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Mike 84C

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  1. I'm looking at a 0-4-0t wks No 748 called Nori and owned by Accrington Brick and Tile. Is there a kit or a printed body available for this loco? and what type/design is it please?
  2. The lack of preventative maintainance is everywhere, I live in rural Lincolnshire , our village never used to flood, done it twice this winter. The drainage boards and the EVA only fire fight cleaning dykes when the water has overtopped. Most organizations that deal with these sort of problems are not fit for purpose. And I do understand about cutting budgets. There is no joined up thinking and only political short termism. An instance, there is a proposal for North Lincs to have a depositry for nuclear waste , who in their right mind would build such a thing on land which is only 30/40 ft and probably less, above sea level. Fill of materiel with a radioactive life of thousands of years. I 'm sure I read that if global warming melts the polar ice caps sea levels will rise about 40ft so what happens to all the monitoring of the radioactive stuff? Glad its not my problem but why should our grandchildren have to deal with this stuff when with planning and forethought the outcomes could be much better and I could go on about solar farms, digesters, energy crops and the third world roads we drive on around here. Rant over!
  3. Thanks for your reply Mark. I wonder if prints are at the vagaries of Shapeways! I did think about asking the author if it could be printed in resin but the to do stack is just too large so maybe later. Please keep posting your progress as its a very unusual subject.
  4. I and a group of us at our Sleaford (Lincs) club show our layout Bantry. It does not look very foreign but it does not get the interest that British layouts get, even though it runs well, engines chuff and diesels toot. The main interest comes from people who have visited Bantry and recognise some of the remaining railway features or did'nt know there had ever been a railway to Bantry! I'm always surprised by how many have been to the area.
  5. Hello Mark, how was your Clayton body for striations and general "fuzziness"? One of the guys on Irish Railway Modellers built one and was not very happy with the overall finish. Niles of this parish has built quite a few printed bodies and they seem to need a lot of filling and rubbing down. Rather put me off! and I also like the look of the Claytons. Mick
  6. At Bescot all the 350hp shunters were called Jocko's. Diesels were Type 1/2/4,EE/Brush/Cromptons +the Number. At Banbury an LMS engine was an ellofamess 5/8 or heaven forbid a 4f, WD's were Austerties + the Number. Western engines were 38's 49's,69's you get the picture!
  7. Limescale "staining" is much more of a deposit than a stain which sets very hard! And is difficult to remove I have not tried it but maybe a dusting of talc would give the right "feel"?
  8. Clean engine crew on a J11, must be a Monday, as Monday was always clean ovies day.
  9. Here's one of mine from a few years back two Hornby 4 wheelers cut to fit running on a 6 wheel Palethorpes chassis. I did keep the sliding axle function though I do think that if you use good detail parts the eye is drawn away from mistakes in the body! It's based on a Dublin & South, Eastern coach.
  10. I added a few drops of distilled water worked ok but it will keep drying out
  11. why not have a trapezoidal firebox as fitted to the Nord super Pacific's? The front part fitting between the frames and the rear part above the frame for the wide firebox part, combustion chamber in the boiler and you may have a lighter Pacific sized loco. To me the Baltic does not "sit" so well as the Pacific arrangement But a very interesting idea. It may have been easier to fire than a Castle or King having a shorter wider firebox, less effort in firing to the front and just firing round the sides. Also better able to cope with poorer quality coal and less skilled firemen.
  12. Ask the question on the Irish Railway Modellers site. Not the group on this site but you never Know!
  13. There is a publication called The Diary of Thomas Baron 1855-1862. Author Edward Talbot . Its published by the LNWR Soc. on the back inside flyleaf there is an 1899 map of Abergavenny which clearly shows the two small yards and quite a large loco yard. This map will probably be available on line via Old Ordenance Survey . I'm not sure which Scottish University holds them. Hope this helps.
