Captain Kernow
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On 24/04/2024 at 08:02, Tony Wright said:
The replacement Comet frames for the Mainline 75XXX..............
Fitted perfectly.
Looking good, Tony.
How will you replicate the firebox below the footplate? I found that difficult when I did my 75023, due to using a Portescap driving the middle axle. I would do it differently now.
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17 hours ago, Murican said:
Well I did imagine the Bristol - Bath Green Park link staying to eventually become a suburban line for Bristol.
Perhaps it might have become part of the 'Avon Metro' that was much vaunted in the early 1980s, if only the local authorities of the time had been able to conceive of any kind of celebration in a brewery...
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2 hours ago, 30368 said:
Yes indeed Mr Davies,really fine quality.
And no horrible big Continental HO flanges in sight! Lovely models.
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2 hours ago, 2E Sub Shed said:
Seen the metal sort as in the picture "creep" towards the layout during the day at an exhibition.
41 minutes ago, SM42 said:The one thing I worry about with barriers is the propensity for parents to sit small children on them.
Legs go flailing as they are lifted over to be sat 9n barrier and then of course there's is the almost universal propensity for dangling legs to be swung back and forth
Then they flail about again as child is lifted off the barrier.
Far more potential for damage than the leaner and probably more common
Then what I do is move the barrier a bit further from the layout and remember to keep a close watch on it throughout the day.
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Surely crowd control barriers will solve a lot of these problems?
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'Very interesting, but stupid!'...
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But it must be very posh and, therefore, worth all that money, because it's called a Chronograph.
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11 hours ago, mullie said:For those of us who build small layouts the J72, with its slow running was also important.
I do like a J72. I am currently working on my third one.
All three represent locos that have been 'sold out of main line service' to either the NCB or an outrageously improbable light railway.
The current J72 on the work bench is, I think, the 'guinea pig' that Iain Rice used to test build his chassis for the loco, as designed for Mainly Trains.
Lots more work to do yet, including replacement buffers:
Here is my first J72, weathered to represent a loco sold to the NCB and working in an unlikely Somerset colliery at the time it was photographed on 'Engine Wood'. The split chassis eventually gave out and a Perseverance chassis was substituted:
The second one was originally a second-hand purchase and was repainted into a dark green to represent one sold to the aforementioned light railway. The split chassis also expired after a few years and I built a Perseverance chassis for it. Here is this unlikely loco, resting in between duties for it's improbable light railway in Mid-Wales:
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20 hours ago, 2ManySpams said:
Steam and diesel...
Well done, you've passed Basic Locomotive Recognition, Part 1.
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18 hours ago, gwrrob said:
Wish us luck chaps, PUSB.
Are you in there somewhere, Robin?
Where's Wally?
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2 hours ago, cctransuk said:
Since you've asked - despite apparently not wanting to know - the arc of the roof curve is far too deep.
Well, yes I did want to know and then again, I would have preferred not knowing and assuming that the sniggering in front of my layout was due to something else...!
Anyway, I've only got the one and am unlikely to get any of the Rapido ones.
Oh, hang on, didn't someone say they were fairly common in the Bristol area in the blue era?....
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2 hours ago, sandra said:
All I have to do now is to work out how to convert it to EM gauge.
Indeed, that is the question.
Let's hope it's not like the Rapido 16XX pannier, beautiful body but the way the chassis and drive mechanism is fully integrated with the body is an abomination.
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58 minutes ago, Gilbert said:
Probably so but when it's done its worth it IMHO...
Maybe, but polished real copper would look better than that copper paint, the lamp irons look under-nourished and the chimneys not quite the right shape.
But ModelU are to be commended for the figures.
Is that smoke some kind of DCC thing?
And I bet it's got a coreless motor...
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I wonder if cost is a factor in deciding to paint a loco BR black instead of a colourful and possibly complicated pre-grouping livery?
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17 hours ago, The Johnster said:
I am perhaps a little too sensitive
Not at all, it is surely just good manners not to lean on or otherwise get too close to someone's personal property, even if it is at a public exhibition. I have hardly exhibited at all in the last ten years, but my tolerance of this kind of thing is going to be significantly less that it used to be, and I was pretty intolerant back then.
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I thought Eric has half a bee?
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58 minutes ago, Fair Oak Junction said:
for many of us born long after the steam era it represents the dark times
But surely times were to get a lot darker before someone found a light switch...
I think the BR steam era is just great. And that's the truth and no mistake, Guv'nor.
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4 hours ago, Downendian said:
the glaring roof profile error on my Hornby versions
Nothing against you, Neil, but I would be grateful if someone could actually illustrate what this 'glaring error' actually looks like. My Hornby version looks like what I think it should look like...
Does it have an angled, 'gabled-ended' roof? (like a salt wagon) - no it does not.
Does it have a flat roof, like a cheap 1970s extension? - no it does not.
Is it a wagon from the Renaissance period with a Mansard roof? - no it isn't.
Ignorance used to be bliss, until the internet came along...
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1 hour ago, DLT said:
Loser.....
Don't you like the pasties, then?!
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Apologies, I must be having a pedantic evening!!
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I've just had a closer look at my pannier chassis and there are those bushes, so I must have done it!
But I am still confused. Surely 4/32" equates to 1/8", so how can you get 1/8" axles into holes that are smaller (ie. 3/32") than that?
Would the old Triang axle holes not have been something like 5/32"?
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2 minutes ago, cctransuk said:
Not true, I'm afraid - they were 3/32" dia., and you had to use special brass axle bushes to fit 1/8" Romford axles.
Hornby Dublo used 1/8" axles.
CJI.
Oh, that's interesting, my memory is playing tricks with me. I could have sworn that I just fitted Romford 1/8" axles when I fettled my old Hornby pannier (although that is nearly 50 years ago now...)
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Perhaps not the point, I know, but those old Triang chassis have 1/8" axles, so it should be possible to replace the old Triang wheels with modern equivalents, enabling it to run on more modern track.
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1 hour ago, davidbr said:
There are the makings here for a poster competition. Winner buys the pasties?
Don't you mean 'winner eats the pasties?'
(and gets free cake!!)
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Accurascale's First Steam Locomotive; GWR Collett 78xx Manor Class!
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What about thin, narrow brass strip, some fine pliers and some glue?