Large Scale Central

7/8s 0-4-2 Fairymead Prototype

For your viewing pleasure, videos to follow

Too cool, thanks for posting Jason!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJaMXZ2Magw&feature[/youtube]

Thanks, how did you do that? I gave up on both of the standard embed codes

Jason, if you press the Quote button on Ralph’s post, you can see the code he used.

Is that a steam line or something coming out of the bunker? What a nice looking engine…

Nice-looking loco in every respect. Not too certain aobut the video, tho’, It made me feel I’d O’D on my meds…

tac, ig, ken the GFT & The Alconbury Flood Boys

The line from the bunker is from the handpump. The video is not the best, there is too much stuff inside the track and too many people for any decent shots.

Jason, please accept an apology from somebody else who lives in the UK on behalf of the rather rude post on another UK-based forum. The person who asked if you were a ‘totter’ is devoid of any sense of spelling. He meant ‘touter’, another term that is probably unheard of in North America. A ‘tout’ is somebody who sells stuff, often at remarkable levels of inflation [as in ball-game ticket tout].

He is so far out of line that I find it embarrassing to share the same land-mass with him. All he needed to have done was to read the link on your first post about this beautiful new loco.

Best

tac

TAC Over here we call them SCALPERS.

Noel

Yup, I know.

Best

tac, ig, ken the GFT & The Cold Creek Boys

Jason Kovac said:
The line from the bunker is from the handpump. The video is not the best, there is too much stuff inside the track and too many people for any decent shots.

'snot that - it wiggles and waves like it’s underwater, unless, of course, the nurse was over-generous with my anti-psychotic meds again.

tac, ig, ken the GFT & The Blackpool Hallucination Boys

Yes I don’t know what the hell youtube did to the video. I might have to re-upload and delete that one.

tac Foley said:
Jason, please accept an apology from somebody else who lives in the UK on behalf of the rather rude post on another UK-based forum. The person who asked if you were a ‘totter’ is devoid of any sense of spelling. He meant ‘touter’, another term that is probably unheard of in North America. A ‘tout’ is somebody who sells stuff, often at remarkable levels of inflation [as in ball-game ticket tout]. He is so far out of line that I find it embarrassing to share the same land-mass with him. All he needed to have done was to read the link on your first post about this beautiful new loco. Best tac

I saw that post as well tac. I just dont understand people sometimes. There are so many great people in this hobby, but you always have that one that has to be an _ _ _ (fill in the blanks). I was tempted to post something back to that individual but I bit my tongue and figured it was not worth it.

Jason Kovac said:
Yes I don’t know what the hell youtube did to the video. I might have to re-upload and delete that one.

Jason, YT posts a little ‘helping paw’ and notes ’ we see that there are a few irregularities in your movie - would you like us to improve it for you?’ Tick ‘yes’, and you get the ‘whoooooooooooooooooohoooooo’ image. They did it to me twice until I figured out that their idea of ‘fix’ actually meant ‘screw up’.

Sadly, it can’t be undone, and you have to delete it and start all over again.

tac

Shawn said:

I saw that post as well tac. I just dont understand people sometimes. There are so many great people in this hobby, but you always have that one that has to be an _ _ _ (fill in the blanks). I was tempted to post something back to that individual but I bit my tongue and figured it was not worth it.

Shawn, I was banned from posting on that site about three years ago after referring to those persons for whom the letter’s LGB are sacred text, for daring to point out that -

a. The day that LGB produced a model to a constant scale all over, would be the day the sun rose in the west.

b. ALL our trains, LGB, Bachmann Aster, AccuCraft - whatever - are nothing more than playthings.

However, their collective ire was raised to boiling level after I referred to them as ‘Red Box Foamers’ and how extremely strange was their habit of making movies of the ‘sacred unboxing ceremony - from porch step to table top…’ I actually received threats of bodily harm to my person if I DARED to attend a pal’s get-together. I attended, and nothing happened.

Shame, that, as I’m extremely fond of a bit of well-contrived mayhem, and used to get paid a lot of money for causing it to happen in very large amounts to Her Majesty’s enemies.

Besp

tac, ig, ken the GFT & The Merry Hell Boys

Jason - favour, please. Many folks are unclear, for reasons I cannot figure out, quite how much bigger 7/8th scale is than 1/20.3.

For those who still haven’t got the idea, howsabout posting a pic of the ‘Fairymead’ and ‘Ruby’ side-by side?

tac, ig, ken the GFT & The Broadway Bridge Boys

tac Foley said:
Jason - favour, please. Many folks are unclear, for reasons I cannot figure out, quite how much bigger 7/8th scale is than 1/20.3. For those who still haven’t got the idea, howsabout posting a pic of the ‘Fairymead’ and ‘Ruby’ side-by side? tac, ig, ken the GFT & The Broadway Bridge Boys

How about this?

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-_Zv3id7jZCA/UPycev_sKnI/AAAAAAAAFKM/ZnAwgcHvF0Y/s640/IMG_3271.JPG

Although the engine next to Fairylead is also 7/8n2 - that’s the Hunslet. The LH loco is Jason’s WuHu Falk in Fn3 (same size as a Ruby, I guess,) ad the other the is enrty-level “Dora” I think.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-_Zv3id7jZCA/UPycev_sKnI/AAAAAAAAFKM/ZnAwgcHvF0Y/s640/IMG_3271.JPG

OK… So why doesn’t the link show as a picture?

Aha - probably because it is a link to a picture.

Thanks, Gentlemen - I asked my pal Neil, over on the IoM, to psot it on the site whereof ye which i do not speak.

tac, ig, ken the GFT & The Non-White & White Minstrel Show Boys