200 years of railways 1825-2025 27 Sept '25- 18 Jan '26

[Enzo the Magnificent]

Okay then...  quick poll.

 

Do people want the GB to start on 27 Sep 2025 and finish on 18 Jan 2026?   If so, react with "confused" to this post. 

 

The other option is to start on 6 June 2025 and finish on 27 Sep 2025.  If this is your preference, react with "sad" to this post.

[Mjwomack]

3 minutes ago, Enzo the Magnificent said:

Okay then...  quick poll.

 

Do people want the GB to start on 27 Sep 2025 and finish on 18 Jan 2026?   If so, react with "confused" to this post. 

 

The other option is to start on 6 June 2025 and finish on 27 Sep 2025.  If this is your preference, react with "sad" to this post.

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.

[Enzo the Magnificent]

Just now, Mjwomack said:

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.

 

Not at all.  That's why I chose sad and confused.  It's semi-autobiographical.   

[Enzo the Magnificent]

9 minutes ago, Mjwomack said:

Time to turn the puppy pleading eyes towards him.

 

Not gonna work.   You know that film, A Dog's Purpose?   I didn't cry. 

[Enzo the Magnificent]

I'm giving a lot of thought as to what I should build for this GB.  After all, there's not really much scope, is there?!?!?   

 

I'm currently building the Gresley A4 Mallard in the Golden Age of Transport GB.  This is being built from bits and pieces taken from the spares and scrap boxes.  It's going quite swimmingly.   

 

For this GB I'm considering another Gresley pacific design, again built from bits and pieces.  Obviously it will be an A1 or A3.  But...   I will be avoiding TLTSNBN.  @Mjwomack will be pleased. 

 

Instead, I think it should be the first A1, Great Northern.   And to make things more interesting it should be in GNR livery.  That means chassis and frames painted in red brown and an original tender with coal rails.

 

 

[Pig of the Week]

3 hours ago, Enzo the Magnificent said:

 

Not at all.  That's why I chose sad and confused.  It's semi-autobiographical.   

Not Dazed and Confused then..? 

[Enzo the Magnificent]

5 minutes ago, Pig of the Week said:

Not Dazed and Confused then..? 

 

I wanted to say that but there was a communication breakdown...

[Jb65rams]

I know the start is still some way off, the postie delivered these two.

 

[Pig of the Week]

Now that's a "compact" locomotive.....

I just had to look them up on tinternet to verify they were actually real.!.... 😁

Edited April 20, 2024 by Pig of the Week

[Mjwomack]

On 4/20/2024 at 10:17 AM, Jb65rams said:

I know the start is still some way off, the postie delivered these two.

 

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.

[Pig of the Week]

24 minutes ago, Mjwomack said:

I like these - A LOT!

And not just because pdf 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.

You can get a few  Russian wagons too (I've got a 1/35 kind of  "vanfit" equivalent ) though many of these are punted as German capture and re-use no doubt. Doesn't seem to be many/any other locos apart from the Bosche ones unfortunately. 

[Mjwomack]

A couple from today's visit to beamish,  fantastic museum of the North East England,  so atmospheric 

 

 

 

[Pig of the Week]

Did you nick a couple of bits of coal? 😁

[PeterB]

This is certainly a GB I would consider joining if I actually still had anything left to build. The only incomplete "model" is my attempt to convert a Hornby Class 29 to a Western Region hydraulic Class 22. Having already used AM etched brass sides etc to convert a Lima 33 to a 27 (at which point Lima of course released an R-T-R 27), I had picked up a cheap 29 and a conversion set and made a start but it stalled as I could not find any suitable spoked wheels, Then family pressures meant that my layout was dismantled and consigned to the loft, where it has remained ever since. Unfortunately the "22" would probably fail the usual 25% rule, but I will have a little think about what if anything I could enter. I believe I may still have some unbuilt Ian Kirk LNER Gresley coaches so I could have a try at producing a more realistic "grained teak" effect than my previous efforts.

 

Pete

Edited July 3, 2024 by PeterB

[Mjwomack]

9 hours ago, PeterB said:

This is certainly a GB I would consider joining if I actually still had anything left to build.

Go on, you know you want to!

I'm using it as a reason to build things I've no reason or need for- Big boy, Class 13 shunter and a Kitmaster 'Italian Engine' so far.

But some teak is always welcome, did have an Ian Kirk for many years but never got round to it so off it went to the local auction house and went for way more than I was expecting.

[Pig of the Week]

As a left field punt, I've got a load of hornby/meccano tinplate stuff, including a fair few parts, and was considering knocking up a freelance version of a recovery crane together using said parts.. 

Now it's not exactly a 'kit' and it'd be 100% metal, but would it count I wonder ? 

