S7 scratch building

[Compound2632]

1 minute ago, Mol_PMB said:

I have copies of the BR and the MSC loading instructions, would be happy to share if it helps. 

 

See also: http://www.barrowmoremrg.co.uk/Prototype.html (scroll down to "Staff Instructions" - BR documents but much of the content was unchanged since the 19th century.

[Mol_PMB]

Indeed! That’s where I found the BR loading instructions. The MSC ones (admittedly rather specific to my chosen prototype) are in the 1930s MSC rulebook that I bought a copy of on ebay. 

 

Incidentally even the BR instructions have special instructions about MSC sheets! 

Edited April 14, 2021 by Mol_PMB

[Dave Hunt]

Mike, going back to wagon sheets, I am in contact with Thomas Petith and he has confirmed that he is still able to do MR 7mm versions but I haven't asked him about other companies.

If you are interested, let me have a list of those you would like and I'll ask him whether he can oblige.

 

Dave

[airnimal]

Dave, thank you for the offer about wagon sheets. Please don't think me ungrateful but I will persevere with black tissue paper when my mojo returns.  At present it has gone walk abouts somewhere. 

Trying to find a house and putting ours on the market is not my favourite pastime and with not having done this for such a long time is proving very stressful to both my wife and myself.  

So what little modelling I have done is going over old projects that didn't get 100% finished like painting the tare weight on my Wigan Coal and Iron wagon. I have tried to paint it so it blends in and doesn't look newly applied.

Other small jobs include cleaning out the webbing on wheels that I didn't do when they were first  made.

Edited April 23, 2021 by airnimal

[Simond]

Michael

 

I don’t know where your mojo goes, but it doesn’t take your eye, or your skill with it.  They are lovely!

 

cheers

Simon

[Regularity]

5 hours ago, airnimal said:

Trying to find a house and putting ours on the market is not my favourite pastime and with not having done this for such a long time is proving very stressful to both my wife and myself. 

Going through that process myself: it is not fun, and not helped by banks taking a long time, and the land registry even longer.

After separation in 2019, divorce last year, thought 2021 was going to be the year of moving forward again. As it stands, our intended move to Todmorden, originally anticipated for this month, is now "May". I wonder if that means, "Maybe this year" at times!

All I can say is, hang on in there, Mike: the usually long-winded English process of selling and buying is somewhat extended right now, but you will end up with a house you are happy in!

 

Simon

[Caley Jim]

2 hours ago, Regularity said:

All I can say is, hang on in there, Mike: the usually long-winded English process of selling and buying is somewhat extended right now, but you will end up with a house you are happy in!

People moving house in England have my greatest sympathy with you somewhat convoluted system.

 

Jim

[Dave Hunt]

If you need somewhere to store your models during the house moving saga, Mike, I'm sure I could oblige. 

 

Dave

[airnimal]

Dave, if you want to store all my models they come with 3 daughters worth of stuff that they left here when they left home to go to universities. The last one left here 12 years ago but we still have a loft full plus a wardrobe full of clothes that will probably never fit them again but they swear hasn't to be thrown out. 

As for moving house we are going to put it on the back burner until life returns  to normal.  We tried to look at some houses but we were told that we couldn't look until our house had been sold. I don't know what other people  think of that but I wasn't impressed. Estate agents don't exactly do a great deal other than put people  in touch with each other and post pictures on line and in there shop fronts.

I know several will never get my business when it becomes time to try again when the market settles down again. 

 

Anyway I am still trying to finish some more wagons with little jobs that have been put off like the numbers on the end of this small LNWR van along with the tare weight.  I tried  using some old meth fix tranfers but they kept coming off so I hand painted them very badly. The ones on on the ends were a mixture of both.

Edited April 24, 2021 by airnimal

[Compound2632]

3 hours ago, airnimal said:

We tried to look at some houses but we were told that we couldn't look until our house had been sold. I don't know what other people  think of that but I wasn't impressed.

 

I'm in the process of selling my late father's house. The estate agent has said they will only do showings for "proceedable clients" i.e. cash buyers or those who have sold. So that looks to be standard practice at the moment. Seriously drags the chain out.

[airnimal]

With the weather being so kind to use I decided to paint all the remaining numberplates I have for my LNWR wagons. First i cleaned them all before sticking them down to some card and spraying them with White primer. I had hoped that once I had painted them Black over the dried White paint I would be able to leave an easy way of just wiping of the soft Black paint to leave a nice White numbers showing.  It didn't  work out that way because but it will have to do with the nickel showing through.

 

As for the Estate Agents new practice of only allowing cash buyers or those able to proceed quickly seems to me a shoddy business.  Because the market has been interrupted because of the virus and is now doing very well, they don't appear to won't to work hard for they money. Well I hope it comes back to bite them. 

[Simond]

If you can only buy a house when you’ve sold one, the whole shebang comes grinding to a halt.

 

I too am dealing with an estate & a house sale.  The agent seems to be trying his best, but the times are trying too.  And I do believe he’s sold more houses than I have, so he might know more about it than I do.

then again, I’m sure there are shysters, crooks, and useless b...s out there too.

