The Pre-Grouping Modelling Showcase.

[queensquare]

1F, 2F, 3F, 4F and 7F on shed at Bath - Midland shed still under construction and S&D shed is a card mock-up. The overall view has the shed module sat on the baseboard of what will be the Midland goods yard at Bath.

Models are 2mm Scale

 

Jerry

[CarriageShed]

That 7F looks lovely, as does the 3F, but it's the carriages that really catch my eye. My user name may give you a hint of my main interest, but it also shows you my one and only S&D blue carriage (so far). Modelling in 1930 I'm not sure I can justify any more... Is that one of your little helpers slacking in the corner in your first pic?

[queensquare]

7 minutes ago, CarriageShed said:

That 7F looks lovely, as does the 3F, but it's the carriages that really catch my eye. My user name may give you a hint of my main interest, but it also shows you my one and only S&D blue carriage (so far). Modelling in 1930 I'm not sure I can justify any more... Is that one of your little helpers slacking in the corner in your first pic?

 

Thanks, the 7F and SDJR Bulldog were built by the late Denys Brownlee, the 3F is scratchbuilt, 4F from a Mike Raithby kit, 2F is a heavily rebuilt Union Mills body with new chassis and tender and the little 1F tank is an etched body (4mm reduction, Craftsman origins I think) on a new chassis.

The coaches are Worsley works etches, the 6 wheelers have my own etched underframe, the bogie stock has 2mm Association Fox bogies.

 

I dont know who the chap in the background is, the boss and main helper is here at NEWGOG before I had built the mock up of the S&D shed.

 

I shall be taking this little module and the stock to Railex at Aylesbury in a few weeks, see 

 

 

 

Jerry

[Compound2632]

4 hours ago, queensquare said:

I shall be taking this little module and the stock to Railex at Aylesbury in a few weeks, 

 

 

 

 

 

Does she know that's how you refer to her?

[Mrkirtley800]

Here is the not quite alpha and omega of my model railway life.  The 700 class was built in 1959, so is now knocking 60 years old.  that summer was wonderful with wall to wall sunshine and I was swotting for my chemistry finals which were due to be sat in the September.  So as a change  from studies I built the engine.  I built it outside at my parents house, using a blowlamp to heat up the soldering iron and a huge stick of solder and , what my father called, killed spirits, zinc in hydrochloric acid.  My bench was the top of the concrete coal bunker and the vice was in the shed.  Happy days.

The bogie tender was built a little later when I had a house of my own.  Up to then, I paired the loco with a tender from the Triang L1

This was built to EM gauge but previously  I flirted with TT gauge when I built an LMS 2P.  Later I had a go at narrow gauge and built a Trallee and Dingle 2-6-0T.  Both these locos were not very good and I gave them away.

A Midland 1400 class 2-4-0 followed but I managed to get the boiler sloping down to the front, so that was given away also.

The Johnson compound was built over a period of about ten years 1995 to 2005 to run on Canal Road, my Settle Carlisle type station.

Unfortunately Canal Road was scrapped when my arthritic knees started giving me grief, and now I operate Kirkby Malham, a terminus to fiddle yard layout, so my two engines with bogie tenders are not used , they will not fit on K-M turntable.

between these two engines, I produced a fair number of locos, mainly Midland for me but North Eastern for friends.

I am currently building a slim boilered 4-4-0 of the 1808 class.  This one, I think will be my last one as this year I will be 84 years young.

Derek

Edited July 12, 2019 by Mrkirtley800

[Compound2632]

Your Belpaire has seen a good 10 years' more service than any of the prototype class members!

[Mrkirtley800]

I should have added that the belpaire has had better wheels and  motor gearbox since it was first built.

Originally it sported Hamblins wheels and a Ks mark1 motor.

painted by my old mate Larry Goddard.

The compound was painted by me, so you will never see the two engines together.

Derek

[Dave Hunt]

Lovely stuff Derek. Although most enthusiasts of Johnson's work rate his 'slim boiler' engines most highly in the elegance stakes, I think that what he achieved with the fin de siecle larger boilered locomotives and the 'water carts' was also a tour de force. Mind you, I'd love to see some pictures of your 1808 in due course.

 

Dave

[Mrkirtley800]

Thank you for your nice comments Dave.  I had meant to create a thread showing the building of my 1808, but because of my cranky knees, when I sit down at my bench, I stay there, so any photos I should have taken of the build are missed.

