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A blog of the various locomotive and rolling stock projects that will be seen running on my South Brent layout, covering the Great Western in 1947

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Freight for Cheddar: GWR 5 plank

A start on the first common user wagon for the layout, a Ratio kit for a 1930s GWR 5 plank. I am building this with Bill Bedford sprung wirons, as such some modification was needed on the chassis. This followed the process used on my Parkside Fruit D, cutting off the w irons then thinning down the chassis solebars next to where the etch will sit. The floor supports were then cut off to provide clearance for the w iron (learning from the Fruit D in that this time the 3mm length next to the

February 1, 2012

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Thornycroft PB

While searching in a stock box at the weekend trying to find a couple more old private owner wagons I came across a Peco kit for a 1926 Thornycroft PB GW covered lorry. Now even with any restrictions on replacing during the war, clearly a 20 year life is not going to happen in GW service. As such I've been thinking about an alternative use. After thinking about which sort of operators typically use old life expired equipment, and narrowed it down to either farm use or a coal merchant, the

February 1, 2012

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43xx - Starting to improve the Mainline body

While I am yet to find a photo in GW days, a lot has been written mentioning 43xx Mogals working on the Cheddar branch. My original plan was to go for the Mitchell kit, however until I am more accomplished at fabricating more complicated shapes (such as those on the tapered boiler and the firebox) As such, (and given that I have a mainline body) I've made a start on trying to improve it. The first question (that is still unanswered) is going to be which loco to model. I'd have liked

January 27, 2012

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GWR Toad pt1

Going to need to model a couple of break vans for Cheddar, a topic on which I havent much research yet. To start with I have an old Bachmann 20t model The first thing to go were the moulded on hand rails, a pig of a job carefully carving with a new scalple then finishing off with a square ended blade. At the same time I removed the moulded on lamp irons, and the break shoes. The planed work: New sprung W Irons (just need to confirm which type) New hand rails, still debating w

January 20, 2012

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5512 Part 4

While I still havent got round to placing my Gibson order for the crank pins, I have made a little more progress A couple of weeks back I found a couple of perfect components for this project from Ebay, This comprised a set of Mitchell designed conrods and balance weights from the Churchward Models kit, a set of nickel silver components (including conrods and pony trucks) from a Mitchell 44xx kit, and finally a set of Perserverance pony trucks from a 45xx. So, the balance weights are no

December 2, 2011

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K's E116 B-Set - Part 3 - Body Complete

Having fitted extra spacers to the top of the sides, the next task was fitting the roof. For the first coach (a very late production example of the kit) the roof appears to be much thicker than the earlier production kit that I sourced for the 2nd coach. As a result of this thickness the fit is very poor. a combination of reshaping the ends curve, and thinning the outer 5mm of the roof (careful filing and scraping with a square ended knife blade) I got the roof to fit. However the rail

November 20, 2011

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Collett Goods 2220: Part 1

Following on from my thread here requesting details of the class, Its about time I described the work completed so far on my Collett Goods. So far the majority of effort has been spent preparing the body shell, a quick overview: This model had already been fitted with sprung buffers, which were removed to be replaced in the new buffer beams. The pipe runs down the side were removed, unfortunately this took the rivets with it so these will be replaced later on. Removal of moulded hand

November 17, 2011

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5512 part 3

Only a little more progress today (and unfortunately its too dark to take photos tonight but I will try and get some done tomorrow) First up the pony truck mounts, This morning before I headed to a revision course I glued the two Bachmann mounts into position on the chassis. Once I got back this evening I then fitted on the two Bachmann pony trucks, which after testing have held up nicely. The only problem is that I really dont want to use the Bachmann part (given it is far too narrow

November 15, 2011

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45xx 5512 in GWR - P4 Conversion part 2

Another day and a bit more progress, The new frames have now been tidied up to match the metal frame, then checked to ensure that the body fits on correctly. In doing so I have noticed another issue with the body retaining screws being directly behind the buffer beam (and as such will probably have to be removed to fit screw links...) I have now almost finished the underside modifications, the Bachmann keeper plate has had the break gear / springs chopped off and sanded back to get a fl

