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5 hours ago, sem34090 said:

The latest item from the Photon -

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Exmouth Junction concrete Running-in board and fence. I did some lamps too, but whilst the lampshades worked the posts were a tad too flimsy.

Print the lamp posts hollow and feed a length of brass wire up the middle to stiffen them?

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The main problem was they didn't survive being removed from the print bed!!!

 

Meanwhile, work has continued!

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Can anyone advise of a date for this charabanc, and whether it would be appropriate for it to appear in SR Livery?

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I’ve got a photo of my mother and father with a load of other happy holiday makers in just such a vehicle, just married, so it places it mid 1920s. Would the SR be using them in preference to one with a more all weather roof, though?

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Well, if I get time then I think at some point I will put it into just such a livery. I'll see if I can find a prototype picture first though...

 

Meanwhile, the layout is now substantially complete prior to being shown tomorrow. It's lacking in some detail, and there's a little touching up to do, but I'm pleased with it and I've seen considerably worse on the exhibition circuit, if I do say so myself!

 

Need to check the whole thing still runs though...

 

So there concludes a 5-day layout build! I'll post photos tomorrow... Later today, rather.

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Thank you!

 

Well, in spite of the usual teething troubles, the layout performed with some degree of success, and once completely sorted it ought to be readily available for exhibitions.

 

An interesting observation from today -It was an event at a local school to which my model railway club had been invited- was that there was a significantly greater number of girls interested in all aspects of the display (which included loco repair, an intentionally-W.I.P. layout, 3D Printing and numerous other things to show the broadness of the hobby) than there were boys. This was in spite of the fact that there appeared to be more of the latter ar the event - Perhaps there is more of a shift away from hobbies being based on gender than I had realised.

 

Mind you, all of those viewing the display were perhaps too young for such a conclusion to be formed...

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At a recent show I sat down with a gent who was doing a basic soldering course - just 15 -20 minutes of tuition. He remarked that while there were fewer females at the show than males, far more girls had wanted to try his teaching session than boys -and they were better learners as well. They listened while the boys thought they could do it without instruction and romped ahead and made mistakes. I think this is just down to the different rates of maturity in youngsters and the fact that girls are keen to now learn what were in the past "manly" trades while boys are very much of the "don't wanna read the manual" mindset. Its a set of reactions very much deep in our evolutionary genes I think.

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Brilliant work on the station, Sem.  Shows what can be done, even down to the raised lettering on the name boards. really most impressed.

 

As for the charabanc, it looks 1920s to me.  Any evidence that the Southern operated such a type? I suspect that, with the odd exception, charabancs were more the province of the private operator, and yours is a lovely canary yellow it'd be a shame to repaint. 

 

What period are you setting the layout?  John Day does an early '30s parcels van which I believe was operated by the Southern.

 

 

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Thanks James - One of the aims of the layout was to demonstrate 3D Printed items, of which we had several being printed at the event, along with un-painted samples of the building, canopy, running-in boards, etc.

 

The period is somewhat loose currently. However, various elements date it -

  • SR 1920s pattern station building. The prototype on which it was based (Havenstreet) was, I believe, erected in 1926.
  • Concrete running-in boards and fencing, products of Exmouth Junction concrete works, would probably have not been installed until the mid/late '20s.
  • Rail-Built Upper Quadrant Signal. This is the killer. They started to be introduced, it is said, from the mid 1920s once it appeared that concrete ones were pretty useless. However, some have suggested that upper-quadrant arms didn't appear until the 1930s. I might replace it with an LSWR Lower-Quadrant arm at some point.

Another twist is that I am considering laying 3rd Rail at some point, which would put the period as being post-1938.

 

For now though, excluding the probably-to-be-replaced signal, I'd say the period is 1928 - 1934.

