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  1. Thanks for that David, you do realise that I won't be held responsible for any fatalities caused by the prolonged holding of breath!! John.
  2. As promised I have all being well, attached a photograph and a scan of the New Small Layout (hereafter referred to as NSL, at least until I come up with a name for it!) , hopefully these will remove any doubt or fuzziness from the issue and prove that I do know what I am talking about. Since last night the walls for the derelict chapel have been glued together so for the purpose of the picture you can finally grasp where it's going to be sited. It will sit on a level site with a small retaining wall to the road and a set of access steps at the "downhill" end adjacent to the shop, there will then be timber baulks propping it up to try and encourage it not to fall down. The two objects between the sidings and the foam hill are a pair of kilns, both redundant with one still open while the the other will have a small shed appended to the front of it. Enjoy, hope it makes sense. John.
  3. Well folks, I've been pottering around on the new and very small 009 layout this weekend and can report that some progress has been made, it has to be as the layout will be at the 13th members day organised by the Wiltshire Group of the 009 Society this August. Progress has been made on the buildings front, well certainly on their positions on the layout. I wanted a chapel on this layout after the two I had on Lower Peak Wharf only this one's going to be derelict and about to fall down, to this end an old Osset Mouldings cast plaster engine shed went under the razor saw this afternoon. Very messy! At least I wont have to scribe the cracks into/onto the building as they are already there! There is going to be a shop tucked into the corner at the start of the hill up to and past two old lime kilns. For this the razor saw got a taste of a 1960's Triang Model Land hardware shop (did I hear a Model Land collector fall off a chair somewhere?), don't worry it was in really poor nick-how else do you think I could afford it! The shop (probably a grocers) will only be fairly low relief tucked in between two houses and the aforementiond derelict chapel, so the back part can become the back of a house that will have a garage or workshop beside it adjacent to the top of the two old lime kilns. Space for a bit of garage type junk and clutter and because of the buildings position I won't have to put a front on it as it can't be seen from the front of the layout. A lot of words but no pictures! So true. I will try and take a couple of photographs tomorrow evening and scan in my latest sketch plan of the layout which hopefully will make some sense of this verbage! John.
  4. As I told Jack @ club tonight I have sketched out a basic plan for a simple module for the module group based on Fron Fraith halt on the Kerry branch. Gosh PECO track is going to look so heavy & serious! John.
  5. This evening I can report that after a small tweak of the "Hoffman" pattern point motor (made by "Conrad") the electrical side of matters is now complete. Indeed this momentous occasion was further enlivened by the running of the first locomotive over the track work. Now to the buildings and scenic side of matters. John.
  6. Sorry for the delay it's about 17" x 21", hope this helps. John.
  7. Hello all, it's been a while since I posted any updates so here we go. Not done too much lately, suffering a slight loss of direction and focus but I have been working on a couple of Parkside LNER ply vans. One a salvage job bought as a body only that had been built, this received a new chassie with vacuum Moreton brakes while the other was a new build which has received LNER 8 shoe vacuum brakes and is now awaiting a visit to the paint shop (AKA garage with the door slightly open). There's also an ABS LMS van awaiting a roof and of course the visit to the garage/paint shop as well as an old K's LNER van (another salvage job) which is also going to get the full 8 shoe treatment! Finally as nothing better was planned today (I went to Expo EM yesterday) I spent the afternoon doing most of the wiring on my new micro/micro 009 layout, the strange colours in the board are a consequence of the materials it is made from which include among other things old advertising foam board and a picture frame! That's about it for now as I shall save my S scale ramblings for another time. Attached should be a couple of photographs of the top and bottom of the 009 layout. John.
  8. THE DINING ROOM TABLE! If I did that I'd be missing some parts of my anatomy, there again what the other half dosen't know!!! John.
  9. Nice job, a couple of crew members would help to fill the cab & hide the motor bogie. Turin 60.
  10. I think Perivale came & went in the early eighties, they were really a fine quality kit, I have one to build in the pile of unbuilt kits! As to Omega I also have a couple of chassie kits from them with a shop address in the old Tricorn centre in Portsmouth. Don't know any more than this I'm afraid. John.
  11. Good luck with it then. I am waiting for the 4 wheeled version to be re-issued by Old Time Workshop(?) if I remember correctly so if & when it comes along I'll have to check the bonnet etch carefully! I know you can get a resin body kit but etch captures the airy cab structure so much better. Regards John.
  12. Have you overcome the bonnet/cab front mismatch yet? John.
  13. Hanging on to it for now, if in the future I need to sell the works yard it will at least be a fiddle yard to go with it! John.
