The Norwich & Mucklemouth Railway - Eastern Eccentricity in EM

[Chris Veitch]

That Y4 is almost enough to make me want to become a Great Eastern modeller.

 

[Herb Garden]

That Y4 is almost enough to make me want to become a Great Eastern modeller.

Almost enough....? What would it take you to fully convert?

 

[Chris Veitch]

Almost enough....? What would it take you to fully convert?

I suspect not very much, George - packing up for the house move has shone a bright light on the wide variety of half-baked schemes that my butterfly modelling psyche flits between, and it needs little temptation to try another. I'm always tempted when I come across less popular pre-grouping and light railway subjects but fortunately there isn't a feasible excuse to mix the Furness, North London and Garstang and Knott End...

Seriously though, I do suffer very badly from project inertia and the while I'm a lifelong but sadly unproductive narrow gauge modeller the recent growth in pre-grouping and industrial OO RTR models has made me start to think seriously about something in OO or EM that might actually allow me to get a small something running and relatively finished.

 

[Mullie]

That mill really looks the part, superb.

Martyn

 

[Herb Garden]

That mill really looks the part, superb.

Martyn

Thanks Martyn

 

[Liver & Fry]

"...tomorrow should see the buffers going on."

It did:



All according to plan (so far!)

- James

 

[Herb Garden]

Well I still have some final weathering to do on the mill but you get the idea


Sadly the camera bleached the building slightly so you can't see as well the detailed subtle weathering I've done on the planks... All the more reason why you should come to expo EM. Is very

It's now not long to go. And reality has hit that I will be leaving to drive down there this about this time five weeks from now.... Yikes

 

[Liver & Fry]

Looking very nice @Herb Garden!

You'll be pleased to hear that (bar the roof) the Dia.7s are now physically complete!



Now it's time to crack out the paint...

- James

 

[Herb Garden]

Looking very nice @Herb Garden!

You'll be pleased to hear that (bar the roof) the Dia.7s are now physically complete!

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Now it's time to crack out the paint...

- James

Those have turned out better than I have hoped for given how crude the kit was. Stunning job @Liver & Fry

 

[Liver & Fry]

Those have turned out better than I have hoped for given how crude the kit was. Stunning job @Liver & Fry

Thank you!

 

[paulc]

K

Thank you! Honestly, it's just Loctite Precision Superglue applied thinly with a cocktail stick. I usually use Roket Rapid but I had previously ran out, picked up the Loctite and found it worked so I've kept with that bottle!

- James

Keep it in the fridge unless your modelling room is really cold . Doing this will slow down the rate at which it eventually will turn to goop, which it will.

 

[Liver & Fry]

K
Keep it in the fridge unless your modelling room is really cold . Doing this will slow down the rate at which it eventually will turn to goop, which it will.

Noted, thank you!

- James

 

[Andyj]

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Really liking the mill. I keep having ideas about doing something based on Tide Mills near Newhaven.