A quick glimpse of the £10 church and my Willi having a steam up...

[Old Tom]

You can also see the pressure gauge on Willi reading 2 bar - and it's stayed like that ever since!! :impatient: I'm gonna have to send him back.... unless one of you can suggest a fix?????

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-a9tEFWeqsg

 

[tagorton]

Make a phone call Tom. Martin's Models will probably ask you to remove the gauge and post it back for replacement. If it were me I would buy a half inch gauge and converter from ACME engineering. Would look so much better. (You still want your original replaced tho'

 

[mbiff]

nice willi

 

[steven large]

i do really like it!! love slow loco.switcher,etc....so i like tht boasi tree so where do u get tht from>? thought shud be indoor? outdoor? wow.......
aslo very nice video...wink

 

[dunnyrail]

i do really like it!! love slow loco.switcher,etc....so i like tht boasi tree so where do u get tht from>? thought shud be indoor? outdoor? wow.......
aslo very nice video...wink

Steven,
I do a bit of Bonsai, buy cheep variations of the following. Leave them in the pot when you plant them and cut at will to shape as varying trees. Here are some that I did earlier, admittedly not all in the Garden but they show the effect that you can have on the varying types:-
Cotoneaster:-

Oops sorry the next one is sideways, but the Cotoneaster is the one in the middle. This one is getting quite large but still gets plenty of haircuts.

Lonicera:-

Box:-

Acers also work well, but tend to be expensive though a friend of mine picked up 4 small specimans at a Church Bazaar once so it pays to look around. Just remember to trip them to the sort of shape that you want, they are all pretty forgiving providing that you feed them, water them and dont cut off all the branches!

Hope this gives you some clues.
JonD

 

[dunnyrail]

Sorry about the 3 sideways pics, here they are retaken to correct.:-
Cotoneaster:-

Box:-

JonD

 

[Andy Worsfold]

Sorry for my ignorance but what do you feed your Acers?

Thanks

Andy

 

[Old Tom]

I agree with everything JonD said. I feed all mine on this stuff:
http://www.herons.co.uk/Product-10286/

I'm lucky that I live close to Herons and my wife paid for a training course run by them. It was excellent. Any time you are going down the A22 just north of East Grinstead, pop in and have a look - it's an amazing place.