Oh dear! Am I being approached to be to apart of an syndicate?
I sort of have no real quarrel with the place. Though, this will be my first place of refuge when it does happen!
Dave, it's a vice I wish I could break, I'm too used to Meths now! though the high you have weh nremoving frnech polish from a layout is second to none.
Why thank you for all of these kind and well meaning comments. I would be genuinely lying if I didn't say I wouldn't welcome them. However, whilst I still have interent I shall post my final "completed" project so far, (more on the way!). When I say completed, I mean, almost completed. They would have been completed had I not had Dapol deep flanged wheels (grrrr).
These are you common or garden dapol oil tankers with copious ammounts of detail added and then remove and which I wish I hadn't removed...b****r.
I was tempted to restart over again (this would have been the thirs time with these nice and...simple...wagons) but I think they're salvagable.
As you may be able to tell, I used the original decal, a horror beyond all horrors... which, when not being dull and tedieous, beat me into the submission of fun!
Hmm, I think people are way too kind in regards to these models.
Anway you can't have an oil train without barrier wagons (well you can as some odeius little berk with a nasal voice would argue, depending on the flash point... pfft!)
So out came some parkside 13t opens (I wanted shock wagons originally but sourcing those decals once was a trek and a half!)
these were the first finished real modelling projects of mine when I came back into the hobby.
Finally (and unfortunatly when the best picture I have of it!) a dapol brake van. With underframe work and alsort of verious add-ons and take offs!
Right, I'm off now kids, to be a poncy actor... huzzah!
