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Fen End Pit

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My first blog entry, I never was any good at keeping a diary so no doubt this will be a sporadic exercise, let's see if anyone reads it!

 

I've spend the last couple of days with various work colleagues making polite, if bemused, comments on the copy of BRM sitting on my desk. Some people seem genuinely impressed to see the layout in print. I'm fairly happy with the way it appeared in the photographs. I'd be interested to know what others thought.

 

Tonight has been spent with probably my best purchase yet from Scaleforum, an Alex Jackson coupling testing gauge. The one with two prongs where the buffers should be and a third where the AJ should be. Somehow getting them all the same height just makes so much difference!

 

David

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Badger

I loved the pictures in BRM and I have also visited your wesite. the 10RB is brilliant! I have many, many questions but the first is where did you get the figures on Fen end from? I noted in the write up you said the availibility of the figures was one of the reasons you chose the scale.

Bob

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Hi Bob

 

Glad you liked the article. I have had figures from a variety of sources. The ones in the photographs were obtained from a trader at the last 'Steam in Beds', I'm struggling to find their name at the moment. The key suggestion is to stick with one supplier! There are quite a few decent ranges out there but they don't mix well. Most of the loco drivers, and the figure in the dragline are IMP models SS103 Lister driver's see

http://www.grsuk.com/index.asp?docs/101.asp. These are good but being white metal are pretty heavy, this is ok if your locomotives can cope with the additional ballast!

 

David

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Hi David,

Following a comment by Randall on my Micro Layouts blog, I rushed out and bought the latest issue of BRM.

Fen End Pit is an excellent layout, I love the idea of machinery other than the trains moving.

As I'm intending to build my own 4mm conveyor, I was most interested in how you'd got yours to work - please can you explain a bit further, with more pics as well if possible ?

 

Many thanks

Stu

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