 

normality, whatever that is, will return soon.

[Regularity]

our problems have mostly been with our buyer, who switched mortgage deals at the last minute (which then resulted in two weeks of “it will be approved in writing tomorrow“ from Paragon) and whose chosen firm of solicitors had fired their conveyancer in January, but only picked up the case last week. And then tried to blame it on external factors. Luckily, our partner told their partner that this was nobody else’s fault, and they had simply not been doing their job.

[daifly]

If/when you put your own house on the market, you may discover just how many house tarts/tourists/time wasters there are. I now insist upon agents showing ALL viewings by appointment. That stops THEM wasting MY time and makes THEM work for their commission. 

Dave

[Simond]

If I were buying a house, I’d pay the extra to have a solicitor do my conveyancing, rather than a conveyancer, which I understand to be some kind of automated device for moving things...

[sir douglas]

i like the beaded planking

[Regularity]

1 hour ago, Simond said:

If I were buying a house, I’d pay the extra to have a solicitor do my conveyancing, rather than a conveyancer, which I understand to be some kind of automated device for moving things...

I was being brief: it was a solicitor who was fired, but not a partner.

[Simond]

Wow, that would prove expensive for said person.

 

and I was being a little flippant.  
 

A dear pal, a now-retired solicitor specialised in conveyancing over a career of several decades.  He had little time for unqualified staff carrying out specialist work, and seemed to spend a considerable amount of time fixing the errors of said staff of other parties’ advisors.  I’m sure such conveyancers are fine doing the paperwork for relatively simple jobs, but his experience suggests  that anything complex either caused major delays, or was glossed over leaving a mess to be sorted out, presumably at someone’s expense, further down the line.

 

 

[Regularity]

17 minutes ago, Simond said:

or was glossed over leaving a mess to be sorted out, presumably at someone’s expense, further down the line

In this case, that someone would normally have been us, but due to the fact that any new vendor would need upward of 12-16 weeks to get all the searches, etc., done, a delay of 3-4 weeks is tolerable to our vendor’s vendor, and the short chain has not collapsed. We actually had the offer made to us before Christmas, and us likewise. (Our second and third choices have, of course, also sold.)

 

[chris p bacon]

I'm currently selling 2 properties as I build and develop for a living. The main problem at present is the amount of time searches are taking, in usual times they were done in a matter of days but during last year were anything up to 10 weeks. I took an offer on 1 property in Feb and the local search came back after 4 weeks. Mortgages don't seem to be a problem once the applicant(s) have a formal offer. Further down the chain 1 couple have gone from initial application to final offer in 10 days.

 

I also advise the buyers not use a conveyancer but to go to a Solicitor. The current buyer did not accept the advice and chose a conveyancer as they were under the impression they were cheaper. Only 3 days into the process when the contract was sent did the conveyancers withdraw as they were not able to proceed with the purchase. Being an office to house conversion they did not have the requisite knowledge to act. The buyer did inform me that the solicitors quote was £150 less than the conveyancers.

 

It has always been normal practice to only accept an offer on a property when the buyer is in a position to proceed, essentially they have to have sold (have an offer) on any property they have, or have proof of funds (mortgage)

An offer can be made and be acceptable to the vendors,  but the intended purchase will continue to be marketed until such time as the sale can proceed to a conclusion.  

Selling at least 1 house a year I've seen just how many timewasters and people that like a 'look around' that clog up the housing market. I have had 1 Walter Mitty like character in Little Paxton who tried to convince me he was able to buy 2, 4 bedroom properties for rental from me. He fooled the estate agent but not me as quite simply the figures for rental just didn't stack up, but he wasted so much of the agents time before just disappearing into the ether......those same properties had another buyer who made an offer (on one) but at the same time made offers on 3 other houses through different agents. She was caught out by chance and again just disappeared leaving 4 frustrated sellers.

 

Enough of my rambling and back to the wagons......Fancy an offer on them....

 

[hayfield]

8 hours ago, chris p bacon said:

I also advise the buyers not use a conveyancer but to go to a Solicitor. The current buyer did not accept the advice and chose a conveyancer as they were under the impression they were cheaper. Only 3 days into the process when the contract was sent did the conveyancers withdraw as they were not able to proceed with the purchase. Being an office to house conversion they did not have the requisite knowledge to act. The buyer did inform me that the solicitors quote was £150 less than the conveyancers.

 

It has always been normal practice to only accept an offer on a property when the buyer is in a position to proceed, essentially they have to have sold (have an offer) on any property they have, or have proof of funds (mortgage)

An offer can be made and be acceptable to the vendors,  but the intended purchase will continue to be marketed until such time as the sale can proceed to a conclusion.  

Selling at least 1 house a year I've seen just how many timewasters and people that like a 'look around' that clog up the housing market. I have had 1 Walter Mitty like character in Little Paxton who tried to convince me he was able to buy 2, 4 bedroom properties for rental from me. He fooled the estate agent but not me as quite simply the figures for rental just didn't stack up, but he wasted so much of the agents time before just disappearing into the ether......those same properties had another buyer who made an offer (on one) but at the same time made offers on 3 other houses through different agents. She was caught out by chance and again just disappeared leaving 4 frustrated sellers.

