I have really enjoyed your video and it really helps me with my recovery from my brain tumour and stroke as I try to get back to my modelling I mention my illness so you know who is watching and why thank
Outstanding models. These models have energised me into completing my DMR J37 and starting my Alexander Models J38. From your comments, it seems that Portescap motors are still available.
You have a lovely layout with stock. My only observation is that you do need to tidy up the window spaces and either board them up or obtains some nice new curtains for photography purposes.
I remember B1s thundering through Huntingdon in 1950 returning empty fish vans to Grimsby, a sharp contrast with the WD 2-8-0s crawling south with long trains of unbraked coal wagons.
The quality and quantity of your output Tony is truly remarkable. So good to see so much kit building. I'm finding it a challenge to buy parts in 7mm for projects due to MOQ of etches and retirements and because of those suppliers who've gone the play trains with God. I've got a couple of Portescap motors, do you buy yours direct? I remember that they were all the rage in the 1980s kit building world🤔 Imho they, with a good gearbox are hard to beat, however, you pays your money and makes yer choice👍✌️😊 May I ask what controllers you use please? Everything runs so smoothly, beautifully in fact.
That's always been a problem here in New Zealand. It's very disappointing that even the UK itself is starting to suffer from the same shortages. General hobby shops (dwindling in number) might sell you RTR stock (if you can afford it) but the bits and bobs you need to detail it, let alone build your own, are increasingly difficult to locate thanks to the small business owners who have gone to the great scrapyard in the sky. I used to load up my suitcase with various parts whenever I went to the UK, but now I get the impression I'd have to scour the country to get what I need. Of course you can buy online but that's a lot of bother when you just want a set of nameplates or transfers. My advice is to grab hold of detail parts etc when you see them and stock up for the time when they may be needed.
@cathybrind2381 You right on the money there. It is getting harder in 4mm and 7mm, the latter more so. In fact one major etch and casting, plus kits supplier, who had also bought up other ranges, has announced retirement two weeks ago. I think, I hope, that I have all that I need to finish my stash of kits (if I live that long 🤞🙏🙏). I tend to buy second hand, then detail and repair (on a budget) as I'm a modeller not a collector etc. But I can see some costs of second hand falling (probably all of my stash 🤔😲🙄🤕😀😀) and others rising, then, disappearing altogether. I've a funny feeling (and I'm no pessimist, just a realist) that we've gone past the zenith of the hobby now. There are some 3DP suppliers doing some work, but they're not really taking up the slack, nor attempting too. I've seen seven model shops go in my area over a ten year period. Others have either had to change or risk failure too. Their margins are less than toy shops and haven't changed, iirc, for 20 years, and the box shifters get better deals (clearly the marketing bods in the manufacturers don't completely appreciate the business concept of duplication), in fact smaller shops are often treated like dirt. Having written that Hattons caught a cold (a more complex matter from what I've heard). Then we've got our economy being suicided by Carbon Climate Change net zero madness and two parties in the grip of the CCP and WEF. Thank goodness for modelling to keep us sane🙏🤞👍😊😊✌️✌️💜💜
@@_RandomPeaperhaps reflecting the lack of passengers and freight income that had the station closed and torn down just a few years after the period modelled.
I have really enjoyed your video and it really helps me with my recovery from my brain tumour and stroke as I try to get back to my modelling I mention my illness so you know who is watching and why thank
Amazing. Simply amazing. 👍
Outstanding models. These models have energised me into completing my DMR J37 and starting my Alexander Models J38. From your comments, it seems that Portescap motors are still available.
You have a lovely layout with stock. My only observation is that you do need to tidy up the window spaces and either board them up or obtains some nice new curtains for photography purposes.
Some cracking locos there. 👍
I remember B1s thundering through Huntingdon in 1950 returning empty fish vans to Grimsby, a sharp contrast with the WD 2-8-0s crawling south with long trains of unbraked coal wagons.
Excellent layout, locos & stock, Little Blytham...Beeching axe?
The quality and quantity of your output Tony is truly remarkable. So good to see so much kit building. I'm finding it a challenge to buy parts in 7mm for projects due to MOQ of etches and retirements and because of those suppliers who've gone the play trains with God.
I've got a couple of Portescap motors, do you buy yours direct? I remember that they were all the rage in the 1980s kit building world🤔 Imho they, with a good gearbox are hard to beat, however, you pays your money and makes yer choice👍✌️😊
May I ask what controllers you use please? Everything runs so smoothly, beautifully in fact.
That's always been a problem here in New Zealand. It's very disappointing that even the UK itself is starting to suffer from the same shortages. General hobby shops (dwindling in number) might sell you RTR stock (if you can afford it) but the bits and bobs you need to detail it, let alone build your own, are increasingly difficult to locate thanks to the small business owners who have gone to the great scrapyard in the sky. I used to load up my suitcase with various parts whenever I went to the UK, but now I get the impression I'd have to scour the country to get what I need. Of course you can buy online but that's a lot of bother when you just want a set of nameplates or transfers. My advice is to grab hold of detail parts etc when you see them and stock up for the time when they may be needed.
@cathybrind2381 You right on the money there. It is getting harder in 4mm and 7mm, the latter more so. In fact one major etch and casting, plus kits supplier, who had also bought up other ranges, has announced retirement two weeks ago. I think, I hope, that I have all that I need to finish my stash of kits (if I live that long 🤞🙏🙏). I tend to buy second hand, then detail and repair (on a budget) as I'm a modeller not a collector etc. But I can see some costs of second hand falling (probably all of my stash 🤔😲🙄🤕😀😀) and others rising, then, disappearing altogether. I've a funny feeling (and I'm no pessimist, just a realist) that we've gone past the zenith of the hobby now. There are some 3DP suppliers doing some work, but they're not really taking up the slack, nor attempting too. I've seen seven model shops go in my area over a ten year period. Others have either had to change or risk failure too. Their margins are less than toy shops and haven't changed, iirc, for 20 years, and the box shifters get better deals (clearly the marketing bods in the manufacturers don't completely appreciate the business concept of duplication), in fact smaller shops are often treated like dirt. Having written that Hattons caught a cold (a more complex matter from what I've heard). Then we've got our economy being suicided by Carbon Climate Change net zero madness and two parties in the grip of the CCP and WEF. Thank goodness for modelling to keep us sane🙏🤞👍😊😊✌️✌️💜💜
Beautiful models. Beautiful layout. But for all that wonderful detail, strangely lacking in figures (workers and passengers)…..
There's some on the platform... ? Perhaps it was during COVID... 😆
@@_RandomPeaperhaps reflecting the lack of passengers and freight income that had the station closed and torn down just a few years after the period modelled.
It’s a quiet station at the end of its life, I think it’s fairly realistic
@ still, you would think there would be some more workers especially in the goods area?