The Old chap who built these models about 50 years ago was very good at construction - although painting has improved a long way in recent years.
These items are available for sale and appear to be the 3/16th scale imperial form of the gauge and are 3 rail stud contact. An intriguing scale that I hadn't encountered before.
It would be good for these nice locos to go to a new home with an 'S' gauge modeller who would appreciate them.
At todays show the top end of the 0 gauge market seemed to be going strong with some really nice RTR locos now available.
The Golden Age Merchant Navy (inc rebuilt) locos are really very good.
Also having had another look at their purple/blue A4 has helped me make up my mind to put this livery on my kitbash A4
Trouble is that I have Champagne tastes, but only the money for a bottle of stout!
Whilst at the Seaford show an old couple asked me if I could help sell some of their brothers old locos. These included some S scale locos, which is a scale that I haven't seen before.
I thought that I would post this photo to show the comparison of 0 gauge 00 gauge and the intermediate S gauge, which is 5mm /Ft ?
The model is of course the well known Terrier with the S gauge loco being the A1X next to 'Brighton'
It would be interesting to know if anyone on RMWeb does S scale and might be in
Having the sun out today meant that I could get a better pic of the vinyls, so here we are.
With a bit of varnish and weathering this could be a reasonable solution for me, as I'm not that picky about uber details.
This solution is not for he purist, but I really don't have the time for learning tedious lining techniques - too busy.
I bought a 7mm G5 that had no lining and poor transfers, so using my loco profiles computer images I thought that I would create a set of vinyls for it, as my local printer can now print sticky backed vinyls that will be able to take spray varnish.
They will need to be fudged in a bit and the loco weatherd to disguise the printed matter, but thought it hadn't turned out too badly.
I have also done a set for my Stroudley liveried Terrier, but not stuck them on yet as that will take a lot more
Hi, I just thought that I would clarify a misunderstanding on one of our contributors, who suggested that I had got the tender front wrong on this A4 build. He said that the streamlined tenders were straight at the front and not curved in. Well in fact all the corridor tenders were curved in at the front not just the 1928 built and modified. The Corridor type tender fills out the loading gauge, so that any handrail on the outside would be out of gauge, so all the fronts had to be curved in to mo
I have assembled the loco and tender briefly to check heights etc. and to see the overall impression in primer.
My intention is for this to be in BR express loco Blue, which is enjoying a bit of popularity of late and to weather it a bit to try and get an authentic look.
The problem is that The correct blue seems to be a real issue at present and Precision paints have withdrawn their colour, stating that it was not popular.
Currently I am testing out a colour called Roundel Blue - which I tak
I am starting this blog at somewhat of a halfway stage to give a warning to anyone starting to mess about with a Bachmann A3 chassis!
Having had a cast white metal A4 body lying around for some time I came up with a novel idea to get this on a chassis from a Bachmann A3 that I picked up for £365, whilst saving the body and tender of the A3 to form the basis of a P1 2-8-2 (Gresleys freight Mikado version of the A1/A3 pacifics)
Later on I shall show progress on both these engines where for an
