Guest Jim Read Posted July 10, 2012 Share Posted July 10, 2012 Hello Mike, Those wagons look absolutely great I'd love to know where you got the transfers from. Jim Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted July 11, 2012 Author Share Posted July 11, 2012 Hello Mike, Those wagons look absolutely great I'd love to know where you got the transfers from. Jim Hi Jim, the transfers are some old Model Masters applied letter by letter and set with Solvoset. The Constable Hart wagon's tarmacadam and Brierley Hill in 8 point are labels which were coloured the same as the wagon on the computer and printed. The edges were then painted with the body colour and the whole wagon sprayed with Matt Varnish from Army Painter. Mike Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted July 13, 2012 Author Share Posted July 13, 2012 Well today is mostly about vans and tweaking my B4 (ex Stewarts and Lloyds), photos to follow. Mike Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted July 15, 2012 Author Share Posted July 15, 2012 My B4 0-4-0 Dock Tank ex Southern Railway purchased 2nd hand in 1949. 5 of these saw service at Stewart and Lloyds until 1953. I have massaged the history as per usual and had the loco transferred to Round Oak and the Earl of Dudley's system. The loco is built from an ABS kit powered by a mashima 1833 through a 30:1 gear box and fitted with plunger pick-ups. Oh and and some vans Mike happily bodging in the shed. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SonOfMike Posted July 16, 2012 Share Posted July 16, 2012 Liking the new open spectacle plate with the fire iron through it Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted July 18, 2012 Author Share Posted July 18, 2012 Today has been all about building bits and bobs, loading gauge and a warning stop for the traverser. Nothing really exciting. Mike Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted July 19, 2012 Author Share Posted July 19, 2012 Just finishing off my Manning Wardle L class 0-6-0ST (1923). The body is only resting on the chassis as I shall be adding some additional weight to it. The Driver is obviously expecting trouble as he is holding a large spanner presumably to give some part a good whack. The actual loco was named Winston Churchill rather than my choice of name Albion. The loco has been built from an Agenoria Kit powered by a Mashima Motor and fitted with wiper pick-ups. Mike - bodging in Solihull. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
N15class Posted July 19, 2012 Share Posted July 19, 2012 I do like these little M&W tanks. You have done a lovely job of this one. I am surprised to see it without the usual M&W wheels. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted July 19, 2012 Author Share Posted July 19, 2012 I do like these little M&W tanks. You have done a lovely job of this one. I am surprised to see it without the usual M&W wheels. By 1961 the wheels of this loco appear to be as modelled. Mike Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted July 22, 2012 Author Share Posted July 22, 2012 Today has been all about buckets, fire irons, warning boards , adding grass clumps to fill in a few holes and a loading gauge. The Manning Wardle is now finished and runs like a sewing machine. Mike Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted July 23, 2012 Author Share Posted July 23, 2012 Bucket and fire iron now on the Manning Wardle. Mike currently tidying the workbench, now that's a first. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted July 25, 2012 Author Share Posted July 25, 2012 A complete change of tack or should that read track? After reading a very informative article on the Gauge 0 Guild forum by Mike Sheardown on modifying Peco Points I have decided to have a go. I have a right hand 0 gauge point in stock which has that really obtrusive switch assembly molding next to the tie bar. I have modified the frog as per the article,(no more wheel drop) removed the switch molding which has resulted in rebuilding three sleepers, just waiting for a new tie bar from C&L to complete the exercise. Photo to follow. Mike, now with a tidy work bench. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted August 2, 2012 Author Share Posted August 2, 2012 Well what a nice surprise Spinners End is in the August Gauge 0 Gazette. Mike Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matloughe Posted August 2, 2012 Share Posted August 2, 2012 Am just reading it now - fantastic article. With a selection of photos that illustrate not only how deceptively simple the track plan is - but also how much operational interest you have in the given spaces and an incredible eye for detail to make the entire scene 'just right'. ~ Gary Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SonOfMike Posted August 3, 2012 Share Posted August 3, 2012 Well what a nice surprise Spinners End is in the August Gauge 0 Gazette. Mike Makes a change from you being in the Police Gazette though mate Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted August 6, 2012 Author Share Posted August 6, 2012 Had an uninvited guest arrive in the shape of the dreaded electrical short bug! Thank goodness the layout folds in half and I can work on the underside whilst seating down and not scrabbling underneath. The irony of it all is that the short was on the top of the layout so having pulled prodded, unsoldered, re-soldered the culprit turned out to be a bridged gap on a copper-clad sleeper on one of the points, fine one-way short the other, now fixed. I have also been playing around with information sheets that will be added to the front fascia, the map of the area is already done, but then I thought lets have a ticket to ride, already clipped by the Guard. Cheers Mike- bug remover. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted August 10, 2012 Author Share Posted August 10, 2012 Looking at the pictures of the layout in the Gazette, the ground frame is pretty poor so its about to go. I have just started a Lasercraft Llantsantffraid Box which has a very small footprint so it won't occupy much more space than the ground frame it will replace. I'll post some pictures over the weekend. Mike - back to bodging in the shed. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted August 15, 2012 Author Share Posted August 15, 2012 The new box for Spinners End:- Mike happily bodging in Solihull Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted August 25, 2012 Author Share Posted August 25, 2012 Bits and bobs on the work bench, E&D stores wagon and reworked Peco Point (modified V and check rails) Thank you for viewing Mike, bodging away in the shed. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted August 28, 2012 Author Share Posted August 28, 2012 Oh joy upon joys, playing trains with 0-4-0's, tomorrow it will be the turn of the 0-6-0's and peace will reign supreme. Still not happy with the lighting so a re-think is needed, curtains in the capable hands of SWBO once finished they will be fireproofed. Mike one happy bunny. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted August 30, 2012 Author Share Posted August 30, 2012 There are good days and there bad days and sometimes however few there Eureka days,well today has been a EUREKA day!!!!!! Have finally sorted the lighting, Hooray. The criteria set was that it had to be simple, foolproof, easily transportable and set up and of course in my case idiot proof. I really do think that I have achieved same, its robust, simple just like me and it works. Photos to follow. Mike, smug so and so in Solihull Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted September 2, 2012 Author Share Posted September 2, 2012 "Lights, camera, action", well just lights really. Here is my take on a very simple lighting rig that I can handle on my own should I have no other operators for the layout. I hadn't set the lights at their optimum angle this was just a " do they work" moment in an unlit garage. Mike Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted September 6, 2012 Author Share Posted September 6, 2012 Today has been mostly about display boards " he said tongue in cheek", When I say display board what I actually mean is an add on to the front panel of the fiddle yard. It now requires painting and the the information scribbles added. Hey Ho, life doesn't get better than this. Mike. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted September 9, 2012 Author Share Posted September 9, 2012 Not the best of photos but here's the Earls only Brake Van which was used only on Passenger traffic. Why it was numbered No 4. I really don't know I can only surmise that it was a sort of one-upmanship suggesting to all that he had more than just one. Mike bodging in Solihull Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derbys65 Posted September 13, 2012 Share Posted September 13, 2012 Love the signal box! , might have to invest in one . Any close ups of it in situ on layout? , and are u lighting it at all or doing anything else with it. Congrats on a great layout . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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