  14. Hi Liddy, I've used the DG's for years in 009 so it seemed logical to use them for the EM as well. I do use a loop at both ends and very occasionally both loops rise up but I don't find it a big problem. I did try Sprat & Winkles (3mm version) but found they were giving me problems fitting them to "fitted" stock. So I,ll stick with what I know although I do feel that from some angles the S&W was less obtrusive and jarring on the eye.John. Opps, forgot about the Lazy Susan. It's all just bits at the moment. Piccy's in due course. John.
  15. Hi Liddy, I've used the DG's for years in 009 so it seemed logical to use them for the EM as well. I do use a loop at both ends and very occasionally both loops rise up but I don't find it a big problem. I did try Sprat & Winkles (3mm version) but found they were giving me problems fitting them to "fitted" stock. So I,ll stick with what I know although I do feel that from some angles the S&W was less obtrusive and jarring on the eye. John.
  16. Chris, for nameplates you could also try http://www.narrowplanet.co.uk/. My Austerity's an ex NCB one , de-crested in nice lined green on Gibsons to EM gauge. Runs a treat despite my meddlings! John.
  17. I must confess that today I have done something I never thought I'd do, allow me to explain. My small EM gauge layout "The Works Yard" has as its fiddle yard a small sliding sector plate running on some quite expensive drawer runners, the sliding action is really nice and smooth and so it should be for the price I paid for them . However, because the movement required sometimes is beyond the end of the runners (in other words they are being used in the same fashion as they would be for say a kitchen drawer) I'm noticing a certain amount of droop . Which causes the rail alignment to drop and thus cause occasional random uncoupling by the DG couplings I use. Also I am becoming more fussy about the handling and reversing of the stock and the potential damage this causes, also the delay before the exhibition visitor sees another train arrive on the scene. is this an age related issue I wonder? So a new fiddle yard is in order. I already have a 9" Lazy Susan bearing, all I now need is a new baseboard for it sit & rotate upon . Enter the nice people at Model Railway Solutions of Poole, found their website, phoned them up, had a chat and ordered a ready built baseboard. That was Wednesday, picked it up from them today at Eurotrack. You can't get better than that, looks a nice piece of work and they only charged £10-00 for assembly. At least being done in a proper workshop it should be good and true, and it is. Thanks very much guys. I always try and make as decent a job as I can when building baseboards, and it is quite satisfying getting your little plywood piece of reality come together. However it's not my favourit part of this caper and I don't have a large flat work area to ensure that it all goes together flat and true. No problem this time . I now only have to build the fiddle yard on top of it. John.
  18. There are times when I wish I had that single minded, one scale lifetime approach as say the late Peter Denny. But if you never try any other scale/gauge combination you'll never know how good it is or isn't! Mind you I don't think I can afford O gauge any more! John.
  19. Some time has passed since I added an entry to this blog so here goes... This morning I went along to the S Scale meeting and AGM at Oxford, managed to pick up some bits & pieces for my various items of S Scale wagonry. Wheels and brake levers+guards for the 16ton mineral wagons and some spoked wheels for the ex LSWR resin van-looking forward to building the van now!! On the way back down South to Wiltshire I called in to the Newbury MRC exhibition for a quick look around (is this show secret as I found no mention of it on the web?). Serveral good layouts (IMHO) and picked up a cast whitemetal kit from a second hand stand, it looks like a long GWR twin bolster wagon, perhaps about the same length as a Tube C? Haven't looked it up in the reference books yet, was this kit made by K's? Aside from buying yet more kits to build I've taken my 009 layout Lower Peak Wharf to its last show and delivered it on to its new owner. Taken the EM gauge The Works Yard to the show at Calne, the layout ran well and I ended up buying three RTR wagons for regauging and detailing. I didn't mean to but couldn't resist the "Presflow" wagon. And finally for now I've got around to starting the High Level chassie kit for an 03, up until now I've only built their gearboxes and they work OK. I can honestly say the steps are Origami in nickle silver but they go together wonderfully, what a superb piece of design, absolutely top marks to High Level.
  20. It was good to meet you and Catcott "in the flesh" so to speak! Unfortunatly being single handed that day deprived me of any time that day to watch the trains go by or have a natter What time were we supposed to finsh Regards John Bruce LPW
  21. Turin 60

    Hemp!

    Hi Chris, like your use of the plummers hemp, Ive used it scenically myself in the past. I look forward to seeing Catcott at Guildford as I'll be there with my 009 layout Lower Peak Wharf for its last public outing under my ownership. Regards John.
  22. Do I have too many kits to build, or just not enough time?

    1. newbryford

      newbryford

      That's the description of an "Average modeller" :-)

  23. Would she have been so well behaved if something had moved? Our two wouldn,t have been! John.
  24. Hello Invercloy, I'm already there under Muppet Man. Regards John.
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