MikeOxon
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Sorry to hear about your second experience of Covid but it sounds as though you are on the mend.
That's a splendid BG photo you've found, although it does show how 'old fashioned' the engine was looking in the last days of the BG - a final glimpse of polished brass and large single drivers before the rot set in 😀
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14 hours ago, ChrisN said:
The idea of making my own paving slabs seemed a good one before I started, well cheap anyway.
As I discovered when I started designing brickwork for my coke kilns, these traditional crafts have many pitfalls for the unwary. I watched a few YouTube videos to learn the rudiments of bricklaying
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1 hour ago, Annie said:
in readiness for narrowing to the coal cart gauge.
Sadly, Brunel failed to recognised that it wasn't the rail gauge that was the problem but the loading gauge, which still hobbles British railways today. The Americans planned for larger trains from the start.
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5 hours ago, AlfaZagato said:
...Unrelated, a thought I've had recently that may have already been brokered here. Would have combining a high-pressure boiler, like the Yarrow on 'Hush-Hush,' with a turbine-drive arrangement as on Turbomotive have improved the performance of either?
Been there ;
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25 minutes ago, 41516 said:
I think the little details like the rings do make a difference and it's always nice to push kits a little further, especially with reference material to hand.
I find the trouble is that once you know something should be there, you feel obliged to model it 🙂
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7 hours ago, Annie said:
Afternoon Broad Gauge Cheer Up Picture: Pearson's No.40 again. No date for the photo, but with having been built in 1873 and then rebuilt into a 4-2-2 tender engine shortly after 1876 when the GWR got their hands on the B&ER the window of opportunity is rather small.
Luxury! - steps and handrails. No sign of those in the original versions.
Interesting that GWR removed the cab. Armstrong did not like cabs because he thought that fumes from the fire would make crews drowsy.
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All these illustrations of Pearson 4-2-4 tanks sent me to the detailed account in Ahrons 'The British Steam Railway Locomotive from 1825 to 1925' At the end of the article, staring on p.106, he wrote "There were two somewhat similar 4-2-4 tank engines with 7ft. 6in. wheels, one of which, GWR. 2005, built in 1862, remained in its original condition until broken up about 1887." So, a Broad Gauge 4-2-4 tank still existed when Dean started building his 'narrow' gauge version in 1882. I was not aware of that when I built my model 4-2-4T for North Leigh.
I've not see this mentioned elsewhere and it does strengthen the idea that Dean was exploring whether the type could be useful on the 'narrow' gauge. Of course, the broad gauge version could make use of well tanks but Dean had to use very long side tanks, to get a useful water capacity. It seem very likely that these caused the catastrophic instability problems that were his engine's undoing.
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46 minutes ago, Annie said:
I would love to have a model of No.58 made for the Trainz simulator.
Very understandable - a very pretty design and rather like a mini-version of the big 4-2-4 well tanks. If you keep posting photos like these, I shall be severely tempted to try some 3D modelling myself 🙂
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39 minutes ago, Annie said:
8ft 10in Pearson 4-2-4T no. 2002 (previously no. 40) at Exeter in 1876.
By then, a pale shadow of the original 9-foot engines, as built by Rothwell in 1853/4
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1 hour ago, Annie said:
I make no secret of the fact that out of all the Broad Gauge railways it's the B&ER that I like best.
Nothing to be afraid of 'coming out' over. I recall being completely awe-struck the first time I saw a photo one of those original Pearson 9ft singles. As with the Dinosaurs, which fascinate my grand-children so much, I can't help thinking "could such things really have existed?". Perhaps I should pluck up courage and have a go at modelling one - the engine not a dinosaur 😀
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I'm pleased to read that your daughter has recovered well from her fall. One of the (many) annoying facets of ageing is that the risks from falls become of increasing concern. One can be knocked off balance rather too easily and the consequences can be more severe.
