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  1. Im looking for a pic or drawing of the other side to the net recess side on 80400, 80401 or 80402 when they had the large windows before they had the conversion to the smaller slitty windows during the late 60's early 70's

     

     Copyright  as pic shows

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    This is the type  dia 722.

     

     

    Thanks in advance.

     

    Rob

  2. A couple of things are apparent from that photo:

     

    1. The plates from the D600s are clearly deeper than those from D800s.

     

    2. Interestingly, the one from ROYAL OAK seems to match the older type but has the smaller "Warship Class" like other 800s....

     

    3. There seems to be a uniform minimum length for most names comprising seven letters or fewer.

     

    4. However, CENTAUR, MONARCH, ROEBUCK and ZEALOUS, having no "thin" letters, look a bit longer, matching the length of that off INTREPID.

     

    John

     

    EDIT: A published source gives the length of STEADFAST's plates as 3' 4 and 13/16" wide by 11" deep.

    Thankyou John, looking at the pic would i be correct in thinking Sprightly, Grenville Undaunted and Steadfast are the same length.

  3. Thankyou for the reply Rudg1022. 

     

    There seems to be some plates the same length, ( shown on display stacked above one another ) Benbow, Dragon, Zebra and Eclipse. They all seem to be the same length but the wording is closer to the end of the plate for the longer named ones. 

     

    Can anyone confirm this?

     

    Regards Rob

  4. Evening

     

    First of all ...... The coaches are absolutely cracking.... Great work on them.

     

    I have just purchased a MKII off of ebay and I am looking to do a cut and shut job similar to you.... Can you please let me know some of the pit falls to expect as well as where you purchased the window frames from?

     

    Lastly, the underframe..... Did you have to add parts to it? ... If so where did you purchase the from....

     

    Regards

     

    Jim

     

    Hi Jim thankyou for those kind words.

     

    Firstly no real pit falls as such just take your time with your measuring and cutting. The window frame etch was a collective thing from several members who got together and placed a large order to a etching company  so it didnt  work out too expensive. This was several years ago and are no longer available as far as im aware. However J M Hughes does a Mk2 window etch now. There list is on the traders list on the O gauge guild site.

     

    As regards the underframe it is mostly scratch built except for the resin battery boxes which are Peter Cowling . The bogies are B4 Easybuild bogies.

     

    Hope this helps,

     

    Regards Rob.

  5. Great to have you back - you've been missed!  Loving the rolling stock - how did you make the Mk2 BSO with the wider passenger window spacings?  It looks like it must have been a real labour of love.

     

    David

    Thankyou David for those kind words. Window spacings were gauged and measured using pics and the TSO's i had already built........ yes they did take a while. lol.  I have also built two FK's and i think i might build another couple plus some TSO's and a BFK sometime.

     

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  6. Haven't posted for a while so here are some of the items i have been working on.These are Big Big mk2 conversions. 

     

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    Next up is my scratch built TPO

     

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    Last up is D1018 Western Buccaneer on the Paddington to Penzance TPO.

     

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  7. Thankyou . The reason for the question is im going to make myself a couple of WR class 47 replica nameplates to keep my Western replica's company.

     

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    I also have Western Queen, Western King, Western Marquis and Western Advocate. I also have the following in various stages of being made, Western Enterprise, Western Crusader and Western Bulwark.

     

  8. Thankyou . The reason for the question is im going to make myself a couple of WR class 47 replica nameplates to keep my Western replica's company.

     

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    I also have Western Queen, Western King, Western Marquis along with the following in various stages of being made  Western Enterprise, Western Crusader and Western Bulwark

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  9. Hi Guys, I know this subject has been discussed before but i didnt need the info then and now i cant find it.

     

    So what im after is details of the RBV/SPV vans that worked around the Drump Road area of Redruth. These SPV's were coded as RBV and i think were BR Blue livery but all pics ive seen are very dirty. 

     

    Could anyone post any pics that give livery details, number details and how many vans would be in the train.?

     

    Thanks in advance.

     

  10. The letters for City Of Truro, North Star, Sir Daniel Gooch, George Jackson Churchward and Isambard Kingdom Brunel are the same size as those used on the Westerns, the letter spacing and height of the plates was the same too so you should be able to work out the length for each one from photos...

     

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    The other plates for Atlas, Thor etc had Egyptian / serif letters, not sure of the dimensions but they look fairly similar.

    Thankyou Rugd1022 thats very helpful.

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