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12 years on and it’s still not been fitted 🤣
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19 minutes ago, woodenhead said:
Whilst you have it in bits, don't forget to insert the prototypical capacitors in the window.
I'll bet you're finding it much easier & cheaper to source bits for your model now.
lol, I did think of installing dts front bogies with the pickups, but then I’d need lighting in everything else….second hand prices for 1980’s sets are still holding sadly. I need a pair of dts’ to make a ts sometime ….
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Slots for the top end clips created and side clips re glued into new locations.
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Cheers mate, I'm not out of the woods yet, another op is on the cards....
No more neverwazzas for now. Must finish off all those other projects, not least the micro layout!
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5 hours ago, Ramrig said:
Good luck with the lining. Every time I've tried them in the past they have ended up stuck to everything other than where they should be
. Hence the reason Roomey hand lined most of mine before a good coat of grott!!!
looking forward to seeing the end result. If the men in white coats haven’t arrived with a straight jacket for you
I have form, this was many years ago though. The last mixed traffic loco I did was the 2-8-2
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bit of grey added, a few areas to address
Saw marks on the back of the cab where I split the sides to splay them out is the most noticeable blemish
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Ran round the body with diamond files and 1200 wet or dry last night so it's ready for first coat of primer to see what still needs fettling. Needs to warm up outside first though!
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Had to happen....
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2 hours ago, Mikkel said:
Maybe take a photo from "normal viewing angle" (whatever that is) and see if you notice the wrong backhead?
Thing is, I will know it's wrong. I've had to cut down the 4mt backhead as it does not slope rearwards and fouls the 9F motor mounts. Pretty sure the razor saw will be out soon ....
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Not much done since, just a bit of filler over the joins. By the time I get round to working on it again it will be nice and hard
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You know, I'm considering numbering this beast 88100, might even stick a big lamp on the front
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Just bought a Railroad 9f sans tender, which changes things from a fidelity point of view, possibly .....
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German BR84 and BR85 were 2-10-2 tank engines, so maybe I should drop the extra pony wheel and shorten the coal space back to standard 4 size ......
(This is not what I'm going to do)
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I think someone is taking a frankly silly frictional loco too seriously
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13 hours ago, Mikkel said:
That looks nice and smooth. Can I ask, how did you get it even up against the rails?
Lots of patience and the use of fingers, an old butter knife and strips of 1mm plasticard. I'm sure I'll have a bit of fun cleaning out the rail edges to get good running!
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Can't believe I didn't update this. After it all started to work I got bored last Christmas while sitting for my Mum (long story) so came up with this
All three circuits in one. Here's it in action on the layout. Love the pushbuttons with built in LEDs 🙂
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On 11/03/2020 at 11:44, Martin Smith said:
Hi, very interested in this as I have thought of using stirrers as material. How do the start he’s look now? Did you ever finish them off?
Pretty well, front and centre in this pic taken for the BRM article 🙂
Real coal and lots of dirty black wash made with old used up black acrylic paint, water and a drop of washing up liquid
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One problem solved thanks to the good folk in MERG: The accessory decoder by default expected an OFF event from the handset before it would react to another ON event. This caused problems if you used the external buttons to move the turnout. Long story but I now have a version 5.2NCR of the firmware
I made a new label for it, I think the white on black looks better too.
Expect a custom pcb in the new year.....
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Got some more work done on the conveyor over the weekend, despite helping out at Wycrail Friday evening and all day Saturday. Tipper area modified to allow for 9mm track and every other bar on the grating removed to better allow some Woodland Scenics Cinders to drop through.
Apron cut back too as there's no way you'd want to dump spoil onto the track!
Instructions have also been downloaded from Walthers for the chain link fencing. Not sure yet if I'll use it though.
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Not something I'd considered before, hmmm
I'd have to make a few more complicated cassettes though ......
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Something like this might work, another "half K" fixed crossing controlled by check rails
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Not sure what you mean Stu, the spacing is not the same either side of the "centre" rail, so with a 3 rail setup the cassettes could not be turned round?
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On 27/09/2019 at 05:48, Mikkel said:
That's pure art. Almost a shame to touch it. Are the timbers stuck down with something or is this just a dry run?
Dry run and it's changed now thanks to a few on the Templot forum. it's now looking like this
as you can see I've made a start 🙂
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On 13/09/2019 at 06:42, Mikkel said:
That's a creative solution! For me, expanding a micro has proven a lot harder that I thought, so I'm impressed you've managed to fit it in. Thanks for the inspiration.
PS: I like the duck theme
here's where I am after last night, note artistically placed common crossings as I can't work out how to translate my monster creation into proper turnout templates!
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. Hence the reason Roomey hand lined most of mine before a good coat of grott!!!
Getting to the Point
in Summat Colliery
A blog by RedgateModels in RMweb Blogs
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I think I know where it is ........