Yes indeed Phil - that works remarkably well (ducks included  :thumbs) 

You appear to have a new project Phil and a we'll imagined one at that, as all can see with your magical images. 

 More space and interest from just a few inches. Well done, now get to work and have some fun.

Best,

Bill

Easy to do, the only problem is finding the time :roll:

I know how the time bandits can creep up and swamp the best laid plans Phil. I'd almost finished emptying a small Dutch barn of all sorts of useful things for the past few days, in readiness for the man to reclad the rear wall next week and then the bride fell and broke her wrist yesterday, so I'm now chief cook besides my usual bottle washer duties with a host of other essential tasks to be done, so modelling is very much on the 'would be nice to do sometime' list.
   
  Hope you can find some time and bring more atmosphere to Pen Y Bryn.
   
  Good luck,
   
  Bill
  

I think so too.

I'll try my best Bill & Pete :)

A canal he says… brilliant we all say… it will make the scene better we say… because we all KNOW… that secretly… it's not just the canal…. is it Phil? 
Hello.. my name is Phil and it's been three weeks and two days since I last did any modelling…

Oh no…..

It's the canal….

then…. it would be nice to put a representation of a lock in front of the houses, after all , they are going uphill….

and… if you have a lock… you need a lock keepers house….

and a loading wharf…. 

and a crane…. 

Maybe some crates and sacks…. 

and a bloke fishing….. next to the ducks….

and …. if you have a canal …. and a lock…. a wharf with crane and crates…

then you just have to have a Clyde puffer….. or at least a barge….




We could be watching this develop for years…..

Lucky you thought of it.  :lol: 

It could even be the Manchester ship canal Marty - ocean going freighters …….. :hmm

What about someone winding the sluice gates up and down all worked by an electric motor, the same as the gates being pushed back and forth. The possibilities are endless. Maybe I'll shut up now.

Yes, all of that is possible Marty & Peter, but…..I only want to extend by about three inches at the most so probably no bank to the foreground just open water and no room on the existing layout for cabins, cranes etc. it is possible for a lock but without an opposite bank?

No it's OK mate, I was only joking. It's that Peter from France. He's a bad influence on me.  ;-)

Phil, your work is simply amazing, I am at a loss to figure out how you make all of the details, very well done and such great skills. I would really love to attend a few of your "how to classes…………"

Your scenes take me back to one of my dim memories from living on the UK. I accompanied my Father on a haulage trip from somewhere in Lancashire, to a remote farm somewhere in Wales, carrying a big load of old Railway Sleepers! I don't know what they were for on the farm, but I do remember thinking "how on earth is this Atkinson bogey drive 8 wheeler (Gardner 6LXB engine) going to get up these hills?" Did the research on the truck many years after leaving the UK.

Cheers and well done again, Andrew
 :cheers

I know we're going off topic here, but I drove many a Foden and ERF with 180 6 and 240 8 LXB's, a few Guy Big J's  too. The ERF's had a nice David Brown box and all the Fodens had the 12 speed box. Some hated the 12 speed, but they were a good quick box and as the saying go's, a gear for every occasion. The Gardners were plodders but pulled well and were economical on diesel. It's a shame they used scrolls on the crankshafts instead of proper oil seals. If someone reassembled the engine without getting the backplate positioned exactly right (0.003" all round) the shaft the thing leaked like mad and eventually you had a ruined crankshaft scroll.

Anyway, reminiscing over and back to the present.
Quick edit, yes Atkinson Borderer too.

[user=1120]peterm[/user] wrote:

No it's OK mate, I was only joking. It's that Peter from France. He's a bad influence on me.  ;-)

Qui ?  Moi ? ……………….

Until we moved to France, I had a Class 1 licence - I think I got it simply because, in those days, one could move straight from car to Class 1 without having to do the intermediate classes in between so, when an HGV licence became a necessity to me, Class 1 was the obvious one to get.   As with cars, I was always a Volvo man but on one occasion, doing a favour for a friend, I drove an ERF with a pre-selector type gearbox from Durham to Scotland and back.  I absolutely hated it although those used to it thought it was the best thing since sliced bread.

Quite what this has to do with Pen y Bryn, I have no idea other than it's Welsh name suggests it should be "up a valley" !!!   :hmm

Had a meet-up with 1971 band members yesterday after 50 years, the singer recorded vocals on a pre recorded track that I did with the bassplayer of a Deep Purple song that we did back in the day, good fun…..the only connection with Pen-y-Bryn is, the studio is in the same room  

Wow - a 1971 band !  Are we going to hear this latest remix Phil ?
I'm sure I must have asked but what was the band called ?

Did I ever tell you my wife Liz's nephew is Zac Ware who plays guitar with the Proclaimers ?

This is actually the second reunion after 49 years and with the very first singer, the band was aptly names Skint.
Here's some of the recording done before the lockdown, basically, Jeff Lewis, vocals, Graham Howell-Morgan on bass, and me with everything else :)

https://app.box.com/s/jz11qxuh2ie1fbdorzzhp5oozsnqfci2

https://app.box.com/s/5s493pfw15wgnr4697pjxif0ah58ejl0

https://app.box.com/s/zdc9uvsxb5nxuze890uxb6y4e6ak4f5f

https://app.box.com/s/cb7u9zmt9pkyxhkgwcwjt0i6ivbm8gro

I hate to say it Phil but that's not at all bad for a bunch of "has been" pensioners ……… :thumbs :pathead

Are you all "locals" and where did you play back in the seventies ?

Thanks Peter.

We're all local, but the singer that recorded yesterday (the tracks are not mixed yet) now lives in Nottingham.
In the 70's we played mainly Wales but occasionally ventured out to England :)

Brings back memories of my youth in the sixties.




This one was taken the day I got married.