kingfisher24

It’s been absolutely ages since I posted anything on here so it’s about bloody time that changed. Over the past few months I have been working away on various rtr conversions and kits. The most notablebeing a pair on ex lner c16’s. Both using Hornby adams radial chassis and m7 wheels and gwr county con rods and more. They run very smoothly. One is a much altered triang m7 body shell and the other is a nucast body on the Hornby chassis. Also I have finally finished my scratchbuilt pickersgill 4-4-0 and all it needs is some extra weight adding but. As it is it’ll pull a 4 coach train quite happily. I plan to make a second one but that ain’t now. I have also completely rebuilt a very old K’s ex caley 439 kit which was simply horrible when I got hold of. Was a tenner at a show in a junk box. Well now it’s looking pretty good and runs very nicely

Tony Thank you for the information on the pullmans. I have had a look and I see what you mean about the prices for even the older pullmans never mind the newer tooling. I have seen an older Hornby train pack of the Q.o.S which may be a starting point. Gary

Ohh while I’m on here… Tony I am looking to make up a representation of the Queen of Scot’s circa 1958/9 before the mk1 pullmans made an appearance. Members of my club are looking to make a model of Edinburgh St Margaret’s, well the running shed side at least, with the main lines running around the front of the depot and the north side of the lines left to the imagination…. I already have the Elizabethan but the Q.o.S did pass the depot and it would be something different in amongst the blood and custard and or maroon stock. Plus I know it can be a relatively short rake which would keep the pennies and pounds happy, and the wife too! I’ve seen and remember that you have a rake on Little Bytham. Could you possibly pass on a list of stock which would be suitable. many thanks Gary

Oh it’s always nice to return to rmweb after a medically enforced hiatus and see this page in particular and read through all the chat and wonderful modelling on show. I am now getting back into things and starting new projects now that my “can’t be arsed” has been replaced with “get my finger out and do something” frame of mind. Mental health is really a pain in the posterior. Anyway I have been busy of late with yet more rtr conversions. In the latest case a ex lner c16 which has been made from a nu cast kit which had been glued together but was falling apart. It was dropped in paint stripper and rebuilt. Plus I found that a re wheeled Hornby adams radial chassis is perfect wheelbase-wise. I plan to do a few more when I find a spare chassis. I now have two c16’s made the same way and they run far sweeter than any kit I’ve put together. Plus one made from an old triang m7 body with new boiler and front end. I think I’ll do one more when time allows. Is it possible to have too many of the same class?? Please excuse the lack of lamps. They were on the loco when they went in the box but ran away during the journey to my club…

I finally finished (well almost save for coal and a light weathering) my Pickersgill 4-4-0 54486. The loco is a scratch built body on a re-wheeled triang L1 chassis and a much modified GEM Glen tender. The loco happily hauls a 4-5 coach train which is more than enough for what I intend it for ie a branch line loco where large loads will not happen. This is a good thing as there isn’t any space left inside the loco to add any more extra weight.

I’ve just come on rmweb thnyte after a break of a month or two and it’s always a pleasure to see the pics of Longdrem.

Well this place has indeed been busy since I was last on. I’ve not been on rmweb since December last year. Which indeed is when I last did any real modelling, well other than in the mind ofcourse. Unfortunately my mother passed away on two days before Christmas and then my second and hopefully final wedding on the 31st of the same month. Then moving house twice in six months. All that has left no time for anything, barely time to scratch anything! Mind having said that I spend 80% of my working days sat on it driving so no chance haha. it’s nice to see so many projects on the go. I cannot wait for shows to start again, indeed the last show I was Model Rail Scotland 2020 where Tony I had the pleasure of running some of your models on my clubs Newcastleton layout. After more than 15 weeks of being stuck in the house wasn’t exactly good for the old mental health when I had dementia to deal with on a daily basis. Literally the only thing that kept me going and occupied was my modelling. So I gained three Nu Cast V2’s, together with and A3. All of which were bought cheap (via a certain well known auction site) and I put my scratch building head on and made a NBR class C16 from a Hornby Adams radial tank chassis and a much butchered triang m7 body. This cost me next to nothing and I’m very pleased with it. I’ve since got hold of another chassis to do another when I have the time. I have perhaps put some of these up before but think someone may appreciate them. So I’m posting a couple of the models I’ve made.

Apologies I havnt logged into rmweb in aaages. That’s great thank that would be a help. I’m just trying to make something a little bit different. I’ve recently seen some footage of a weed killing train at Crief in the late 50’s made from a couple of WD tender and some inks lnwr coaches. Then another made from some ex k3 tenders and some very scruffy looking Gresleys. There are possibilities with both but I’ve just moved house a month ago so any modelling can wait for thnow. While I re make a modelling area AGAIN haha gary

Have we had any update on the Loch names by any chance? Gary

Aw the dome and chimney I couldn’t tell the origins of them as they were given to me by a friend but I think they’re from a djh loco kit. Failing that chimneys can be made using brass tube and washers etc. gary

Sorry I havnt been on rmweb very often of late. It’s the oxford Adams I used for the conversion. As the Hornby one has more weight which is part of the chassis and would need filed off. The oxford model on the other hand has less or infact nothing that needs removal, plus the boiler is in one piece which saves having to make a new boiler.

It’s always interesting to come back to this thread after a long (ish) absence. I myself have managed to get hold of a couple of older nu cast V2’s and a peppercorn A2 to keep me occupied during the enforced house arrest of corona. They are coming along nicely as are several other projects, it seems every cloud has either mixed traffic or orange lining as during this lockdown I’ve done more modelling than I have done in a long time. My latest is an update of an old Hornby j83 which I have had lying about in a box for a few years, and while taking a break from kit building I thought I’d have a rummage through my bits and pieces and see what I could do with a very basic model for very little outlay. And here is the result of a couple of days work with not much else to do. The basic model, which is wrong in most dimensions (this I couldn’t do much about) has had all the moulded “detail” removed and all replaced with wire handrails and all the major plumbing has also been made from various gauge brass wire. A cab floor and basic cab detail added as far as possible, I can’t however fit a backhead as the gears and motor worm etc stick out too far. Strategically placed crew make this less noticeable. For the chassis I found a motor-less Bachmann pannier chassis at the bottom of a drawer plus a set of southern 0-6-0 wheels and married them together, I also found a suitable motor with the correct worn to match and the laid in in my drawing of a j83. The chassis is only out by 1mm on the rear four wheels. This I can also live with. So at the end of it I’ve gained another ex NBR loco to add to my collection.

Oh well, a touch of modellers licence, either that or change to 60052. But not thnow though I think

Just a quick one, does know if 60045 Lemberg even travelled, or is likely to have travelled over the Waverley, I know various other english based a3’s did so but I’m unsure about 60045. I have recently got hold of a kit built example of 60045 which needed the chassis and motion rebuilt but the body just needed touching up. So I’d rather not change the name and number because they’ve been nicely done.

Well that’s my c16 conversion complete. I had the misfortune of having to line it out TWICE as the original set of lining I used, the adhesive on the hmrs pressfix transfers had a strange reaction with the paint and came off....anyway a second lining out and the reaction had still happened for some reason but not as bad (you can see a slight bubble effect under the tank side lining) but that’s only when viewed close up. In time I will re do it with model master or fox transfers but it’ll do at the moment. Gary p