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Bonhoff

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  1. Wondering what a Bibby is... And why they need to be distributed in articulated lorries? IanJ
  2. Oh goody! Is the Illudium PU-36 Explosive Space Modulator also available? Asking for a friend. IanJ
  3. A copy of the epic Shacklady/Morgan tome on the Spitfire, which impressed the missus no end, as she isn't a fan of my habit of buying books and stashing them for reference - In my defence, it was a good price. And an Airfix Brewster Buffalo, I was given one as a birthday present as a small child which I handed to my dad to build, as I didn't think I'd be able to do it. I'm 57 now, hoping to manage it on my own this time. IanJ
  4. Sorry Mike, That's not what I meant - "0n16.5" is O Gauge Scale, using OO track to represent narrow gauge - Dapol still produce the Rosebud/Kitmaster/Airfix L&YR "Pug" as a 00 gauge kit - https://www.dapol.co.uk/products/c026-0-4-0t-br-pug You could produce a new cab and chimney with your 3D printer? Kind regards IanJ
  5. I'd go down the 0n16.5 route too - Use a Dapol Pug with a scratch built cab that suits the larger scale and an extended chimney.
  6. Funnily enough, with the sudden subject lurch to panda cars, I was out with my retired policeman mate at a Billy Bragg gig the other weekend (and that's a 40th anniversary tour, so I was already feeling old) when he commented that, when he'd retired, he'd got young police officers under his wing who hadn't been born when he started on the beat in 1988! IanJ
  7. Could be worse, Had a roll of masking tape that advised me that I should be aged 14 or over to use it without parental supervision. IanJ
  8. Well, I've been in a state of denial over the fact that I appear to have become a railway modeller in my own right again, rather than just cheerleading / roadieing (sp?) for my dad for the last few years. So here I am, my name is Ian, and I'm a railway modeller... You can add me to the list (No idea what I'll be doing yet though) IanJ
  9. Newcastle City Centre - Yesterday. In my eyes, the second best estate car in the world.... An M-Plate Austin Montego (Best, most sensible estate, IMO, is the Skoda Octavia) IanJ
  10. Birstall, Leicester. Austin Maxi, T-Plate in pageant blue. Very tidy.
  11. Hi, https://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/234915745-phantom-fg1fgr2/ KR's IanJ
  12. Hi all, One of two projects for this GB that I actually started a week or two ago - I've seen someone else do the same sort of thing with a 9F on the exhibition circuit, so I can't claim that it's an original subject, but it should be an interesting exercise for me. For our more remotely located members who may not know the story, one Dai Woodham owned a scrapyard at Barry Island in Wales. When BR finally stopped steam operations in 1968, the locomotives were sold off for scrap, Mr Woodham bought a goodly number to break up, but for some reason, didn't break the engines up straight away. This fleet of engines now form a large proportion of the available steam locomotives on preserved and heritage lines up and down the country. Some of them were in a right old state by the time they'd been rescued though, and it is to the credit of all those enthusiasts who have spent time and money in their restoration and upkeep. So, the model will represent a 9F, quietly dissolving in a siding somewhere, awaiting salvation, or further cannibalisation to keep one of its sisters going. I'm using the Kitmaster/Airfix/Dapol kit and will be hacking bits off it, painting and then weathering/rusting. Don't know why, but I can't find the picture of the opened bag, so here's one of the chassis partially completed. Sinkmarks on the wheel centres have been filled. Footplate/bottom of boiler have had chunks removed. Top half of boiler has had moulded on handrails and various steam pipes removed - Brass handrails will be installed as the project progresses. Will hopefully catch up tomorrow. IanJ
  13. Monday morning didn't look too bad - Reasonably bright and the missus has just gone out the front door for a walk, leaving me free for a little while at least. Breakfast And down to the Iancave. First album of the day to be played Restarted at 11.08 Let's build the flat wagon kit Both the van and flat wagon kits share some common sprues, so you have to cut the solebars down by approximately 3mm at each end to fit under the load bed compared with the van. A few minutes later, another wagon appears. Mrs Bonhoff reappears and calls me in - We have to go out (Given that I spent a chunk of Saturday with dad at the 009 Society monthly meet at Portland, then a chunk of Sunday at the Stoke IPMS show, it seemed only fair.) Another 50 minutes bringing the total time elapsed to 3 Hrs 11 Mins Lunch was at a noodle bar in the Vic Centre, Nottingham A few hours mooching around, both parties purchased shoes, I picked up a couple of CD's and then back home - Father in Law visited and then I prepared tea (It was an omelette but I forgot to take a picture - Sorry) At 8.30 Mrs B announced that she was tired and released me to the Iancave. Can I get a van built in the time available? Can I get anything painted? First musical choice - One of my new CD's, Kimono My House by Sparks (Now working my way slowly through their back catalogue) - Very much enjoyed this. Van body and chassis built, put a tyre weight into the body for stability. And time to change the music - "72 Seasons" by Metallica - Not bought any Metal-licker for years but a very good choice. Van assembly completed to the dulcet tones of more Roxy Music. Flat wagons painted in Lifecolor RN 507B, Not that I have any conclusive proof but it is a mid grey RN colour, isn't it? (Saw a Bachmann RNAD Van at Portland, and their colour was very similar.) Didn't get chance to do van. And time to call it a night and get some pictures uploaded to the gallery. A further 2 Hrs 39 Mins, overall time totalling 5 Hrs 50 Mins. And that's it, looking forward to the Xmas one now. Kr's IanJ
