Steel Penguins braying

PR19_Kit · December 09, 2014, 05:57:29 PM

I used to help run an N Gauge exhibition layout for the Gloucester Model Railway Club that was based on the Somerset & Dorset, and we called it 'Fircoombe'.

For some reason none of the model railway magazines would call it by it's proper name when it was mentioned or reviewed.

Steel Penguin · December 10, 2014, 11:45:41 AM

Kit and Weaver, its that sort of thing that gets us labelled "terrible people"

its just so much fun out thinking some folks isn't it?

PR19_Kit · December 10, 2014, 01:01:17 PM

Precisely!

I love the look that comes over some of my fellow modeller's faces at my 'local model club' (it's 45 miles away...) when I show up with my latest Whiffed creation. I thought one of them was going to collapse when I took my B-35 Northrop Northampton there last month.

Steel Penguin · December 10, 2014, 01:39:09 PM

and thank you to kit and mrs penguin, my stealth's have just been named. f-19 Denver S1 for the one type and S2 for the one on the desk

Weaver · December 10, 2014, 01:45:58 PM

Quote from: PR19_Kit on December 09, 2014, 05:57:29 PM
I used to help run an N Gauge exhibition layout for the Gloucester Model Railway Club that was based on the Somerset & Dorset, and we called it 'Fircoombe'.

PMSL - PLEASE tell me it had a stately home called Fircoombe Hall.....

Steel Penguin · December 10, 2014, 02:02:07 PM

thank you Weaver that is ROFL territory, just brilliant.

Go4fun · December 10, 2014, 04:07:15 PM

I had a "Wall Route that covered about 200 Smiles (Scale Miles as ran by a 3-to-1 fast clock) in N scale. The N-Scale of Topeka club had nine members but it seemed they were at my house every other month for the meet & run.
Took 3 meets before someone noticed the bones outside a crevasse under a road bridge and on closer inspection the T-Rex trapped inside.

They started looking harder for other tricks after that.

PR19_Kit · December 10, 2014, 05:34:47 PM

Quote from: Weaver on December 10, 2014, 01:45:58 PM
Quote from: PR19_Kit on December 09, 2014, 05:57:29 PM
I used to help run an N Gauge exhibition layout for the Gloucester Model Railway Club that was based on the Somerset & Dorset, and we called it 'Fircoombe'.

PMSL - PLEASE tell me it had a stately home called Fircoombe Hall.....

Of COURSE it did! That's where the layout's name came from.

Steel Penguin · December 14, 2014, 07:44:01 AM

another 28mm street violence fig done
86 figs 9 models 18 pieces of scenery
and got some paint on the f19, so some progress on that

Steel Penguin · December 21, 2014, 08:55:29 AM

A pair of ex-Harrier SNEB pods are together and part painted for the F19 S2, and im slowly getting the paint on the main air frame, ive got the launch trapezes to do and then itll be the air-brakes and canopy, some decaling and finish!! ( oh that sounds so easy

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the vampire slayers and crooked figs are undercoated so there's a little progress forward there.

Steel Penguin · December 25, 2014, 01:21:10 AM

well the house is tided and the veg is ready, weve family and friends over in a bit, so Id better stick my head round the door here and say " happy Christmas " to all here, I hope that you all have a good day,
Take it easy, and enjoy

Captain Canada · December 25, 2014, 06:38:21 AM

Happy Christmas to you and yours as well !

Steel Penguin · December 27, 2014, 12:46:04 PM

post crimbo the tables been filled with MDF buildings again, got some of the interior walling on the hotel and Mrs Penguin has been doing the thatched house she started a bit back.
Del Tarrent PI is finished as is another street violence type with a M60 mg, they just nee varnishing, Dayna has had to be repainted, I did want to go for a white outfit but it showed up the conversion too much, do shes been redone in a jade green, ( similar to another outfit the character wore). The vampire hunters are stalled at the moment, but Dorian Grey has had his suite done a pale dove grey.
the F19 just need the bay doors and trapezes adding on the underside, and then ittl be markings and varnish before I PVA the clear stuff on.
and the grape stalk tree is done based and varnished.
88 figs 9 models and 19 pieces of scenery

Captain Canada · December 27, 2014, 04:33:26 PM

Holy smokes you're busy over there ! Any pics ?

Steel Penguin · December 28, 2014, 01:33:47 AM

Alas pics are not possible, As ive said previously, ive looked at photo hosting sites, and tried to read there Ts & Cs and got nowhere ( like 6 windows open to different bits of them, nowhere), and my skill with a camera is barely this side of ok, plus if you search through the "what does your workbench look like" thread you can see mine, and its not got any better since the photo was taken

some of my stuff is on the Cosford show photos http://www.whatifmodelers.com/index.php/topic,38558.15.html in Kits photos the 3rd one down has my TSR2 and the Berlin block stuff and associated figs are mine as well.
Most of mine wont set the world alight, its reasonably good quality wargaming paint schemes, put together so it not fragile.