mikemeg Posted March 24, 2020 Author Share Posted March 24, 2020 (edited) I've made reference, from time to time, to my upcoming house move. Well it 'upcame' this Monday past - 23rd March - just one day before the new regulations re key workers, travelling and isolating came into force. So I seem to have just made it 'by the skin of me teeth'. Timing or what? No, entirely good luck rather than good management! Now, once everything comes out of its boxes, the modelling can continue. Cheers Mike Edited March 24, 2020 by mikemeg 1 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jol Wilkinson Posted March 24, 2020 Share Posted March 24, 2020 Mike, well done and good luck. We are now finding that, having moved on 5th March, sorting out those things an older (late 1920's) house needs is getting rather difficult. Whether it is sourcing stuff for DIY without visiting B&Q, etc. or getting a trade in for a professional job (e.g. new flooring in the hallway). So far we are still waiting for BT to connect our landline and internet connection) but they haven't yet come up with a Covid19 excuse to delay it further. Jol 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnBateson Posted March 26, 2020 Share Posted March 26, 2020 Jol, Noting your sub-message tag, may I offer an amendment Support the British economy, buy a kit. Better still, buy two kits! John 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post 65179 Posted May 20, 2020 RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted May 20, 2020 Hi Mike, I hope organising the new house is going well. I'd just like to say thank you for taking the time to chronicle your builds. Your posts relating to your B16s, together with Rob Pulham's 7mm build, were invaluable as I built my shot down Steve Barnfield kit in 2mm scale. My April 1950 condition York B16 61474 is now almost there: Thanks Simon 15 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikemeg Posted May 20, 2020 Author Share Posted May 20, 2020 3 hours ago, 65179 said: Hi Mike, I hope organising the new house is going well. I'd just like to say thank you for taking the time to chronicle your builds. Your posts relating to your B16s, together with Rob Pulham's 7mm build, were invaluable as I built my shot down Steve Barnfield kit in 2mm scale. My April 1950 condition York B16 61474 is now almost there: Thanks Simon Simon, Thanks for this. Yes I'm just about sorted out with organising the new house and the work room now looks much more organised than it ever has. I found all sorts of things which I'd forgotten I had, including two Mashima 1628 motors, various gearboxes, etc.; all now fully inventoried and labelled. My challenge, now, is to maintain this level of organisation!! Your B16 really does look very good, capturing the essence of these locomotives beautifully; and your model shares the same era as mine April 1950 v June 1950, so we can both utilise the first BR livery - plain black with British Railways in full. At this time, the entire class of B16's, of all sub-classes, were based at York or Neville Hill, so a winter's Sunday shed bash at either shed would have seen many of them. I say winter's shed bash because Spring, Summer or early Autumn weekends would have seen dozens of them at Bridlington or Scarborough on excursion workings! So, once again, many thanks for the posting and congratulation on a very fine model. Cheers Mike Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 65179 Posted May 20, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 20, 2020 Good to hear you are getting there! Thanks for your comments. The photo I worked from shows 61474 at Guide Bridge all coaled up and ready to head back to York - presumably from Dewsnap Sidings. I've not gone for the huge pile of coal it had in the tender that day - right to the loading gauge - but I have tried to copy the little oddities shown on locos in this period. 61474 was renumbered from 61405 a few months earlier than I've modelled it so the numbers are cleaner than the lettering, and it looks like it was even slower to get the new cast smokebox numberplate as it has a clean plate and 61474 painted on the bufferbeam. Simon Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post mikemeg Posted June 11, 2020 Author Popular Post Share Posted June 11, 2020 (edited) One or two folk have sent pm's, asking me 'where I've gone' as I haven't posted for a few weeks. Well, without wishing to bore anyone, I've had an unplanned spell in hospital. I've had abdominal issues for a few years, which have gradually worsened. Certainly over the last year, this has seriously affected the modelling. Three weeks ago I contacted the local GP for a phone consultation, as a result of which he ordered a number of the usual tests. These confirmed that I had a progressive deterioration of my kidneys. Events then took a much more accelerated turn, with an ultrasound scan, from which I was immediately admitted into A&E (which was just next door, so I walked there!). Apparently I was carrying around 