  14. Hello, I have two Wills/Nucast N/S chassis with W/m castings. If they are of interest I am happy to dispose of them at a sensible price. They are the residue of an estate and I have checked them against a Wills/Nucast drawing/plan and I believe the parts are complete the etchings certainly look complete. Please reply to mick@steamworks.me.uk regards Mick Whittle
  15. But the summit is getting closer, looking very good Kirley.
  16. That scratch built 4-6-0t is not so freelance, I think it looks very much like a Cork, Bandon & South Coast B4 tank engine built by Beyer Peacock. 1or 2 lasted till the end of CIE steam. With a strip and repaint it could be a much nicer model. Attached a BP drawing and a rather poor photo of my kitbuilt Bandon tank. Hope they are of interest.
  17. Going back to eyesight problems, I had cataracts done in both eyes done several years apart and now have about 20/20 vision. Only need glasses for reading and modelling. I go into mad professor look with two pairs of glasses, what I have found very useful is one of those Easy Reading high intensity reading lamps. Silly expensive but if it helps with ones modelling its only the price of a new RTR loco. Cast smokebox number plates on ex GW locos were supported on two U shaped brackets welded to the smokebox door. I'm sure my memory is correct.
  18. Having been caravanning in the Borders area several times and hope to go again! Always seem to find a fresh bit of the Waverley route to look at. Two questions go through my mind, how did the Waverley route ever make money and it must have been a very, very difficult route to operate and for the crew's work over. My hat goes off to them, iron horses ridden by men of iron. Love to see it reopen back to Carlisle, wont hold my breath!
  19. Morning Tony, I did enjoy our chat about kits, how to build them or not! and later with that other friend of yours about cars and motoring. We never got around to what you drive except it goes like the proverbial off a shovel! My take on that after after years of being conditioned to drive at 56mph is there's always another lorry in front of the one you have just overtaken so economy is my maxim. Very best wishes to Mo I enjoyed talking with her as well. Mick.
  20. Lima made a model of the non streamlined 3801, years ago. Sold mine also years ago! Not a bad model but of its time!
  21. Looks like the bunker C got everywhere! dirtier than coal. The oil slick down the side of 29 is pretty impressive, I wonder what disaster caused it?
  22. NBL, glad you had a good day at the show and your forward planning and obvious intellectual skills paid off. You make blanket comments about other people when you know nothing of their circumstance. Just looking at train times from where I live would have involved for a return journey; 7 hrs sat in a train, 4 hrs in my car, 5 changes of train in each direction, none in my car, A ticket price of £102.60 off peak or £91.50 for a saver fare, My car 4 gallons of fuel approx , £30.00 Nearest railway station 14 miles round trip, next nearest 28 miles round trip, car 200 miles round trip, no waiting ,delivered door to door. I believe I used my judgement correctly on the day and the organisers of such events should allow for a larger audience than anticipated. I would suggest there are many people in my circumstance or worse knowing the age profile of our hobby and I suggest that if you feel the urge shoot off asinine comments about the rest of us modelers you read your post before pressing send.
  23. I got to the bowl car park at 11.15 and it was full so turned away. It was suggested by one of the youths "marshalling" that I ride around MK to find a parking place. I saved my money , will probably not go again and save a 200 mile round trip. What I find staggering is the bowl car park that is straight around the corner on the Watling street was locked and empty. Lack of forsight lack of planning considering all the publicity.
  24. Its over twenty years since I used to buy the stuff for the FR so I am out of touch with emission regs, for external combustion but I also tried mixing with "washing gas" oil , this had been used to purge/clean other tanks, also aviation kerosene which gave an interesting aroma to BL and lots of steam! I cannot really see much difference in regs for burning oil or coal in a loco firebox, if there are any and with oil you do know how it will perform whereas coal is a bit of a stick your finger in the wind game!
  25. I remember the Warships during the brief period that they appeared at Bescot. Noisy, hot , very pungent fumes and that was just in the cab! Give me a type 2 Sulzer or EE type 4 any day. Hydraulics were for the hair shirt brigade. Although interesting to drive.
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