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  1. My Grandson passes on his thanks for your comments on his pictures and has informed me he will be here after school on Wednesday to take some more...... Following on from his pictures I noticed he had shunted some goods wagons into the harbour siding and though they made a nice picture so here it is
    31 points
  2. On that crisp autumnal morning, looking down the forestry track, we got our first glimpse of an engine….
    29 points
  3. A few Settle and Carlisle photos today. Note the changes to the platform at Langwathby between photos three and five. Ribblehead viaduct July 82 C5686 a Kirkby Stephen Class 156 487 Leeds to Carlisle 15th Aug 06 SIMG_2548 Langwathby156482 Carlisle to Leeds March 93 J13735 Langwathby156482 Carlisle to Leeds March 93 J13736 Langwathby 156479 Carlisle to Leeds 30th July 02 C26095 David
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  4. A dull and dismal morning, hopefully brightened up a little by another look at 60501.
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  5. Can we please get back to my workshop now. O4/5 63745 finished and ready to paint now. There's plenty of variety among these GC 2-8-0s, O4/5 is one we haven't had before, a rebuild with a Gresley boiler and new smokebox on a saddle. The reversing screw had to be moved outwards on these resulting in the small step out in the cab side. 63745 ran with an ex ROD tender, no water scoop and the coal plate moved back on this JE tender. The loco uses some of my own etches with a brass boiler and steel cab and smokebox.. I now have to work out how to paint the frames since the original builder made no provision for the crossheads to pull out back past the motion bracket. I can get the coupling rods off but not the connecting rods so they might have to be masked. I've had these frames for more than 30 years, it's taken a long time to get round to using them but it does run very well.
    23 points
  6. I've never posted pics on here before, but thought I might stick my neck out and show a couple of drone shots of my preserved South Lancashire Railway.
    21 points
  7. And now for something a little different (not least because Grantham is currently centre stage in the chapel). At least that gives some opportunity for stock work, always a favourite past time. But I aint really done anything quite like this before ... Take a sheet of 40thou plasticard and score some horizontal planking lines. Separate into 4 pieces. Score vertically and add some top and bottom rails. Add vertical door surround strengthening pieces. Cut out door apertures and make up doors from 20 thou pieces suitably scored plus surrounds. Affix doors and add intermediate vertical strengtheners and top runners. Utilise spare n/s rivet strips to make diagonal braces and corner brackets. Superglue into position. Fashion top bearing brackets from 10thou, suitable punched. It was at this stage that I realised that the top runners should have been L-girders. Ah well ... Leaping on perhaps just too much, having made the ends using pretty similar techniques, plus some further body details, we now have - in essence - two wagon body kits. Which can be assembled like so. I give you two ex-LMS Dia.1871/1872 6-wheel CCTs (see first pic). Well, bodies only for now and with endposts and other remaining detail to add. Two slightly different underframe styles - I'll make them one of each. That's the next part. Interesting vehicles which are turning up too often in photos to ignore. Very distinctive body style which - I think - lends itself to such an approach. I believe that there has been a kit of sorts in the past but not easy to get hold of. And anyway, I end up with two unique vehicles which I can say 'all my own work'. Not really made a proper wagon from scratch before and I've rather enjoyed this little mini-project so far. 6-wheel wagons are a bit irresistible, aren't they? But quite a few show up in pictures, in both parcels and fitted goods workings so not unreasonable to have a few knocking about. More on these whenever I'm able to devote some more time to them.
    19 points
  8. Two new models from Hornby just in for photography and review in BRM................ Tapping into nostalgia, the substantial packaging echoes that of the Hornby Dublo of my youth, though blue/white stripes signified three-rail back then. Since both these are two-rail, perhaps the broad stripes should be red. Both these models are substantially different from the norm of today in that their loco bodies are die-cast (again, nostalgia but these aren't the crude things of the past). The 'Princess Coronation'. There are extra parts to be added. And the original 'Merchant Navy' (again, without the extra parts added). I've yet to test both these on Little Bytham, but on the test track they run superbly. Such is their weight that huge trains should be taken with ease. I'll report accordingly.
    19 points
  9. They forecast snow on the moors later during the morning; not that the crew of the class five are worried.
    19 points
  10. After the trials and tribulations of the past fortnight a bit of good news came my way today. Philip my friend came around bringing with him a new coach for my collection. The quality is far higher anything I could achieve myself.
