Pete Goss

Just completed a few more locomotives ready for Manchester this year and the 2024 exhibitions following on. The Bass turkey red loco is a Neilson Reid 3D printed body curtosy of Burton friend and fellow modeller Joe Stamper, on a Hornby Peckett chassis . The coach behind is the scratch built Bass directors saloon as previously mentioned. The Bachmann 1P 0-4-4- is a re-painted crimson lined MR (originally LMS black) visitor to the layout, running light, just to ring the changes. Due to some very tight curves and clearances the loco will only be able face one direction when running, but can run forwards or backwards and do a full circuit easily enough. I had to move one of the yard walls on the High Street board 4mm outboard to accommodate this monster and also file away the rear buffer beam ends by a millimtre or two. The green loco's are a cab modified standard Peckett re-painted and a Model Rail Sentinal re-painted.

Thanks Paul for your wonderful pictures and comments. I think that was yourself that said 'hello - following rmweb etc' towards the end, many thanks.

Great. I'll see you there.

Coopers Tavern is included as a subject of a forthcoming Modelling Buildings book (Wild Swan) about to be published. Either by Christmas or early new year, again I am reliably informed.

Justin, I am about to start approaching exhibition managers so anything could be possible. At present we are off to Portsmouth in two weeks time, and I have several e mail / verbal invites for next year but nothing is confirmed at all yet. Steve Flint is here this Sunday taking pictures for an article next Easter in Railway Modeller hopefully; and I am reliably informed the layout is featured in Episode 9 of Hornby A Model World on Yesterday. (6th Dec I believe).

I was originally going to use proprietory pick ups screwed to the wooden block you see under the wagon, but (can't remember why) I swopped to 0.5mm brass wire soldered to a copper clad strip and resting on the wheel. Wires are soldered to the inside of two of the four loco pick up wiper blades. Friend Jeff Taylor did this bit when he was setting the DCC settings for each locomotive. I found after using an aggressive brass brush wheel clean that one or two wires dropped off, so I re-soldered and stopped aggressively cleaning wheels. I now use a lint free soft cloth and electric cleaning fluid only and have experienced no further issues. The wires touching the wagon wheels need careful adjustment as either; the wheels don't go round or the wire doesn't actually touch the wheel. Weighting the wagon helps, but if its too heavy the loco slips! The standard Hornby coupling was removed, its hook removed and the hoop space filled in with plastic card and three holes drilled before re-fitting. This enables the two wires to be held in the central area between loco and wagon. The bent brass coupling wire runs from the filled in coupling hoop hole to a short length of plastic tube twist wired onto the wagon buffer beam centrally. The brass wire is bent in place and articulates between the two vehicles thus taking any stress away from the electric wires. This enables the loco to run as easily forwards as backwards.

The fleet is in.. Ready for the trip down to Portsmouth in a couple of weeks time. This is the loco stock currently on the layout posing for the classic photograph of bass loco's sat outside the engine shed. The wagons are permanently coupled to the loco's providing extra 4 wheel pick which really works a treat.

i support Phil and Andy's earlier comments about calming the comments. Very apt and timely. Anyway, I too was involved in all this. The filming took place under difficult and strict covid regulations earlier this year for us. So here are some more clues. I had an e mail from Rare TV this evening (just now in fact) explaining a slight change in episode order from that originally planned. Essentially the Merchant Navy and P2 episodes were swopped around at the last minute. Whether that affected the order of any other episodes I wouldn't know.

Collections | Pete Goss Railway Modelling (bigcartel.com) I have just put on our website 50+ individual painted / matt varnished 7mm railway figures that I had on stock, now available for sale. They are from the 'Heroes of the Footplate' range. Examples below.

Rich (my eldest) took them this afternoon during a running session. They are excellent and very worthy of sharing.

Oh thanks very much for the very kind comments! Certainly a big grin there. There is still a few bits to do but definitely getting there now. I am marking up a plan up stuck on the wall with any missing bits, gates, fences, walls as I am going round sticking buildings down; and I would like to do some dusk / dawn photos when all the lighting is connected up! Cheers!

Workshop overall view The Maltings Board The High Street Board The Brewery Board Action on the Brewery Bank Ales Stores, Bottling and Engine Shed Board Cooperage Board The Wash Bank. Covered roof not made yet! Cask making Backboards all done and ready for fitting. Cheers!

