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Owd Bob

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  1. McDonalds take away freebies 'Tin -Tin' film figures converted to railway staff lol...Captain Haddock is the driver, the Thompson twins make up the rest of the staff and passengers with their bowler hats whittled down with a Stanley knife blade. The 80" Land-Rover series one pre production converted rail bus R02 is passing the smelly Pig pen.
  2. 24-8-20. Hindley Lancs' Crow nest Junc' 2.03pm 66 074. Tees yard -Knowsley.
  3. Surprisingly the coach repaint came out well despite who actually did the job!
  4. My youngest recently found a dongle with about 300 of my garden rail pics' on it, but don't worry most have already been posted ...but i have found quite a few i don't think ever have.
  5. Ah! Fabrication that's a word that sounds very professional, so i don't use it around here bodging is a better word for all my stuff... Somehow between us the Wife and i have got the steel sheet cab panels cut out with my Dads old 30 year old hand held jig-saw, although four new blades got worn out in the process, the wet weather had held us back for a few days so it's finally a blessing to get something done this week. We might get a chance to tack them on tomorrow and post the pics' if it stays dry, but after that i'll thankfully and at last be out of action for a few weeks.
  6. I had it right with the purple streaks and darkers layers in the slate, then when i air brushed the track and other bits a few months back it hid it all, i should have masked it off! i've spilt paint and super glued the bed sheets together many a time whilst recovering from illnesses and operations by doing some tea tray modelling in bed.
  7. Another week of dry weather and a bit more progress. The frame for the body work is nearly done, this weekend should see it mainly finished and ready for the panels. I've a few mounting brackets to put on today for the grille panel and bonnet top panel.
  8. Thanks Keith, it's something i like a bit more than my diesels, and it's smaller and lighter to move around. I've seen better it's not that good compared to some others of the same slate theme, I'm keeping this and taking it to shows and displays one day i hope, i'm still looking forward and waiting for the Bachmann Hunslets and the ex' RN diesels to come out. Hoping to get it out soon on a dry day and give it a waft over or wash in places with a bit of purple, and i'll take some pics' when i do. Nothing takes me long, i've a Thyroid prob' that they just can't put right despite all the tabs' i have to take!
  9. Things are never that simple Mike, there are other folks and their belongings that come first for any available space or room...say no more! And on a lighter moment is a diesel based layout more important or enjoyable than a steam one? I could inherit a load of dosh or win the lotto then i could keep everything and buy a mansion with room for a Pony and a swimming pool ...it's all ifs and buts and maybes at the mo' i have to make plans of some sort or i'll be taken out of here in a straight jacket or a pine box very soon.
  10. Thanks Jim, and many thanks to all the other watchers who have supported me over the last few years. I'm afraid i'll have no room when i move out of here as we'll be lucky to get a council flat, and if we have to pay private rent then we'll need as much cash as we can muster, but i am trying to keep hold of my other unfinished 009 layout 'Aberllyn' which is probably 20 pages further back than this topic ....it's that long since i did owt on that as well. Edit' Just found my other layout, it's not as far back as i thought, it's on page seven.
  11. Not managed any interest in it yet 37114, i've tried a few places now and nobody wants the layout and the offers for all the loco's and wagons are a complete insult and a joke...i'll break it all up and drip feed and sell off the bits on fee-bay....unless somebody has an interest in the layout soon it'll get dismantled, smashed up and burned this weekend, after that i'll be out for the count for several weeks so i need to get a move on asap.whilst i still can.
  12. Change of life style and mainly an hopeful change of address means this layout and all that go's with it is now finished, anybody interested in any part of it can pm me for more info' the baseboard layout will be broken up if it has no interest and everything else will go!
  13. Loving all those dirty mineral wagons and the Sunshine.
  14. Thanks Stan i can't promise i'll be on every day or every week with updates but i'll do my best to keep things updated, most times i'm posting stuff i've done a few days or even longer before hand, it all depends on the weather most times. I've sprayed the whole chassis and buffer beams satin black now, there was just too much yellow The two 2mm thick alloy side skirts and the 20mm angle iron fixing strips were bolted on. The base frame for the bonnet and side panels was welded up yesterday, i'm hoping to have the whole unit boxed up and ready for the panels in the coming week.
  15. The grille has been sprayed up using Halfords Vauxhall mustard yellow and the satin black for the wasp stripes was added after masking it up but only after giving the yellow a few days to fully dry out. The alloy sheet for the side skirts has been cut to size and drilled ready for spraying up, i added a side step to one side for show only, and i'll be fitting these two pieces this week when the rain finally stops. A framework to attach the cab and body sides/bonnet will be made from 12mm square section and angle iron, i'm just weighing it all up now and working out the cab panel sizes now that i have enough 1.2.mm. steel sheet to make it. It is all getting heavy to move in one piece, so by making each body section as separate units which can easily be bolted on and removed from the chassis frame. Soon it will all have to be kept outside under cover.