    18 points
  11. *Cough* years ago, I faced a similar situation with my Swiss metre gauge layout, when I wanted to model one of the characteristic box girder bridges on the Montreux Oberland Bahn in HO scale. This is the bridge I wanted to model: The solution I eventually adopted was to kit-bash the bridge kit made by Roco, Cat. No. 40080. The kit structure would result in something far too heavyweight looking for this bridge, but I found the plastic soft enough to carve easily, and it was straightforward to add additional cross bracing using plastruct section, resulting in an appropriately lighter-weight looking bridge. It required quite a heavy butchering, including reducing the width of the decking to accommodate 12mm gauge track, rather then the intended 16.5mm. It was time-consuming work but I was pleased with the end result. For the intervening years the completed structure has sat in a box, still waiting for the layout to be built... Your post got me thinking, so I dug the bridge out of its box for an airing, and took a few pictures: the green sections are original unmodified kit parts for comparison, so you can see how it was cut down.
    18 points
  12. Another quiet morning here at Tunstead Sidings.
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  13. It's a pity an etch isn't available that would be a neat fit. As for the roof boards I thought either were correct as the train was always called the 1030 limited by railwaymen. I can soon change them for products from John Peck if they offend. Here's the three Hornby jobs for comparison.
    15 points
  14. Pleased to announce that the portrait is finished and framed. So now I should be getting right back into the old Bovey Tor groove but... I've decided that 65 years in the big smoke is enough for one man. So now planning a move way out west. On the surface this seems like an impulsive decision and if you know me, in some ways it really is. But I have friends in Somerset that I've known for 60 years, plus family in Devon, so it kind of makes sense to me. And let's not forget all those summers spent in Brixham, growing up. I guess the next few months are going to be all about sprucing this house up, before taking photos and marketing it. We've lived here for 23 years so moving will be a bitter sweet feeling no doubt. But I was born in Paddington, where else would I end up?
    15 points
  15. Will this do? I'm out of carbol*ock at present!
    14 points
  16. Yesterday’s job, first up I picked up a work colleague from basford hall who came in with 66731 I then got dropped off at the station where I saw a former colas work mate so got chatting to him by the old diesel depot i then went to Leamington spa and onward to site to collect the first train of the night and took it back to bescot, too and tail locos on 20 or so falcons and into bescot then it was taxi back to Leamington and work another one back to bescot, 66723 with 20 auto hoppers And that was that, change of job today, shrewsbury to Donnington RFT and back, a nice short job for a change!
    14 points
  17. Good moaning from the Charente where it's still sunny but that may not last. The Tardis has travelled overnight to land at Limon Costa Rica on the 4th January. I had spotted that there was a train ride to a banana plantation so we went on it. We walked from the ship to a train made up of a decrepit looking loco together with two equally decrepit coaches and a caboose. After getting out of town we turned back towards the sea and passed a commercial port where there was evidence of railway activity. Including a large pile of freight car running gear. Then surprise surprise a loco amongst stacks of banana containers. We stopped after a short time only a few yards from the sea. The track looked in rather decrepit condition. 3' 6" gauge. here is our loco. IIRC it's a GE U6B. We stopped several times whenever the crew saw something interesting. Here a couple of Sloths up in the trees. Jamie
    13 points
  18. NZ went back into lockdown recently due to delta finally reaching us. This was fortuitous in some ways, I had ordered some etch primer for the W's body. The Lockdown impacted postage (primer still hasn't arrived) and so i've been sitting here twiddling my thumbs, waiting. Naturally once I was happy with the remediation work on the body, this turned my focus to the chassis. This was my first etched kit, and there are a lot of thing i'd do differently on the next one. One of the main areas was the valve gear, I'd put the radius rod on backwards and the nuts/bolts I'd used to secure everything were very prominent in all the wrong ways. I'm sure you can guess what happened next; Wheels and rods came off. DLT's pickup arrangement was able to be removed as one unit and should hopefully slot right back in. I noticed that the wheels were actually incorrect, and had 18 spokes instead of 17. No one offers a plain rim 5'6" 17spk wheel with 14" crank throw (pin between spokes). The closest AG wheel I could find has the correct number of spokes, a beveled rim, and 13" crank throw. Not perfect, but an acceptable compromise until I can 3D print my own wheel centers. Some progress over the weekend saw amendments made to the motion bracket. The first iteration that came with the kit puts both parts in the wrong place, the front one is too high, and the rear one is too low. After some modification, they are now in the right place Like most Maunsell Locos the motion bracket should be a hefty great casting. I added some details to try and represent this from brass T section and rivet strip. On theme with the rest of the build, I added a representation of the internal valve gear in the gap between both brackets, much better than a bit of brass strip painted red. You cannot see this at all, even glimpsing it is difficult. So it's pretty freelance in terms of what should be there, but it's better than nothing. I also added some brass spacers made from leftover etch, at the front and rear of the chassis to help with body fitment and keep it all square The chassis really needs another dunk in paint stripper to get the rest of the stuff off between the frames - everything looks quite messy at the moment, as there is lots more cleaning up to do. OH, and this arrived..
