Halvarras

Plastic cab door handrails = early release too. Ex-47059?

Some more Tri-ang and Hornby Dublo chassis and parts up for grabs at Elaine's emporium this morning: https://elaines-trains.co.uk/index.php?pg=new Keeping an eye on Elaine's Trains website has become my new 'addiction' following the loss of Hattons, because you never know what's going to appear.......such as that Tri-ang clockwork NBL shunter body I mentioned last Thursday. Probably the wrong course of action then for somebody desperately trying to avoid adding new projects to The Pile..........🤭 However from time to time parts come up which could assist with completing projects already in that Pile and push them along the path to completion - that's my excuse anyway!

Slicing to make sandwiches would be closer to one of its nicknames........!

Not sure about that one myself, having no need for a '67', but your question did remind me of this one..... Bachmann's first release of their PNA open wagon (38-100) was incorrectly lettered "Railways" instead of "Railway". This was corrected on subsequent releases. (Perhaps if Railtrack had fully upheld their own advertised mission statement, regardless of the spelling, it would still be with us......)

Maybe not, but I know which one appears to be sitting on its bogies correctly compared to the real thing.......

I used to go to this show every year when I lived in Swindon, also the bigger Chippenham then Melksham then Corsham show - I'd known Geoff Endacott since summer 1987 I think, when we met in a marquee at a transport event at Avebury and I spotted the cover for his then forthcoming book 'Westerns Warships and Hymeks at Work' and got chatting about all things diesel-hydraulic - I was devastated to hear of his sudden passing on here. However I now live around 180 miles away so.........I hope it all goes well in my absence (again)! PS The wood for the layout I built in the 1980s came from CMA Calne, which I hope is still in business.......

Agreed, but the fore & aft pivoting provided by the 'yokes' takes care of gradient changes.

I've been telling myself the same thing for years, ever more loudly, but then up pops a Tri-ang ex-clockwork NBL 'D2907' shunter body and...........I've often wondered if one of these could be made to look more 'NBL'. Yep, it's in the queue! Perhaps this one will be my final razor saw, files and plasticard challenge then 🥴! Interestingly placing it on a 'D29xx' 4mm scale line drawing reveals that it's surprisingly accurate in some of its major dimensions - the upper bodywork is to correct length although the cab is 7mm too long (and the bonnet correspondingly too short, as well as too narrow) and the front and rear footsteps the correct distance apart too, in side view. A scale model of a D29xx is out of the question, but an NBL industrial 'might-have-been'........hmm....... 😜

Yes, I appreciate that, it was the fit of the components onto the top and bottom of this I was wondering about - if the holes in those are an excessively loose fit the resulting slack can affect the ride height, as was the case on my Class 28's 'Co' end bogie, which could be moved up and down about 1.5mm. I mourn those good old days too - in 2007 I had an original 47 with Mazak Rot (D1733) and Howes sent me a replacement chassis for the body which I just managed to save from splitting, but the only way I could get the old chassis out was snipping through these 'yokes' to release the bogies and hacksawing the chassis against an inserted piece of brass (to protect the inside of the body) at its weakest points, i.e. where these fit. Brutal but it worked. That left me with a complete set of running gear, except for the chassis block and the 'yokes', which sat in a box until last year when I managed to source a Heljan 47 cast chassis block (many thanks Elaine's Trains!) and reassemble the thing using these parts from a Class 23 'Baby Deltic' sprue I'd picked up during the intervening years, also from Howes (of course). All I had to do to get these to fit into the 47 casting was shorten the four 'blades' by about 1mm. I saw the Hornby mag review too and the head-on view is enlightening because you can clearly see the NSE stripes on both left and right cabsides - I don't think this should be possible? Or at least not to that extent? We know why the original had excessively curved cabsides but it's hard to believe that Heljan would apply the same curvature to a new model with a more accurate overall width...... no wonder the cab front looks slightly 'pinched'! But only slightly, after all the buffer centres have to be the correct distance apart which fixes the bufferbeam width, and if this were too short at its outer ends ETH versions with bufferbeam-mounted connections would have a bit of a problem on the driver's corners, so it can't be too far out. I think NSE 47596 looks fantastic, and I was never a big fan of this garish livery 😃! Although I will admit to preferring this later version. If I had to pick one......

Kernow's rear view of the model shows the glazing having been overpainted before insertion. Perhaps Hornby will choose the Fowler 0-4-0DM for their next small diesel shunter - if they were to come along to St Blazey to survey 'Peter' (love that wooden nameplate, very.....rustic!) I would hope that its current owner (M-Power Kernow) assists by removing those chipboard panels.......just in case.......😉! OK, that's a bit harsh - delete, delete <submit>....d'oh!

I had intended to go to this, my first exhibition in over 4 and and a half years and less than an hour's drive away...........and then our son chose this weekend to come down and visit with the family 🥴! Oh well, I might still make it, but my exhibition-going plans seem as jinxed as my last car (which was Gold Medal standard!)

During the 13 months since my photo it also collected secondman's corner numbers as well as 'domino' panels.

It does look rather smart! However I'm puzzled by the cab door and rear cab windows being painted over - presumably it's only ever driven forwards........🤪!?

Pretty much how I view every modelling task - a 'mind's eye' thing - and I'm surely not the only one. The only unknown is how meandering the path will be between the visualisation and the end result!

Caerhays (where the castle of the same name is located), near Mevagissey in Cornwall is signposted as such off the main roads but once you get into the rural lanes the old cast iron road signs have 'Carhayes' and 'Caerhayes' as well! Since Swindon saw fit to name 'Castle Class' No 7014 'Caerhays Castle' (which aligns with the OS map) I'm sure that has to be the correct spelling 😉! Same with HST power car 43162. [I got a railway connection in, although it wasn't an error. By Swindon? Heaven forbid!...........*cough* 'LEGIONAIRE' *cough*!!)]