Hello from West Wales.

Journeyman · Post by **Journeyman** » Thu Mar 11, 2021 8:29 am

Just looking in as a total new comer with no experience of railway modelling but eager to learn.

Dave.

Post by **Dad-1** » Thu Mar 11, 2021 8:43 am

Welcome Dave,

We all knew nothing once, I'm still not far past that stage !!
Yet have built a few layouts.
West Wales Ehh, we used to often head that way for our holidays.

Geoff T.

Journeyman · Post by **Journeyman** » Thu Mar 11, 2021 9:21 am

Dad-1 wrote:Welcome Dave,

We all knew nothing once, I'm still not far past that stage !!
Yet have built a few layouts.
West Wales Ehh, we used to often head that way for our holidays.

Geoff T.

Thanks for the welcome Geoff,
Yes it’s a great place for Holidays and plenty of historic interest for modelling, have been looking up photos of places I new as a kid.
Will be interesting to try and work some of the places into a layout.

Dave.

glencairn · Post by **glencairn** » Thu Mar 11, 2021 10:07 am

Welcome on board, Dave. A good crew here.

Glencairn

End2end · Post by **End2end** » Thu Mar 11, 2021 10:59 am

Hi Journeyman and welcome to the forum.

Thanks
End2end

Post by **Bufferstop** » Thu Mar 11, 2021 11:10 am

I'll echo everyone else's welcomes. As a total newcomer don't be afraid to post any questions, the only silly ones are the ones you don't ask.

ChrisGreaves · Post by **ChrisGreaves** » Thu Mar 11, 2021 11:12 am

Journeyman wrote:
Dad-1 wrote:... have been looking up photos of places I new as a kid.

Hi Dave, and welcome here.
I am a newcomer to this board, too, but not a newcomer to forums. I am "picking up where I left off" sixty years ago, with (as of two days ago) a set of eight plastic kits, five yards of track, and a collection of 40 paints. (this thread)

As a fourteen-year-old i knew it all, had a layout some 12'x8' (I never measured it, but it was several 8'x4' sheets of Canite board).

Now I sit here wondering whether to glue before painting, or paint before gluing!
Cheers
Chris

Bigmet · Post by **Bigmet** » Thu Mar 11, 2021 11:52 am

Likewise welcome, and ask away and we'll all have fun.

Dad-1 wrote:...West Wales Ehh, we used to often head that way for our holidays...

Yes, but don't advertise it! My last YHA based walking holiday in the 1970s, we pitched up at Marloes, the week the new youth hostel opened. It was like fairyland, so friendly, barely any traffic, very beautiful and peaceful, no pub closing time; when I asked at the bar what the police thought of this I was directed to a man in the corner who was the local bobby. (The YHA warden was also present, so no fear of being locked out of the hostel.)

The most recent visit, it has seen a little development, but not the over exploitation seen in Devon and Cornwall.

ChrisGreaves wrote:...Now I sit here wondering whether to glue before painting, or paint before gluing!

Fix it together with the paint. Then it's easy to take apart when it goes wrong!

ChrisGreaves wrote:...As a fourteen-year-old I knew it all ...

Yup, we're all doomed...

ChrisGreaves · Post by **ChrisGreaves** » Thu Mar 11, 2021 2:29 pm

Bigmet wrote:
ChrisGreaves wrote:...Now I sit here wondering whether to glue before painting, or paint before gluing!
Fix it together with the paint. Then it's easy to take apart when it goes wrong!

For sale: One tube of plastic cement (grin)
Thanks Bigmet.
Now I remember that as I grew older (say, nineteen years old), I did cut down on my glue use and learned that it was better for a lightly-glued kit to disassemble itself into its original components than to dis-assemble into a jigsaw puzzle,

It's all coming back to me, bit by bit, thanks to you folks on the NRMF
Cheers
Chris

Mountain · Post by **Mountain** » Thu Mar 11, 2021 2:44 pm

Hello. I am in West Wales too. Is funny how it is called West Wales because it is in the south. Anywhere west of Swansea that does not include The Gower, and further west, that does not include Mid Wales, where the very west shores of Mid Wales are not West Wales. Confusing isn't it?

Welcome anyway.

Bigmet · Post by **Bigmet** » Thu Mar 11, 2021 3:52 pm

ChrisGreaves wrote:...Now I remember that as I grew older (say, nineteen years old), I did cut down on my glue use and learned that it was better for a lightly-glued kit to disassemble itself into its original components than to dis-assemble into a jigsaw puzzle...

I remember the magical introduction to Slater's Mekpak by the older brother of a schoolfriend, just apply it - wherever possible on what will be the concealed side of the joint - in small quantity, the cement runs in by capillary attraction, and the joint will be strong enough but 'break out' cleanly if you ever want to disassemble it.

I didn't make a fortune doing it, but made useful additions to the model railway funds by neatly assembling the Airfix skeleton; mainly for the many girls who took the human bilge O level, that lacked a brother with kit assembling know how. So much easier to do with liquid cement. I did have a small run in with the biopolice in the formidable form of the appropriately named Mrs Coma (was bilge ever boring, all descriptive, cladistics and Lamarckian in tendency, you wouldn't think we were living an hour away from where the structure of DNA had been first described, and a century post Darwin: I abandoned it for 'real science' as early as permitted by the curriculum!) who insisted that I cease adding the labeling to the bones, the student was to do that bit.

Bigmet · Post by **Bigmet** » Thu Mar 11, 2021 4:02 pm

Mountain wrote:Hello. I am in West Wales too. Is funny how it is called West Wales because it is in the south. Anywhere west of Swansea that does not include The Gower, and further west, that does not include Mid Wales, where the very west shores of Mid Wales are not West Wales. Confusing isn't it?...

Where's East Wales then?

According to our extremely Welsh rugger specialist PTI: "That's what the rascally English stole from us, look you!"

Journeyman · Post by **Journeyman** » Thu Mar 11, 2021 5:15 pm

What a great welcome from you all, thanks to Glencairn, End2end, Bufferstop, Chris Greaves, Bigmet and Mountain.
Mountain, if I was any further west I would be Irish!

Thank you all, Dave.

Mountain · Post by **Mountain** » Thu Mar 11, 2021 6:11 pm

Bigmet wrote:
Mountain wrote:Hello. I am in West Wales too. Is funny how it is called West Wales because it is in the south. Anywhere west of Swansea that does not include The Gower, and further west, that does not include Mid Wales, where the very west shores of Mid Wales are not West Wales. Confusing isn't it?...
Where's East Wales then?

According to our extremely Welsh rugger specialist PTI: "That's what the rascally English stole from us, look you!"

Cardiff and Newport etc? I suppose somewhere like Chepstow is our Far East where the people drive Mazdas and set up takeaways...

In the Wild West one is more likely to see an American car like a Ford or a GM owned Vauxhall...

Mountain · Post by **Mountain** » Thu Mar 11, 2021 6:12 pm

Journeyman wrote:What a great welcome from you all, thanks to Glencairn, End2end, Bufferstop, Chris Greaves, Bigmet and Mountain.
Mountain, if I was any further west I would be Irish!

Thank you all, Dave.

Sorry to hear that.

Ok. My humour... I like the west.

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