    13 points
  19. Well a bit of a milestone moment today……control panel fully wired……..so in the interests of testing everything a loco has been where no loco has gone before……The bay platforms. The sound fitted c31 got the dubious honor of first engine. Not surprisingly dirty track and points made for some spluttery progress but everything worked. Here is the c31 in the SE bays.
    12 points
  20. Progress creeps on .... A fortnight, or 10 pages ago, we were here: It is slow work, especially where the kits are having replacement bodies. Now, we are here, edging toward the target of 48 West Norfolk Railway merchandise vehicles (which target exactly uses up my remaining store of Alan Gibson split spoke wheels, so I'll have to rub my coppers together for a re-order soon):
    12 points
  21. As summer nears it's end and the darker nights are starting to draw in, railway modelling can resume. Recently, I acquired some wagons from Dave Roome, which are perfect for Farkham.
    12 points
  22. On another forum, Paul Dunn has announced that the Coopercraft business including the Blacksmith range is for sale. Apparently he now has a full-time job so has decided to sell up. If anyone is interested, I saw the announcement on the Great Western Study Group forum.
    11 points
  23. Another MiniArt kit. This is sold as a Ford AA truck made under licence in Russia. I decided to ignore that and pretend it is simply an American civilian truck. The bonnet (hood?) was left as removable so that the engine detail can be revealed. It has been lightly weathered to try and stop it looking like a plastic kit. Stu
    11 points
  24. This Gizmo is amazing! I've long been a fan of Gaugemaster (Happy customer, this is not a sponsored link!), but their latest gizmo is amazing. It's the DCC40 reverse loop module, that I am using to change the polarity on the turntable: https://www.gaugemasterretail.com/magento/gaugemaster-dcc40.html When a loco arrives on the turntable, the Red feed for the electrical supply is on the track furthest from the operating point. When a tender loco arrives at Henley on Thames, it will be coming chimney first and clearly I will want the loco to leave chimney first. Hence needing a turntable. Having turned the loco on the table, the Red feed on the table is now on the wrong side - it is where the black feed is on the track going back to the station. That's where this Gizmo comes in. As soon as the wheels cross the gap from the table to the adjacent track, the Gizmo changes the polarity straight away. The first time I used it, I heard a sound similar to a switch, but after that, I didn't hear anything. The wiring diagram that comes with the DCC40 shows the connections for a reverse loop. I found the following article about how to wire it up for a turntable. http://m.airfix-shop.com/articles/guides/Reverse-Loops-part3.html Thanks to James Hickman at Gaugemaster who wrote the article. Having sat underneath the layout, I disconnected the supply to the table and inserted the feed from the Gizmo - It was that easy - not even a 10 minute job. It was then a case of testing it with some of my sound fitted locos, first up is Castle class loco no 4073 Caerphilly Castle. Seen here as it approaches the table: The table is marked "Head" and "Tail" - The Head is currently denoted by the engineer standing at that end. But there is also the "Caution" sign at that end as well. By having the Head next to the entrance track, I know that in this photo the track nearest the camera is Red; the line furthest away is Black. I need the differentiation to get it fully programmed. Once I have everything programmed, I will remove the engineer - he doesn't need to be there. Now on the table; at this stage the Red feed is still nearest the camera (From my normal operating position Red would be the track furthest away - I wouldn't normally operate from here!) Now the magic starts to happen; firstly the table is turned through 180 degrees. This sound loco is not fitted with a stay alive, so if the power fails, the steam sound will drop straight away. (Needs;ess to say it didn't). At this point, the "Tail" is facing left - towards the entrance / exit road for the table. On the far right you will see the engineer at the "Head". This means that the track closest to the camera on the table is Black, with the track on the exit road, closest to the camera being Red. (The two polarities do not match). In the normal course of events, my circuit breakers would kick in as that would give us a short circuit. No 4073 Caerphilly Castle, having been turned is now ready to leave the turntable. In this next shot, with the tender bridging the different track sections, under normal circumstances would have caused a short circuit. Indeed it has stopped with the tender on the table (Red & Black feed); whilst the loco is on the exit road (Black and Red feed). Note: you can still see the engineer at the "Head" on the far side of the turntable bridge. I now need to spend a day testing the whole table further and programming as I go. To be continued... edit April 2022: It took ages to get this turntable working properly.
