Georgeconna

Started this one back in 2012 I'd say with the aim to have it done for the 100 Anniversary, Big fail. It is the Acadmey kit with Laser Cut wooden Decks Etch Hand Rails etc. heres the current status of the re start, bit of Rigging and the decks stuck together. Getting there!

Currently building a Dapol windmill, surpising good for its age especially the brick engraving is still ok. It is based on a 17th century Mill called Pitstone Windmill, I ordered a little 6V motor with gearbox from guess you know where,the package was wiped down before opening and it is glued in situ and will be glued directly to the sails. It is to be wired up to a cradle with 4 x 1.5V batteries should give a nice slow rotation. No sure if there is DCC sound for a windmill yet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitstone_Windmill I have mucked about with some Scenery and laid some 3mm static grass to test the waters. However I mixed up some 8 and 12mm strands and had a complete failure with them refusing to stand up. I dont often have that problem. I'll hover them up and try again. I know the tree looks shite too but was trying some hedge cuttings. anyhow nice to show the good with the bad every now and then!! I tend to be failing more the successing these days...

Few things going here lately. Mk.111 EGV using the Bedford Etch, The Studio Scale one is Far Far better. Need a bit of weathering to set it off. Not to exciting but a rake of MK.111 repaints into IR logo'd livery. I need to weather these as is, when done then I have Shawplan glazing to stick it as the Hornby glazing is unusable and then SSM Etched Window surounds.

Wednesday!

Order Placed, Cracking stuff. Well done lads. Dont forget a Class 37 in Supertrain too at some stage. These will certainly hold thier Value in the coming years.

Yeah we should send them the bill as as well for the flights out and back, not to mind paying them for the stuff. The amount of quotes I ama getting in looking to bring PPE in from china is unreal. <4000 deaths they had and now they are coining it again. Unreal.

you can almost hear the city noise in the background. Very nice work!

Not at the end of an 7 hours run it wernt nice an glossy Davo!! Pic below is in LMS Service, Not BR!

What a nice little Film. Aerial shots were great, That cutting was immense!

fair play, bet they wished they had an SCD on that. Back in the day all the seats would be taken out ut I imagine theres shed load of connections for the Entertainment n such.

Hold on Eoin, I have 4 I could throw up you whislt your at it! Looking forward to follow this one. Mine have been sitting thier ages!

Ta, This month a chap wrote in with the location details to cleart that matter up!

Just reading this which contains normally UK stuff and always contains inspirational Photographs of the Rail network around Britain but Feb has a couple of Delightful Pictures in it of A's and C's and some other stuff. Worth getting a copy for a Gander. all you need is a lovely Green A class and two Coaches and you would be able to Create that lovely scene depicted!

Cluster down here in Conna by all accounts (HSE Info from an insider). given the horse activity down here no surprise really the thicks. Just in Marks cork there at lunch for some stuff before the shut for a while, Pity as well as new chap just got going!

H.S. That pretty awesome and to see full Length HST flying about too. Will this be on the irish Circuit? Thing is now when you start running trains things slow down a bit cause your watching them more!

Finally Launched today, Tide was a bit low in the Pond on Fermoy but nice day for the First Voyage. She sits a bit too low so a small Batter in the hold will have to be trialled. Well pleased with this, 3 yearsit took and I love it!!

Ah Consultants - Can't get too excited over this then.

pic here, Class J24 - 472 - CB&SCR 0-6-0ST, built 1881 by Beyer Peacock as Cork, Bandon & South Coast Railway No.6 - 1925 to GSR as No.472 - withdrawn 194

No air transport for the foreseeable future = no job for me with probably future layoff!! Can't win it seems. I would always suggest getting an old-fashioned type, "with knobs on" - - It has one knob on - Just like Myself.... Lets hope that does not stop working....

Interesting to see this from a Farmer like yourself Mr Wayside when much of the Hedgerows are being cutback , dugout, Dykes filled in, Wetland continously being drained, Trees being much maligned. Much of this causing our own crisis with biodiversity and human suffering such as flooding. much of which is gone, what remains on old railways tends to be woodland flora in shade and gorse/furze or shrub in sun. Loads of Trees is lismore along the old allignment were levelled last month Refreshing see your a bit more enlihtended on this it seems Mr Wayside. Cheers George

MMmm Not a massive Fan of the Guardian but this rings piece does not surprise me. Nature bites back. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/mar/18/tip-of-the-iceberg-is-our-destruction-of-nature-responsible-for-covid-19-aoe

Thats a crappy deal. not even scented.

You know What Noel, I pretty well pissed of with the Chinese. Whats going to come down the line next from this crowd? Maybe its time to bring manufacturing back home and move from that crowd. It just shows how much the planet depend on them really. If the whole of China went down we would be goosed not to mind the toys in the happy meals gone. I would not mind paying a small bit extra for good quality stuff. People might think twice about buying cheap throwaway stuff and go back to longer lasting quality products but it is all growth this and growth that looking after the uber rich and thier Mini liners in Monaco. Seriously enough though they produce enough rubbish that we really don't need, Much of it plastic crap that the kids play with once or twice before it ends up land fill. Time to end the making of that sort of crap too. The EU should but a quality system in place to reject those sort of products from plastic rubbish toys stuck on the front of Kids mags right up to electrical goods that dont have a long life. We throw away too much these days. I am tired of it all. The Mircowave here as gone tits up, just because one button has stopped working, Not that old either but out of Warrenty. Too Expensive to get a dude to look at it not to mind repair it, Just might have look myself to see If I can replace it with summit in the shed. Apologies for the rant and not a 121 chat, Self islolation needed in the man cave for the day I think as I have a RC Boat to Finsh off in case me Dad pops his clogs without seeing it along with some nice music. Bye for now G

Not to pushed about 121's as nice as they are, Just need to get through the next weeks, Months, year without burying anyone close. When they arrive they arrive.

Apparently a couple visiting shops throughout the uk nicking stuff too.