Siberian Snooper
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Thanks, got it now.
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Not being aux fait with Southern NPS, would a stove fitted BY have a chimney on the roof? I can only see the periscopes and vents.
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Mikkel,
Do one side in one livery and the other in the other livery, on the grounds that you only see one side at a time. I model the mid 20's, most of my coaching stock has the Lake livery on one side and post '22 livery on the other, I just need the time to finish them.
PS. The 2021s suffered a set back when I dropped the saddle tank yesterday.
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You can get 2021 bits and/or kits from Dave Ellis at Nucast Partners, I recently started building a saddle tank and lost a couple of the splashers, a phone call to him resulted in the recalcitrant parts, plus an unexpected bonus an Armstrong Standard Goods with a Dean tender. I don't have the contact number to hand, but if you pm on Tuesday morning, to remind me to find it. It's currently too cold to go over the workshop as a special trip.
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A good excuse for a tram on a bridge, rather than the obligatory bus.
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That photo, is the only one I have ever seen of the LSWR/SR station.
The Mayflower marina occupies the area now.
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It's more likely that the sidings are level and the mainline dropped. It's good to see that progress is being made after such a long time.
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I have a couple of these little beauties in the stash and a saddle tank for good measure.
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September was always the towing season, for anything going to Gibraltar from Devonport or Pompey, due to the usually calm weather.
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In this instance, I think that I would cut a couple of pieces of black plasticard and prime one and then paint both and allow to dry thoroughly and then compare the results.
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4 hours ago, melmerby said:
Why the steps and handrails on the inaccesible side of these locos?🙂
For a shunter?
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I would, as far as I know only Locos on exceptional duties had their buffers bulled up or painted white, the usual was a good dollop of grease.
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Look forward to seeing them, as a complete train, on the layout.
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If you belong to either the EMGS or the S4 society, you can get the Exactoscale turnout chairs all on one sprue and enough for several turnouts all in one pack. Do remember that the EM gauge chairs have a 1mm flangeway gap and the S4 have 0.86mm gap.
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If you use ply sleepers and timbers, you can use a scalpel to lift the plastic chairs and reposition them. The chairs bond very well to the ply, using Butanone or Plastic Weld.
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My advice, if you've not handbuilt several turnouts, is to start with copperclad construction as this will get you into a method that suits you. It's also easier to adjust, if you get things a bit out. You can use these in the fiddleyard.
I start by constructing the V, then add the straighter of the two stock rails, then the curved stock rail, don't forget the SET in the curved rail for the switch, marked on the Templot template. I then add the switch/closure rails. Finally, I add the check rails, some add these before fitting the stock rails, using the checkspan gauge.
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I have had a couple of kits where the lettering is dodgy in the area of the door securing pins. Before I built the kits, I used some Micro set and sol and then sprayed the sides with Dulcote. Some areas of the lettering will need some touching up with paint, when I get around to painting the underframes and weathering.
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Excellent work and very opportune, as I have just taken delivery of a few kits and can add some additional variation.
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I have used a black laundry marker to do the beading, I tried using brushes of various sizes and gave up.
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Roxey Mouldings do the K14/15/16, I don't think that they are listed, but if you give Dave a ring, I'm sure that he will sell you one or more. I have just used the search facility and if you put in K16 it will bring it up.
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Do I take it that you have an oil fired loco (steam) on ANTB that I've not noticed before?
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I don't think that I have seen any of the oil fired locos modelled before, makes a nice change.
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The alternative is to cut new axles, slightly longer from 1/8" silver steel available from your favourite auction site.
The downside is whether or not the loco will then pass through your platforms.
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If you use a whitemetal crew, that will add a bit more weight, some nice figures from Geoff Stevens, they are available from 247 Developments, he also attends the Hayle shows, but who knows when one of them will be.
https://www.247developments.co.uk/figures.html
Laying track
in Oldhaven Harbour. A novice tries n gauge
A blog by ngaugenic in RMweb Blogs
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With any track laying, z gauge to full size, test all rolling stock over it, in both propelling and pulling, in various configurations. If any piece of rolling stock doesn't perform well, check the wheels conform to the required specifications and adjust as required and test again. If a lot of stock derails in one location, check that the gauge is correct and also the alignment, the mark one eyeball at rail level is the best tool for that and also the use of a mirror can help. Don't rush to ballast the track, until your absolutely happy that everything is performing faultlessly. It's easier to rectify faults now, than later.