    11 points
  25. ( Em ) Bossing it or.....going slowly up the wall on the side project ! Having used some photographs for the initial mock-up of the walling I decided to try a method trialed on some previous projects. Looking in my bitsa scrap material I found some dense foam and decided to try embossing the stonework on it which will hopefully give the 3 dimensional look. After an hour I have managed to achieve this following the photograph as a basis...... The embossing was done using a blunt pencil rather than any formal tools which I find more suited for this material. Not an original process granted but once I have "enhanced" it I hope to have something made from the scrap box ! G
    11 points
  26. When some friends of ours are away, we go around and water their various pots and hanging baskets. It is a reciprocal arrangements, and works seamlessly. However, whenever I go around to do their watering, after I get just over half way around the garden, the clouds suddenly roll in and it begins to rain! My doing this is far more conclusive than trying to perform a rain dance and hoping. This evening, we have the first of the OFMC meetings since Feb 2020, (due to the Covid saga). It will be a planning meeting dedicated to the rebirth on my Splott West Sidings line in a more lightweight and transportable form. Ply will replace solid timbers for the framing, and built in legs will replace the previously used trestle and beam method of supporting it all. The trestle and beam method is very good, as you erect the frame, and then just slide the boards onto it. But the trestles we use are very bulky and take up a huge amount of space when being transported. I suspect this will result in a complete new set of self supporting lightweight boards, with the original trackwork cut away from their frames and re-secured onto the new construction.
    11 points
  27. I need to go through my Stock, and turn off the Tail Lights.
    11 points
  28. Here comes the Flying Scotsman, and a very famous A4, which should have been preserved.
    10 points
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  30. I’m beginning to think HH that you have a folder on your computer titled “Photos to Amuse the Messrs Hunt & Co With”, full of various photos of pachyderm products. EDIT: products made in the form or relating to pachyderms, not products made from pachyderms. My LDC Heist Defense Advisor told me put that in there, said something about carpet bombing lemon cakes, rather than simply lemon drop cakes? Must be a new ingredient.
    10 points
  31. How it’s already September and the leaves are falling is beyond me… This weekend I had an airbrush session, mainly to weather the track on Fordley - where most of my attention has gone the last few months - but I also weathered a few bits. Firstly Hattons 66504. This has received the axle box cut and shut and steps mounted to the chassis as I’ve mentioned previously. A generous general traffic 'frame dirt' application, Railmatch 'dark rust' on the silencer, and matt black on the roof to represent the loco circa autumn 2019 when it looked particularly grubby! The whole loco was sealed with AK Matte varnish… Also my third and final pair (for now) of Bachmann 'multifret' intermodal flats received the same treatment: And my Northern 150, which was dusted on the sides with frame dirt and received subtle exhaust streaks. The clean roof edge is intentional and observed from photos, clearly where the washer reaches! Before I weathered it I also sorted the face of the unit. I don’t know what Bachmann's original intent was but it didn’t represent 150204 around the top edge of the cab front, the cant rail should sit as shown below, at the bottom of that lip, not at the top as Bachmann portrayed. This was fixed with Humbrol orange and 32 dark grey; not an exact match but perfectly close when weathered. IMO it makes a massive difference to the look of the cab front. Also the front above the handrails was all painted black from just black window frames, to represent 150201 - my chosen prototype. Last night I applied the extra Northern bicycle and PRM door stickers courtesy of Railtec: Don't look too closely, I applied the bikes too high as it would seem Bachmann's window size or Steve’s sticker width is slightly out! The unit will also receive CDL lights (on their way) and a new identity - when Steve gets round to my custom order including the 222 transfers… Thanks for reading! Jack.
    10 points
  32. Never worked for us, tried it years ago. The koi pond has filters UV etc so is OK, the 'bog pond' we just let get on with it now, and scoop the stuff out when it gets too thick. Interestingly we now have newts in it, which according to the wildlife experts (!) on the island, don't exist on the IoM. I have news for you, guys!
