The GnATTERbox

Hi, You can still see the Pepper 7 website, but even if you can, please don't order from it as anything you do will fall into a black hole. https://blackdogmining.weebly.com/locos1.html Whilst there were plans for production to be taken over by Howard Martin he seems to have been sucked into a simil...

A small album from better days here:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/jaytilsto ... 4485524122

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Hi Bill,

I'm currently hiding from the sun, so it's great to be able to keep up with your work. Hopefully one day in the far, far, future I'll be able to see both layout and you at a show again.

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You sure do keep busy Peter!

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Hi Ian,

Love the rusty corrugated iron.

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Hi Michael,

Great video, great layout.

I've taken the liberty of moving your thread's location as it's about a Gn15 model rather than a 15" prototype.

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Awesome!

I'm all too aware that lots of little bits wouldn't fit or work if I was to try the same sort of thing. I doff my cap to you.

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Hi Andy, Thanks for sharing/showing all that in one go. It’s scary how much space models can take up in boxes, your case idea works a treat. I’m a serial dabbler in 7/8ths and 1/12 scale mostly, with the consequent much larger volume per item. It also makes it much harder to conceal from SWMBO! Chee...

Ian, guys, A possible Eureka moment. By good fortune I had bookmarked Andy's website. I've just signed up for the Wayback Machine and can now offer: https://web.archive.org/web/20070703150000/http://www.pd49.dial.pipex.com/pockets/railways/cuddle2.html It may not be much but the links between pages ...

The future (I hope!) I must update the track plan on the previous page as it lacks a siding that comes off the ‘main line’ in the garden towards the pond just before it goes into the paddock so that a complete train, or just a bit of rolling stock, can be held as other things come through. There’s a...

Just looked back to Page 1 as it were. December 2006. It’s been quite a journey. Very enjoyable to have been along for the ride.

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Great to have you back Ian. I’m looking forward to the layout. It’s a shame that neither Andy nor Carl Arendt (I think it fascinated Carl as it’s a simple length of track, yet offers interesting working) are here to enjoy it with the rest of us.

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Delightful.

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Hi Ian,

I don’t think it ever got built. It was always Andy’s Eldorado, sought but never reached.

As you probably know it was written about here

https://www.carendt.com/micro-layout-de ... ght-lines/

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There’s been an issue with the email to moderators/admin function for an age now that I think has defeated Tom’s (Tebee) ability to fix.

Unfortunately he had to switch off the joining process as we were being hit by hundreds of spam applications.

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Hi Simon, Welcome and congratulations on ‘uncloaking’. Lots of fun still to be had, but, as we are quiet these days in the Gnatterbox I’d be remiss if I didn’t also mention there is a group on Facebook majoring in Gn15, G9 and any minimal gauge activity in and scale or gauge you care to mention. You...

At the risk of pointing out the B. obvious we have a virtual exhibition in the section marked... ahem, Virtual Exhibition. Put together by the now sadly departed Gerry Bullock it has been decimated by Photobucket changing their business model and depriving us of zillions of photos. There are, howeve...

Great stuff David. St. Petrox is a delight. We regularly visit Pembrokeshire and have walked around the Stackpole estate several times. Once we were lucky enough to see an otter there. It seems unimaginable now, but 20 odd years ago I was not that enamoured of Sir Arthurs locomotive designs. It was ...

Bill, I have the utmost admiration for yourself and all those who use track power. Your photos of lovely spaghetti show why. Back in the day, as a callow youth, my Triang-Hornby set was run through just the one set of leads to the track. I can’t really remember why I never took it further - probably...

Paul,

The publishers ship direct worldwide.

https://narrowgaugeandindustrial.co.uk/ ... wood-vol-1

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David,

See the thread immediately above this in Blether.

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Money sent Tom.

As long as you're OK to keep the dirty oily bits of the Gnatterbox going I'm happy to chip in.

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In the time that has drifted past while rail laying took a break the paddock has been reseeded as a wild flower meadow and the fence and gate between paddock and garden removed. The garden has also been redeveloped to have as many bee and insect friendly plants and shrubs as possible. So rather than...

Steve,

Things are stirring once more on the track laying front. I hope to (finally) report that Phase 1, i.e. the track plan previously posted, will be complete by no later than the end of March. How’s that for sticking the Stockers neck out? On top of that the presses are whirring in an attempt to get up ...