Good idea Paul I will get some overall workshop pictures later today and a picture of each board to show what exactly is happening. Boards are in separate parts on the workbench at moment as they are being worked on top and bottom. After wires all connected up underneath for building lighting, I will put them together again and take more pictures.

Aiming for a practical completion ahead of some video work. The trestle concoction is temporary proving it works before permanently sticking the components down to one side. (t was used to transfer barrels across platforms at one level.) The first two boards are almost complete. The other 3 are waiting their buildings to be stuck down. There are 150 figures now stuck down with another 50 or so inside buildings and engines etc. Barrels - probably 350 stuck down with another 150 in open wagons.

Two months later and I am very nearly ready to start sticking everything down!! Just the rainwater downpipes tom complete on these buildings.

Getting on with it now! Got a lot of hats to make shortly for the hat shop on the corner. But is will be all the windows and doors next.

Another productive weekend. Walls, railings, signals and crossing gates all ready for painting. These are mainly for the High Street scene. One of the cross bar signals will be internal, the other located at the crossing gates. The water crane will be near the locomotive shed.

Thanks Jeff. I am now working on the ground work on the High Street board. At the road crossing, the tram line is plastered in with filler and awaits the carving of the setts, similar process to before. The buildings are set out, walls marked out (the green strips) and the footpaths under way. … at the same time as I am painting the shops on the opposite desk in my workroom.

The last board!!.. The High Street. I have set out the building carcasses and am ready to start thinking about the tram track crossing the line in High Street. The railway squeezes behind building's almost scraping the walls. There will be brick walls along the track side both sides for most of the length of this board. This morning I had a final electrical test. The other 4 boards all have their buildings finished and are ready to be stuck down..

Some more illumination. This time gas lamp standards, 14 in total. Negative wire runs inside the brass tube, the positive wire is soldered top and bottom so the brass standard carries the current. A 1000 ohm resister will be fitted to each standard once the lamps are planted. Other than that the electrics are the same as the wall mounted ones shown earlier.

Some of the railway workers having a brew in the mess room. The room has since been illuminated before closing it up with the roof.

Here's a little cameo I have thrown together for a bit of fun. Working my way round to the cooperage board, I needed to detail the inside of the cooperage building. These are two steam driven saw benches sawing slivers of wood ready for cask production.

After a lot of experimentation we have arrived at the following conclusion for the setts colouring. The original colouring idea of an enamel wash pictured on an area in the August post on page 5 was removed as the wash tended to give a mushy finish so I started again. Ground setts were originally laid at Bass brewery using Mountsorrell setts which although light grey colour would of had a very slight pinkish tone in them. The following technique was originally tried out on a section using pink (dark tan polish) but the contrast was too severe, so I removed the finish for the second time and started again. For the final version I painted the top surface with a mix of Humbrol enamel 64 light grey and 33 white, trying not to fill the joints, before lining all the joints with Humbrol tank grey 67 / earth 29. This gave a flat but sharply defined 2D finish. Then when dry and using a clear shoe polish and Humbrol weathering powder brushed on the polish/weathering mix. After a severe buffing-off with a soft cloth the surface will be sealed with Humbrol Satin Cote varnish. This took it up to the 3D finish as pictured below. The weathering/polish mix tended to fill in the tiny surface blemishes and dressed the edges of the setts where the painting had (purposely) missed. This was all Julie's idea. The trackwork on the second picture has been ballasted with fine sand laid dry. Pva /water 50/50 eye dropped on, before painting on a thinned coat of Humbrol 67/29 enamel mix and dry brushing off when dry with Humbrol 110 wood / 64 light grey. The rail sides are painted in Humbrol tan 62. Ballasting in these yards would have been done using gravel and ash I believe, as proper large stone ballast was reserved for the proper railways elsewhere..

Yes, an interesting comment on the skill or mind set required to measure and cut things out. I would say that, as with all these things, taking time out to set up the physical making process to start with will help considerably and pay dividends in time. Such as perhaps using a small drawing board as I do, or maybe a nice piece of plain wood with 2 steel rulers screwed down at right angles with one of them raised a little for card to pass under for measuring and marking, you will be in a much stronger position to draw and mark out en-masse, rather than just one thing at a time. A much more economical use of time I have found. This is why I always try and construct, build and finish several buildings at the same time, so all walls can be made at the same time, painted, all windows etc. It maybe takes longer overall but all are finished at the same time.