Phil Brighton

Just noticed in a set of 6 20mm Romford wheels 2 are 18 spoke the rest 16. Anyone got 16 spoke ones? Can buy or even better if you want 18 spoke ones can swap! The 18 spoke ones are as new and insulated. Thanks

Ballast train from 3D files I drew up.

HI Nestor - didn't realise you were going German with your modelling! I don't know of any other information sorry. He said he didn't use online forums and I have no idea about the German modelling press. It's a shame because aside from the interesting explanations of how he built the models I didn't realise the complications of the period and place. For example when looking at works drawings from pre 1870 and unification he needs to check the units of measurement as every state and half the cities had different length feet and inches! Fascinating stuff.

I hope people don't mind me posting this here - just thought it nice to share as the main theme of this topic is making things. We just got back from visiting a friend who moved to near Frankfurt to marry a German girl. He mentioned his neighbour was into trains (my friend is a weirdo who for some reason isn't into trains) and that I should pop round and have chat with him. What a treat! His layout was good and the buildings very nice indeed but the loco's and rolling stock was exquisite. All pre 1870 in HO and all totally scratch built - even down to the wheels that he makes himself. They ran beautifully and were frankly real little works of art.

Mike sent them direct - we swapped some STLs

Will see what I can do. Do also want to get better at taking my own ones.

Thanks, that's very kind. Looks like current market means moving soon isn't likely so on the plus side unlike the plans in the article it isn't being dismantled yet.

Pleased to have made it into Railway Modeller this month.

Hornby D16/Mallard Models brass kit Royal Claud finished. Pretty pleased with this one in the end.

End of last week gave the Royal Claud a test run on the Cambridge Buffet Express. I like to do all the main parts with solder, prime to check for problems,to be filed or filled then use glue for the little details. It took quite a while to get the body ok as the primer showed up that I had not done a very good job of the firebox on one side. It was a thinner brass than the rest of the body and was on an etch with detailing parts like the valances designed to be attached to a thicker sheet of brass underneath. It was quite distorted I couldn't get the thing to a decent finish. After a lot of trying I gave up and cut one side of the firebox out between the boiler bands (are they called that on the firebox?), soldered some thicker scraps of brass together and made a new part of the same shape. Its not perfect (its the other side from this pic) but is far better. Many of the castings with the kit were not great or missing entirely so I have 3d printed some new parts and nicked others of the Hornby D16. More to do but it should be plain sailing until painting now.

Finally decided today to sit down and stop avoiding the annoying bit of my Royal Claud build. By annoying I mean getting the Hornby chassis to screw to the body and run without shorting while getting the plastic smokebox parts to all line up with the kit parts. Quite why I thought this was a better idea than just building the Mallard models kit I don't know but I have started so I will finish. Anyway the difficult bit is done so I can move onto the tidying up and detailing. Boiler fittings and cab roof just there to make it look nice, none of them fixed down.

These GNR open framed van bodies are from STLs created by Mike Trice. The chassis are from my own design.

Finally got round to finishing a few of my 3d printed wagons. These ones are all fitted examples to use in an express goods. All drawn in Tinkercad and printed on a Elegoo Mars. The only exception is the container with is RTR. Conflat Fitted LNER open LNER fridgevan - with home etched ladders on the ends. Couple of GNR vans with different door types and ends. Also a NER CCT I have a few of each and a couple of other designs I haven't finished yet.

Tried the idea Tried the idea of using the main track programmer (incidentally it doesn't allow me to edit CV8) to find the problem had solved itself and both locos running as normal. Weird but shouldn't complain! Thanks all for the responses

Yes Hattons Decoders. I have found them fine generally and the reset is CV 8.