I agree that, although many B&ER engines are generally similar to GWR counterparts, they do still manage to maintain their own 'character'
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46 minutes ago, Annie said:
Midnight Broad Gauge Cheer Up Pictures: Photos courtesy of the Broad Gauge Society. Two for the price of one.
Good to have both sides of same engine
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One day, when I escape from this pre-1850 hole I am currently in, I must return to these Dean 4-4-0s.
My wife's ancestor drove Badminton-class no.3299 'Hubbard', for which his record states that, in March 1899, "he was walking along the framing of Engine 3299 when he slipped and fell between the engine and the platform at Paddington." Fortunately, he got away with nothing worse than bruising to his right thigh and legs. I have it on the list for creating a model 🙂
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2 minutes ago, ChrisN said:
Yes, more mistakes seem to happen as you get older, or perhaps you are more aware it it. Just have to be methodical, mark things, watch what you are doing, put knives down when not using them.............
All that ....... and they still go wrong 🙃 The joys of age!
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On 23/02/2024 at 22:18, drduncan said:
Well, I've outed myself now on RMWEB (by kind permission of Andy York) as being a (sort of) purveyor of wagony things to the discerning or not 4mm scale modeller...
Congratulations - I hope it goes well for you and you are not overwhelmed by the demand 3D-printing can be rather slow when you want to build in quantity so perhaps you should be thinking about a printer farm 🙂 - like the one Josef Prusa uses to make parts for his printers:
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Such a pity your earlier photos all went in the 'great extinction'. I'm very impressed with what you have achieved with Fusion 360, especially with the rendering tools that I have not got to grips with yet. Do you add additional texturing in photo-processing after the initial render? I tend to tweak my images with Photoshop to try to achieve the effects I want.
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1 hour ago, ChrisN said:
things that should be straight forward
By now, Chris, you should have learned that things are NEVER straightforward 🙂
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59 minutes ago, Annie said:
I wonder what the special occasion for the photos was? There's plenty of station staff lined up watching in the background and a fitter repairing point rodding being supervised by a bowler hat wearing foreman in the foreground. Photos of Broad Gauge stations that haven't been messed about with are rare, - so I was glad to find this one.
At first glance I thought the man in the foreground was painting the fence - it does look very fresh and bright. I was also noticing the state of the road to the left, with plenty of horse droppings in evidence - essential items for the modeller.
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10 minutes ago, ChrisN said:
Thank you. Yes, it does seem obvious now that they were not allowed to look out. I now have two Shires with no harness, and probably no use for them maybe with wagons, but I could add a harness for leading them, a bit like Shaun, @Sasquatch has done here. Come to think of it I probably have a couple of those which were bought when they were new. (I mean not second hand, and probably for 2/6. (Two shillings and six pence, old pence.)
Another thought is to alter a model to have open doors, then place it at a loading dock. I have that set up at North Leigh, where there is a rake of modified Airfix cattle wagons, of which one is loading at the cattle dock.
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10 hours ago, corneliuslundie said:
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Why stop there - it's an infinitely recurring decimal, so keep typing ...
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1 hour ago, ChrisN said:
I may have even finished something,
Steady on, there!!!
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28 minutes ago, Annie said:
Fell down a rabbit hole..... 😎
A long way from NZ to Moscow 🙂
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2 hours ago, Mikkel said:
I didn't realize the locos had idiosynchrasies like that, I thought it was more standard
I wonder how many of the real loco idiosyncrasies are captured by the software? Some engines suffered from poor valve events or badly laid out steam passages. In some, the problem was in the firebox, such as a tendency to collect clinker, leading to fall-off in performance on long runs. Any comments, Annie?
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Annie's Virtual Pre-Grouping, Grouping and BR Layouts & Workbench
in Pre-Grouping - Modelling & Prototype
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Perhaps we need a glossary of technical terms. Off-hand I recall ‘dismals’ and ‘coal cart gauge’ but I feel sure that there are many others 😃