  14. Carrying on. What we have here are from left to right are, an existing flat wagon prepared earlier which I'm using to set the coupling heights, a wagon with a 5 plank ends (I then realised that the ends only went up to 4 high so had to trim them back.) A single plank wagon and an existing 3 plank that I'd just trimmed back to a 2 plank. 2 hours and 21 minutes in, it's gone midnight and it's time to eject the cat off my lap. I'll finish off the story later if that's okay? IanJ
  15. So here we are, just about to start a session. 3 van kits, one flat wagon kit and a stack of N gauge wagon chassis and white plastic card. Now those of you who are in the know, will be aware that Bachmann have released a range of RNAD wagons, alongside a Bagguley-Drewery shunter. However, the flat wagons are in the region of £25, and the vans are £30! Don't know about you, but I find it difficult to justify spending that much on something not much bigger than an N gauge wagon. The kits are, IIRC, £10 and £12, but it is simple enough to stretch the budget even further. Hence the Peco chassis - I make up loadbeds from plasticard (38×20mm if you're interested), scribe planks onto them and then make planked ends. Bingo, you have a wagon! As it happens, if you can't be bothered with the hassle of cutting out some rectangular pieces, then the sprues are arranged in such a way that there are actually two load beds in each kit. So that's what we are going to do. Music maestro please! (Bringing some culture into the hobby, only some mind you, as my father and siblings still refer to Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries" as "Kill the Wabbit") Here's some I prepared earlier, with a loadbed in front ready to go. Before you know it, a wagon is built, the couplings are the Peco 009 ones that, theoretically, just drop into the wagon coupling slots, but in reality need some fettling to fit properly.
  16. Sorry about that, was in danger of not getting the pictures done in time.... Anyway, Wagons - Those of you who frequent the railways section of the forum may be aware of the boxfile layout that I've been building. It's partly down to my father's malign influence, as I've been his roadie for a few years now, helping him out with his various layouts from the 30 plus feet of "Ilkeston Town" down to his 009 layout "Hollington Quarry" It was last year at the 009 Society Open Day at Portland College that we were exhibiting said Quarry, when I wandered over to the club stand and saw some wagon kits. I picked up a flat wagon and a van and thought that I would build them and give them to Dad for his use. The kits were labelled as RNAD, not knowing what that meant, I asked Google, and found a photo of a little Hunslet diesel shunter pulling a number of these wagons out of a tunnel. It turns out that RNAD stood for "Royal Naval Armaments Depot" and it was an ammunition train being towed out of an underground bunker. Interest piqued, I did some research into the subject and started formulating a plan - First part being to build a boxfile layout to see if I'd enjoy the process... Another flat wagon kit appeared in the post as a welcome gift when I joined the 009 society myself. Fast forward to July when my layout was exhibited at both Ruddington and Portland College - I'd built up a fleet of flat wagons for the shows, but the vans hadn't been available as the society was waiting for the moulders to produce a new batch. They were finally released at the show so I picked up 3 vans and yet another flat wagon....
  17. A mix of 009 Society kits and scratchbuilt wagon bodies on Peco chassis. I'll go back and get the write up sorted - Think we're looking at 7 hours in total, done mostly when Mrs B had gone to bed, leaving me to be supervised by various domestic pets. RNAD ammunition van - 009 Society kit, not yet painted. RNAD Flat Wagon - 009 Society kit, painted in Lifecolor Grey 507B RNAD Flat Wagons - Scratchbuilt bodies on Peco Chassis, the ends could vary between 0 to 4 planks in height. Peco 009 couplings added. I now have more wagons for my next 009 project... IanJ
  18. Won't get them all done, but have been beavering away since last night. Currently waiting on paint drying and handrails being fitted. IanJ
  19. Got to take the layout to "Narrow Gauge NoW*" at Portland College near Mansfield this last weekend, where there seemed to be quite a bit of interest with punters and modellers actually seeing one of these Scalescenes layouts in the flesh. Crane was finished in the week running up to the show, the new orange loco was toned down by weathering, a steel bodied bogie wagon scratchbuilt and lampposts added. Not sure if it'll be out again anytime soon, but perhaps it's already served its purpose and I should take a look at a slightly more ambitious project going forward. KR's IanJ (*NoW - North of Watford)
  20. It's sort of aircraft related.... My dad spent 9 years in the senior service and on one of his ships, a Battle Class destroyer, they were doing live AA fire against a drogue being towed by a Gloster Meteor. The twin Bofors guns were being used on what was known as a STAAG mounting where the guns were radar trained onto their target. Said target was flying parallel to the ship and the STAAG, having picked up and dealt with the drogue, started working its way up the towing cable. When the Meteor crew realised this, the cable was released and they hightailed it out of there. (That's what my dad said anyway - Then again, it wasn't until I was able to go and vote for myself at a general election, that I discovered that Plaid Cymru didn't contest constituencies in the East Midlands. Whenever I asked him who he'd voted for when I was younger, he said Welsh Nationalist!) IanJ
  21. Kenny Rogers had an operation? Presumably to find out what condition his condition was in.... It's OK, I can find my own way out. IanJ
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