Kev_Lewis
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You know Jeff sometimes I nearly forget that you're actually building a model railway, not an epic diorama of a moor.
Keep up the great work and stop apologising for posting photo's of your stunning scenic work.
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I found this thread a few days ago, and have very much enjoyed reading the Gauge 3 builds.
It's very tempting!
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Has anyone had trouble with the Dapol 3 Links being very tight at the Hook end? I need to have a look at most of mine.
Yep, I did a bit of work on one for a friend when I weathered it for him.
The springs on the coupling hook are also far too soft and the chromed links are a pig to blacken.
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The JLTRT resin wagon kits do go together easily. But the buffers need a lot of fettling to get them to work.
You may also want to check the buffer spacing. It's wrong on a lot of early JLTRT kits.
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Ah, the outside slip finally makes an appearance. I remember you tell me you were keen to incorporate one into the track plan.
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Great progress Martyn.
You must be inching ever closer to completing the circuit.
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The spring buffers from NMRS are very good. I've used them a number of times. There may well be something suitable in their range:
http://www.nmrs-models.co.uk/ogauge/Buffers/Freight%20Buffers.html
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At the weekend a mate brought his newly purchased GWR green Terrier over for me to fit a sound chip into it.
I should have got a photo really, but we had a little line up of the following loco's:
Dapol Terrier,
Lionheart 74XX Pannier Tank,
Minerva Peckett,
Scorpio 58XX painted by myself in Railmatch GWR green.
All were different shades of green. I don't think that nowadays there's really a definitive GWR green. Even at Didcot all the loco's are different shades of green.
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Does that regulator handle not have holes for connection to the push-pull gear? Not sure 1369 would have that.
JF
Yes, she does: https://locoyard.com/heritage-railways/gallery/gallery-great-western-railway/#jp-carousel-1584
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Can't get the staff nowadays..............
Too busy fitting sound chips to Victorys?
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Really. 1442 in Tiverton Museum: https://www.flickr.com/photos/crayzy_ray/4478924203
And 1450: https://www.flickr.com/photos/stuart166axe/18488875416
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Does it make a massive amount of difference? ...albeit needing to check photos of one's chosen Prototype more carefully (mine will be good with the "untidy" pipework
)It does if you want the model you're ordering to represent a particular engine as it was at a particular time.
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Quite surprised this hasn't been posted on here:
https://www.minervamodelrailways.co.uk/uncategorized/pannier-specification-changes/
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Cos it don't look like steel, and it costs twice the price of copper!!!
Yet we use it for our rails.
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I think they're made from the same steel as Slaters' wheels...
I don't understand why Slaters can't just make their wheels out of nickel silver?
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Larry,
You may also want to check which type of reverser is fitted in the cab. I remember reading that the Tower Bras 14XX has a lever reverser when it should be a screw type.
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Great choice of music Andy.
Oh, and the layout is coming on nicely too
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The outside steam pipes look, to my eye, to be too small a diameter. And the steam heating pipe on the buffer beam looks more like an air brake.
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You can't turn your back for a minute around here!
So I'll just leave this here: http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/115518-jinty-in-o-gauge/
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Laugh? I nearly did.
Can't you go forth & hate the GWR on some other Thread?
Agreed.
I come to this thread to read the latest information about a forthcoming model that I am hoping to purchase. Not to read the same old comments, that have been repeated many times in the past, mocking my preferred choice of railway company.
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Here's the Gaugemaster range of lamps: http://www.gaugemaster.com/search_results.asp?searchstring=brand~~751~~brand&style=&andor=&method=kws&strType=&OB=p_d
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What actually appears to be causing the confusion is the injector variations.
Using the following photo as reference: http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/gallery/image/55017-6435-1/
The injector is the collection of pipes in front of the cab, above the footplate. On earlier loco's the pipe work is quite tidy and goes back into the cab. But on later loco's the pipe work is a bit messier, sometimes (as shown in the above link) going down through the footplate, and on others wrapping over the outside of the footplate. As shown here: http://www.railaroundbirmingham.co.uk/full_photos/gwr5764PT_at_rest_bewdley.jpg
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With this and the Minerva Panniers next year is going to be a very expensive year!
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Hi Kev,
I did see you a couple of times at Telford, I mean you must be 6'6" so it would be hard to miss you , but you were engrossed in conversation with a lady at the time, and I'm sure she was more interesting than I could possibly be.....
I will catch up with you at Bristol in January hopefully, as for the glue well this particular glue was made by " Deluxe " and seems to work well.
All the best,
Martyn.
Ha ha! That was my mate's wife. He was too busy getting excited over the Dapol Terrier he's just bought! Say hello next time you silly sod!
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Minerva GWR Pannier Tank - open for advanced orders
in Minerva
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That's the slacking pipe which came off a valve in the cab side sheet.
The following like shows it on a 28XX, but I believe it would be a similar arrangement on most GWR loco's.
http://gwr2807.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/