7mm , Blackney, A Glimpse of the Forest

[Jordan]

Mr Smug here was absolutely convinced your 21T cap. plate wagon with timber (pitch pine?) load needed to be red carded due to overload.
So guesstimating.......

........exactly 21 tonnes!

It's the Tray of Kneeling Gravel for you, sonny, to assist with your penitance and smug grin removal therapy.....

 

[Dog Star]

It's the Tray of Kneeling Gravel for you...

No need Jordan, Tony (@Osgood) has a surfeit of ironstone rock delivered in prototype wagons.

 

[Alan]

It's a balsa tree by the way??!!
More work on the stone building and it is almost finiashed. Just the roof to be fettled and stuck on. The stonework is now painted..

 

[Alan]

A bit worried my photos in my last post seem to have gone. the title of them is there but I cannot open them. I wonder if its the windows update I have had this evening. Previuos photos ARE still there.
Anyway an update

Corrugated building now clad and primed and stone building now has its roof attached.

A couple of snaps of 3775 shunting wagons for the sawmill and Forest Furniture sidings. The 2 buildings belong to F&F.

 

[Alan]

Richard Gawler PM'd meand said trying swithcing off and restarting (he'd had a similar problem.I'm pleased to say it worked. Thanks Richard.

 

[Alan]

More work carried out. Another wire fence.


A wood en lanked fence similar to the ones near Travellers rest Crossing and near the Fountain in close to Marsh sidings and also given the corrugated shed it's first coat of faded green, rust to follow.

 

[Osgood]

Brilliant, but you're now going to need an extension to use as a fiddle yard.....

 

[Alan]

Tin shed rasonaably lightly rusted and roof fixed in place.

 

[Alan]

It must be January or February 1963

 

[Phil O]

Not enough snow drifts!!!!

Looks good though.

 

[Alan]

As it's almost Christmas, seasons greetings to all WTers from Blackney

 

[NHY 581]

Evening Alan,



Merry Christmas to you. Lovely to finally meet up at Uckfield. Hopefully, we'll see each other next year !



Best of wishes,



Rob

 

[Alan]

A Happy New Year to all Thunderers.

Over the festive season I have been working on an over bridge at the entry to th fiddleyard. Nowhere near finished yet. I was determined when doing the scenic work in the fiddleyard that I would use as many left over bits as I could from the main scenic part of the layout. So bits of the bridge supports came from the remains of the Langley kit that fromed the right hand end of the layout, the wooden fencing came from a Peco kit I discovered I'd bought almost at the begining of my foray into 0 gauge 4 years ago, it was lurking at the back of a draw. The bridge girder was scratch built out of various leftovers of plasticard and Evergreen strip. In fact all I have purchased for this area was the corrugated sheet for the tin shed.

Anyway some photos

 

[Alan]

Bridge bits primed now ready to be painted and then bedded into the layout and the backscene in that area slightly repainted.

 

[Alan]

Bridge and supports now had a basciccoat of painted. still much to do.

 

[Alan]

Just as a break from the fiddle yard, just in case you hd forgotten what the rest of the layout looks like.

 

[Pencarrow]

Lovely view.

 

[Dog Star]

May we refer to the structure as the "Who Bridge" as the scenes and stock seem to suffer a time warp when moving through the arch?

 

[Alan]

You may.

 

[simond]

Who may?