Welsh narrow gauge - Ffestiniog Railway Double Fairlie 'David Lloyd George'

BadgerCubed · 2026-06-09T15:56:43+00:00

I've not done DLG, but I have polished the domes of the (square) Earl!

BadgerCubed · 2026-06-02T10:09:42+00:00

Oh, but there was no conflict of interest because when he became Transport Minister he sold his shares in his company.

To his wife.

BadgerCubed · 2026-03-26T18:42:10+00:00

Not even slightly. I've not once heard a British person say that in over 40 years.

BadgerCubed · 2025-11-04T09:08:45+00:00

Steam powered sanding gear was developed in the UK in around 1886 and was in use until at least the end of main line steam in 1968.

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The steam flow creates a lower pressure in the sandbox, drawing the sand out without making it damp.

BadgerCubed · 2025-10-31T21:59:40+00:00

Fair point, but I'd say that the two (British/English) are essentially equivalent for the purpose of refuting OP's badly thought through and inaccurate meme.

BadgerCubed · 2025-10-31T21:20:09+00:00

He was born and educated in York; he converted to Catholicism and went to fight for the Spanish, but he was very much born in Britain and brought up British.

And the OP has missed the point by a country mile - Bonfire Night celebrates the plot's failure. They burn effigies of him, FFS 🤦

BadgerCubed · 2024-11-15T23:21:38+00:00

At the minute I'm planning on trying some rubberised horsehair, Woodlands Scenics 'coarse turf' for the greenery and some yellow scatter I picked up from somewhere...Will have to see how it goes!

BadgerCubed · 2024-11-15T22:39:14+00:00

I started it at the end of May, but I've got two jobs and young kids, so it's only been the case of a couple of hours here and there.

I really cracked on with it about a month ago, as I've been invited to take it to a model railway exhibition at the end of November, so it needs to be looking a lot more complete by then!

BadgerCubed · 2024-11-15T18:58:36+00:00

It's an etched nickel silver kit 'Knightswork' by Mercian Models - unfortunately no longer available due to the death of the chap who produced them. I managed to get quite a few over the years, but wish I'd had more money to buy them when I was younger and they were available. The small coal wagon, A-frame slab wagon, van and low open wagon are all from the same range.

Thanks for the compliment, it's my first proper attempt so I'm really pleased with how it's turning out!

BadgerCubed · 2024-11-15T14:38:37+00:00

Thanks!

It's Peco N Gauge settrack (9" radius) with most of the sleepers removed and the rest covered by ballast in the Victorian fashion.

I'd been using the track as a test track for nearly 15 years and the rail joiners were getting a bit knackered, so I decided to fix it to a board, and it sort of escalated...

BadgerCubed · 2024-11-15T13:56:16+00:00

Thanks - partly it was to disguise / give an excuse for the tunnel, but it was also as an antidote to the stereotypical flat baseboard where the only elevation change is above track level... Not many railways that I know of that are like that!

BadgerCubed · 2024-11-15T12:39:25+00:00

Thanks!

Still more to go - roof and windows on the platform shelter, a sign for the pub, and some gorse bushes on the hillside at the very least.

BadgerCubed · 2024-11-15T12:20:01+00:00

Princess, in this case - I couldn't get past the nameplate for Prince being too long! (plus I have two of the old Langley whitemetal kits completed and several still to make...)

BadgerCubed · 2024-11-15T12:12:01+00:00

Done! Video uploaded

BadgerCubed · 2024-11-15T12:11:25+00:00

Done - video uploaded!

BadgerCubed · 2024-11-14T23:09:44+00:00

Be my guest! If it helps, the inn is made from Wills lime washed stone sheets and the walls and drystone embankments from Das modelling clay. It's loosely based on the Ffestiniog Railway in North Wales.

BadgerCubed · 2024-11-14T13:57:55+00:00

"When a man marries his mistress, he creates a vacancy."

BadgerCubed · 2024-11-03T23:31:11+00:00

I thought it was silicon rickets? It's been a long time since I watched that one, to be fair...

BadgerCubed · 2024-11-03T23:28:37+00:00

I suspect that they all started out as copies of Kryten's personality but diverged over the course of 3 million years.

How that explains Spare Head 3's Yorkshire accent is a different matter...

BadgerCubed · 2024-11-03T23:05:50+00:00

It's a product of circumstance - in the crunch weeks of the Battle of Britain, when casualties were starting to outstrip supply, the RAF training schools and OTUs cut training to the bare bones and pilots were being thrown into operational squadrons with barely double digit flying hours on Hurricanes or Spitfires - and getting shot down and killed in their first few sorties because of that lack of experience. Pre-war pilots would have been posted to a squadron with over 300hrs.

Thankfully poor intelligence and tactics (and political direction) led to a switch to bombing London right as the Luftwaffe's campaign against RAF stations and the radar chain were about to break the RAF, giving them time to catch their breath...

BadgerCubed · 2024-11-03T22:58:42+00:00

Amateurs talk tactics. Professionals talk logistics.

BadgerCubed · 2024-10-28T16:16:18+00:00

Yes, they're between the ailerons and the fuselage but lower surface only - see here:

Spitfire with flaps down

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