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19 hours ago, Smalltrainsgreatpains said:
I guess the finish on a model is all down to personal preference.
What do you all use in regards to varnishes and sealers, acrylic, enamels?
Citadel; because I can buy it locally, it doesn’t have an odour, covers well and it can be thinned/cleaned with water.-
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1 hour ago, Izzy said:
Ah, my mistake Rich. To be honest I don't intend to do anything to them, they will stay as they are.
[snipped]nothing else is really needed that I am aware of for hand operated points.[cut]
I can't post a current shot of them because today I spent the morning laying the grass fibres and the rest of the day colouring them and the track with poster paints via the Neo and it has yet to fully and properly dry out. The shades can change considerably when it does and I feel there will be more to do yet even then. Perhaps when I am able to show the completed finished results with the hand levers in place it will look okay.
Bob
I understand now how the small area that appears to be without ballast at the side of each stretcher bar and the adjacent sleepers is going to be developed. Thank you. I look forward to seeing the results when they are ready. I have a scale hand lever to make too so the linked drawings will probably come in useful too. -
18 hours ago, MarcD said:
Everything that is available in 4mm is printed. Some should be ok to reduce in scale but others might end up a bit thin.
I have scaled a NBR 3plk centre door.
Marc
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Sorry @Izzy I meant the switches as in switch rails, where the TOU are attached.
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On 01/04/2024 at 15:56, MarcD said:
Never tried but I can't see why some can't be done in 2mm.
Marc
There’s some interesting items on your site but I was struggling to work out what was printed and what was not. Clearly only the printed ones might be straightforward to shrink to 2mm without new tooling costs.
14 minutes ago, MarcD said:I will have a go at printing a NBR wagon this evening. You can only try and see what happens.
Watching this space.
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I think the pinkish comes from WS ballast but don’t know why. From what I recall of Javis (of 30yrs ago) it is dyed dust.
What special treatment is required around the switches? I notice they are deliberately untreated thus far.
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16 hours ago, Caley Jim said:
from 3 ft away with your eyes screwed up
That's how I view most things and probably a great many others have no choice in the matter either. Even then I think you are being most unkind to yourself and your abilities .-
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5 hours ago, MarcD said:
My wagon range now contains 7 NBR wagons with another 2 in the design stage. They are available as kits in 4mm and 7mm and bodies in HO, S, G1, G2 and G3.
Available wagons
1) 1plk
2) 3plk fixed side
3) 3plk drop-side
4) 3plk centre door
5) 4plk Drop-side
6) 4plk fixed side
7) 4plk centre door
Under development
Cattle van
8t box van
Marc
Pre-Grouping Railways
Can you do your kits at 2mm scale?
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1 hour ago, Compound2632 said:
2012 - twelve years ago - alarming, isn't it?
Yes. Every time I see the photo of my nieces taken within the Olympic village, seeing how small they looked, and to think that they now both finished University and the eldest moved out last year!
I would agree the mascots were also alarming.
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Is it possible it previously only ever ran such that the central axle was moved away from the potential short? Equally it could be that the smallest amount of wear caused the situation. Whatever it is/was it is pleasing to hear that it is no longer causing any frustration.
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6 hours ago, heraldcoupe said:
I have a 7mm print of a straight frame Bulldog on the shelf at the moment, I've previously done some of my Dukes in the same scale.
No reason why I can't configure the curved frames for a 7mm print. When enlarging them, I've filled in the boiler underside and opened out between the frames as these are dictated by the Bachmann mechanism on the regular product.
I wish for a 2mm version 🙁 My wife’s maiden name is Starling. Seems like too good an opportunity.
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Good to finally see the layout in the flesh today. If in doubt add another pannier was being taken to the limit when I stopped by with a goods being shunted down the quarry sidings behind a light engine. Probably too much going on to match the reality of an 8 mile branch, but otherwise risk being criticised by others for nothing much happening. The scene is beautifully modelled. I did here someone nearby muttering to another that it must be fine scale.
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6 hours ago, Bri.dolan said:
Alan’s layout will be at Neepsend model railway show in April
from last update pics I’ve seen it’s not far off being ready
Regards
Brian
Thanks Brian,
I expect my ties with the area will be severed inside 4 weeks. Might get to see it at Derby though, if I get there.