November 13, 2011

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45xx 5512 in GWR - P4 Conversion

While I try and get my head around how to set up the compensation in my etched kit for 4573, I have got on with a little bit of work on my other 45xx, which will be finished as 5512 in post war GWR livery. Why 5512? It was chosen due to the number of photos in the 1947/48 period that are published in the Cheddar books, including two photos showing it with LMS coaches (a rake that will be modelled at some point). As for the model, The starting point is a Bachmann angled tank model in Gre

November 12, 2011

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B-set E116 - Construction starts (and improving the E140)

Having made good progress on my planed revision for the day, I have spent a little time this afternoon working on the B set I modified the locations for the bogie mounts, increasing the width of the brackets with scrap evergreen strip. This gave a much bigger base to glue to aiding keeping them straight. A length of brass was evo sticked to the sides to ensure they stay straight. The roof is a very poor fit (in that it just does not fit!) So far I have thinned the ends of the roof an

October 30, 2011

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E116 B Set - Nearly ready to start building

This project is taking a little longer than I had expected, prior to starting this I hadn't really heard of K's and other than a note on Tim Venton's website saying that it needed a lot of work to "bring up to standard" I had no idea what I was letting myself in for. The parts have needed a lot of preparation, however being plastic that has been nice easy work to remove all the flash. While I was at it I have also removed all of the grab rails and door handles, part to aid painting and part

October 28, 2011

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K's E116 b set part 1

having spent the last week I'll in bed, ive taken the opportunity to do 5 minutes modelling before my course this morning (will also. E finally able to make a dash to the post office at lunch!) Thanks to the genorisity Of Ian Smith I now have the first half of my E116 B set On first glance it looks like a lot of work to do At the moment my plan is: Prep all components Remove moulded grab handles and end detail Remove raised lines for doors and scribe replacements - this is because there ar

October 24, 2011

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Post Scaleforum to do list...

Scaleforum has yielded another batch of new projects, though my other half taking our puppy on an emergency trip to the Vets while I was at the show limited the budget somewhat (and hence I havent quite been able to make a couple of purchases.) The B Set project has gained a set of ABS battery boxes, but still requires new Vac gear and some of the Model Railway Developments square GWR buffers once they get some stock in. Picked up a pair of GWR Collets (Bachmann break and Mainline) from

September 25, 2011

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Goods Shed

Progress at last, Having been suitably inspired visiting Clutton last night, I have spent an hour this morning at the airport awaiting a flight up to Broughton on CAD working on a set of drawings of Cheddar's goods shed. So far this is only based on photos from one book, (given that was the only one I had scanned photos of) As such there are a couple of areas that require further attention. the village side has two arches based on the end arches as the only photo I have of this side is in

September 14, 2011

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GWR Twin Railcar pt1

One of they most important items of stock for Cheddar will be the twin GW railcar no35/36 Working from drawings in MRJ no5, and with a method based on that used by the late Monty Wells (MRJ no6) the aim is to chop 3 Lima models into the twin set (then to build a Comet coach kit for the centre coach). The first step is the drawings, unfortunatly for some reason MRJ decided to put the drawings for no35/37 and 36/38 across a page joint (no33 and the roofs however were on a single page). T

September 2, 2011

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E140 B Set (part 1)

Yesterday saw a start at last to the modelling of the first B set for Cheddar, Working with an Airfix b set and the notes on Tim Venton's website http://www.tventon.freeserve.co.uk/bset2.htm I am working on the following improvements: Removing the fictional inner end detail Replacing outer end detail with separate fittings Adding missing handrails Filling in extra guard window Chassis improvements new headstocks, laserglaze (if it becomes available) I am still unsure as to whether

August 15, 2011

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Introduction

Following on from this thread, I have now started work on the research Background: This project is still in the very early stages of research, having decided that I really like both the track plan, the architecture and most importantly the stock seen through the station I have decided that I will base my new project on this line. While at the moment I am planning to model Cheddar, if research on the line turns up a more suitable/interesting station or I find that Cheddar is too large to d

July 20, 2011

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