 

Enough of my rambling and back to the wagons......Fancy an offer on them....

 

 

Having worked in the finance industry for many years these conveyancing companies are fine for remortgages and simple transactions

 

I moved house 5 years ago at the end of  a buying frenzy (Tax increase) from getting an offer (first week in feb) we moved on the 23rd of March. All in the chain used solicitors. I was in control all the time as from experience I knew what had to happen when. I would never buy from the estate agent who sold my property (they did a very good job selling) however the agent selling the property I brought was brilliant, old school and honest.  

 

My inlaws used a conveyancing firm last year, it took 4 or 5 months and had to go to a solicitor as the conveyancers could not do all the legal work. I think in the end had they used a solicitor it would have been quicker and cheaper

 

My grand daughter was 2 days away from completing on a property when she (not the conveyancers) fould out of major road works/widening within 100 meters of the property, needless to say she pulled out and the conveyancers waived all their fees.

 

I currently have a niece who is buying her first house in Kent and is having major issues with one of the biggest house builders. Given the sums involved these days for fees and searches something needs to be done to protect potential buyers (and sellers) from bad practice by all parties concerned within the buying cycle

[hayfield]

16 hours ago, Compound2632 said:

 

I'm in the process of selling my late father's house. The estate agent has said they will only do showings for "proceedable clients" i.e. cash buyers or those who have sold. So that looks to be standard practice at the moment. Seriously drags the chain out.

 

15 hours ago, Simond said:

If you can only buy a house when you’ve sold one, the whole shebang comes grinding to a halt.

 

I too am dealing with an estate & a house sale.  The agent seems to be trying his best, but the times are trying too.  And I do believe he’s sold more houses than I have, so he might know more about it than I do.

then again, I’m sure there are shysters, crooks, and useless b...s out there too.

 

normality, whatever that is, will return soon.

 

13 hours ago, daifly said:

If/when you put your own house on the market, you may discover just how many house tarts/tourists/time wasters there are. I now insist upon agents showing ALL viewings by appointment. That stops THEM wasting MY time and makes THEM work for their commission. 

Dave

 

 

I sold at a boom time when there was a shortage of properties and a surplus of buyers. Our house had a open day viewing on the Saturday with offers by 4pm on the following Monday

 

We had 12 views resulting with 2 offers. The winning buyer had to complete within 2 months owing to a change in stamp duty (their flat was being sold to a "buy to let" buyer).

 

We found a house 10 days later, as we were potentially in a strong position, my offer was on the basis the house was taken off the market and would not be marketed further. We did have a couple of hiccups on the way, mainly down to a nitpicking valuer. Thankfully everyone was focused on beating the time cap. Thankfully only 3 houses in the chain 

 

 

[airnimal]

We have definitely given up any attempt to move house this year. My wife loves this house we live in, it's just in the wrong location. So I will hopefully build a few more wagons and finish those already built.

 

I had my second jab yesterday without any problems but when I went out on my bike today I only did 35 miles and was completely worn out. Not sure it was because of the jab or because I am getting old but I did a lot further than that last week without any problems. I don't know how long I will be able to keep cycling or if I will ever get to do a 500 or 600 mile tour of Cuba or India again when we finally get the green light to go ahead. I will be 70 at the end of next month.

 

What to build next ? I really should build a few 2 plank LNWR opens which I don't have any off. They were the standard LNWR open for many years so they really are necessary to have a balance stud.

[MarcD]

Just an idea one of the LNWR  two plank drop side with 3 slate wagons mounted on. Four wagons in one. I think they had bridge rail mounted to the floor so 3 2ft gauge slate wagon could be loaded.

Marc

[hayfield]

12 hours ago, airnimal said:

We have definitely given up any attempt to move house this year. My wife loves this house we live in, it's just in the wrong location. So I will hopefully build a few more wagons and finish those already built.

 

I had my second jab yesterday without any problems but when I went out on my bike today I only did 35 miles and was completely worn out. Not sure it was because of the jab or because I am getting old but I did a lot further than that last week without any problems. I don't know how long I will be able to keep cycling or if I will ever get to do a 500 or 600 mile tour of Cuba or India again when we finally get the green light to go ahead. I will be 70 at the end of next month.

 

What to build next ? I really should build a few 2 plank LNWR opens which I don't have any off. They were the standard LNWR open for many years so they really are necessary to have a balance stud.

 

Both of us had our second jabs on Saturday, in the afternoon both of us were exhausted, I felt like I was getting a cold.

 

Thankfully we moved 5 years ago, found a nice location and a house with prommiss, 5 years later and a large extension we have nearly got the house we wanted, just a bathroom and a toilet to finish. Looking into solar panels as Essex County Council has gone into partnership and negotiated a discount scheme for those who showed an interest, my thoughts is that as interest rates are so low seemingly this scheme is projecting a 10% return on the cost through savings and income of the power generated at todays rates

Edited April 26, 2021 by hayfield