  16. Thanks David. I must be strange not clever! Because i don't see things as i should at first glance, the first question i always ask myself is what can that be made into or used for!
  17. Some nice bright pics' today, the couplings arrived and were fitted on Friday, then the whole frame has been yellow filler primed, not that it's the filler bit i want, its really the yellow colour i want to act as undercoat for a future gloss yellow top coat on the ends and front panel. The front grille panel was made up using a 1mm think off cut sheet of aluminium, i cut it to shape with the tin snips and the top and bottom edges were bent over in the vice using a block of wood. The slatted grille seems the right type/style for these loco's and was originally a cheap metal boot scraper door mat, made to fit length wise with a few inches cut off it. The last pic' makes it look bigger than it is...stupid wide angle lens at work again!
  18. A lot of Council tenants these days are a bit dodgy to say the least, so lets hope they put a real nice family in here...Not! Six kids all with tourettes and with an off road motorbike each and all with drum kits will suit me fine. An ex' copper neighbour who i've had hardly any contact with at all over the past 30 years recently told me he'd break my legs to make me stay before he'd let me leave here, i blew him a sarcastic kiss and said "i did'nt know you cared" you best order the crutches now then! At the end of the day it's only because he's spent thousands on buying and renovating his own ex' council house, and one now that he'll never get a penny in profit off if more scum bags move into the cul de bag.....Oh! Dear, how sad! Never Mind! The way of the World now...it's feck you Jack i'm alright...until it affects them in the pocket! Edit. Forgot to say Mike that the extra tubing is for strengthening the couplings.
  19. Just abandoned full stop Paul, Hopefully i can take it all and my new found knowledge elsewhere and use it to help others.
  20. A few days on and despite the rain, i've put some strengthening tube/ brackets on behind both the buffer beams, they are made from the pre bent top half of the legs off an old steel tubular legged chair we had hanging around. I squeezed the ends flat in the vice and the drilled the fixing holes. They are bolted onto either side rail using the existing corner strengthening bracket bolts, the coupling brackets will be fixed onto the buffer beam with fixing bolts which will go straight through the buffer plate and then through the old legs. Rubber bushed steel sleeved spacers were added. Both sets of bolts and the bushes are fixed on in these pics' I've sprayed a layer of etch primer all over it this morning, after i'd given it all a good clean and wash down in thinners and a scrub with 120 grade grit paper, i'm holding my breath that the rain stays away for the rest of today whilst it dries. It's nice that unlike all my plastic models i've ever made, the bolt heads on this are real and are actually used and doing something. Hopefully the coupling brackets will arrive soon, then i can get on with the next bit!
  21. I was making it up as i went along.... but now i've an idea for a Baguley Drewery ex RN 0-4-0 diesel, the 70hp shorter version with the two side bonnet/door panels. I've made a few in plasticard to 16mm scale so i've a rough idea in my head how things should look, it won't be spot on to scale but hopefully it'll give the impression of one. The bogies will be well hidden by the plated in side skirts, although it's not the correct wheel arrangement it might be better for the tighter curves. Being a back street bodger i'll be measuring the body panels by dividing the body length into thirds, one third being the cab section, the other two thirds will be the full bonnet length section, the height of the bonnet and height of the cab roof will be equally split in half when measured from the chassis rails. The length of the loco' is 130cm. and the width is 60cm. A cardboard template has been made for the grille panel and it's 60cm high, and 50cm wide, this will make the full cab height to around a metre but the extra 10cm. in height at 120cm. might be needed for the headroom. I plan to have the cab top half hinged and removable at bonnet height so as to be able to lift it open and then close it all up once inside....just like the old motorbike sidecars used to do. I should have all the materials to make the complete grille panel by the end of this week.
  22. I'm not posting as much or as often from now on, but i will keep you updated on the progress on my garden build stuff and a couple of other topics. I fitted two buffer plates over the weekend, they are 4mm. thick steel plate off cuts, came at just the right pre-cut size and bought off e-bay for less than a tenner inc' postage, i've to take the sharp corners off yet as my shins will bare witness I clamped them into place, drilled through them and into the chassis frame with a 7mm drill bit, the fixing holes were then tapped out to a 8mm. No need for welding these on just yet or if ever at all as i've more fittings and the couplings to put on. Apologies to proper engineers, i'm more a back street bodger but i do try my best with the limited tools available to me, and if i've not got the tools or expertise then i will look to find someone who has! I have a lot of parts and bits ordered now, it's just a case of waiting for them to arrive and for the weather to dry up!
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