3.0 litres of fluid, against the more normal 300 - 600 cc and the back pressure from this was progressively shutting down my kidneys. Anyway, I was gradually 'pumped out' before the renal team set about trying to restore my kidney function. Over the ensuing six days, the kidneys 'came back' such that I was able to return home. So I'm now recovering from the various procedures and the need to be monitored twenty four hours a day. I'm now recovering, reading the odd modelling magazine and planning a return to the workbench. I have been very lucky, for this could have been very much worse but the greatest piece of that luck was to be the beneficiary of the skill, expertise, dedication, care and love of the NHS. There are some positives to this; I went into hospital weighing 14 st 6 lb; I came out weighing 13 st 2 lb which is much nearer my 'fighting weight'!! Cheers Mike Edited June 12, 2020 by mikemeg 26 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Bucoops Posted June 11, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 11, 2020 Get well soon Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Brit70053 Posted June 11, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 11, 2020 Wishing you a speedy and full recovery and power to your modelling elbow when you get back to the bench. In the meantime, take it easy. Best Wishes, John Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rowanj Posted June 11, 2020 Share Posted June 11, 2020 (edited) Hope you are soon "back in the saddle", Mike. All the best. Edited June 11, 2020 by rowanj 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikemeg Posted June 11, 2020 Author Share Posted June 11, 2020 (edited) 17 hours ago, rowanj said: Hope you are soon "back in the saddle", Mike. All the best. Thanks John and all who wished me well, Last time I was incapacitated, I came back to the modelling via a 1/72 Lancaster, Halifax, Hampden and Blenheim, which were all done on the kitchen table. But I never did get around to the 1/72 Short Stirling and Dornier 17, so , tomorrow, perhaps …………, for I can do these on my lounge table!! Cheers Mike Edited June 12, 2020 by mikemeg 11 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikemeg Posted June 12, 2020 Author Share Posted June 12, 2020 Many thanks for the support and good wishes. Now, dare I make a foray into the work room; those B1 chassis' and the second B16/1 won't finish themselves!! Mike 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Megginson Posted July 15, 2020 Share Posted July 15, 2020 (edited) Well, I did complete the Short Stirling which seems to have re-habilitated me to the modelling. So, having completed this model and sold it on to a collector, then I'm now fit and ready to start the next project which is a pair of ex-LNWR balanced bracket signals for a good friend's layout. First job is to make a decent 4mm design drawing of the models, both of which will be identical, with the actuating mechanism for the signal arms clearly laid out on the drawing. I'll post details of this build on the Signalling Topic Area, as they progress. I'll take the liberty of posting a couple of photos of the Stirling before I move on. Painting that cockpit canopy was a real challenge but, with the aid of the trusty cocktail stick, it was done! Cheers Mike Edited July 15, 2020 by Mike Megginson 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
manna Posted July 15, 2020 Share Posted July 15, 2020 G'Day Folks I've often wondered how good the Short Stirling would have been 'IF' it had had the right length wings and a normal bomb bay manna Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Megginson Posted July 16, 2020 Share Posted July 16, 2020 (edited) 6 hours ago, manna said: G'Day Folks I've often wondered how good the Short Stirling would have been 'IF' it had had the right length wings and a normal bomb bay manna Hi Manna, Many thanks for the comments. Apparently (at least from the prototype information supplied with the kit) the overall dimensions were constrained by the dimensions of the standard T1 RAF hangar and standard RAF crating when the specification was issued, These constraints forced the compromise on wing span, which did limit the service ceiling of the aircraft. As to the bomb bay, the Stirling seems to have had various locations where bombs were carried. Strangely, despite the success of the Halifax and Lancaster, production of the Stirling continued until late 1945, though far fewer (2350) were built than the numbers for the other two 'heavies'. I'm not really an aircraft modeller but I do, occasionally, build them as they can be assembled in the relative comfort of my lounge rather than the workbench. Anyway, now back to the workbench and the railway modelling. Cheers Mike Edited July 16, 2020 by Mike Megginson 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pebbles Posted July 16, 2020 Share Posted July 16, 2020 It may be of interest to know that the wingspan of the Stirling was only some 5ft less than that of the Boeing B17, whilst the wing area was 40sq ft greater. Normal and maximum loaded weights were very similar. Big difference in altitude performance could be attributed to the B17 being powered by turbo super charged Wright Cyclones. