Jesse Sim

Is that that wagon wheelbase jig/tool? Does anyone know where to get one?

Tony we don’t watch films anymore, we read the subtitles and watch half the movie.

I blame this This thread for my interest. It goes back to March 2014, I just turned 18, walked into my local newsagent on my birthday and grabbed the latest BRM and in all her glory on the front cover was Grantham. I was hooked. Sold all my stock that wasn’t LNER and started annoying everyone left right and centre. Graham(@LNER4479) copped it first, then @Tony Wright and now it’s @jwealleans🤣. All jokes aside Grantham had a profound effect on me, as did the group of people building her and I would not be the modeller I am today without the three mentioned modellers, they are not alone either there many, many more who have helped, continue to still help me. The variety in the secondary services was another aspect that had drawn me to the LNER. You had the new prestige services of the Flying Scotsman and the Streamliners flying past humble workings of ancient ex-grouping stock. As the LNER was one of the poorest they kept old stock in revenue earning service. I’ve tried to show this but some things take time and I may move faster than others, but I’m that fast, still some decent kit building to replace RTR coaches. The fiddleyard isn’t actually that big, compared to other layouts, she’s quite small. However, I have tried to fit as much as I can into the room, there’s nearly a dozen kick back sidings, some trains run more than once with simple loco changes to give the impression it’s an entirely different train.

I thought some of my other taste in music my scare some viewers.

I’ll get my shopping list emailed to you.

Evening all, Last week a friend from the UK visited, we spent the morning down at Thirlmere Railway Museum before heading home to run the sequence. Ashley has a decent fan base on Instagram and is fantastic at taking videos which just an iPhone, so whilst I operated the sequence he filmed some of the trains passing by. I have since edited that footage into one, added an intro, and some voiceover work. I hope you enjoy seeing some trains run, the layout is still very much a work in progress, as is the stock.

Evening all, Last week a friend from the UK visited, we spent the morning down at Thirlmere Railway Museum before heading home to run the sequence. Ashley has a decent fan base on Instagram and is fantastic at taking videos which just an iPhone, so whilst I operated the sequence he filmed some of the trains passing by. I have since edited that footage into one, added an intro, and some voiceover work. I hope you enjoy seeing some trains run, the layout is still very much a work in progress, as is the stock. Sorry for hijacking Tony.

Well, as I said, I’ve never seen 4903 modelled. I didn’t say a 4903 never existed 😉

I knew you’d like my sausage

Good old fashioned “why are you building this when you could have bought one from Hornby”. Back in 2020 I took a delivery from Mr King, containing some resin conflats and one of his W1 conversions. I got on with the build but never finished her- I had to buy a SEF tender to suit as I was under the impression it was a specially made one for her, not realising it was streamlined corridor tender. Then came the Hornby announcement, I immediately ordered the W1 in original condition but I decided I wanted to finish the rebuilt project. More years went and I can finally say she’s nearing completion. The tender is from a Hornby Bittern model, I need to remove the tender over head wires warning markers, and the non corridor tender that was from the W1’s donor A4 will go behind Bittern to become 4903 Peregrine. I’ve never seen 4903 modelled and being an avid fan of Tolkien (Peregrin (Pippin) Took) it was a no brainer, even if the spelling is different. I tried to use as much of the original parts from the donor A4 and I also tried to not lost too much lining…which I don’t think I’ve accomplished. I’m hoping to patch paint her and weather her to blend it together, the curved lining is already giving me nightmares….I have a K3 to do as well. Shes not perfect and definitely not in the same league as the Hornby 10000 but she’s mine, can’t wait to get her painted.

I know most motors can be DCC’d, but I was hoping for a quick turn around on the model to get it straight into traffic. Lazy? Perhaps…

Tony is the O4/3 suitable for DCC? I’ve been on the hunt for an O4 that could pull one of my heavy trains…

How quick do you think I work? 🤣

I should have them Wednesday week, that’s when my mate gets here after travelling via Melbourne and NZ for a few weeks.

Nothing worse when you send a friend some bogies and he scratchbuilds the wagon better than yours 🥲