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  1. Hi Dave, 

     

    Thanks for that. Very strange as the ones with my kit are a completely different design to yours! 
     

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    It’s similar to what Slaters use for their coach kits and I just can’t get on with them so they get replaced with what I would term your traditional sprung buffer with the spring contained within the buffer guide and a captive nut on the end of the buffer ram. 
     

    BW,

     

    Neil

  2. Hi Wenlock, 

     

    I noticed that you’ve not used the buffers supplied with the kit - do you mind if I ask please what you replaced them with? 
     

    I have one of these on the go at the moment and I’m not a fan of the springing method of the buffers supplied by Slaters with the kit so looking to replace with ones like you have fitted. GWR isn’t my usual forte so I’m a bit out of my depth with what is suitable! 
     

    Cheers,

     

    Neil

  3. True - they would have done Martin. However this layout is looooong gone - currently planning it's successor (and have been for the last 4 years....)

    Handbuilt track will be a feature of the next one as I have very restricted space (7'6"x18" max) so points will be of the very small variety!

  4. I think the driving wheel splasher will look very good when its finished, I suggest covering the area with masking tape before you drill the holes, I've read it somewhere that it stops the drill bit from slipping. Alternatively, if that fails, have you thought about using a thin plasticard overlay to represent the cutouts in the splasher? Paint the background of it black and you wouldn't really be able to tell the difference. Admittedly it wouldn't look as good as actually drilling the holes would, but less likely to give you nightmares though!

  5. I'll be looking forward to seeing what you do with the Percy's, the outside framed quarry hunslet sounds like a very good plan! I've dug out my two spare percy's with an eye to using them on my layout for the 0-16.5 feeder line, have a couple of ideas, one of which is a narrow gauge Bideford, Westhard Ho! & Appledore Railway Hunslet tram engine: http://englishrail.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/bwha_1.jpg

     

    With regards to the Echo kit, I look forward to seeing how that one turns out as well, I've used what little remains of mine and just testing out how it looks mounted on a Percy chassis...footplate will need widening but it could look quite interesting when I've finished with it.

     

    Yes, I must say I found that when I first got into 7mm modelling, it is very addictive, I think its the sheer scale of it all compared to 4mm, everything has much more bulk to it, even the narrow gauge stuff!

     

    Hmm, must say the L&B style mallet would look pretty impressive, you'd need a huge layout though for it to look right I think.

     

    If you ever want a hand with any of the 0-16.5 stuff, give me a shout as I'm only up the road from you in Derby and more than happy to help out.

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  6. Hi Simon,

     

    Have you thought about using the Bachmann Percy chassis as a basis for building bodies onto? In terms of detail they are much better than the Hornby 0-4-0 chassis and run a heck of a lot better too! I've been contemplating mounting two of them back to back and wired together to create a double fairlie loco. With a slightly wider footplate and deeper bufferbeams the chassis would look suitably narrow gauge.

     

    I'm looking forward to seeing what you do with the Smallbrook studio kit, which one have you ordered? I have a couple of these, two of the Pentewan railway clay open wagons and their 'Echo' loco kit, though I must say I wasn't too impressed with the footplate casting with the loco kit, mine was severly distorted, but from what I've read I think mine may have been one of the earlier ones, as he now produces the models with wire cast into the footplate to make them less likely to warp.

     

    Must say I'm quite tempted by the Ajax kit designed to fit onto the Bachmann Underground Ernie inspection car, think with a modified rear body it could look quite interesting!

    http://www.smallbrookstudio.com/custom/Guard%20Thunderer%20007.jpg

     

    Oh and a word of warning, once you've started in 7mm scale you'll never look back!:D

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