    10 points
  33. You did better at this than I did then! I still see, and often drink, with my former 3rd year (now year 9) pupils but their parents obviously did not hold me in such high regard. In fact one salient feature of my teaching career was the parent who offered to fight me at a parents' evening. I was quite acceptable to this idea, (made a difference to the boring normal routine) and even went so far as to remove my tie before inviting him 'to bring it on'. i played rugby every weekend at the time, so was quite amenable to a bit of fisticuffs. Unfortunately the other parents were appalled and dragged him away before we could begin to enjoy ourselves! Ian T
    10 points
  34. Spent today painting all the Modelu figures I bought last weekend. Fitted three into one of the chocolate and cream B set carriages. I thought the man reading the newspaper and the well dressed lady looked like 1st class passengers so they went into that compartment. The man in the flat cap looked more appropriate for 3rd class. I have also fitted the crew to the Sentinel. So that project in now complete. Cheers, Ade.
    10 points
  35. Last lot of slate out of Ward Fell for the day. No. 2 will stop briefly for water at Glennock, before the wagons will be shunted into the exchange sidings at Crovan's Gate. Where the slate will then be loaded into standard gauge wagons on the NWR.
    9 points
  36. Hi Annie, of course you can, I shall look forward to seeing it in action on your digital creation. Not long returned home after a long weekend in slightly wet mid-Wales. A much needed few days away with the husband, spending a very enjoyable Saturday at the Talyllyn Railway for Edward Thomas’ 100th Birthday Gala. Jolly good fun with Corris No.7, Stanhope and Diana visiting for the weekend: Four loco lineup at Wharf on Saturday morning. KS Sirdar “Diana”, KS Tattoo “Stanhope”, Winson Engineering Corris No.7, KS Tattoo Special “Edward Thomas”. ET and No.7 double-headed the first and third trains of the day. On the return at Abergynolwyn. “Diana” and “Stanhope” doing footplate rides on the temporary 2’ gauge track at Wharf. Falcon “Sir Haydn” in the afternoon sun at Wharf. It was oh so quiet at Abergynolwyn this morning when we called in on our way home… …the quiet didn’t last long though as “Edward Thomas” arrived with the first train of the day. All in all a very lovely weekend!
    9 points
  37. The turntable cont'd: I couldn't resist getting a few locos on and off the table and at the same time swapping head and tail around. It all worked very well. The next loco was 57xx 0-6-0PT no 5737 (I have just noticed that the buffer beam number needs changing!) Followed by a sound fitted 61xx And then Caerphilly Castle came back onto the table: It's all work in progress - even on the smaller roads, there is a lot of work to do before I am happy with it all. On the longer roads, I have laid down a card template which will be the larger area of loco hardstanding / preparation area. This side will include a hut at the end and associated "busy shed" items. As ever, it's all to be continued. But at least with these electrics going in, it feels that huge progress has been made in this area. It's going to be great to run a train into Henley on Thames, move the loco off the front, take it to the turntable, turn it round, whereupon it goes to the front of the train and hauls the carriages back to London Paddington.
    9 points
  38. Well, if you see an ROD tender at least you know it's a 2-8-0. The thick brass frames look a bit antiquated, also the coupling rods filed up from bullhead rail but it all works and "if it ain't broke don't fix it" - it even has n/s pickups! The 15mm square motor has more than enough power fitted to the High Level Roadrunner +, it's fairly slow but that hardly matters for its duties on WJ and Herculaneum Dock. On test this morning on WJ it was quite happy on the Northwich - Barrow coke empties (23 + brake) and in the up direction it pulled the heavy mixed goods which defeated the B7 last week. That was at its current light weight of 235g and it not only got to the starting signal but halfway up the hill before it slipped to a standstill. On the dynamometer rig it pulled quite well, adding a 388g V block on the boiler top increased this to a ridiculous length but the wheels were still spinning. So at lighter weight than the B7 it pulls much more (the B7 couldn't get the Barrow empties out of the fiddle yard) and they are both on Romford wheels, the theoreticians always tell us that adhesion is only related to weight, the number of driving wheels is irrelevant but in my experience more wheels means better adhesion.
    9 points
  39. My headmistress at primary school used carbolic on pupils caught swearing. Jamie
    9 points
  40. All scales look the exactly the same size, just depends how far away you are stood...
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  41. Doesn't that make you the ideal purchaser, having regard to recent performance of the company?
    9 points
  42. It does, but I already have all the leg units which I recovered from the south Greenfield layout, so it's just a case of screwing them onto the end plates of the new frames! Or I could build some new and basic 'A' lightweight trestles, to replace the heavy, bulky multi-height Aldi trestles currently in use. It's more to making the whole package more easily transportable as at present it either needs a van or a trailer. Getting it into two cars would be much easier. It's at time like this that one learns to appreciate the smaller scales.
