[Rails/Dapol SE&CR Diag 1424 Box Van]

14 hours ago, sb67 said:

 I wonder how  the "old fashioned"  slosh the paint  on wipe off method wont work so well with that surface. 

 

I imagine you would have the same trouble as Mick has illustrated - if the surface is not totally smooth (and 3D printed stuff usually isn't) then 'wiping off' will merely highlight the undulations in the surface.

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15 hours ago, Michael Hodgson said:

 

An 0-10-0 carries its entire weight on driven axles.  You would get inferior adhesion from a 2-10-4.

It doesn't need to carry vast amounts of water and coal as it's not going to wander very far from shed for long and could refill between turns.

How about making it an 0-10-0PT with a copper rim to the chimney?

 

 

Thing is there were quite a few large German tank engines with at least 8 coupled wheels (not sure if any 10 coupled ones were built) and being tank engines with limited fuel capacity wasn’t obviously seen as an issue for them.

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Very Germanic looking.... an interesting project though

 

Not sure about the smoke deflectors, no real need on a tank engine* plus they just don't seem to look right visually.

 

 

 

* Yes I know they weren't really needed on the 9F either but the loco certainly looks more 'beefy' / powerful with them.

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I see the 'like' button as performing an essential function - namely removing lots of otherwise tedious posts where folk simply say 'I agree with posters X, Y & Z!

 

I don't spend time browsing RMweb to find it full of superficial twaddle like that - we are subjected to enough of that from the rest of the media.

 

[AWS Ramps]

Just to point out that in the real world where a single AWS installation is provided for two signals on a bi-directional line (e.g. a platform line with starting signals each end and a common AWS installation) the exact arangement is as follows :- Ramp, electromagnet, Permenant magnet, Electromagnet, Ramp.( i.e. remove one of the two central magnets shown in the pics).

 

Also where AWS is installed on bidirectional lines, to avoid drivers of trains traveling 'the wrong way' getting an AWS indication which doesn't apply them, It is common to provide suppressor magnets rather than bog standard permenant ones (the elctromagnet remain unchanged). A suppressor magnet is basically a permenat magnet with two smaller electromagnets bolted to each side (in the manor of pannier tanks). When a 'wrong way' train is signalled, the mini electromagnets are energised and 'suppress' the magnetic field being generated by the permenant magnet, thus making the installation non exsistaant as far as the train is concered.