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13 hours ago, Martin S-C said:

At a recent show I sat down with a gent who was doing a basic soldering course - just 15 -20 minutes of tuition. He remarked that while there were fewer females at the show than males, far more girls had wanted to try his teaching session than boys -and they were better learners as well. They listened while the boys thought they could do it without instruction and romped ahead and made mistakes. I think this is just down to the different rates of maturity in youngsters and the fact that girls are keen to now learn what were in the past "manly" trades while boys are very much of the "don't wanna read the manual" mindset. Its a set of reactions very much deep in our evolutionary genes I think.

 

Women were always the preferred employees in factories producing soldered components. They are better at it. My stepdaughter was a competent solderer of electronic boards when aged 2 and a half.

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I between doing things I'm supposed to be doing, I've done a bit more clerestory-bashing. Eventually, once some filler and primer have found their way to them, these might resemble a Billinton 32ft 6w Brake and 54ft 5-Compartment Brake Third.

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I  had yet to apply any glue to the monstrosity at this stage...

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AiSo, before my thread becomes a hotbed of feminism*... :P

Some more photographs of Odiham.

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Yes I know everything other than the M7 is a long way from home!!!

 

 

*Before someone brands me a misogynist, I'm of a generally egalitarian stance. Which is why I'm adverse to quite a lot of feminism.

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Thanks, Red - Very kind of you.

 

Well, since the above photos I have now got an ex-LSWR coach for Odiham, which was first seen way back on page 1;

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Even then it was somewhat neglected, sitting on old Hornby Pullman bogies and without buffers. It remained as such, though stripped of bogies, until this evening.

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It's a GRAmodels kit for a 42ft Brake Third which, I am told, may have lasted until 1930.

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So, I tarted it up a bit with a new coat of paint, picking out the droplights, new vents (I know they shouldn't be there on a gaslit coach, but they fill the holes for now!) and some Dean Bogies I had off a Triang clerestory which were the best thing I could find.

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Then I decided to try lining it...

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Now I don't mind it, it'll do, but the lining is hardly the best ever, and if it were accurate it would be within the panels rather than on the beading.

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Every inch a pleasant little country station Sem.  Well done!

 

When I was doing coach lining I would use a good quality 000 brush with carefully thinned paint and I would always arrange things so the coach itself was stable and couldn't wobble and I would have something to rest my bush hand on as I painted each line.  It does take practice, but this method does make for good results.  Any wobbles can be corrected by painting in body colour by exactly the same method.

 

Edit:  And I always wore some variety of magnifying glasses/lenses while I was doing lining since being able to clearly see what you're doing is important.

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16 hours ago, sem34090 said:

Thanks, Red - Very kind of you.

 

Well, since the above photos I have now got an ex-LSWR coach for Odiham, which was first seen way back on page 1;

Salv Construction.JPG

Even then it was somewhat neglected, sitting on old Hornby Pullman bogies and without buffers. It remained as such, though stripped of bogies, until this evening.

IMG-20190723-WA0003.jpeg.a2136b47e0945276e5918ec11c4a57c4.jpeg

It's a GRAmodels kit for a 42ft Brake Third which, I am told, may have lasted until 1930.

15639173888691649353102.jpg

So, I tarted it up a bit with a new coat of paint, picking out the droplights, new vents (I know they shouldn't be there on a gaslit coach, but they fill the holes for now!) and some Dean Bogies I had off a Triang clerestory which were the best thing I could find.

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Then I decided to try lining it...

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Now I don't mind it, it'll do, but the lining is hardly the best ever, and if it were accurate it would be within the panels rather than on the beading.

Gorgeous! Any advice on where to get something like this myself?

 

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Every inch a pleasant little country station Sem.  Well done!

 

When I was doing coach lining I would use a good quality 000 brush with carefully thinned paint and I would always arrange things so the coach itself was stable and couldn't wobble and I would have something to rest my bush hand on as I painted each line.  It does take practice, but this method does make for good results.  Any wobbles can be corrected by painting in body colour by exactly the same method.

 

Edit:  And I always wore some variety of magnifying glasses/lenses while I was doing lining since being able to clearly see what you're doing is important.

Same way I do it. It's a very effective method.

And I have a pair of jeweller's glasses I use for small painting. 

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