Sandown Pictures

[the_viffer]

I've uploaded some pictures from Sandown to www.alexandra.org.uk . There is no website to mention: you have to click on the file names to see the pictures. With luck Alan will transfer them to www.modelengine.co.uk . I will then delete them and upload some more for further transfer.

Enjoy

[SteveW]

All,

I just tried the link and the sentence terminator gets included in the URL and it goes wrong.

try: www.alexandra.org.uk

Worth trying as there are some good piccies there.

(And I now see that Viffer has sorted it.)

I was going to delete this post but I think the "good piccies" still holds true.

[the_viffer]

Thanks SteveW. I don't usually get caught on that one. I'll try and amend the original message.

[alanstepney]

viffer said:

With luck Alan will transfer them to www.modelengine.co.uk . I will then delete them and upload some more for further transfer.

Enjoy

Alan will, although he /I am away right now so it wont be until I get home again, probably late next week.

[the_viffer]

I don't mind doing it Alan. It is just that two people modifying a website are likely to cause problems. I'll see what I can do over the next few days

[chameleonrob]

those are great pics, big enough to see the detail, and some detail! that mallet is to die for, nice touch putting it on curved track. almost makes me too embassesed to post pics of my now complete driving truck, almost. just got wait for a friend to take the pics.
rob

[the_viffer]

It is a fine, fine loco that Mallet but the finest loco in the whole show was, in my opinion, the part built LNER 2-8-2 (Picture101 042.jpg) on the Guildford stand.

I gazed in wonder for a considerable time.

Do you know that if you nearly type Sc unthorpe on this site you get Scunthorpe?

[GeorgeRay]

So did I. I chickened out of photographing it because I thought the flash would reflect off the steel, your picture proved me wrong. I just happen to have a small piece of unique cine film of a P1 starting a goods train. Unique because it was taken by a friends father and so I have the only copy. The Model was superb, the steam reverser looked like watch making, congratulations to the builder.

[Phil Sutton]

Excelent Pictures.Makes me wish I'd gone.
Well done t_v

Phil

[the_viffer]

I have now deleted the photos from the www.alexandra.org.uk site.

Alan has all the publishable photos (and more!) I took at the event. I understand he will load them onto www.modelengine.co.uk when he has time. No doubt he will pass the word when he has done that.

[alanstepney]

The photos are now at www.modelengine.co.uk/101.html
and there are certainly some superb models there.

[Phil Sutton]

Can I say here that the Dutchess pictured(if it's the one I think it is)was built by Clive fenn,one of our members,and was awarded a cup.However,at Donnington the other year,it narrowly missed out on a 1st prize,one of the reasons being that"the tender sides weren't flat".It was built as a real loco,took 25 years,and look at a real Dutchess tender-more ripples than you'll find at the seaside!

Phil

[the_viffer]

I don't have a note of the builder Phil, but looking at the picture I can see that it won a medal this time round. I don't recall any other large scale Duchesses this year.

As I was taking the smokebox photo a couple of people dismissed the Duchess with a "cab shape's wrong" and walked away. I seemed to come across them a lot that day and I don't think any exhibit met with their unalloyed approval. It did not seem to stop them handling pretty well every exhibit. I don't believe they spent more than a few seconds looking at each exhibit.

I thought it was a fine loco. I would certainly be very pleased to have it. I can't imagine being able to build it.

Ill-informed comment is not confined to spectators. However the annoyance of such displays of ignorance whether from spectators or judges should be a mere pin prick compared with the satisfaction of having built such a fine model.

[steamjohn248]

I agree with the viffer,

Rivet counters, you get em at traction engine rallys and on preserved steam railways, just point out that if its not up the their standard why don't they get off their backsides and do better. Or get their overalls on and come down to the shed at 0500 and help run the bloody thing, they soon melt away!

[the_viffer]

philsutton said:

Can I say here that the Dutchess pictured(if it's the one I think it is)was built by Clive fenn,one of our members,and was awarded a cup.However,at Donnington the other year,it narrowly missed out on a 1st prize,one of the reasons being that"the tender sides weren't flat".It was built as a real loco,took 25 years,and look at a real Dutchess tender-more ripples than you'll find at the seaside!

Phil

Tom Walsaw had a story of how he was judging once. One of the entries was a superb model of a very early and abstruse engine. Just the kind of thing Tom loved. It was magnificent except that one rod was a bit of straight flat ms held on with modern fasteners. Tom decided that anyone with the skill knowledge and determination to build such a great model must have had a very good reason for doing this so it was not penalised. Afterwards he spoke with the exhibitor who said that he was modelling the engine as of a particular date. At that date the full sized engine had the rod as a piece of straight flat ms held on by modern fasteners while the museum where it was held researched the correct form of a replacement rod.

[3405jimmy]

viffer said:

r.

As I was taking the smokebox photo a couple of people dismissed the Duchess with a "cab shape's wrong" and walked away.

How did you build yours usually sends them packing.

jim

[Phil Sutton]

I also seem to remember that there were 2 screws used somewhere on the tender,in stead of rivits or bolts and there was something on thee cab roof (or it may even have been the cab roof "was 40 thou.too big".!! Can any of you measure 40thou.by eye?
'Nuff said!

Phil
Imagine taking 25 years to build a loco,and then not want to steam it................