RAY NORWOOD

I was fantastic talking to you yesterday a out the western side. That you for your comment on Hounslow Sidings. Ray.

It was good seeing you yesterday. It is a pane having to have another car to take to Exhibitions which puts up the cast for the exhibition Manager but cannot be helped. O thank bring in the cakes I was prepared to make sandwiches.

Sorry to here about your health. The sky is looking fantastic and the work on replacing the LED's yes it is difficult decision wether to do it or not. Keep up the good work.

Hi Ian. I am not sure who will be with me as Richard will have his stall there.

Hi Ian. Hope all is well with you. I will be at Exeter with Hounslow Sidings and at Swansea with Feltham Road. The Exeter show we will be travelling home on Saturday and back Sunday morning as it is only an hour down the road.

Have a good weekend. Good luck.

Sorry to here you have lost your mojo it happens to all of us in fact I am just getting out of that myself. Have you got photos of the vegetation clearance. It would look good if you make it that it has been cleared.

You cannot get Mashima motors anymore. I always get my motor and gearbox from High levels.

Looking very good Dave.

More photos of the chassis and a photo of the chassis drawing. There would more update later.

King Arthur TINTAGEL I finished the tender assembly but still to do is the headlight lamps a Tintagel have electric lighting i had mentioned the on my thread on RMweb and Paul king of PDK picked this up and sent me an email from PDK to say he would sent me them through the post. I have started on the chassis. I did have a problem with this as Paul had changed the drawings of the chassis, in which i have phoned Paul about this. In the etchings it has a compensation on two axles but the instructions did not show this and also the front bogie is swiveled by being attached by a 8 ba bolt from under the cylinders but instructions say a bar from the centre of the bogie and runs back and attacked to chassis under the motion bracket.

Today's up date on the King Arthur loco. Finish the detail on the footplate. I had to rebuild the hand brake as it was missing but got the wheel. Built the tool box's on the footplate and soldered the the draft plate and the Beeding on top then soldered the hand rail in place. Then built the two bogis then solder the overlays onto then and glued the axleboxs. I am going to change the lamp iron as Tintagel had electric lighting so I have to make up the lights and put the disc iron on top.

Thank you

Done a bit more on the tender of the King Arthur. Soldered the over lay on the flairled sides and the footplate also the bunker back plate. The flailed side was a pain to put on and get it right, I put on the Beeding around the bottom first then the overlay the instructions say solder the along the bottom and then bend up and solder along the top sounds good but it kept braking away along the bottom. What I should have done was bend it first the solder in place. Got there in the end.

Feltham Road MPD will be at Penarth this weekend 8th and 9th July. Don't be afraid to ask your questions about Feltham.

Hi Rob. On the couplings I have been using Sprate & Winkle on Hounslow Sidings and I have found that they well in 4mm scale. I don't paint mine I use brass blackening, I make them up then put the blackening on befoer fixing to rolling stock. Hope that helps Ray.

More photos

The PDK kit King Arthur has a resin boiler etched brass and lose wax and white metal parts. I made a start on this the other day and started on the tender. Todays work on the King Arthur 30745 Tintagel. The tank was just a flat sheet of brass I have to bend the corners and make sure the sides are the same size then soldered to the running plate then bend out the the top to approx 30 degrees, then solder the front in place.the next was to bend the top to shape and solder in place.

Sorry about the bad luck, hope you got it back on track (sorry for the pun). It always happens in threes.

Looklng good. I have been the same position, being next door to a trader and it's hard to resist the temptation to by something.

Feltham Road MPD will be at Bristol show next weekend. I will be in Hall 3. Come and say hello.

Thank you for your comment James and thank you for your help and company and also Ian and his crew on Tidworth and not for getting all the Tonbridge club member for making us all welcome and looking after us all. Its was very nice seeing the childrens faces when they touch the whistle button and they here the whistle go off. Again thank you to the to Tonbridge club.

James I just kept you busy to stop you falling asleep. Yes Ian thank you for the bacon rolls and the tea and thank you for the company on Friday night.

Sorry it's Shepton Mallet show.

More like a senior moment.