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Operations in Lower Dunderton
Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2023 7:09 am
by Chops
Not far from Piddlesworth. (No model trains were killed or injured in this production).
https://youtu.be/0Bkrb9z1wMU
Re: 1900: The Search for Nessie Continues.
Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2023 9:41 am
by Walkingthedog
Thanks Chops great video as usual. I like your double double crossover crossover.
Re: 1900: The Search for Nessie Continues.
Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2023 1:16 am
by Chops
Re: 1900: The Search for Nessie Continues.
Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2023 1:21 am
by Chops
Biff rewards the hand that feeds him by biting on it. Claws retracted.
Tools and things weight down Stonehenge, fallen henges re-erected; the glue is setting. Afterwhich, the border will be blended and a path laid out to the gate.
More progress
Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2023 11:01 pm
by Chops
It occurs to me that the empty backside would be an ideal place to model the White Cliffs of Dover as they
tower over the Channel. I won't be modeling the sea shore, just the escarpment.
New Midian Salt Mine gets a hill. The White Horse of Uffington lurks on the hillside, behind.
Toll House by the canal gets a picket fence.
Random shrubs to top of cut make it look more...more...more...well, you get the idea. Gray wash to the
cut stratum tones them down, nicely.
Re: 1900: The Search for Nessie Continues.
Posted: Sat Nov 25, 2023 4:01 pm
by sandy
Last September my wife and I were walking along loch Ness towards Urquhart Castle and we both saw something leaving a trail in the water. It was travelling about 300 hundred yards along the opposite bank so we were a long way from it. But it was certainly was not a boat. Its speed was quite slow. The loch was very calm so the wake was clear in the water. Could have been an animal like a seal perhaps but they normally bob up and down rather than stay on the surface of the water. Make of that what you will. By the time I got back to the car to get my long lens for the camera it was gone.
Re: 1900: The Search for Nessie Continues.
Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2023 11:05 pm
by Chops
How interesting! Your description gives me the chills. In times past, I've paddled around in bays in the Pacific, and Atlantic. Not so keen on that now, stick to fresh water. Supposedly shark attacks are rare, but often enough to quell my adventurism. I enjoy swimming in wild waters, but nothing would ever get me into that Scottish broth. Some naysayers attribute random ripples to water currents from feeder streams and also of temperature differentials. No less, your description gives me the chills. In times past, I've paddled around in bays in the Pacific, and Atlantic. Not so keen on that now, stick to fresh water.
Britain is loaded with mystery, among them the Uffington Horse. It is not certain that anyone has worked out how they plotted this exceptionally graceful relic out. Some long lost surveying technique?
Progress continues, slowly, upon Henley. Salt Mines of Numidia (a reference to joys of employment. Numidia being referenced in Robert Grave's "I, Claudius," by Livia, in threatening Gladiators not to fake it, lest she sends "the lot of you to the salt mines in Numidia.") taking shape.
Trains adapting well to the Bachmann EZ Track. Some pieces used to derail badly and unpredictably upon OO set track, now running much better with rarely a problem.
Re: 1900: The Search for Nessie Continues.
Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2023 5:18 am
by Chops
"Blood and Custard" taking on passengers at Station Henley. Stonehenge. Umm, a Class um, something, idling in the fog, waiting on
its next orders. Projects in the offing include the White Cliffs of Dover, a pre-steam granite trackway, and revamping the
dinosaur excavation. Henley, where we take compression modeling to new depths of compression.
Numidia: Salt Mine
Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2023 6:49 am
by Chops
Salt Mines of Numidia
Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2023 2:25 pm
by Chops