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Tricky

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  1. I can indeed confirm that @Schooner is a very well behaved customer!
  2. Hi Pete, I came across this thread whilst googling images of your signal box, as I am just about to send you an email. I am a scratch-builder of exhibition standard architectural models and have built several GW boxes in both 4mm and 7mm. Have a look when you get my email and my contact details are on there too. Best regards, Richard
  3. Very fetching cover. Things are looking upward and onward for the new style MRJ. How about an email for ad submissions and on-line subscriptions?! 😏
  4. This - believe it or not - is the smokebox/boiler/firebox. I’ve turned it up from some nice hard maple, primed it and rubbed it down prior to removing it from the lathe. Once I chop off the ends, I anticipate adding a wrapper around the smokebox to create the saddle for it, as well as cutting away the top part of the smokebox to receive the saddle tank, and a recess for the motor/gearbox. Unconventional to say the least!
  5. Fact and fiction. In case you thought that I’d never make my mind up about this blessed mill, I’ve been quietly beavering away. Today I managed to make the bridge railings and spray them with red primer. I actually quite like the colour and will probs keep it. The mill buildings themselves are coming along nicely but none of it is fixed down yet until I’ve ballasted the track behind it all. Great to make some real progress though. I’ve added an image lifted from Google of the real thing.
  6. They look perfect. I hope your wife manages to rest her ankle.
  7. Mike, I can laser cut 4 rings for you, with holes for bolts. I could use 0.6mm laserboard. Let me know if you would like to give it a try.
  8. Oh! Oh well, I don’t fancy making it three times! Nevermind, but thanks for the info.
  9. A bit more action on my ‘plastic’ loco. Thanks to @41516 I was able to confirm that the overall sizes I had for the saddle tank weren’t far off, however the positions of the chimney and dome were off so I decided to make another. This was made as before with about 25 mdf laser cut layers stuck together like a loaf of bread, sanded, covered in paper, and then a couple of coats of shellac sanded smooth. I also re-drew and re-printed the dome as photos seem to indicate a shorter than standard version with the salter posts actually appearing from the base of the dome rather than the boiler as in tank and tender engines. I think next I will add the remaining details to the tank and then turn up a boiler. I may also have dug out an old motor/gearbox from my spares box so that’s good. This engine (if it works) will have been made on a budget that’s for sure!
  10. Any suggestions on a suitably tiny motor/gearbox combo?
  11. However the jury is still out on whether plastic locos are a good idea!
  12. More progress on the saddle tank. I’ve been raiding the spares box again and found buffer planks, coupling hooks, buffers (with large heads!) horn blocks and guides and coupling rods (with a bit of tweaking). The wheels are new! It’s almost a rolling set of frames, just a bit of binding and clearance issues to sort.
  13. Any measurements and cab etch scan would be very helpful, thank you!
  14. And here are the results of my 3D printing exercise. The saddle tank is made from about 24 laminations of thin MDF cut to the cross section of the tank, glued up, sanded smooth and covered with thick paper. Minimal cost here! You can see the light shining through the resin on the partially hollow chimney. I managed to work out how to draw the curve to the bases of the chimney and dome to follow the curve of the tank top but how to draw the flare to follow that curve has stumped me so the slight excess around the bases was sanded away with a tiny sanding drum bit in the Dremel. I also need a tank filler lid which will be similarly printed later today. Whilst the laser won’t cut metal, I’m wondering if it will score through marker pen on the surface of nickel or brass sheet. If it does, I could draw the profile of the curved cab front/roof and transfer this profile onto the sheet using the laser to guide cutting the shape out. We shall see…
  15. Hi all! 👋🏻 I’ve started an experimental build of one of these (image lifted from Google): I’ve long held some affection for these diminutive shutters. Whilst I don’t need one for Tewkesbury I figure life is too short to worry about such things! I only have the very small drawing in ‘Midland Locos’ but that’s ok as I only aim to capture the essence of the loco rather than a super accurate model. There appear to be detail differences across photos of them that I have seen anyway. The experimental bit is to make the frames from Rowmark. This is a plastic very similar to styrene but it can be laser cut. So here are the frames. I’ve built them as one with the footplate to aid rigidity. There is still some flex but this will hopefully be eradicated somehow as the build progresses. One set of horn guides have been superglued in, awaiting rods which will be soldered up next, before the second set can be fitted. I’m also raiding the spares box for buffers, buffer planks, brake blocks, sand boxes etc. Lastly for now, I’m having a go at drawing and 3D printing a chimney and dome. Here goes…!
  16. Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. Will he ever make up his mind?! Still not happy with the left hand end. So I was chatting to a well-known friend. He quite rightly suggested that the Quay Branch bridge would make an attractive end piece and scenic break. The only slight difficulty could be that the bridge will be at right angles to the ‘flow’ of the layout but as truth is well and truly stretched to the limit on Tewks anyway, then I think I can pull it off. The bridge will have a piece of track on it disappearing into the nether regions of Healings Mill. The track that at the moment exits stage left will be shortened and end at buffer stops against a brewery building. I think I have a mental image of what will happen; let’s just hope reality follows fairly swiftly as Railex ‘24 will come round soon enough!
  17. Here’s a diorama I recently finished, and is now for sale. It’s affectionately known as ‘Watery Bottom’ and is based on the viaduct of the same name in Lyncombe Vale on the old S&D. However it could be anywhere and in fact the signal is removable so one could swap it for something more appropriate if desired. It measures about 1500mm long and costs £1800. If you’re interested, just drop me a message.
  18. Thanks for the replies. As you may have guessed, I have a Healings wagon which has been hand lettered and is rather nice. I’d rather not have to cover up the lettering with a sheet so need an unsheeted load or of course empty. On another random question; I recall seeing on Google a yellow hand cart with Tewkesbury Dairy (?) lettering on it. For the life of me I can no longer find it having searched numerous descriptions. Anyone have any idea of said image?
  19. Here’s a question - poss a silly one but as I don’t know the answer for sure: does anyone know what would the S Healing & Sons wagons have conveyed? Coal, sacks and a sheet, barrels? Any ideas…?!
  20. I’ve seen this pop up on FB. Absolutely stunning. And not a loco or item of rolling stock in sight!
  21. I am keenly aware my posts on here have been very slow but I have been busy. Here is the delightful ‘Priscilla’ (named after someone else delightful in my life). Based on the Slaters MW kit but masterfully built and altered by Martin Blackwell, DCC fitted by Alex Chilton. She was inspired by ‘Bauxite No2’ at the NRM and to my eye oozes character. She will haul the workmen’s train composed of the decrepit coaches still being worked on…
  22. Can I ask if anyone knows where I might find 7mm etched brass works and tender capacity plates?
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