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post mikemeg Posted October 27, 2020 Author Popular Post Share Posted October 27, 2020 (edited) Well it's over three months since I posted to this thread and now my rehabilitation from the summer's 'goings on' is complete and I'm back at the workbench finishing off a few projects and embarking on a few more. So, before I start to photograph the latest projects, and as a means of getting the thread 'closer to the top of the list', just so that I can find it more easily, I'll post a photo or two of past projects. This one is simply entitled 'All in its Sunday best' and is one of the four A6 tanks on Hessle Haven. I guess my fondness, for this prototype, is reasonably well known. For me, big tank locos don't get much better than these!! Cheers Mike Edited October 28, 2020 by mikemeg 21 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikemeg Posted October 28, 2020 Author Share Posted October 28, 2020 (edited) Or, perhaps, this one, which was the scratch build augmented with Arthur's etched chassis and castings. This one is entitled 'Still Going Strong' as this was the last survivor and soldiered on until 1953. Cheers Mike Edited October 28, 2020 by mikemeg 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikemeg Posted October 28, 2020 Author Share Posted October 28, 2020 (edited) But there again, perhaps this one; dirty, unkempt and dilapidated. But still an A6! This one is entitled 'Not long now' as the model is set in mid 1950 shortly before the loco was withdrawn. The previous two, 69791/6 carried superheated boilers at this time (mid 1950) whereas 69795 carried a saturated boiler. By the late 1940's, every one of the A6's (and only ten were ever built) was different. That's it for the A6's until I finish lining 69798. Cheers Mike Edited October 28, 2020 by mikemeg 18 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PenrithBeacon Posted October 28, 2020 Share Posted October 28, 2020 On 15/07/2020 at 23:50, manna said: G'Day Folks I've often wondered how good the Short Stirling would have been 'IF' it had had the right length wings and a normal bomb bay manna It was the wing section of the Stirling, not the span, which was its downfall. Which isn't to say another 10ft wouldn't have been better, but it would only have been better with a different wing section. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikemeg Posted October 28, 2020 Author Share Posted October 28, 2020 But there is one of the old North Eastern's big tanks which was even more impressive - in my humble opinion - than the A6's and that was the T1 4-8-0 tanks. Apologies for showing this photo again but it's a few pages back since last I did. So this was my first attempt , since my twenties, at scratch building. It still runs well and it still has a prodigious hauling (or pushing) capacity. Cheers Mike 8 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
manna Posted October 28, 2020 Share Posted October 28, 2020 G'Day Folks One day I'll get around to building a A6, although, what it's doing in the Kings Cross area in the 20's/30's layout, is a hard one, ECS testing ?? manna Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikemeg Posted October 30, 2020 Author Share Posted October 30, 2020 (edited) On 28/10/2020 at 13:04, PenrithBeacon said: It was the wing section of the Stirling, not the span, which was its downfall. Which isn't to say another 10ft wouldn't have been better, but it would only have been better with a different wing section. As a part of my 'rehabilitation', which was really little more than overcoming the tiredness, post the 'goings on' during the summer, I also built a 1/72 scale Dornier 17. However, I'm not sure if I can post a photo of this model as it carries Swastika decals on its twin tail fins. None of the plastic kits, of German aircraft, are supplied with this particular decal - for quite obvious reasons. However, these decals are obtainable, separately, from a model supplier, without resorting to the shadier side of web referenced suppliers. Cheers Mike Edited October 30, 2020 by mikemeg Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PenrithBeacon Posted October 30, 2020 Share Posted October 30, 2020 They are commonly available I believe https://sgsmodelstore.com/products/print-scale-72-098-1-72-dornier-do-17-model-decals HTH Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
billbedford Posted October 30, 2020 Share Posted October 30, 2020 2 hours ago, mikemeg said: However, I'm not sure if I can post a photo of this model as it carries Swastika decals on its twin tail fins. But Swastas are only illegal in Germany, so why couldn't you post your photos here? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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