Missenden - Another day in paradise..
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...or at least that is the battle cry when the day starts.
This autumn's Missenden Railway Modellers weekend has come and gone again, all to quickly as usual. After some organisational changes the team did splendid job of organisation so that it was seamless to those of us that attend, a big thank you to them.
My project this autumn was the continuation of a High Level 12" Neilson Mineral loco that I started a couple of session ago. Although there were some problems, well only really one, me. I managed to loctite the final gear off centre and had problems then getting it to run well with all the bits between the frames. Fortunately Tony Gee was on hand with his hammer and more courage than I have and managed to move the gear for me. As always with these things having the tutors there is a great source of knowledge and courage to draw on and means rather than simply give up as I might at home on my own I was able to move forward, albeit that I didn't dare wield the hammer blow!
It is running really rather nicely now, with consistent walking pace speeds and only a slight wobble when going backwards at higher speeds. My excuse is the really thing was probably a little bit that way.
We also had the 7mm modellers in the loco construction room this time, which meant we had two tutors, Kevin Wilson on the 7mm side and Tony Gee on the 4mm side. This was really helpful since it meant there was always plenty of advice on hand, not only from the tutors but th either attendees. I managed to borrow a really rather nice pillar drill from Kevin to drill out all the 0.5mm holes in my castings for the van area, something I would have struggled with otherwise. So although the picture above may not look that complete I have a whole set of sub assemblies waiting to go on. The dome, cab instruments, brakes and cylinders are all sitting in a little plastic box waiting there turn to be attached.
Now it's a wait until March for the Spring weekend, next time I am planning to branch out and do Iain Rathbone's painting and lining course - it's probably about time I learnt to paint them!
As has become tradition my son Daniel was also with me, his project of choice this time was a Martin Finney Hall, maybe I'll get around to posting some pictures of that project and the High Level Kit that he finished at the previous weekend.
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