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Bristol Barrow Road - Block Instrument Shelf & Lever Frame


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The lever frame is now painted and is ready to go into the box as is the Instrument Shelf complete with the Block Instruments and Bells.

Painting the levers was relatively straight forward although I must admit the chevrons on levers 14 & 15 - the Down Main and Up Main Detonators - took a steady hand with the black chevrons added using a 0.25 rotring pen. Levers 19,29 and 22 are also all Facing point locks and consequently are painted black [bottom] and blue [top].

 

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Adding the red and green to the block instruments was not as successful as I had hoped as the narrow nibbed pens used bled and required some cleaning up afterwards.

 

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Now all I need to do is adapt the white metal castings for 2 stoves, booking in shelf and stool, notice board, chair and clock.

I have decided to add some lighting and will use the brass stove flue pipes for the power supply.

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Very impressive Robin! I do like the track plan and you've done extremely well to pick out the colours on the block instruments so clearly! The photo's really do trick you into believing this detail is alot bigger than it is in reality!

 

Looks like you may have just caught the 2nd bracket from the left on the instrument shelf, i'm sure you'll make sure its tweaked back into position once its finally installed in the box! ;)

 

There can't be many 4mm signal boxes out there that can match Lawrence Hill for accuracy!

 

Best Wishes

 

Paul

 

 

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Very nice Robin. All you need to install now is a robotic signalman and a minicam so that we can see what's going on inside the box once it's installedlaugh.gif!

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Lovely. I was wondering if you painted the levers before fitting to the frame?

Ref. the signalman; he really must be leaning out of the window admiring the shed in the distance!

Phil.

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Hi Rob,

 

I trust you won't miss a vital detail. A cloth hanging off one of the pulled levers. ;)

 

Being serious, the box interior looks fantastic. A real credit to you.

 

Cheers....Morgan

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Thanks for all the positive comments folks :rolleyes:

 

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Lovely. I was wondering if you painted the levers before fitting to the frame?

 

Phil.

 

Phil the levers were soldered in first followed by the painting.

 

Robin

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