CloggyDog

Interesting and useful thread🤔 I've done a pair of 60A Derby Twos in H0 for my Far North Dounreay micro layout, D5114 (GSYP) and 5130 (BFYE), both from upscaled 3D shells/bogies/tanks from Lincoln Locos (Lenny is happy to print his 3mm designs at 3.5mm/ft scale). Both have been 'Highland-ed' with tablet catcher recesses, 5-slot boiler plate and sealed headlights. (I still need to make and add the snowploughs). Decals from RailTec.

Lovesongs - New Model Army

Queen of my Heart - New Model Army

Always the Bridesmaid Never The Bride - Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine

For a demo at Swindon show last Saturday, I scratchbuilt a LNER/BR 13t steel high body to go on a spare Lima chassis. 20 thou sheet for the body, assorted angle and strip for the detail. Holes drilled right through and capped with discs of 10 thou to represent the domes over the internal lashing rings. Still need to add the wood notice blocks and 4-shoe vac RCH brakegear, followed by rusty bauxite livery.

Hindsight 17 details are up - Sat 16 March via Zoom Register (for free) at https://speedwitchmedia.com/product/hindsight-20-20-17-0-registration/ Hoping I get back from demoing at Ally Pally show in time to catch at least the 2nd half. The various presentations are often shared (along with discussion and further info) on the Hindsight groups.io hindsight2020 flier 17.0.pdf

Lights Go Out - New Model Army

GE mid-70s, usually during the fortnightly 306 trip Brentwood to Romford - recall rows of 12t vans in the yard behind Romford station, and the trips to Chelmsford and the annual holiday to Clacton or Walton on 309s. The twice annual trip up the ECML to see mum's friends in Newcastle was a highlight. I recall one return when I persuaded mum to forgo the usual 'old' train hauled by a huge thrumming machine with a red nameplate in favour of the shiny new HST. By about the age of 10 or 11 I was off to Stratford at weekends or weekdays in the school holidays to spot on the platforms there, soon after into London itself for a trip around the Circle spending an 30-60 mins each at Kings Cross, Euston, Paddington, Waterloo and Victoria, occasionally popped into the smaller terminii (Broad St, Marylebone, Holborn Viaduct, Charing Cross, Cannon Street and Fenchurch St). And the odd bunk around Old Oak and other depots ;) And not long after that, longer trips to Norwich, Peterborough, Brum, York, Crewe. Then I fell in with the loco haulage crowd, chasing 20s, 25s and Peaks.

Layout more-or-less behaved itself. Couple of niggly things to sort (coupler heights the main one) and the 2nd loco needs a good fettle. Seemed well received and plenty of interest. Thanks to @RJS1977 for the invite. Show seemed pretty busy most of the morning, tailed off a bit after lunch.

Two trains ready to head back downhill to Aberystwyth.

Turn Away - New Model Army

The Early Days of a Better Nation - Oysterband

Far Better Thing - New Model Army

Here Comes The Flood - Oysterband

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MYCnd8tw57Hr2xLTMomj5HDNiHFJ47IU/view?usp=sharing Silhouette Studio files for the Brake Third, Third and Summer Open, intended for use with Silhouette cutters, sides and ends 2 layers of 10 thou plasticard, requires Dundas bogies and roof, 60 thou for floor ans assorted microstrip. Drafted using the BR weight diagrams cross-referenced against photos.