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A fine blend of Scale7, scratchbuilding, electronics and what ever else crosses my workbench

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Jinty - nearly there!

The wheels have arrived for my next project which has spurred me on to get this Jinty finished before I plough into the next job.   So having finished most of the etched detailing I've given it a clean before starting on adding all the whitemetal castings. So this is the current progress, the chimney casting was carefully drilled out before fitting so there is a decent sized hole down into the smokebox, sanding pipes have been fitted to one side and a few of the other castings have been adde
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Any old iron - Jinty lamp irons.

A quick update on the Jinty progress with a few details on making the lamp irons.   The lamp irons on the footplate are simple enough, the etchings supplied in the kit are fine but I thought they were a little on the skinny side so I just used a bit of nickel strip. However the rear lamp irons and the one on the top of the smoke box are a little more tricky. The etchings supplied in the kit involves folding back etches which I think end up looking too thick in places. This was my solution.  
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Tracking station 43, Canberra, come in Canberra!

Whilst waiting for a few bits for the Jinty I've switched to another piece of the jigsaw for the 2010 challenge - the control system. For a long time I've had ideas for a control system on a layout to avoid the miles and miles of wiring the usually entails. Several years ago MERG started developing a layout control bus, called CBUS. This is a system of plugin modules that communicate over a signal data bus, this bus consists of just two wires, the modules themselves need to be powered so that's
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Jinty - cab roof

Well I've switched back to the body work. I needed some 12BA bolts to finish the brakes. I was going to pick some up from the Preston show this weekend but it's been cancelled, so the bolts are in the post somewhere.   I covered a little bit on the cab platework in the previous RMweb thread, basically the cab roof supplied in the kit is a white metal casting which although there is nothing wrong with it per se, I felt that I'd struggle to get the characteristic roll on the cab side sheets usin
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Jinty progress - braking news!

Having received a MOK Standard 4MT kit over Christmas has given added impetus to getting the Jinty finished first. I'm trying to make sure that I finish this Jinty before diving into the 4MT kit, whether my resolution holds will have to be seen.   So I've made a little progress on the bodywork, but I've been concentrating on the chassis. I'd like to get a running chassis to test out a MERG CBUS system I'm setting up. So progress to date is shown below. The detail changes from previous posti
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Tewkesbury MPD challenge launch

Yes my 2010 effort has been launched with a separate blog and so the pictures posted yesterday are of the quay side at Tewkesbury. It's an area I'd like to model eventually but for the challenge I need to restrict it to the MPD which is just up the line. More info to follow later.   So having planned this over a number of years I thought it was about time that I actually did something. So really it's a big thanks to the support from this community and the challenge set by Andy Y, otherwise it
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2010 Challenge - I must be mad!

So having decided that I've very limited spare time, limited spare room, limited skills and limited funds I going to throw my hat in the ring for 2010 challenge. Hopefully it'll give me the impetus to just get on and do something rather than just planning it. I'm just preparing a few notes to launch a new blog on the build.   It will be in S7 with no compression of the prototype, all in 2010", in the meantime here's a small clue or taster for the project location. In researching the chosen pro
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Jinty - tank details

I must admit to being pleasantly surprised by the feedback and encouragement given by various people in this community. It does give that added impetus to get cracking with the modeling, so thanks to all.   At this early stage of the blog I'll have to admit I'm still learning on style and presentation, hopefully it'll improve as time progresses. One aspect I have decided on for my blog is that where people have taken the time to comment on my postings I'd like to respond either by editing the
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Connoisseur Jinty in Scale7 - Update

Cherry's workbench - Connoisseur Jinty in Scale7   A quick precis of my Scale7 Jinty build as reported on the previous incarnation of RMweb. Unfortunately domestic commitments severely curtailed any modeling over the last few months so no more progress to date. However the bulk of house updates are now complete so hopefully I can get back to my workbench. It was a stark reminder when transferring this thread over that this "quick" kit build has taken over a year and it's still not finished. H
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