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Mark Tatlow

Mike Garwood wrote:
I'm off to bend up 30 Bill Bedford Mk1 chassis. That'll numb the pain

................and if the bending of the chassis doesn't, making up 120 pairs of brakes will!

Mark Tatlow

Love the Minack Tim!! Slightly less refreshing for me when I was last down there - for reasons you can see in this blog post: https://highlandmiscellany.com/2018/09/30/cornish-modelling-and-the-demon-barber-of-fleet-street/ Pie anyone? Yes ... I remember reading your blog entry ... which I always e...

Mark Tatlow

Love the Minack Tim!!

Slightly less refreshing for me when I was last down there - for reasons you can see in this blog post:

https://highlandmiscellany.com/2018/09/ ... et-street/

Pie anyone?

Mark Tatlow

I do like your tool for forming tumble homes Jeremy, we will be making one of those tomorrow!

Mark Tatlow

They do look rather fine Dave.

Given that they are not supposed to be glamorous engines, I do think the Black 5s were very tidy engines.

Is the coal load on your painted black 5 out of gauge? Best take my barrow to the first tight bridge it goes under!

Mark Tatlow

I have just plonked some rather nice (and in a pair of cases unusual) pictures of the early Coronations on my external blog:

https://highlandmiscellany.com/2020/07/ ... mment-4563

Mark Tatlow

wouldn't cellulose disolve the plastic in this instant? If you dropped the model in a vat of cellulose thinners for a period, it may well do damage but for delivery via an airbrush the solvent will disappear in a fraction. Indeed, one of the issues of cellulose paint (and the main cause of the oran...

Mark Tatlow

Lifting it out, under my fingers, the paint literally fell off: IMG_6483.JPG Paul As was noted in my Highland Miscellany thread or here on my blog (https://highlandmiscellany.com/2020/05/13/only-the-printable-words-for-this-wednesday/), I have had some similar experiences. My conclusion is that the...

Mark Tatlow

Mr Tatlow can indeed do you some lost wax finials. I am not sure which lamps you are after. The NER M&H had a really chunky one for their timber slotted signals and then a more delicate one for much of the rest/ MSE do the former and i can do the later (but am out of stock at the moment). Detail...

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Looks really good Dave Any tips and tricks to help me on my way? Regards, Chris The issue I found was securing the lever handles on properly; they take a good degree of stress. There were two reasons - firstly it is steel so not that easy to solder and secondly the "pip" on the etch of th...

Mark Tatlow

Paul Cram wrote:
Are you missing a half etch line on the side of the bogie at the bottom right? I presume that this would fold up.

Paul - thanks for that. It wasn't an intentional mistake; it was just a mistake!!!

Mark Tatlow

I was one of the first to declare my intent to enter the Lockdown Challenge (note the better names guys......) with the intent to build a Caledonian Grampian 12 wheeler coach. The eagle eyed of you will have noted that there hasn't been any posts on it. I did start it; well actually take a long hard...

Mark Tatlow

CeeJay60 wrote:Entry No. 3 – Signals
Alnmouth box and signals.jpg

Now that is a signal!!!

Mark Tatlow

Hi Mike,

I like the fish van and the L&Y brake third. I have both in my stash!!

Mark

Mark Tatlow

Paul Townsend wrote:Done at Highbridge decades ago! You saw it there when you visited some 3 years ago my memory ain't that good either
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Sorry Paul, I had not recalled that!! You get first prize!

Mark Tatlow

johndarch wrote:More weight in the bucket?

Its already full of solder, so there isn't really any option.

I am jogging the base as I flick the switches, so it is partly me.

Mark Tatlow

Winander wrote:Mark,

A really nice feature. Are you going to paint the top of the coal stack white as I have seen LNWR stacks painted - apparently to deter theft.

best wishes,
Richard

The pictures I have of the Highlands suggest that they weren't painted.

The Scots more trustworthy than the English?

Mark Tatlow

Obviously, where there is water in a locomotive yard, there really ought to be coal too. The Highland, like many other railway companies of the time (certainly the Scottish ones), sought to stockpile coal. This was presumably insurance against coal strikes and allowed them to purchase coal at times ...

Mark Tatlow

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Edit : a few images added to my Flickr site showing some of my locos on display. Not all of these are P4 btw & some fine scale OO https://www.flickr.com/photos/113816008@N03/albums/72157714063578467 That collection is looking pretty impressive; perfect for where the east coast mainline meets th...

Mark Tatlow

Flymo748 wrote:
Mark's been trying that salt-crystal weathering thing...

Cheers
Flymo

It happened in my ultrasonic bath that I think I set the temperature a bit warm (40 C) that softened the acrylic paint.

Won't be doing it again!

Mark Tatlow

Hmmmm……..

A signal imitating a Fresian cow was not the effect I was after…………..

Halfords etch primer is obviously that etchy!……………..

The completion of my challenge entry will be a little bit longer!

Mark Tatlow

Its a stack of chairs isn't it?

If you think about it, you can not stack them vertically on top of each other as they would rock off the top of the chair.

Mind you, there looks to be a £10 worth of Exactoscale chairs in the stack!

Mark Tatlow

I have used brass square section for the post and dolls, which means that there is a lot of hard filing to do (I don't have access to a milling machine). I reckon there was the better part of a day consumed with the post/dolls for this and the MR signal I am doing. It is hard work and there is a si...

Mark Tatlow

Reverting back to the Midland signal, this is now pretty much complete. I have bought a new light box for taking photographs in. Whilst I am still getting to grips with it, when it works it does produce much improved pictures of models. These almost look like an images of a 3D model on a computer sc...

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