, and not just for baffling relatives!

Nerd alert... in the final yers Finsbury Park gave theirs white window surrounds for another variation. Anyhow, do the little lovelies have names and numbers allocated yet? Strangely (but I am) I like the extra powerful lines of the prenaming, no yellow 2 tone green (unsubtle hint)

I saw her stablemate sir Nigel Gresely in the steel at the Nene Valley last spring and it's even better in reality, but as @Redstaff says, it's BR rather than LNER blue. Which saves @Enzo the Magnificent being spammed out with my photos (but it might be time to change my profile picture!)

Well, my guide dog does

Electra do all manner of one piece vinyls for modern image (just like the real thing), but it won't work in this case because there's so much detail on the carriage side as opposed to the smooth lines of a modern carriage. The joy of n gauge for me is it's very impressionist so teak effect is what I'm going for.

This is very true! The one I have in mind has a couple of buildings but no real centre point, just a general air of forlorn (happy go lucky as ever!)

In the words of my history master I have read, marked and inwardly digested the article- the stand out sentence is this There are several methods...all of which seem to be designed for OO scale models rather than the smaller N scale which has it's own set of challenges. I think I'd worked that bit out already! Basically lots of thin coats and watch the brush strokes - vertical for upper panels and horizontal for lowers ones to give an impression of the orientation of the wood grain on the original.

because I like to have me excuses explanations ready- I came a cropper in the Vignette GB because the model element was too ambitious and I had neither time nor mojo for the actual vignette. In the main message board the section on dioramas is headed that it's about the dioramas rather than the models with should go in their own WIP areas. So I think it would be good to take a similar view for this in the land of GB

That's one tidy little fellow, and a suitable KUTA for me to crack on with my Friendship!

Coming down the tracks right on time, this issue of N Gauge Journal has a long article on replicating teak in this scale- that's my bedtime reading sorted!