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Bravo.
I note that the etched padlocks do not come with either etched keys or etched bolt-croppers.
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8 hours ago, magmouse said:
Photographers tend to build up large collections of camera bags and tripods, each for slightly different purposes and situations. The joke goes:
Q: how many bags/tripods does a photographer need?
A: N+1, where N is the number they currently have.
I feel the same applies to wagons...
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You beat me to this. The same ‘joke’ goes for many groups: In cycling the formula for how many bicycles one needs is expressed in exactly the same way. -
3 hours ago, Mikkel said:
Ha!
Well remembered - and you have a point, must ensure continuity in our character stories! We know that Station Master A. Woodcourt served the GWR for 27 years. The earliest date at which he appears in photos is, I believe, 1902. So he could still be around on a 1919 layout.
Sticking with the fiction, above I mentioned how the yards at Newbury were worked by Didcot and Reading engines. If we take the liberty of transposing that situation to Farthing in 1919, then the source of an 1854 PT could include not only Salisbury shed as suggested by Miss P, but also alternatively Swindon or Westbury - all of which had 1854 allocations. The following map shows the situation before the GWR took over the N&SR, but you get the idea.
Speaking of Westbury, the 1921 allocations at Westbury were interesting...
My feeling is Westbury would be more likely than Swindon, but you have yet to write the history of the N&S Rly post amalgamation. Was it like the M&SWJR; ignored/neglected?
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On 06/11/2021 at 06:45, Mikkel said:
It would be interesting to see if an entire layout could be built with just three colours, no variations allowed. If you choose the right ones I think it could work.
It would. I've frequently pondered the idea of a layout presented entirely in sepia or monochrome. It's no more likely to get very far than any of my other recent (last 20 years efforts).
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5 hours ago, Compound2632 said:
That Vastern Road fence looks too dark to be stone, to me. But it does show that @Mikkel's fence could do with a bit of bashing about - it needs to lean over in a few places.
I spent a while considering where the sun might be and how shaded the side we are viewing was. It probably is black. The book on GWR structure colours, by Richard North (GWSG) covers the period 1912-1947 and tells us that spear fencing likely to be interacted with by the public, as here, was varnished black or tarred. However it also tells us that stone tint no.2 was also in use at the beginning of the period covered. Who is to say that at Farthing they used stone tint 3 or 4! There was local variation on windows and valences.
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22 hours ago, Mikkel said:
I think the fencing needs some weathering. It's rather stark and black.
One thought: Is it too late to change the colour of the fence to stone?
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9 hours ago, Compound2632 said:
Re. that container - it does look very like the ones that became widespread in the 1930s but c. 1905 there were no conflats - so presumably an ordinary low-sided open would be used.
That is certainly the case for the Newberry container in the centre of a much published image of Newbury station prior to the rebuilding (to 4 tracks). It's the first one on the disused stations website.
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2 hours ago, Compound2632 said:
Surely it's like wagon grey - there are infinite degrees of variation, so almost anything will be right for some horse, somewhere, sometime. The difficulty is ascertaining the right look for your horse in your location at your time period; this must depend on factors including the type and age of the horse, its feed, and the work it has been doing. As usually, we've both hands tied behind our backs due to having to rely on monochrome photographs.
I don't think we've yet touched on scale smell.
The usual advice still applies: It's best if you can try to find photographs from multiple angles (at the very least one from each side of the subject) taken on the same occasion in the time period you are modelling. Or Stephen's version - apply a documented number that there is no known good photograph of...
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5 hours ago, Mikkel said:The point rodding cranks look exquisite. Almost a shame to paint them dull black!
The 1907 painting instructions say Red, Torbay, bright. Not sure when it changed and can’t remember when this layout is set.-
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I always edit / crop my photos prior to uploading on here (now using an iPhone, which I think is what you have) and no-one has complained to me about neck strain yet.
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34 minutes ago, Kris said:
It had worked well enough that I had not noticed it when I first looked at the photos.
Whereas I already know it is there because I’ve been there and played with the trains. Else, I may also have not noticed.-
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Great to see progress. P.S. The mirror works particularly well in the final shot.
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Adhesives are available that would fix the thinner brass cranks to the axles without the soldering issues, if you can get past the appearance in your mind. Seem to quite commonly available from helicopter and drone hobby suppliers for fixing props/gears to motor shafts (so similar applications).
If not that or the suggestion in the previous comment then you are talking yourself into replacing the (over width?) outside frames.
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Now this is exciting.
Two things I have learnt about worm mesh during the rebuild of a pannier tank (still not finished though it was started some time ago when you were at the beginning of the scrap tank build) is that it could be helpful to paint the inside of that fold up worm 'box' a very light colour so that the mesh is quite visible when looking into what might otherwise be darkness behind and the mesh can be adjusted a tiny amount by bending the upright between the main part of the frame and the 'box'.
