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Hi Lez This sounds interesting, could you please post a photo of your set up so I don't make a mess of it and hurt myself? Thank you.
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Catenary OHLE wires
Clive Mortimore replied to 7013's topic in Permanent Way, Signalling & Infrastructure
To save having to do conversions here are the 4mm scale dimensions. Edit, Having re-read your requirements the pantogragh (pick up arm) should go up and down, most models have sprung pantographs. They go up and down because there is not a set normal height for the contact wire, things like bridges and level crossings usually need to be lower or higher respectfully. -
Would or should I know what he looks like? Any how I am not a miserable git, a grumpy bu88er may be. As for "Gravettesque" it was worth giving his guide dog a Bonio so it would say a nice compliment to boost your ego. 😉 Thanks for asking me again to ride shotgun, and sorting out the lifts with John and Stu.
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Sheffield Exchange, Toy trains, music and fun!
Clive Mortimore replied to Clive Mortimore's topic in Layout topics
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K was for Kay (or Kate), Len's then wife. After their split the C was the initial of their son, who's name I don't have a clue. Len use to visit Karlgarin models quite a lot in those days as I did, so I am relying on 35 plus years of chat memory.
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Top side is better with a b..................................................... No buses on it when I went under it today.
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Sheffield Exchange, Toy trains, music and fun!
Clive Mortimore replied to Clive Mortimore's topic in Layout topics
Sad day, "Look what they have done to the blues" RIP Steve Harley -
What is the point of the steering wheel being in the middle,surely it is best up the front with the driver.🤪
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But you live in the semi civilised part, wot about us out on the marsh?
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Driving Motor Brake Second. Modifications include removal of headcode box and a new destination box made for plastic card. This is a later unit with a two figure headcode box under the centre window. I am still thinking of making the leading passenger window a tad shorter as it is too long. Driving Motor Second, additional seating bays from a "spare" 117 coach. Front end modifications, the same as the DMBS. Trailer Second. This is the fun coach, Lima made the seating bays 1/4mm too long, resulting in a shorter toilet area, not very noticeable on the TC of a 117 or 118 but on a TS of a 116 (or 125) where an additional seating bay is needed the result is a coach that is too long, if you can live with that fine. If not you can always cut new windows and a door to make a seating bay from the toilet area. A third way as I have done with this coach is to remove the sides leaving the end window and door on the left hand end and just the window on the right. Cut along right hand side of each door. Once you have a collection of a window (or 2 small windows) and a door file off 1/4mm from the left hand side not the door. With a similar bit from that "spare" coach reassemble to make a correct length TS. Brian Kirby suggested the shortening each seating bay method. An earlier TS I made form a 117 TC for a 127 unit, where I cut a new door and windows to make a smaller seating bay. Another earlier TS for a 125 where I didn't cut down the size of the seating bays and the coach needed 2mm to be added to the roof and chassis.
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Cranes are wonderful machines to model. This is my home made one. It is a ex LMS 30 ton 0-6-4 Cowans Sheldon crane. It is numbered in the Eastern Region series as it found its way to the Sheffield district when the old MR sheds became ER territory. As many cranes remained at one shed for a long time I picked on this one to make as it was the regional spare. Had I made one that did stay on the one shed for donkeys years for my fictional Hanging Hill depot layout, that bloke would have been there " I don't mean to criticize BUT crane number 123 never left so and so shed". The regional spare would catch him out so I thought. Not one blighter in about eight years of humping the layout in and out of shows did anyone notice the number on the crane. I used the Peter Tatlow drawings in an early BRM. Transfers from a Modelmaster sheet.
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That is with my glasses on. Not sure if I need a second class 48, or for that matter another 47 even if with my good glasses it looks better closer up. When over the other side of the layout the light green band indicates it might be a class 47, or a 25 or a 24 or even one of the two 27s in two tone greens (well only one of them as I don't have the other one).
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It might be a better idea to compare with photos of the real things (there were 512 built with the same cabs) and some reliable drawings. At the same time check the Bachy against the same photos and drawings.
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Hills of the North - The Last Great Project
Clive Mortimore replied to LNER4479's topic in Layout topics
With the added complication of a doughnut shaped shed building around it, so you can't see to get at things.