john lewsey
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Absolutely superb Colin
Bow Creek Wharf. c.1946. S7
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Eastsidepilot
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Chimney construction finished and pre-weathering detail paint, and also the front panel for the balcony balustrade, this has the company name painted on it, I printed this out using Paint in Windows 10, glued on mount board and the boards marked out with a sharp pencil.
It has been weathered with dry brushed enamels although once mounted in it's frame work will receive further weathering.
More intermediate screw heads needed
Col.
It has been weathered with dry brushed enamels although once mounted in it's frame work will receive further weathering.
More intermediate screw heads needed
Col.
Eastsidepilot
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About 10 years ago, it's been constantly evolving in my head and on paper but I've not really had enough time to do much, it's also part of a planned bigger project but I'm saving that for my retirement
.Col.
Peter Insole
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Part of a bigger project?
Good grief Col, you're not thinking of adding a working section of The River; RIGHT ACROSS TO THE SOUTH SIDE are you...???
I've got a complete set of "lines", plus a bundle of detail sketches for "PS Squires" - one of the old Woolwich Ferry paddle steamers if you fancy having a go at it...!!
Pete.
Good grief Col, you're not thinking of adding a working section of The River; RIGHT ACROSS TO THE SOUTH SIDE are you...???
I've got a complete set of "lines", plus a bundle of detail sketches for "PS Squires" - one of the old Woolwich Ferry paddle steamers if you fancy having a go at it...!!
Pete.
Peter Insole
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We could even get our very own "Mudhen" to dress up in a funny hat and pose for a Modelu 3D scan for it?!
Pete.
Pete.
oldravendale
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Oh godness (and I mean godness).... memories again of dear departed father and the Woolwich FREE Ferry. And paddle boats. That was almost a cruise.
Actually, Pete, a sight of just one of the sketches would mean a lot.
Brian
Actually, Pete, a sight of just one of the sketches would mean a lot.
Brian
Peter Insole
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Brian, remember you could peer down into the engine room from the gangway amidships and see those two huge cylinders and all the beautifully scrubbed motion in action, while opposite there were windows that allowed you to see inside the paddlebox?!
That was an occasional Saturday morning treat with my grandpa Jim and me:
Hainault to Stratford via the Loop and Woodford, then down the Low Level for a ride on the old Pally to North Woolwich, have a trip on the ferry and back to Stratford - just in time for dinner (the midday meal back in those days)!
I spent several months doing research for a picture some years ago. The project was shelved for want of some vital but awkwardly illusive information. Every now and then photographs turn up on the net, and almost all of the puzzles have now been solved!
You never know... perhaps I might pick the pencils up again one day?
Pete.
That was an occasional Saturday morning treat with my grandpa Jim and me:
Hainault to Stratford via the Loop and Woodford, then down the Low Level for a ride on the old Pally to North Woolwich, have a trip on the ferry and back to Stratford - just in time for dinner (the midday meal back in those days)!
I spent several months doing research for a picture some years ago. The project was shelved for want of some vital but awkwardly illusive information. Every now and then photographs turn up on the net, and almost all of the puzzles have now been solved!
You never know... perhaps I might pick the pencils up again one day?
Pete.
oldravendale
Western Thunderer
Thanks for the memories, Pete! Yes, I remember the viewing panels. (Actually I remember them on the IOW paddle steamers too, particuarly PS Ryde whose very recent final demise saddened me considerably. A much longer trip from Pompey to that glorious Victorian Pier at Ryde, now all gone. Well, the pier is still there but divested of all the architecture).
Our visits to Woolwich were with a Red Rover on the top decks of London buses. All day on any red bus with our packs of sandwiches and the best views in London passing the windows. Five shillings (25p adult) and half a crown for children.
See, you've done it again!
Brian
Our visits to Woolwich were with a Red Rover on the top decks of London buses. All day on any red bus with our packs of sandwiches and the best views in London passing the windows. Five shillings (25p adult) and half a crown for children.
See, you've done it again!
Brian
John K
Western Thunderer
I’m younger than you so my Red Rover ticket cost 3/6 (adults 7/-).
John K
Tim Humphreys ex Mudhen
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Eastsidepilot
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Can't believe it's a year since I posted anything here, not a year I'd care to go through again as those of you close enough will understand.
Having said that the highlight's for me were going to the NEC with Love Lane and moving home which brings me to this......
My Dad said that a Junkers bombed our chip shop but some of the shrapnel got the lightermans cottages at Bow Creek
as if that wasn't enough without another Junkers of the Jean Claude kind trying to destroy good old Blighty over Brexit ..........."pass us another beer Al" .....Mickoo you'll understand 
But seriously make sure you pack your models securely when you move house.
Hopefully the coming New Year, new home and two new workshops will see the Bow Creek Wharf project come back to life...
Col.
Having said that the highlight's for me were going to the NEC with Love Lane and moving home which brings me to this......
My Dad said that a Junkers bombed our chip shop but some of the shrapnel got the lightermans cottages at Bow Creek
as if that wasn't enough without another Junkers of the Jean Claude kind trying to destroy good old Blighty over Brexit ..........."pass us another beer Al" .....Mickoo you'll understand But seriously make sure you pack your models securely when you move house
.Hopefully the coming New Year, new home and two new workshops will see the Bow Creek Wharf project come back to life...
Col.
mickoo
Western Thunderer
I understand 
Pleased this is coming back to life, I saw it at Johns last year and loved it's compactness and style, it could easily be transported anywhere and changed to US or Euro industrial.
Anyway, hope you don't mind, here's some of the phone shots I took, can't seem to recall any overall shots of the layout being shown before?
Pleased this is coming back to life, I saw it at Johns last year and loved it's compactness and style, it could easily be transported anywhere and changed to US or Euro industrial.
Anyway, hope you don't mind, here's some of the phone shots I took, can't seem to recall any overall shots of the layout being shown before?
Eastsidepilot
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Mick,
Thanks for posting the shots you took, had not got a lot myself.
I'd like to point out to others who have not seen it in the flesh that although Mick has taken the shots from an elevated view the actual viewing height of ground level is 4'-6" from the floor.
See post #210.
Col.
Thanks for posting the shots you took, had not got a lot myself.
I'd like to point out to others who have not seen it in the flesh that although Mick has taken the shots from an elevated view the actual viewing height of ground level is 4'-6" from the floor.
See post #210.
Col.
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Eastsidepilot
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Eastsidepilot
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Managed a bit of modelling time the last couple of days 
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Braithwaite's premises got the chimney stack pots and benching repaired plus the beginnings of a plain tiled roof.
Thoughts turning to the next building that adjoins ...........
Col.
.Braithwaite's premises got the chimney stack pots and benching repaired plus the beginnings of a plain tiled roof.
Thoughts turning to the next building that adjoins .....
...... Col.