    9 points
  43. Will you be going for the fully authentic prize and adding a shopping trolley, carrier bags, old car tyre......?
    9 points
  44. I'm still needing to sleep quite bit, but I'm feeling a lot better than I was. Continuing with the job of remedying the matt texturing on some of my older engines in TRS19 is a good way to get my brain to work properly. Having already repaired No.3 I'm reasonably familiar with the mesh material settings and where they are listed with my much modified 'Knotty' class 'B' engines that I use as the Affiliated (Imaginary) Railway Companies' Standard tank engine design, but the 'Terriers' are something very different entirely. Fortunately the 'Terriers' don't have LOD so that meant I only had to enter in the new settings only once for each attempt. The modified 'B' class engines have LOD, but only two stage LOD so I had to enter the settings in twice, but at least I already knew what needed to be done. I did 0-6-0T No.2 with reflective material settings at 1%. No.2 mostly does shunting and trip working so she's cared for, but not a polish queen and that was my aim with adjusting the material settings. No.2 is seen here pausing between jobs in the goods yard at Bluebell Magna. The lamp code she is carrying is yet another mysterious GER one which horrified the LNER at the grouping by showing a red light to the front.. 'Moxbury' was the designated test Terrier for me to determine just how and where the mesh materials were listed. In the end I figured out which materials were which, - though it would have gone easier if the Terriers' maker had used less creative file names. At least now that I know what to do I can sort out Moxbury's four sister engines reasonably easily. The Terriers usually work on the tramways and branchlines where there's a weight restriction, but 'Moxbury' has the important job of being the pilot engine and general shunting engine at Moxbury station. I used a 1% setting with 'Moxbury' as well as I didn't want to polish her up too much and I think the final result is reasonably good.
    9 points
  45. A little more progress on my ex-GNR BFK Twin set. The roofs have been designed, printed, fettled and epoxied onto the bodies. A little bit of filler is going to be needed to hide the slight gap at the out ends but otherwise, I'm pretty pleased with this.
    9 points
  46. Back to the workbench now the weather's starting to deteriorate and one or two projects moving along. The D18 BT is now complete and ready for paint. Beautifully free running on the D & S bogies and my thanks to Mark for supplying them. This is for export down under once complete. We saw the K3 at the top of the page. It's now ready for weathering, coaling and crew and then will be on Grantham at the next outing. This is a Bachmann body with a brass chassis and motion (I assume SEF) by Tony Wright and replacement cab from the SEF etch. The tender is the original. I'm not sure whether this has been on here before or not. NuCast O2 from Ebay for £75. As I have an unbuilt kit, I thought it was probably worth that for the wheels alone. It's been stripped so the body could be tidied up - I've removed untold quantities of glue - and had replacement tender frames and wheels. On test, the whitemetal crosshead on this side has worn too far to remain in the slidebar and dropped, bending the piston rod which has now snapped. A new valve gear etch is on the way from the ever-helpful Brian at Branchlines along with a pair of their brass V2 crossheads so we don't end up here again. I'll move the motor while the motion's off as well, try to make it less visible. This week I've been working on this. I doubt it'll be ready for the next Grantham show, but maybe in 2022. LRM J5. Visually similar to the J6 but quite a different kit to construct. You can see the hand of different designers, which is interesting in itself. I started it on Monday, so it's gone together quite well. This is now held up by the fact that the mandrel on my cutting disc broke. Not something I'd have said I used often, but I now have three separate jobs waiting for it on and around this loco and the High Level gearbox which will drive it. i have one of their new coreless motors for it, also a first. We shall see.
    9 points
  47. The V2 is one of my favourites too, though I’ve never built one. This one has been built by Richard Spoors from the 7mm Finney kit and I finished it. Ian R
    9 points
  48. The second of the five vehicles which made up the Colchester c1950s breakdown train is finished, at last (!), a scratch-built GER double bolster converted to the crane match truck, 961658. The first vehicle completed was the GER 6-wheel Mess and Packing van, 961520 (D&S kit) and the next wagon, will be the other crane runner, a cut down GER Dia 17 open, 961657, also from a D&S kit. The final two vehicles are ex LD&ECR 6-wheel brake and a Cowans crane, which hopefully Hornby's takeover of Oxford Rail, won't stop its production (CAD drawings were well advanced in July), albeit no doubt there will be some ramifications! Paul
    8 points
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