I will, though, try to take some pics of the progress so far, although it looks anything but elegant at the moment.

Derek

[Mrkirtley800]

Here are a few pics of my attempt to scratch build a Midland slim boilered 1808 class 4-4-0, taken on Kirkby Malham turn table. It looks a bit scruffy although I do clean up after my periods of building.

The other pics are really a very unlikely happening, with three Midland express engines in KM shed at the same time.

The far engine is a 2183 class, again scratch built about 20/25 years ago for my Canal Road layout.  Painted by Coachman Larry.

The engine in front of 1808 is an early Ratio kit with moulded on handrails.  I spent hours scraping them off and replacing with wire ones.

The motor, wheels and frames (AKA chassis) I threw away and built new running gear of brass.  This loco nearly broke my heart as it wouldn't pull anything, and after many years messing about with it I have a motor in the engine plus a tender drive, with matched motors and gears.  It now runs so beautifully.

The 1808 is only about 80% complete, still needing a motor and gearbox.  I have a gearbox to make up, and although I have steady fingers and reasonable eyesight, the gearbox has so far defeated me.  It is from the High Level stable.

I have not started on cab detail or tender brakes yet, so I  think it may be some time before it enters service.

I find I have problems with the Johnson style chimneys.  I have, over the years, bought by mail order a number of chimneys described as Johnson type, but when they arrive, are more like Fowler designs.  The old Ks cast chimneys came nearest and I did buy some many years ago.  The one on the 1808 was the last of the bunch and was quite distorted and needed a lot of fettling.

If anyone has the same problem and has found a decent Johnson style chimney, please let me know.  My youngest son models in '0' gauge and the chimneys on his Midland engines are really superb

The last pic is of a train arriving at Kirkby Malham from Bradford Market Street.

Derek

Edited July 1, 2019 by Mrkirtley800

[Dave Hunt]

Looks like it is coming along nicely Derek and should be a worthy addition to your fine stock.

 

Dave

 

 

[Ruston]

Locomotive No.1 (built by Neilson of Glasgow, 1873) of the Calder Vale Coal & Clay Co. Ld. at Brookfoot on the Calder Vale Mineral Railway, circa 1890.

 

 

Edited July 3, 2019 by Ruston
to add detail

[wagonman]

Love the distressed sepia look!

[Edwardian]

5 hours ago, wagonman said:

Love the distressed sepia look!

 

Agree.  Could we beg a brief tutorial?

[Ruston]

21 hours ago, Edwardian said:

 

Agree.  Could we beg a brief tutorial?

I simply use this website - http://funny.pho.to/old-photo-effect/ Upload your photo and it does all the rest. It leaves the word 'photo' in the top right hand corner on the downloaded images, so I remove that by airbrushing over with Photoshop. There's probably some way of not having that, or perhaps adding your own text but I haven't worked that out yet. If anyone does find out if that's the case please let me know.

[Edwardian]

1 hour ago, Ruston said:

I simply use this website - http://funny.pho.to/old-photo-effect/ Upload your photo and it does all the rest. It leaves the word 'photo' in the top right hand corner on the downloaded images, so I remove that by airbrushing over with Photoshop. There's probably some way of not having that, or perhaps adding your own text but I haven't worked that out yet. If anyone does find out if that's the case please let me know.

 

Thanks very much, works like a treat!

 

[Compound2632]

What a superb building - just crying out to be modelled!

[James Harrison]

Eh, would you look at that now...

 

[Compound2632]

Te-hee! What fun! The Biscuit Manufactury, Smoxborough, c. 1905:

 

 

Great Western: grey or red?

 

 

 

[Mikkel]

You can switch off the 'photo' label in the top right corner by double-clicking the slider.

 

[BlueLightning]

Well, if we are all playing with the editing tool...

 

 

You can also add text to the bottom with the tools on the left of the image.

 

Gary

[Gareth Collier]

Great link with great results

[Compound2632]

8 hours ago, BlueLightning said:

Well, if we are all playing with the editing tool...

 

 

You can also add text to the bottom with the tools on the left of the image.

 

Gary

 

For this, you need the Daguerreotype filter!

[Dave John]

Hmm, it is rather good fun.

 

 

[sir douglas]