Highclere - 2mm Finescale

2mm too wide, that's a whole foot! I'd have chopped it as well. This is why I wouldn't buy someone else's work.

Just out of curiousity (I'm like that) are you fitting pick-ups to the tender?

 

Oddly enough I've just finished turning bogie pivots as well today.

Well I reckon that's what it means to be a finescale modeller so just think on before you start a project

 

I'm sure it'll work out splendidly. (but... 'Lord Nelson'... huh??)

 

Regards, Andy

2mm too wide, that's a whole foot! I'd have chopped it as well. This is why I wouldn't buy someone else's work.

Just out of curiousity (I'm like that) are you fitting pick-ups to the tender?

 

Oddly enough I've just finished turning bogie pivots as well today.

 

Hi Halfwit. There is a certian amount of fun in taking someone elses model and turning it into something of yours. I am enjoying this and hopefully it will be something I will be proud of at the end. To answer your question, yes. I intend to fit pickups to the wheels, in the last photo the small squares of PCB on top of the bogies are where the pickups will be soldered to eventually.

 

 

Well I reckon that's what it means to be a finescale modeller so just think on before you start a project

 

I'm sure it'll work out splendidly. (but... 'Lord Nelson'... huh??)

 

Regards, Andy

 

Hello Andy. I am glad in a way you said that. I thought it was just me being way to fussy once again so its reassuring to know that its what finescale modellers kind of do! You have got me questioning myelf as to what this engine is too! I was pretty sure it was called a 'lord nelson' class engine but what with my track record I could be totally wrong again!

 

M

It's a King Arthur, isn't it? Or one of the other Urie 4-6-0s - N, H or S followed by 15.

Must admit I thought it was a 'King Arthur' too (number 754 is apparently 'The Green Knight'). Anyway, that tender is looking a lot better than when you first got it - it's amazing what lurks beneath some of the grotty paint jobs.

 

Andy

I'd just added this to your previous post, when you added a new one so, on the grounds that no-one reads posts more than a week old  , I've moved it to here.

 

I was looking back through your thread to remind myself of how you wired your control panel with ribbon cable, when I happened to notice your tags!  Is this a system only GCHQ can crack?

 

No-one else seems to have commented on the Abingdon show, which I thought was a big improvement on last year.  After struggling for so long to hold pieces on 'skyhooks' for soldering, I was very pleased to see how you simply laid parts on a piece of balsa wood.  Perhaps everyone else in the world knew this but it was new to me and has helped a lot!

 

Mike

It's a King Arthur, isn't it? Or one of the other Urie 4-6-0s - N, H or S followed by 15.

 

 

Must admit I thought it was a 'King Arthur' too (number 754 is apparently 'The Green Knight'). Anyway, that tender is looking a lot better than when you first got it - it's amazing what lurks beneath some of the grotty paint jobs.

 

Andy

 

I think you are right. I am so rubbish at engine classes and things.

 

 

I'd just added this to your previous post, when you added a new one so, on the grounds that no-one reads posts more than a week old  , I've moved it to here.

 

I was looking back through your thread to remind myself of how you wired your control panel with ribbon cable, when I happened to notice your tags!  Is this a system only GCHQ can crack?

 

No-one else seems to have commented on the Abingdon show, which I thought was a big improvement on last year.  After struggling for so long to hold pieces on 'skyhooks' for soldering, I was very pleased to see how you simply laid parts on a piece of balsa wood.  Perhaps everyone else in the world knew this but it was new to me and has helped a lot!

 

Mike

 

 

There is no secret plan behind the tags, they are just random words really. The Abingdon show this year was a good one with some very nice layouts there and I was surprised too on how little was posted about it. Maybe no-one had anything to complain about it hence no posts?  

Im sure people read posts more than a week old, especially if it interests them, unless you are referring to the nightmare that are the threads which I still struggle navigating around and finding anything.

 

M