Well much excitment at Brightspark Towers today.
My drawings from the NRM have arrived.
It is a shame that the just missed Expo where they could have answered a few questions that were raised. But more of that in a minute.
I was at ExpoEM on the North West Surrey Area group stand. The plan was that we were there to encourage local members of the EMGS (and to encourage non members to join) to get involved with the local area group. Contact details are in the EMGS newsletter that was en
So here we are approaching Expo EM at Bracknell.
My plan was to have had the complete model built or at least minus a few finishing touches by this weekend. I imagined myself proudly showing off a beautiful model that purred around the test track getting admiring comments.
So what do I have... well little has changed since the last blog entry. I now have the tender picks ups fitted to the chassis but only seem to have the options of either having the pick-ups touch the wheels or having th
Well after frightening myself about 76009 not being at Eastleigh in 1960...it was, so the money spent on the etched plate is not wasted.
Right, work on the engine now comes to a rest. I have adjusted the pickups and now the engine purrs along the test track quite smoothly.
For those interested I have three tracks on the test board.
The first is a straight track with a few lumps on it so that you can detect if the chassis is square (it will jump off the track) or if, as it goes over a hu
Now I have two angsts at the moment.
The first is the height of the tender. There is a comment in the UK prototype forum about this. The Airfix tender is sitting to high.
Having now looked at it I think that the moulding for the bunker is correct but that the additional roof makes it over height. The last picture published has th eroof missing.
So as I have booked a visit to the NRM to spend a happy hour looking at the drawings of a BR2 tender.
There are a large number of drawings but it see
Hi Gang,
I have been told that I should get with it (daddyo). So here is my little blog. (No sniggering at the back)
I am currently working on motorising an Airfix Mogul in EM.
The frames are Comet, wheels Alan Gibson. it has a mashima connected to a Branchlines gearbox.
This week I got the motor wired up to the pick ups. It is always nice to see the thing under it's own power. Although it does jerk along the test track. Probably due to the uneveness of the track and having a solid chassi
