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peter scott
Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 7124 Location: Edinburgh
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alastairq
Joined: 14 Oct 2016 Posts: 1956 Location: East Yorkshire
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Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2018 10:24 am Post subject: |
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Are trains motoring related?
I would say, most definitely. [My two hobbies being motoring and [model] trains]....many has been the challenge between car & train.
The weathering is not bad [do we weather our classics?]....but for quality & realism, I do not think our home-grown Martyn Welch can be beaten....
https://www.martynwelch.com/
Do bear in mind, the Lionel locomotive is relatively large scale..achieving that effect, to stand up to close-up photography, in a much smaller scale is difficult, but not unachievable.
Of course, to obtain that rusted, derelict look for our cars, what could be better than the modern technique of vinyl wrapping?
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peter scott
Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 7124 Location: Edinburgh
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Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2018 10:42 am Post subject: |
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That does look good. What scale is it?
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alastairq
Joined: 14 Oct 2016 Posts: 1956 Location: East Yorkshire
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Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2018 11:11 am Post subject: |
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Probably 7 mm scale.
Although Martyn Welch does do smaller scales, such as 4 mm.
I particularly like the way Martyn Welch has dealt with the coupling and connecting rods....something that was not dealt with on the Lionel engine? [Which s the same scale....just the US version of it....1:48. as distinct from the UK 1:43.5, or 7 mm scale]
Edjit...Martyn Welch authored a book on 'The art of weathering'...been out some years [see his website?].....whilst practice, and skill, accounts for so much [as with dealing with old cars?]....he does explain things, and get folk on the 'right tracks'....
I would add, messing with these things takes one's time away from the important stuff, like cars? |
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Bitumen Boy
Joined: 26 Jan 2012 Posts: 1737 Location: Above the snow line in old Monmouthshire
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Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2018 12:07 pm Post subject: |
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Strictly speaking I would say not really motoring related, but definitely of interest. Driving a classic to visit a preserved railway or model railway exhibition is, to my mind, about as good a day out as it's possible to have.
Really, most things transport related will interest me whether they be motor vehicles - of most types, just not too modern - or railways, canals, even the old turnpike roads and stagecoaches. A couple of years back there was a charity event involving running a preserved stagecoach from, IIRC, Carmarthen to Cardiff along the old route, selling tickets to raise funds, and it was a great disappointment to me that I wasn't free to take the opportunity due to family illness. |
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badhuis
Joined: 20 Aug 2008 Posts: 1392 Location: Netherlands
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Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2018 6:45 pm Post subject: |
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I would go a step further in adding that old machinery is fascinating. Even if it not motoring related. I can recommend the Bradley Industrial Museum. Textile machines, drilling machines, lathes all driven by a big old steam machine. Fantastic to see and hear them work. Oil containers on the bearings everywhere. What a noise it must have been in a textile mill beginning of the 20th century. Lots of mechanics needed to keep all that running.
A visit much recommended.
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Penman
Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 4765 Location: Swindon, Wilts.
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Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2018 7:30 pm Post subject: |
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Hi
If you're in the Dales sometime have a look at http://www.caudwellsmill.co.uk/
A flour mill using a line-shaft system driven by water-power.
And, there's a steam railway less than a mile and a half away http://www.peakrail.co.uk/ _________________ Bristols should always come in pairs.
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Keith D
Joined: 16 Oct 2008 Posts: 1131 Location: Upper Swan, Western Australia
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Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2018 4:03 am Post subject: |
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Anybody who is a model railway freak (as I am) should visit the old warehouse on the Hamburg dockside to see the largest model railway set-up in the world. I'd seen it on YouTube and it's fantastic, but I enjoyed it far better when I visited a couple of years ago. It was absolutely fantastic! And not so far for you UK based folk!
Keith _________________ 1926 Chrysler 60 tourer
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Kleftiwallah
Joined: 27 Oct 2016 Posts: 222 Location: North Wiltshire
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Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2018 9:40 am Post subject: |
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That's not a model chuff chuff, it's a real one!
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Peter_L
Joined: 10 Apr 2008 Posts: 2680 Location: New Brunswick. Canada.
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Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2018 1:52 pm Post subject: |
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Kleftiwallah wrote: | That's not a model chuff chuff, it's a real one!
Cheers, Tony. |
Which one ? |
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oldboy
Joined: 20 Mar 2018 Posts: 10 Location: Retford
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I would suggest that all motoring enthusiasts would appreciate the engineering and beauty of a Steam Tractor or a Tiger Moth biplane or an old Wooden Sailing Boat. To me it's the same DNA that runs through them all. |
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