Me shed needed a luck of paint. Influenced by the colours of LNER at Pickering, I decided I would go go this:
(http://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/gallery/42/thumb_15062.jpg) (http://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view;id=15062)
It provoked this reaction from mrs Kirky
'Even the shed has to be about bloody railways!'
Anybody else do stuff that is railway related to provoke despair in their other half?
Cheers
Kirky
Ps pls can a mod turn it round for me. Ta.
Sorted Kirky :)
I kinda like it on it's side like that because that's the way I'd see it once Mrs B was finished with me :uneasy:
It looks great, kirky. Brilliant, actually.
I'd turn it right way up for you, but I'm on me phone and don't know how on the phone :-[
And I'm Downunder anyway, don't forget ;D
Quote from: kirky on August 22, 2014, 07:32:51 AM
Anybody else do stuff that is railway related to provoke despair in their other half?
Not possible in my case ;)
Anything I did like that would only be seen as cool by my misses :D
Paul
Actually I was being a bit tongue-in-cheek above. My missus would be impressed too... don't know how anyone couldn't be! That is an unreal paint job, man!! :thumbsup:
Well guys your words are of great comfort to me. Much appreciated. Thank goodness for the NGF. :thankyousign:
I think secretly she does actually like it. It's more my obsession with trains that gets to her I think.
Kirky
Well, originating as I do from your neck of the woods, one ought to remember that you could be down the pub instead of painting sheds! The former was the preferred pastime when I lived there!
Cheers, :beers:
George :thumbsup:
Not at this time of the morning thanks George! :beers:
A corrected view, and blue skies in Redcar this morning. That's something of a rarity.
(http://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/gallery/42/thumb_15063.jpg) (http://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view;id=15063)
Cheers
Kirky
Mate, it's a work of art, I kid you not.
Thanks Goerge.
And thanks Caz for rotating the first pic.
Cheers
Kirky
To avoid complaints about railway colours, couldn't you just say the green was to match the wheelie bin and the white to stop people walking into it in the dark?
If I did that excellent paint job my wife would faint, she's not used to me painting :smiley-laughing:
Mine too... she's not used to me doing ANYTHING ;D
Quote from: edwin_m on August 22, 2014, 10:25:29 PM
To avoid complaints about railway colours, couldn't you just say the green was to match the wheelie bin and the white to stop people walking into it in the dark?
Unfortunately mrs Kirky isn't that naive.
What's really annoying tho is I was going to do maroon and cream, which is NER colours I believe (and is reproduced on Goathland station) but she said under no circumstances was I allowed maroon! Now she says she is not fond of green! :uneasy:
Cheers
Kirky
Maybe you could tell her you want to enter the shed in the Shed of the Year competition?
Quote from: Pengi on August 23, 2014, 06:00:41 PM
Maybe you could tell her you want to enter the shed in the Shed of the Year competition?
Is there one?
There is now :D
There certainly is a Shed of the Year competition. This years event finished a few weeks back, and our esteemed leader has entered his before now too.
Quote from: kirky on August 23, 2014, 06:57:06 PM
Quote from: Pengi on August 23, 2014, 06:00:41 PM
Maybe you coul :D
Is there one?
Oh yes!
http://www.readersheds.co.uk/share.cfm (http://www.readersheds.co.uk/share.cfm)
Dave G
Guys, it is very kind to suggest that my shed could be in a competition especially after I looked at some of the winners. They are fantastic.
I will show mrs k some of the entries. I'll let you know if she cracks a smile.
Anyway I think I need some fire buckets?
(http://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/gallery/42/thumb_15131.jpg) (http://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view;id=15131)
Oh b####r, another image that I can't get right. (Sorted again :) )
Cheers
Kirky
Quote from: newportnobby on August 23, 2014, 10:02:48 PM
There certainly is a Shed of the Year competition. This years event finished a few weeks back, and our esteemed leader has entered his before now too.
Kenley Signal Box and here it is, just scroll down from this year's winner picture
http://www.readersheds.co.uk/share.cfm?SHARESHED=3706 (http://www.readersheds.co.uk/share.cfm?SHARESHED=3706)
Well I definitely do need fire buckets then, and a canopy by the looks.
So is that Tank's shed?
K
Quote from: kirky on August 24, 2014, 10:22:49 AM
Well I definitely do need fire buckets then, and a canopy by the looks.
So is that Tank's shed?
K
Yup :thumbsup:
It is the coolest man-cave on the planet.
Want me to install an Aussie style heat-light-extractor unit, boss?
Quote from: newportnobby on August 24, 2014, 10:25:31 AM
Quote from: kirky on August 24, 2014, 10:22:49 AM
Well I definitely do need fire buckets then, and a canopy by the looks.
So is that Tank's shed?
K
Yup :thumbsup:
I don't think it can be, there isn't the slightest hint of toothpaste anywhere. :D
Cheers
Kirky
That's cos it's all in the loft instead :D
Paul
Not mine, a pal in Redcar owns this one.
(http://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/gallery/39/thumb_16895.jpg) (http://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view;id=16895)
Hi Malcolm
Thanks for posting that. I'm also in Redcar coincidently.
So what gauge is it? It looks like it's a put awayable railway.
I'm wondering if I might know this person, or if they might even be a member at our club?
Cheers
Kirky
Hi Kirky,
It's a G gauge, and it's not a put away able setup. It's mounted on wooden posts concreted in with a top of decking boards. The track is laid on roofing felt. He now has the other end of the dog bone coming out of the left hand side of the shed. I know he's not a member of any club, although he does work as a guard on the NYMR, so you may know him.
Thanks again Malcolm. The reason I thought it were put away able is the little door on the extreme left doesn't seem to have much track coming out of it.
Safely say I don't know him, but we do have other garden railwayists at the club. Of course, he'd always be welcome.
Cheers
Kirky
That IS cool. Love the clock! So what's the little door on the left for? Looks like you can connect track to it :confused2:
George
Hi George, the little door on the left is where the lady with the umbrella comes out when it is going to rain. Seriously though, the track loops out of the door on the extreme left, loops over the picket fence and back into the door on the front. It joins the long run up the garden on the right to form a dog bone layout, continuous run.
Kirky, judging by the name, must be from Kirkleatham? Is the club you mentioned the Redcar club? If you let me have the details, I'll point him in the right direction. I'm an old Redcar man from the 50's and 60's myself, which is how I got to know John. Old Gosforth Avenue gang members. :D
Last year I purchased a new car, a little Suzuki in a very tastefull blue colour; not to light, not to dark; just about the right shade. I suggested adding the yellow ends but was met with a silence more terrifying than shouting.
Quote from: Malc on October 06, 2014, 10:02:32 AM
Kirky, judging by the name, must be from Kirkleatham? Is the club you mentioned the Redcar club? If you let me have the details, I'll point him in the right direction. I'm an old Redcar man from the 50's and 60's myself, which is how I got to know John. Old Gosforth Avenue gang members. :D
Hi Malcolm
Funnily enough, I work in Kirkleatham and yet Kirky derives from a village north and west of here by a couple of hundred miles. Just a coincidence I guess.
Cleveland Model Railway club has traditionally held exhibitions in Redcar for many years, on and off. The club itself has had homes in various places in East Cleveland. Currently we reside in Skelton. Details are here http://www.cleveland-mrc.org.uk (http://www.cleveland-mrc.org.uk).
Cheers
Kirky