I see you have hit the perils of placing a B next to a closing bracket

This 009 stuff is coming thick n fast...and seems to have leaped frogged the pecking order of your layouts!

Nice work as usual Mark...

I see you have hit the perils of placing a B next to a closing bracket

 

And I thought I'd got away with it!

Thanks Pete.  There's other things going on too!

Cheers,

Mark

Looking at the drawing of the bogie brakes in the Brown/Prideaux/Radcliffe book on the line, the S R lettering is a little high, the stopper for the sliding door should be the centre line for the letters, and there is a single plank width between it and the S. The van number is on the lower left hand side, inboard of where the dog box door would have been and the the weight lettering (8 Tons, Tare 5:18:2) is staggered over two lines with the 8 starting to the right of the panel line which passes through the centre of the R!

 

I hope this is of some use!

 

The van looks ver smart indeed, its something I've been tempted by having a go at for a while now, although I'm rather keen on the ducket van (No14)

 

Cheers

 

J

Thanks Jaymz,

That's very useful.  

So essentially the lettering is in the right place and needs lowering so the centre of the letters is level with the door stop and the 'S' needs moving across one plank.  

I was working from one of those 1935 films on the line couldn't quite make out the correct position.

I need to get a copy of the Brown et al book and have 'The Lynton and Barnstaple Railway Measured and Drawn' on my Christmas list which will be great use.

Thanks as well for the comments.  These are nice little kits and build up well. Only the ride height needs sorting out.

The ducket brake van No: 14 is as you say rather distinctive and may be another project as well at some stage using this kit.

Cheers,

Mark

Ooo....

On a practical note, I've got the Brown Prideaux Ratcliffe book.

Not as from next week you haven't Alex!

Very nice. You make 009 look very attractive.

I'm worried about the guard, though. I didn't know they had quicksand in Devon ;-)

I'm worried about the guard, though. I didn't know they had quicksand in Devon ;-)

You never know what you'll find on the edge of Exmoor! 

Thanks for your comments as well.  This brake and a few other bits will appear in the months ahead awaiting your fellow countryman at Heljan to produce the Manning Wardle tanks associated with the L&B.

Jaymz has kindly supplied me with the information for the lettering positions so I need to do some adjustments to the transfers.

Thanks once again.

Mark

PS: I'm sure you could be tempted into 009 with either the VoR/WLLR in GWR times.

Hi Mark, yes the VoR has tempted a few times!

I hope Heljan will deliver on time!