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Good to see you making some progress again Pete. The battery solution seems like a good one. I think it should last quite well powering a single LED and can always be revisited. Always one to overcomplicate things I wondered if the switch could be arranged to operate on a push button switch accessed by shoving something in the stove pipe. Probably much easier to have something under the floor - there must be loads of space in 7mm.
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2 hours ago, Simond said:
Interesting hypothesis.
is it the case that 3-arc roof profiles are always associated with broad gauge conversions?
in my mind, I associate them with clerestory vehicles, a sort-of-simplified-but-same version, but of course they would be a similar era. Maybe I’ve been missing something obvious!
atb
Simon
No, but the profile is different on a broad gauge conversion because the conversion was accomplished (in simple terms) by cutting a length-wise slice out of the middle of coach and joining it back together. That is unless it was a ‘convertible’ where the change was to put the already narrow body on a narrow under frame.-
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I'm not sure what I've got. The controller was upset when I went back to it. Oddly it quite happily worked for another engine I've been working on when the connector was cut off the wander leads and they were attached directly to some rail. It acted like there was a short but there is no short in the connector (or the pannier) that I could find.
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On 24/10/2020 at 12:41, Mike G said:
Rich
Does the chassis roll smoothly with no motor and the coupling rods on? If it does, then the gears are at fault. Before High level g/boxes turned up, anything with brass gears was treated to a toothpaste surprise. Some toothpaste mixed with a little motor oil, spread on all gears - not smoothered - and then connect it all up and let the motor run for 24 hrs. The toothpaste will smooth the edges of the gears so that they mesh easier. Obviously, a dunk in white spirit is needed to clean it all off. Just a thought...
Mike
The chassis used to run, and well. It was the best of what I had made.16 minutes ago, Mikkel said:I admire your stamina Richard . I wouldn't know where to start. Fingers crossed you will get there in the end. Sounds like you have qualified help
Thanks Mikkel, It’s so frustrating but I will get there somehow I am determined. Then I will have the first off engine appropriate to period.-
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Bravo!
The perfect tonic - cheered me up no end.
Thank you.
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Sheeted (in a particular way) cattle vans were sometimes used for horses. I can’t tell if this is what is going on here (probably not)
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I had exactly the same motor trouble in my current pannier tank project. Glad to see that it's sorted now.
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17 hours ago, WillCav said:
it is hard to get right as there aren't many resources about the subject.
It is well written but I think the Vaughan book wouldn't help too much.
The GWSG published a book last year, GWR signalling practice, which they strived to make the definite work on this subject.
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I can see how my earlier comments are ambiguous. What I meant is that I would keep the signal from siding 1 as a starter but have a disc instead of 27. I don't think 27 and 28 would be combined. This assumes that a train will not depart directly from the loading bay i.e. any traffic from here is moved to a road with a starter before departing. If it does then 27 remains as a starter. Maybe neither 27 or 28 is a starter and traffic from this area is marshalled into a platform before it sets off.
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Just like 1a and 1b some other switches would be pulled together by the same lever. The following list of examples being non exhaustive*:
6 and 24,
7 and 12,
10 and 23.
*It's not exhaustive because I haven't spent sufficient time to look at how 11, 17-20 might be linked up.
From a signalling pov.
Would there be starting signals for the up siding and bay? I think only the siding.
It seems there is nothing protecting the crossover 1 in the down direction.
I don't think 22 would be a start signal. Probably a disc. (I'm assuming this is not a running line)
In early times 10-12 could be the same signal, sited as 10, depending how close they are. You could alternatively have two or more? stacked discs at 10 for these routes to aid sighting.
4 and 5 might be the same height if the platforms have equal status.
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Well remembered - and you have a point, must ensure continuity in our character stories! We know that Station Master A. Woodcourt served the GWR for
LNWR 4-plank wagon (diagram 84)
in Netherport - GWR 1908 7mm (mostly wagons for now!)
A blog by magmouse in RMweb Blogs
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I’ve been playing with this as an idea with some thin lead foil, and failed:
First the handling destroyed the printing very quickly. This probably not helped by the printer being a laser type. I varnished the transfers before cutting out on a subsequent attempt. The transfer did not adhere well to the foil and came away once trying to put the bends in around the ends of the sheet supported and wagon. The transfer also to broke up on some folds and began disintegrating. I’m considering some self adhesive foil - the kind used for fly tying - on the next attempt in the hope the transfer will stay together better. I’ve found some 0.15-0.2mm thick but nothing thinner. That’s way above scale thickness for me but maybe it will work. I don’t believe it would be possible to fit the sheet made with foil to the wagon and then add the transfer onto it afterwards so the extra stress of bending two materials fixed together is unavoidable with the method.