[Mjwomack]

1 hour ago, Pig of the Week said:

Now it's not exactly a 'kit' and it'd be 100% metal, but would it count I wonder ? 

Absolutely! And I'll tell you for why...

 

1. You don't have to build a kit - there's scratch builds galore on BM

2. There's a whole section of the forum (though I rarely visit it) devoted to die cast and metal.

 

So that's 'yes, yes' - well on the way to a Meg Ryan impression.

[PeterB]

2 hours ago, Mjwomack said:

Go on, you know you want to!

I'm using it as a reason to build things I've no reason or need for- Big boy, Class 13 shunter and a Kitmaster 'Italian Engine' so far.

But some teak is always welcome, did have an Ian Kirk for many years but never got round to it so off it went to the local auction house and went for way more than I was expecting.

 I already have a short rake of Kirk LNER suburban coaches and a few main line corridor and vestibule coaches, though I ended up painting them in plain teak with no graining. What I really wanted but could never get was his set of coaches for the LMS steamlined Coronations! The Hornby stock Stanier and Gresley coaches are of course far too short as they were  "modelled"  to go round tight layouts curves. I also fancied one of the articulated sets but bottled out. Like yourself I have no longer a use for them so it would just be an exercise in modelling nostalgia, and I doubt my old sheets of PC Pressfix markings are still viable, but maybe I will have a go. Must see if I can actually find them first! Last I heard somebody had taken over his moulds but was not producing the "00" versions.

 

Pete

Edited July 4, 2024 by PeterB

[PeterB]

Actually, it turns out I have a lot of possible entries so count me in. The end of my railway layout was rather abrupt - pressure on space had been building after the arrival of our second child, but things came to head and I reluctantly agreed to vacate the room in the extension which had been specifically built for my layout and modelling, and it seems I must have been in the middle of a major expansion of my rolling stock, which I had completely forgotten. Looking through the cupboards in my roof I have found two Dapol ex Airfix mineral wagons, a pair of ventilated vans and a cement wagon all still in their bags, together with no less than 8 Ian Kirk coaches. These have been started in so far that I have attached the sides and ends to the floors and put a little paint on but there is still a lot of work to do, particularly as one or two have been slightly damaged, so hopefully I would get under the 25% rule. If not there are the Dapol wagons and also a few Superquick card buildings I could probably fall back on. I also found my old Ian Kirk catalogue - not sure when it was issued as it does not contain the LMS coaches I mentioned earlier - perhaps they were a later addition? Also missing are the Quad and Quint articulated suburban sets and the specialised coaches for the Flying Scotsman train set which I seem to remember him doing.

 

Pete

[Mjwomack]

6 hours ago, PeterB said:

Actually, it turns out I have a lot of possible entries so count me in. The end of my railway layout was rather abrupt - pressure on space had been building after the arrival of our second child, but things came to head and I reluctantly agreed to vacate the room in the extension which had been specifically built for my layout and modelling, and it seems I must have been in the middle of a major expansion of my rolling stock, which I had completely forgotten. Looking through the cupboards in my roof I have found two Dapol ex Airfix mineral wagons, a pair of ventilated vans and a cement wagon all still in their bags, together with no less than 8 Ian Kirk coaches. These have been started in so far that I have attached the sides and ends to the floors and put a little paint on but there is still a lot of work to do, particularly as one or two have been slightly damaged, so hopefully I would get under the 25% rule. If not there are the Dapol wagons and also a few Superquick card buildings I could probably fall back on. I also found my old Ian Kirk catalogue - not sure when it was issued as it does not contain the LMS coaches I mentioned earlier - perhaps they were a later addition? Also missing are the Quad and Quint articulated suburban sets and the specialised coaches for the Flying Scotsman train set which I seem to remember him doing.

 

Pete

One or two there that might just meet the criteria!😂

[Enzo the Magnificent]

20 hours ago, PeterB said:

Unfortunately the "22" would probably fail the usual 25% rule

 

Once completed, it could be displayed in the Inspiration Gallery.

[Pig of the Week]

Super quick card buildings eh?

I've got a couple of olde brick railway arches somewhere, and I did have a Irish station too, Ballyconnel I think, though it's a larger scale, 7mm / 0 gauge probably.. 

[Enzo the Magnificent]

24 minutes ago, Pig of the Week said:

Super quick card buildings

 

Classic kits and a lot of fun to build.

 

[Mjwomack]

11 minutes ago, Enzo the Magnificent said:

Classic kits and a lot of fun to build

Coming next

The classic card kits GB

Super quick 

Biltezee

Prototype 

 

Maybe

Street level 

Not modern scalescenes or metcalfe!

[Enzo the Magnificent]

15 minutes ago, Mjwomack said:

Coming next

The classic card kits GB

 

 

We've had a least one Non-Injection moulded GB.  Hence my Superquick Swan Inn.