After a short delay (2 months!) I have finally managed to test fit the bogies and try the motor for size and position.
I am using a Tomytec TM-10 chassis as the donor, it cost about £20 inc. postage from Japan via ebay. I was going to try and build motor bogies based on Alex Duckworth's own design but decided after sourcing small motors I might not be successful. Lots of web searching I thought I'd try the Tomytec chassis, the bogies are about 3mm short but I don't think they will look to
Session 2
Thanks for all the comments for my first entry, they are very encouraging. I am working on how to power it and thanks for the suggested reading all very useful and inspiring.
So after building a card platform with number 1 son (8 years old) for his Thomas and Friends garage layout, its 10*7 tail chaser with engine shed, turntable controlled with a JMRI powered Raspberry Pi, Hornby Elite and phones and Ipad for control. It keeps the boys happy (and dad), but thats maybe anothe
Building a 2mm Clayton.
I am building a layout based on the section of Waverley route that runs passed the Lady Victoria Pit in Newtongrange. Coal from here was hauled by Clayton's for a time and unfortunately its not RTR yet. After trying to work out how to draw one in Sketchup and have it 3D printed I discovered that Judith Edge kits did a 2mm version of their 4mm kit. Perfect (I couldn't figure Sketchup out any way), so the kit was ordered.
But I've never built a metal kit before a
