The Gold mining Trommel at Huffkins

[shropshire lad]

   Just to get things into perspective.

  What Barney has built with his Huffkin's trommel is a bloody exquisite piece of modelling and what I paid for it didn't even cover his costs.Something that has crippled me with guilt and I hope to amend next time we meet by buying him a cheese roll, or two . He is also correct , by showing us some photos, that many were housed in existing buildings for protection against the elements.However, these were allowed to "breathe" , in as much as there was plenty of space around the trommels for the viewer to be able to get a good look at them .
   Huffkin's trommel, however, is hiding its light under a bushel ,in as much as it is rather difficult to appreciate the full splendour of the modelling under the structure that it is housed in . That is the reason that it is now being held in a "care and maintenance" situation whilst a plan is formulated to display it to its best advantage . If it could be incorporated into some sort of layout that would be great , but I have little knowledge of there being any sorts of prototypes to draw references from . Any suggestions would be warmly welcomed . I suspect, however, that it is more likely to end up as a static model ,once more research has been undertaken .

  Whatever the outcome, at least it won't now end up in the bin . It has been added to my ever growing collection of Barney reject models . One day I will open a museum .

 Nick , The Keeper of the Kollection .

 ( I just need to add one or two of Chuck's rejects to make the museum a sure fire money spinner ! )

[Barney]

Thanks Nick Im looking forward to my Cheese & Onion cobs
Barney
  Still asleep

[Seattle Dave]

OK - Now I'm confused.  Wonderful modeling, but is it a "trammel" or a "trommel"?

Dave

[Barney]

Seattle Dave - look at page 2 it explains all (I hope) or watch Yukon Gold / Aussie Gold on free -view in the UK Quest channel
hope it helps
Barney