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  1. Etch looks great - love the way you number everything....will you be casting in brass - I will be very keen to see the updates on casting as and when you get to that part of the build.
  2. Rob - these look impressive in the photo but even more impressive in the flesh. Great to see them at our AGM yesterday. They really are very fine detail.
  3. I need to carefully test. Initial testing show no material drop in voltage across the tyres. I connected my analogue controller to one side of two steel tyres and my multimeter on the other side - and then did the same with the stainless steel. From 1 to 16 volts there appeared to be no difference in voltage loss. Hopefully one evening this week I will get time to re-tyre an engine. I have only got six coaches and two wagons so I will have to think carefully how to do a load test.... Interesting that someone stole an S Scale locomotive at an exhibition. They must have done it out of love for the locomotive....otherwise they would have had to go home and build a layout just to run it. With such a small community of S Scale modellers you would think that at some point it would turn up. But given the time it takes to build a locomotive it is a mean thing to do.....
  4. In the last edition of the Gazette I shared progress on securing a supplier for loco wheel tyres. I have just received a second test batch. These are made with polished Stainless Steel - recomended to me by the people making them in China as more of their work is with stainless steel. Be interesting to see how stainless steel works out but a bit of research so far suggets that some of the better known RTR O Gauge manufacturers uses stainless steel along garden railway suppliers. In parallel exeprimenting with an ABS like resin to see if push fit axles are suitable. My immediate impression is that it could be. Need to test to see if warping is a problem but these have been made a week now and all good so far. Next step is to fit to a locomotive. The total cost of the wheel set here compares very favourably with any thing you can buy.
  5. In answer to a question raised on Templot forum. The baseboards came with some nice wooden dowels but I replaced with 3D printed. M6 bolts go through the Dowels. I printed some extra large wing nuts so I can quickly dismantle the boards without using a spanner...nuts and bolts just slot in.
  6. Track slowly being made - taking longer than planned but pleased with results..
  7. good question - but I really like this filament even though I have to spray it afterwards....
  8. Short clip of my Anycubic Filament Printer busy printing Templot plug track in S Scale. Chairs are subsequently printed on a resin printer. I could print more than two pieces at once but the print time just gets extended. Typically it takes a couple of hours a section. The printer runs warm, so I like to be around the workshop when it is running hence not running the printer for hours on end.
  9. Baseboards are finished so I can get back to track building with Templot plug track. The track will be elevated onto an embankment but first I will build the track and lose lay it onto the baseboards before working out the landscape profile of the elevation.
  10. Hi Schooner - I am not clear whether you want to model 2'6" or 3'6" gauge. If you want to model in 3'6" gauge then why not S Scale running on 00 track? If my maths is correct 3'6" in S Scale is 16.66mm which is close enough to 00 to probably not matter. Or maybe I have missunderstood - appologies in advance.
  11. Steve - Thank you - the diameter of the circle is 9 foot. There will be a fiddle yard at the far side away from the viewing side - i have not drawn this yet but it will be a sliding tray so that I can swap engines and stock. When (if) it is finished I will stand in the middle and watch my engines running round! I will need a good few wagons but will get to that at some point in the future.
  12. Not on the bench but on the floor. A big thank you to Grainge and Hodder who have made some baseboards for me. They spent considerable time producing all the art work and laser cut pieces. The quality is superb. One down nine to go. It is for a circular layout of Fochriw a small through station on the B&M. The shaded area of the track plan is the viewing side. I just need to add a couple of catch points to the plan.
  13. Here is the Templot Plug Track turnout I have built...in S Scale....I am a relative novice to both Templot/Plug Track and Track Building.....it has taken me a while but it works for me.....I have a little more work to do on my FDM Printing but everything is true and fits together perfectly.....this is a bit of a rough video but it shows one of my engines traversing the turnout very smoothly - better than anything I have achieved before Templot Plug Track.
  14. Sorry - just got back to this. Shortly after I posted this my ultrasonic cleaner broke. I think that it had shaken itself to bits. When I looked the one that I was using is no longer available.....so I got this one instead. It is a bit small but OK for what I am making at the moment. https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07BBK51BL/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 This could clean a small coach body print, vans wagons etc.....
  15. Hi APL31 sorry I missed you in Leeds. Drawing looks great. I have started to use this water washable ABS like resin.... https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0C7BFQZ2C?th=1 Very good ABS like qualities and much less brittle than the standard water washable resin... Also invested in one of these Ultrasonic Cleaners.....much better than the usual washers... https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ultrasonic-Washing-Machine-Cleaner-Cleaning/dp/B093ZYJ1NW/ref=sr_1_12?crid=2OMDY175PGBBA&keywords=ultrasonic%2Bcleaners&qid=1696070032&s=industrial&sprefix=ultrasconic%2Bcleaners%2Cindustrial%2C87&sr=1-12&th=1 But only put water in it.....not for alcohol as the whole lot may go up in flames....
  16. Hi - I am making a point in S Scale. It is curved template sitting on a 50 inch radius. As per S Scale standards I have increased both the gauge and flangeway to compensate for the radius. My question is - typically on the prototype, when the flangeway was increased would the flangeway end gap also increase? I model the Brecon and Merthyr Railway....I appreciate that there is probably no one out there who knows what the B&M would have done.......but typically what would happen in these situations..? Many thanks
  17. Would anyone guess if this is Ok for the catch point on the siding or would you make it longer / do anything different?
  18. Hi - I am just starting to build a model of Fochriw Station on the Brecon and Merthyr Railway. As you will see from the attached signal plan the station had what appeared to be a sprung catch point on the main line..... Any clues as to the purpose of this?.....sorry I am not very savy on prototype matters. Given there was a goods shed on the single siding you would think that for shunting purposes engines would want to run in both directions through the passing loop.
  19. yes - excellent book...and some great photos....but nothing on the goods shed (other than one distant distance of part of the front) or what the rear of the station looked like....I can guess on the station rear but the goods shed was a prominent structure and i need to get this right.
  20. hello - sorry to jump in with a question but the title of this thread caught my eye. I am starting to build a model of Fochriw station, in B&M days. if anyone has any photos of the goods shed or back of the station then please can they let me know - happy to be contacted outside of thiis thread, either by direct message or on the post i have placed on Railways of Wales, rather then disrupt this flow. Thank you.
  21. Hi sorry for the delayed response - unfortunately not....but thank you for replying. Sorry I should add that there is one picture in this book of Fochriw Goods Shed but not sufficient detail to build a model.
  22. The second of the Sharp Stewart Small Saddle Tanks....number 11.
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