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3 hours ago, Ian Smith said:
In order to try to rekindle a bit of modelling mojo, today I have been
playing trainshaving a running session on Modbury. Whilst running a few trains, I also took the opportunity to video a few of the movements. After an hour or two of editing, the result has been uploaded to YouTube :Thanks for looking.
Ian
Time well spent (making and watching). The lower shot of the railmotor running into the scene was particularly enjoyable.-
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6 hours ago, Compound2632 said:
I read the wagon number as 1107. Is that compatible with the size of the Cambrian's wagon fleet in the mid-70s? (Has anyone from the WRRC been through the Cambrian's half-yearly reports and accounts at Kew?)
Ah. Sounds like a load for a 2-plank dropside wagon! I wonder if there were any billiard table manufacturers in the West Midlands c. 1902?
A quick bit of googling reveals snooker and pool table slates for sale second-hand, with dimensions a little over 6' x 2' 6" for snooker and 6' x 3' for pool but I can't find billiard table slate sizes. 2' 6" seems a bit restrictive - one would have to go for that newfangled tiny O Gauge stuff rather than a decent size like Gauge 1 or 2.
If memory serves billiard tables have the same overall dimensions for the playing area as snooker. Snooker tables would be made up of 4 of those slabs and a pool table would be a single slab based on the dimensions you found.
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8 hours ago, Izzy said:
I have just discovered that Alan Whitehouse has a 2FS layout call Exchange Sidings. I don't know how I missed this. Mine will never leave home but I think I will have to devise a new name so as not to cause any confusion via this thread. For the present I will simply add 'East' in brackets on to the end until I can come up with something else.
Bob
Is there a web presence for Alan’s layout?
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11 hours ago, Compound2632 said:
It's Coopercraft straight out of the packet, so I deny any responsibilty for bonnets. (Not quite true: I've added a representation of the swan-neck lever but apparently not the quadrant.)
Apologies for this 4 mm thread drift.
It’s the way I see these things but the first thing I noticed was the missing bit of brake mechanism. Sorry.
V5s had central bonnets according to the engineering drawing reproduced in Atkins. They aren’t shown on the diagram but they aren’t shown on the diagram for V12 either and they were built with a pair of louvres and shutters each end.
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and that’s with the axle boxes in black, unlike @Donw suggestion that they might also be brown.
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Good to see you and Hungerford on Saturday. Always a joy. Loved the videos. Thanks for posting!
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Those samples look really good. What axle length is used, and what angle the points? I’m sorely tempted to acquire some but would like to know if any of the 2mm Scale Association wheelsets are a straight swap before I spend more than £60/3 wagon. The time saved needs to be worth the investment for me.
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56 minutes ago, Compound2632 said:
I'm thinking of going tomorrow afternoon.
A quick look through Midland drawings suggests that one can't tell from them, as the canvas isn't generally shown, only the roof boards. However, the specification for the S&DJR Road Vans built at Derby as Lot 369 definitely calls for canvas and the drawing, Drg. 1088, has a detail section of the top of the door framing and eves rail which does appear to show the canvas layer, with the half-round batten along the roof edge to fix it. A number of other covered goods wagon drawings have similar sections, showing the same. However, no cattle wagon drawings have the same large-scale detail section...
Canvas not shown and/or no note to add canvas = no canvas required or fitted? If vans are showing it and cattle wagons are not that feels conclusive. -
Beetles were reclassified 1926 according to Atkins et al. I found this out after I painted my W7s Brown and lettered them 😭
Ian subscribes to the red livery for goods wagons so…
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Today I was at Abingdon exhibition (very good imho) and say some friends whom I see infrequently since moving South 20+ years ago.
An interesting question arose as to which companies put canvas on the rooves of their cattle vans. My friend is making a train of cattle wagons from various companies and has found that some (NE) did not bother with the canvas for goods that didn’t mind being wet and he was wondering whether to scribe the rooves for any other companies.
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5 hours ago, Compound2632 said:
2258: GWR OIL AXLEBOX WITH 6 FT J-HANGER SPRING
I note that the drawing I was sent from the (old) Siphon book shows grease axleboxes but I presume these were replaced with oil boxes by 1902?
The springs for the centre wheel set are different in that the J hanging parts of the assembly are perpendicular to the long axis of the vehicle and go under and seem to go behind the solebar. I expect they would be early candidates for replacement oil boxes, given their use.
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I believe 603 should out perform cyano in this application.