Stoneycombe, this weeks pics

Granitechops

Granitechops

Narrow Gauge 1/12th scale on 45mm</br>Quarrying &
THURS 27th October, just before dusk
Skips in Sharkstooth Pass
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Pilot on a gravity train?
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on the stone bridge
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close up of different moss growths
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Hope you don't mind this suggestion Don, but why don't you bend some pins out of wire? Because, as sure as eggs is eggs, if wasn't for the pop rivet, you would not be able to tell that the pics weren't from the 12" to 1' world. So realistic. Those skips are just brilliant and the greenery is so spot on. Made my day seeing those shots!
 
trammayo said:
Hope you don't mind this suggestion Don, but why don't you bend some pins out of wire? Because, as sure as eggs is eggs, if wasn't for the pop rivet, you would not be able to tell that the pics weren't from the 12" to 1' world. So realistic. Those skips are just brilliant and the greenery is so spot on. Made my day seeing those shots!
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Suggestions always welcome, Mick, Thanks for the complements. Have done some pins out of cooker earth wire.
I think I started using rivets after I started losing the pins & links when turning wagons over to lubricate axles.
I now use the rivets with a small hole drilled in the flange (?) & a small screw into the buffer beam, so each wagon always has link in it that cant get lost. I agree with you, it would look better.
I suppose I could use copper wire & bend the bottom end over to stop them coming out
But that is a rountuit job!

PS I usually leave wagons in rakes & set on tracks with a cassette type carrier made from rain guttering

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Close up of railing end, retaining barrier just springs out of gutter
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Granitechops said:
PS I usually leave wagons in rakes & set on tracks with a cassette type carrier made from rain guttering
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That carrier's a neat idea! I know what you mean about the pins - I made a stock of spares for my railbus 'cos I was always loosing them.
 
Granitechops said:
trammayo said:
Hope you don't mind this suggestion Don, but why don't you bend some pins out of wire? Because, as sure as eggs is eggs, if wasn't for the pop rivet, you would not be able to tell that the pics weren't from the 12" to 1' world. So realistic. Those skips are just brilliant and the greenery is so spot on. Made my day seeing those shots!
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Suggestions always welcome, Mick, Thanks for the complements. Have done some pins out of cooker earth wire.
I think I started using rivets after I started losing the pins & links when turning wagons over to lubricate axles.
I now use the rivets with a small hole drilled in the flange (?) & a small screw into the buffer beam, so each wagon always has link in it that cant get lost. I agree with you, it would look better.
I suppose I could use copper wire & bend the bottom end over to stop them coming out
But that is a rountuit job!

PS I usually leave wagons in rakes & set on tracks with a cassette type carrier made from rain guttering

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Close up of railing end, retaining barrier just springs out of gutter
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Carriers? We don't need no stinking carriers, we make our own.
What a great idea!! And as the new phrase goes, you have certainly "Re-purposed" an uneeded item.
 
Fantastic looking pic's love the landscaping and the moss on the rails:bigsmile:
 
The last pic in your first post is delicious.... I'd copy it here if I could!
 
what a Balmy, ( barmy?) winter, we had a first scattering of hailstones on friday, first air frost this morning, Sunday.
so plants have held up well
heres pic from this morning 9.45am in bright sunshine ( well the sun was bright, but not yet on the garden)
Early pink Azaelia on the right, Fuschia & Antirhinum on left
Looks like no traffic has been around into the cutting for a week or two. :bigsmile:
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makes a change from the last 2 years severe December weather
close up of Azaelia
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And Fuschia
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Thats a selfd sown lettuce behind the skip in the first pic
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I have been given instructions to let it grow for a day or two so it can go in a winter salad!!!
 
seeing as we've had so much rain
been working on a water feature :)
Removed some trees to make more room for the Adit drain to meander a bit before spilling into sparkle brook
BEFORE
Narow, straight, overgrown
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AFTER
Open, meandering
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Great pix Don....
 
StephH said:
That looks much nicer Don! I can heat the burbling brook from here! Glad to see Stoneycombe is still developing nicely. I love that culvert pipe! I want one on my line!;)
Steph'
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:wave: Oops, I knew there was an Artist somewhere!!:D
The culvert is just a piece of copper pipe connected to the pump with a tight fitting styrene tube super glued in place & a styrene 'washer' cut with a circle cutting compass, solvented to the pipe & a ring of holes drilled & a spare nut & bolt loosely in one of the holes
 
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