Since uploading the first two videos, I have now uploaded more, some of which show my J15 (No, it's not a Hornby one! :-) ) and N7, as well as other members stock including the club J15 (No, that's not Hornby, either! :-) )
I hope you enjoy.
Phil
At the East Anglian model railway exhibition over 14th and 15th March, 2015, I had the opportunity to take some videos of the layout, two of which show locomotives that I have built (but not quite finished yet!).
The first video shows my J17. It is built from a Stelfox kit, powered by a Mashima 1224 motor through a High Level gear box at 54:1. I have yet to add crew and cab glazing, two faults that are quite obvious when watching the end of the video! At the start of the video, there is also
Last night I was at the club. We were titivating BBC (Blackwell Brewery Company) for the St. Neots show next weekend (14th / 15th March). With all the layouts we currently have under construction, we don't have room in the clubroom to keep the layout permanently erected so this was the first chance I have had to run the E4 and the J17 on the layout. Frustratingly, they didn't run perfectly! The J17 suffers mysterious short circuits, which shouldn't happen so I will have to find out what's happen
As you'll see in other entries on my blog, I build models of BR ex GER stock, and as the E4 and J17 are now virtually finished, I've started on a new build, a J19 (I've just edited this entry, I originally called the loco a J17. It's not!) 0-6-0 tender loco.
As you can see from the photos below, I have used a High Level gear box (Road Runner +) at 60:1 ratio. The motor is currently a Mashima 1620 although I may change it for a 1624 or 1630 I have available. One of the things I dislike is se
In my previous post, I showed pictures of the E4 in ex works condition, without means of propulsion.
In view of the loco being used on "Blackwell Brewery Company" (an EM layout of the Mid Essex MRC that's appearing at the St. Neot's show over 14th and 15th March 2015) I spent a little time tonight adding the propulsion fuel and making the loco look as though it's been working in the real world, rather than living in a shed. There are now 2 jobs to do and I ill then declare the loco finished
I hadn't realised it's been so long since I last posted an entry. It's not as though I haven't been doing a lot, I have, but I just haven't recorded a lot to put on here. Apologies!
In earlier posts, I have put up pictures of the BR (ex GER) E4 2-4-0 that I've been building from the Nu-cast (ex Stephen Poole) kit. It's now nearly complete - the only work left to do is put balance weights on the rear driving wheels, complete the front coupling (the hook's in place, the rest isn't!), weather t
It's been a few months since I last posted anything, if you've been waiting for another entry, apologies.
I titled this thread about a deliberate mistake. Well, I got the tender chassis the wrong way round. In reality, the wheelbase of the real thing is 6' 6" + 6' 0", whereas I thought it was the other way round. Once I'd discovered this error, I had to work out how to turn the chassis round, which eventually I managed. I've also had to find a different way to fix the chassis in to the tende
With Sally, the better half, visiting her sister in Scotland for the week, I've been able to get to the modelling bench a lot and have made use of this time. Last night I started putting together the tender body for the E4. Being a white metal kit of old heritage, there will be a lot of filling and messing about to make things as good as they should be, but that's part of the joy of kit building!
When I built the chassis for the loco, I compensated it and wanted to do the same for the tender
In my post of yesterday, I promised some pictures of the Gresley full parcels brake (Pigeon brake) that I've been building, so here they are!
In the background of this picture can be seen some of the other projects I'm working on.
The partially built white metal bodied loco is a Nu-cast (ex Stephen Poole for people who can remember that far back!) BR ex GER E4 2-4-0.As I model in EM, I had to carve away some fairly large chunks of white metal to allow the wheels and
This entry to my blog doesn't have any pictures, not because I haven't got things to take pictures, of, but just because I haven't taken any yet!
The latest instalment of the J17 is most frustrating. The loco has taken a very long time to build; I started it some 15 years or so, and it was the first chassis I'd tried to build using compensation. Some of the quality of my workmanship was sadly lacking in the skill department, so the chassis didn't really run as well as I'd liked - it ran forw
It seems like it was in a far distant era that I posted my first blog which was about my Thompson 6W PBV. I published two entries - the first on this link and the second on this link.
Since the postings, the wagon sat in a box with nothing happening until a few weeks ago when my modelling mo-jo returned and I started work on various models. In the time since, I have completed the build of the coach and painted it, as you can see form the two pictures below.
The next step is to
Now that the Y7 has been built, it's time to get it painted, an area of expertise I'm lacking in. I bought the Tony Wright and Ian Rathbone DVD on how to paint and weather and watched both parts. I don't have a spray facility such as Ian's so worked on a similar method to Tony's, ie out of doors. I washed the loco in Precision Paints pre-paint metal cleaner then sprayed it with their single pack etch primer. Following this, I sprayed a single coat of Halfords red primer then, once dried, sprayed
Hello all
It's been a long time my last post on this blog. I went through hellish times at work last year being suspended as the Acting Head Teacher wanted to try and get rid of me, so my modelling mojo disappeared. However, we now have a new Head Teacher who's supporting me and life generally is far, far better, so my modelling mojo's reawakening and I'm building stuff.
In the previous posts I've put up items about a layout based in Norfolk - this is a long term project so nothing has h
Just like buses, you wait ages for a blog entry and then another one comes along rather sooner than expected!
I've been doing some woodworking over the last few days and now have a completed baseboard with track base on it. I've added a few pictures to show how it looks at the moment and if you look at the pictures of the layout plan, you can see how it will all work.
Next job is to buy the track for which I'm going to use SMP with phosphor bronze rail and their point kits. While I wait
If you have been waiting for an update to my blog, apologies for the length of time it's taken to put one up. As a quick précis of my recent life, I was suspended from work on 4th March and after a long (6 month) time my suspension was lifted by the Governors (I work in a school, but as Network Manager, not a teacher) and I returned to work on 17th Sept. Since then I've been pre-occupied with getting life back to normal and have hardly done any modelling. Hopefully this is just about to change!
As I've said elsewhere, I'm a BR (ex GE) modeller who currently lives near Bishop's Stortford but is looking, in the future, to move to Norfolk.
For some time I've been harbouring an idea to build a layout that contains a portrayal of one of the most distinctive buildings on the North Norfolk Coast, Burnham Overy mill.
At the moment I don't have a large space to build a layout (it's my 8ft x 4ft shed that also has to store a lot of music - my other passion is choral music and I
Working in IT as I do, you'd think I would understand how blogs work. Well, I don't! I understand how networks and hardware work but I don't get involved with the software side of things so blogs are an unknown to me. Having been reading through other blogs, I've realised that the blog I've already set up isn't really the most wonderful blog so I've decided to set up a new blog that links to all the articles I've posted in the past about what I'm working on and where I can post new entries of wh
